Giving is always a good feeling and it’s an extra good feeling at Christmas Time.

Once again Antoinette has rallied the Christmas spirit and organised a massive digital scrapbooking Christmas freebie site at Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking Freebies.

All through December you can pick up any and all of these wonderful digital scrapbooking freebies

. . . starting here!

Click on the image below to download a bunch of free Christmas Word Art and papers that you can use on your Christmas cards, decorations or scrapbook layouts.

To download right mouse click on the image and choose

Save Target as… or Save Link as…

And once you’ve done that you can carol yourself over to Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking Freebies and browse through a massive selection of Christmas digital scrapbooking freebies to your heart’s content.

Just a gentle reminder. All of the designers who contribute to Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking Freebies put in a lot of their time and creativity to bring you these wonderful freebies. Please remember to leave a little note of appreciation when you download. It costs you nothing and it means a lot to the giver.

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From December 1st the Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking Freebies will be back in operation all through the month of December.

So get your download finger ready and come back to Scraps of Mind on the 1st of the month for your first Christmas Digital Scrapbook Freebie and your gateway into the Wonderful Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking Freebies.

This is a massive gathering of digital scrapbook designers who contribute their creativity and time to bring you truckloads of Christmas scrapbooking freebies.

So don’t miss out.

Come back here on December 1 and scoop up all the glorious freebies.

Christmas Digital Scrapbook Freebie Bonanza

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Well in case you hadn’t noticed it’s that spooky time of year again.

So here’s some free Halloween Word Art to adorn your Halloween scrapbook layouts. I’m not sure if this comes under the heading of trick or treat. You be the judge.

If you post any of your Halloween creations using my word art on the Internet please post the link in the comments section below. I’d love to go and see them.

To download the word art just right mouse click on the image and choose Save Target as… or Save Link as…

Hope you enjoy the word art and have a seriously spooky Halloween.

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Garden Party Cupcake Mini Album Template

I had this cool idea for making a cup cake shaped mini album and I just had to share it with you.

I’ve taken the cup cake element from the Garden Party Mega Scrapbook Kit and turned it into a digital scrapbooking template which you can download by clicking on the image below (And if you’re not a member of the Garden Party you really should be. Just enter your first name and email address in the box at the top right of this page and you’ll start receiving heaps of cool digital scrapbook freebies) . Please note this is a PSD file so it will work with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. I can’t guarantee it to work with other programs.

To make this cute mini album you just open the free digital scrapbooking template file and duplicate the file .

Now drag the digital paper of your choice onto the duplicate template.

Position your paper layer over the ‘frosting’ layer of the template and clip them together (Ctrl+G then Ctrl+E)

Do the same thing for the base of the cake.

Now merge the two layers together (Layer>Merge Visible)

Tip: If you’d like to get a visual step by step instruction of this technique you can find it in Step by Step Digital Scrapbook Intermediate Tutorials 11.

Duplicate this file and flip the image horizontally (Image>Rotate>Flip Horizontally)

You’ve now made a double page spread.

Repeat the above steps using the same papers or using complementary papers. I made my album using different papers from the Garden Party Kit as they all coordinate so well together.

You can now print and cut these pages out and add photos and embellishments using paper scrapbooking techniques, or you can use the cup cake shaped pages as backgrounds to create digitally scrapbook pages for your album before printing them out, as I have done.

Whichever approach you use I recommend you use a 190-240 gsm weight paper. I usually use a satin or gloss finish to get a really rich color. And make sure you choose the best quality print mode.

Once you’ve cut out your pages it’s time to assemble your album.

Arrange your pages in the order you want. You will notice that the left pages are different to the right pages. So make sure you match them up correctly.

Now glue the pages back to back

And finally punch a hole through all the pages at the edge where they meet in the centre. Insert a jump ring or tie with some ribbon and you’ve got a cute mini album.

This would make a great gift for a grandparent. You could theme it with photos from the grandchildren’s birthday parties or you might make a recipe book with all the  sweet treats your family loves. The choices are endless.

And if you make your album using The Garden Party I’d really love it if you’d post a picture on the Garden Party Facebook Page.

Let me know how you go.

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Digital Scrapbook Freebie time again

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere then you’re probably celebrating the arrival of Spring by now. We in the Southern half of the globe are settling into Autumn of course, and in Australia we managed to dispense with Summer altogether this year; especially in the southern states.

