June 2009

Kilmore Celtic Festival 2009

Someone must have pressed the fast forward button and whizzed the year through, because I can’t believe it’s been a year since we headed off down the Hume Highway on our annual pilgrimage to the Kilmore Celtic Festival. And of course, my annual homage to the event. Once again I meant to buy the early-bird [...]

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Haiku Your Journaling

The haiku might have been designed especially for scrapbooking. With its seventeen syllable format (although the western versions do give a little bit of latitude), it’s perfect for creating a short piece of journaling that still manage to capture the essence of the story you’re trying to tell. Definition: Haiku (pronounced High-koo) is a non-rhyming, [...]

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When Your Mojo is No-Go

So it suddenly dawns on you one day that it’s been weeks since you actually created a scrapbook layout or a card or a piece of jewelery or whatever is your craft of choice. What’s happened? Has all your creative juice dried up? Has your ‘get up and go’ just got up and gone? Does [...]

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Low Cost Digital Scrapbooking

For me digital scrapbooking is the most budget form of scrapbooking I can do. “How so?” you ask, “When you have to buy the computer equipment and software before you can start.” Well stop and think for a moment. You already have the computer equipment, or you wouldn’t be reading this article. So all you [...]

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Word Art for Fathers Day

Digital Scrapbooking Freebie Here in Australia we celebrate Fathers Day in September. But I know that many Scraps of Mind readers are preparing to celebrate Fathers Day in their country next Sunday. I had a look on Wikipedia and the commemoration of Fathers Day is scattered all through the calendar if you look around the [...]

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Photo Restoration for Old or Damaged Photos

Do you have any old family photos from the days before digital cameras (yeah, remember those days?)? Maybe they’re really old photos from your granny or great-granny’s time and have suffered through the passage of time to look a bit battered and worn now. How frustrating it is not to be able to create great [...]

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Inflatable Bag Monsters

Remember this classic photo of Marilyn Monroe standing over a hot air grating? I think everybody in the western world, no matter what their age, must have seen this. Well is seems that a guy called Joshua Allen has taken this concept and turned it into some great street art. I’m a big fan of [...]

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Word Art Freebie

Here’s another Scrapbook Freebie for you Although you can use it for cards or anything else you want. Last year I ran a fortnightly newsletter which many of you subscribed to. I gave away three original pieces of Word Art in each newsletter. Well life is a tad more hectic this year and I don’t [...]

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Get Your Name Right on Facebook!

Facebook is really handy for tracking down long lost family and friends from your past. And getting your name right probably seems so obvious that you might not think it worth writing about. But here’s a tip I discovered a couple of weeks ago. If your current name is different from the one you were [...]

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