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Use Up Scraps- Fun Journal Project

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I have a project posted at Craftbits.com for a colorful Fun Journal that uses scrapbooking scraps to decorate. You could even use up some of those old patterened papers you know you will never make it into a layout for the inside pages. Comments and ratings are always welcome for the project!

Freebie Find: Digital Scrapboking Class at Cnet.com

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Want to learn the basics of digital scrapbooking? Try this free class at Cnet.com:

Create a Scrapbook with Your Digital Photos

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Swirling Rose - Exclusive Digital Scrapbooking Freebie

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I created this digital scrapbooking paper just for (Scr)apropos readers. Scanned from my own ink and watercolor artwork at 300 dpi and sized for 8.5×11 inch pages, this paper will print out in excellent quality for digital scrapbookers that print their pages or for hybrid scrapbookers. I decided to create it at 8.5×11 because so many of the digi papers out there are 12×12, which is a nice size, but challenging to print at home unless you have one of the new larger format printers. 12×12 scrappers can always use the smaller page as an element on their bigger page, and 8.5×11 scrappers will not have to resize or worry about distortion.

To download the file, click on the link below. File is a jpeg compressed in a zip file. The purple title text is for the above banner only and does not appear on the actual downloaded paper.

Download Swirling Rose Digital Scrapbooking Paper

Creative Commons License

Swirling Rose Digital Scrapbook Paper by Teresa McClary is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Please give credit for the images to me, Teresa McClary, and when possible link back to this blog post. If you wish to share the file with others (PLEASE SHARE), link to this post for them to download the file. Thank You.

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Technique Challenge - Ribbon Covered Chipboard Tags

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Occasionally, I am going to post a video or link to a written how-to for a fun technique. I will post a picture of my creation using the day’s technique and challenge YOU to make something yourself using the technique. It would be even better (but by no means necessary) if you took a picture of your creation and posted a link in the comments to this post!

First Challenge: Ribbon Covered Chipboard Tags

Here is mine:
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I used random ribbons from my sewing stash, Xyron permanent adhesive, and I cut the tag myself from scrap chipboard.

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Class Projects

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A couple of weeks ago I reviewed the free All About Me class at BigPictureScrapbooking.com. I have been taking more of their “Projects Now” classes and one of their workshops, “Colors of Your World”. While I am not quite ready to write reviews for the classes, I thought it would be fun to share some of my completed pages and projects.

“10 Reasons Why”

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“No Excuses Journaling”

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“Colors of Your World” (I have posted Orange before, but I am posting it again because I like it! )

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Noontime Quote of the Day 723

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If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee; it is the intelligent beverage.

- Sydney Smith

Freebie Find: Lots O’Stuff Today

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Here is a whole happy Monday list of freebies for your digital of hybrid scrapbooking:

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Noontime Quote of the Day 722

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Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.

 Paul Kurtz

Noontime Quote of the Day 721

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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Samuel Beckett, “Enough,” in Six Residua (1978)

CHA Sneak Peaks

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The Craft & Hobby Association’s big summer show is this weekend. Here are some sneak peaks at the new products that will be debuted at the show:

S.E.I

Basic Grey

Cosmo Cricket

Tim Holtz

Karen Russel

Bam Pop

Masterpiece Studios

We R Memory Keepers

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Noontime Quote of the Day 720

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In every age “the good old days” were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Brooks Atkinson, Once Around The Sun (1951)

Are you going on vacation this summer?

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Scrapbooking When You Travel

ThriftyFun.com has a good article to help you plan ahead for how you want to record you vacation. If you are anything like me, you usually just think “I will bring my camera and plan a scrapbook when I get home.” The tips offered such as photographing your waiter or hotel staff and remembering to pick up two copies of brochures and maps, are little things that will really help you to better document the memories from your vacation.

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Noontime Quote of the Day 719

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It is not by the sword or the spear, by soldiers or by armed force that truth is to be promoted, but by counsel and gentle persuasion.
Athanasius

Show Me Yours, I Will Show You Mine

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Social networking sites are everywhere on the internet. A popular one among scrapbookers is My Place at Scrapbook.com. You can post images of your layout and other projects, maintain your own scrap blog, comment on your neighbors layouts in their gallery, and add friends to your list.

Do you have a gallery at My Place or another social scrapbooking site? Post a link in the comments and be social!

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Noontime Quote of the Day 718

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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.


Isaac Asimov (attributed)

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