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Inside every older person is a younger person -
wondering what the hell happened.

- Cora Harvey Armstrong

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Coffee has two virtues. It is wet and it is warm.

- Old Dutch saying.

I am always coming across interesting articles about scrapbooking, especially scrapbooking in communities or scrapbooking trends, but often they are not easily included in a post by themselves. Starting this week I am going to collect links to the articles throughout the week and post them when I have enough.

Here are articles of interest for this week:

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070707/LIVING/707070305/1032

 http://www.examiner.net/stories/070707/spo_174092023.shtml

http://www.reporter-times.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=87629&format=html 

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“There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.”

~Vicki Baum

Unmounting Rubber Stamps project « Butterfly Gail

I posted last week about using and storing clear stamps. Butterflygail has posted a great write up about how to unmount traditional rubber stamps from their wood blocks and then store them in a similar jewel case system.

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Current contests for scrappers:

http://www.scrapscene.com/scrapscene-contests/totally-transparent-contest.html

http://www.spaark.com/albumgiveaway.php

http://www.cocoadaisy.com/newsletters/jul_2007/cd_dj_jul07_contest.pdf

“Genius is initiative on fire.”
-Holbrook Jackson

It is the 4th of July here in the USA. Time for BBQ and fireworks. Here are some sites to help inspire you to scrap all the fun 4th pictures.

http://scrapbooking.about.com/library/weekly/bljuly4layouts6.htm

http://www.creatingkeepsakes.com/gallery/search.ihtml?keyword=4th

http://americancroppers.com/store/index.php

http://store.scrapbook.com/?search=Patriotic

http://www.scrapscene.com/2007/07/scrap-your-national-pride.html

http://fiskateers.com/blog/2007/07/01/3-fiskateers-usa 

Have a happy and safe celebration!

**Pictured layout was made using Scrapbooks Plus 2.0 software**

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“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Coffee is the common man’s gold, and like gold, it brings to every person the feeling of luxury and nobility.”

~Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

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Mini Scrapbook in a Mini Milk Carton

I love mini albums….a lot. This one just screams “make me, please!” . I wondering how long one takes. They would make awful cute little grab bags with little photo story books for my son’s birthday. I have several months before I need to really plan. but he will be in kindergarten by then. Kids that age love little books full of photos of themselves and their friends.

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If you preserve memories and moments through pictures and pages, you
are a scrapbooker. You do not have to be a designer, creative artist,
or published in magazines. If you are capturing your memories and those
of your family through a medium like photography and journaling, and
you are preserving those moments with traditional albums, photo albums,
digital photo books, slideshows, or videos, you are a scrapbooker.
Perhaps for the sake of argument, memory maker or historian is a more
accurate term.

Scrap It Real - Redefining Scrapbooking for Every Woman | 5 Minutes For Mom

I came across this great article that I need to share. So often I hear, “I bought all of the stuff for a scrapbook, but I can’t seem to get started”. Well, this article gives great advice on how to start. I can sum it up in two quoted words…”Just Start”. i know that sounds snarky, but the truth is that those two words hold the secret to getting any project you are stalled on moving on the way to completion.

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Molly ‘n Max Digital Scrapbooking: Mesh and Borders

These match the tartan freebie I posted a link to last week.

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Organizing Your Ribbon for Scrapbooking Creating a Ribbon Box

OK…so there are a gagillion tutorials out there for making your own ribbon storage box. I like this one because (1) you could really follow the method with any similar sized and weight box and (2) it does not require any tools fancier than a hole punch and (3) the cost is low enough, even made with the recommended boxes, that you could make up a whole bunch of these.

Looking at the picture, I bet you could even take some 12×12 card stock and make something pretty cute that would work the same way. I may have to try it later.

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“Oh, the summer night has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.”

~B.W. Proctor