June 2007

Scrapbooking Techniques & Tips – Love your Layers

In my opinion, the absolute best feature of photo editing software like Photoshop, Photoshop Elements (PSE) and Paintshop Pro is the Layers Palette. Working with layers gives you so much flexibilty to try different elements on your layout design without accidentally ruining another area of it. So for those who are just getting used to [...]

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Is your WIKI Working?

Well it would seem that in the world of blog and web sites WIKIs are the new black. What is a WIKI you ask? Well those of you who’ve used the most famous WIKI site Wikipedia, will have some idea what I’m talking about. WIKIs are collaborative web sites where users get to contribute and [...]

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Words to Live by

This one’s for all of you about to take off on your Summer vacations. When preparing to travel,                               lay out all your clothes and all your money.                                        Then take half the clothes and twice the money. Susan Heller

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Ross Ryan…my name means horse

Went along to a great gig on Friday and I thought I’d share it with you. A friend of mine, Ross Ryan teamed up with Spectrum for a terrific night in the upstairs bar at the Trades Hall in Melbourne. Ross is a well known performer in Australia from the 70s and 80s. Back in [...]

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Words to Live by

Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day. Marcia Weder

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Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest Blog of all?

This post is about Blog presentation. And frankly I’m a bit nervous to be writing about this topic. Let’s face it, the look and feel of your blog is a very personal thing. And many of you are Scrapbookers so it’s even more of a personal thing. So let me state up front: This post [...]

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Words to Live by

In the depth of Winter, I finally learned that within me there lay        an invincible Summer. Albert Camus It is very cold here. This is a nice thought to help get through the Winter

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Hi Fives about Me

Antoinette from Sparky’s Scratches tagged me for this meme. So I’ll give it a go and try to make it as interesting as I can. INSTRUCTIONS: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so: 1. BlondeMomBlog [...]

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Scrap in Style TV

SISters are doin’ it for themselves. For those who haven’t come across it before I just have to share this really cool site that Martha put me on to. It’s called Scrap in Style TV, it started up this year and it’s one of the slickest sites I’ve seen in a long while. SIS is [...]

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Published…for the very first time.

Those of you who have had your work published in ‘real life’ magazines can hopefully still remember the thrill of actually seeing your own layout staring back at you from the glossy pages of a big name magazine for the very first time. So I hope you will be indulgent whilst I just take a [...]

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