April 2011

Budget Scrapbooking Idea – Fixing Chalk

I was talking with my sister at the weekend and she shared this great budget scrapbooking tip with me. Both of us make greeting cards and love messing around with stamps, embossing powder and paints and chalks. Anyway my sister had made this card for a friend’s 50th birthday. She’d used some chalk to color [...]

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Tips for making Scrapbook Embellishments

Scrapbooking embellishments can be used in many different ways. You don’t need to stick just to the purpose for which they were designed. This applies to both digital scrapbooking elements as well as traditional scrapbook embellishments. Although with digital scrapbook elements you can get lots of extra mileage because you can duplicate an element as [...]

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Cheap Flights . . . or maybe not

Next month my daughter Seona and I are jumping in a big silver bird and heading off to the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands and Italy. I know, it’s a lousy job but somebody has to do it. Our trip was organised for us by a terrific independent travel consultant named Dorothy. And if you live [...]

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