March 2009

Scrapbook Cards for Special Occasions

A few years ago, when my sister turned 50, I was inspired to make a special mini book for her. Each page was a snapshot of a decade of her life. It was a hybrid album, with some pages having ‘real life’ embellishments added, some being wholly digitally scrapbooked and some being miniature traditional scrapbooked [...]

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Scrap Girls Bargains

Regular readers of Scraps of Mind will probably already know that I am a big fan of the designs at Scrap Girls and of the site in general. It’s one of the few sites that I post an advertising banner for because I use the products myself so I always feel happy about endorsing them. [...]

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To Advertise or not to Advertise

I do feel that many blogs don’t appear to give much thought to the advertizing that they carry.
There is definitely a line between providing a useful service and beating your readers over the head with the advertizing stick.

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St Patrick’s Day Scrapbook Freebies

Although he wasn’t the first to preach Christianity in The Land of the Five Kingdom’s, St Patrick is certainly the best remembered. His crowd-pleaser of banishing all the snakes from the land certainly gave him some massive street cred. Although I can’t say I’m a big fan of his bonfire to burn hundreds of druid [...]

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Tide Loads of Hope for Disaster Victims

It’s always pleasing to see the corporate world giving something back to the community isn’t it. So when I was told about this program run by the laundry products manufacturer Proctor and Gamble, I thought I’d like to share it with you. The program is called Tide Loads of Hope. And it helps in the [...]

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I am Scrapper, hear me roar!

To the tune of ‘I am Woman’ by Helen Reddy From whence my inspiration came. I am Scrapper, hear me roar! In numbers too big to ignore, And my scrapbook layouts tell my story true. So this hobby grows and grows. Overcoming all its foes. Gath’ring converts to the craft, like me and you. Oh [...]

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Scrapbooking with Lots of Photos

I always find that doing scrapbook layouts of events can be a real challenge. There are always a mass of photos to choose from and so many of them contribute to the story. But how to fit them onto the scrapbook layout is the challenge. I’ve been scrapping single photo layouts for so long now [...]

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Comment Spam

Have you noticed an increase in comment spam over the last couple of months? And the comment spammers are getting cleverer too. It used to be easy to spot comment spam. Usually it was made up of a lot of porn or medical related keywords and a bunch of links. That was good because it [...]

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