Anyhoo, let’s stay focussed on Spring. I’m looking forward to coming over to Europe in a few weeks to sample some of your northern Spring weather. So if any of you have influence in high places, please put in a good word for excellent weather throughout May across the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands and Northern Italy.

And to help things along and set the mood here are some Spring quotes for your scrapbook layouts and cards. And some word art digital scrapbooking freebies for you too. Just right mouse click on the word art image and select Save File As… or Save Target As…

Hope you enjoy them.

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If you found this article useful please share it with your friends on Facebook, Twitter and wherever you hang out online.  Or give it a thumbs up on Stumbleupon. Thank you muchly.

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We’ve smashed the 1000 mark!

Yes, as of yesterday there are now more than 1000 of you out there scrapbooking up a Garden Party storm

Thank you very much to all of you who’ve joined the Garden Party and especially to all those of you who’ve sent me wonderful emails telling me how much you are enjoying the kit.

By the way, if you’re not in on the Party yet be sure to join up by popping your first name and email address into the invitation box in the sidebar on the right there. It costs zero, zip, nada, nothing and in fact, it’s free!

Anyway, I just wanted to share my excitement with you and to thank you all for coming to my Garden Party.

Enjoy this bonus digital scrapbooking freebie to go with your Garden Party Kit

Right mouse click on the flower basket and choose Save Link As... or Save Target As...

Enjoy this bonus digital scrapbooking freebie to go with your Garden Party Kit

Please let all your scrapbooking friends know about the Garden Party Mega Kit  by telling them about in on your blog or Facebook Page . Or letting them know in the scrapbook forums you chat on.

Let’s crack the 2000 mark in record time!

And here’s a Garden Party limerick to keep you in the party mood.

The Garden Party was buzzing and bright
As she stood in the dappled sunlight.
With a glass in her hand,
She toasted the band.
Thrilled again to have got the invite.

Enjoy your digital scrapbooking freebie and the rest of the Garden Party.

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Christmas scrapbooking freebies galore!!

Well December 1 is here again and with it the annual Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking Freebies.

Your one stop for all the Christmas Scrapbooking Freebie goodness you can possibly handle. Antoinette’s got all the goods loaded up and raring to go.

Just click on the logo below to go and snaffle the goodies.

But before you go . . .

Make sure you pick up the Scraps of Mind Christmas Scrapbooking Freebie below.

I’ve made some festive Word Art for you to use on your scrapbook layouts or Christmas Cards. And some Christmas flavored background papers that you can resize to card size to put your free word art on.

To download right mouse click on the image and choose Save Target as… or Save Link as…

Enjoy and have lots of fun with getting ready for the Christmas season.

And please help us to spread the word by letting your scrapbooking friends know about the Worldwide Digital Scrapbooking Christmas Freebies on Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and anywhere you can think of.

Help us make this year the biggest Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking Freebies ever.

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What is it about Christmas that seems to catch us by surprise every year?

It falls on exactly the same date, year in year out. And yet come November we always get a sudden shock. OMG it’s nearly Christmas!

Or is that just me?

Anyhoo, it’s November and Christmas is just around the corner.

I realise my US friends are knee deep in preparations for Thanksgiving and are probably saying  “Get a grip Karen.  We can’t be thinking of Christmas yet! There’s too much other stuff to get through first!”

Well, yeah. But it’s November and Christmas is just around the corner.

And with December comes Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking Freebies.  A brilliant Christmas scrapbooking site which is the brain-child of Antoinette (Dutch Sparky) world renowned Christmasophile.

Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking Freebies has been running for three years now and it’s a fantastic opportunity to you to grab the best Christmas scrapbooking freebies from around the World.

The site kicks off on December 1 and will provide links to a plethora (good word, huh?) of digital scrapbooking freebies together with previews of what you can expect.

I love it because you get to choose from so many different scrapbooking styles and the quality in previous years has been amazing.

So make a note in your diary to get over to Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking Freebies on December 1 and pick up an early scrapbooking Christmas present for yourself.

I’ll be displaying the banner in my sidebar with a direct link to the site so you can come back here and take the fast train to your scrapbooking Christmas wonderland. And of course I’ll have my own contribution to the fun.

Calling digital scrapbooking designers!

Come join in the fun on Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking Freebies.

Just  leave a comment on the site here http://dschristmasaroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2010/11/worldwide-christmas-scrapbooking.html to let Antoinette know you want to join in with your own Christmas Scrapbooking Freebies and she’ll send you the instructions.

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Pudina tal-Hobz

You may remember the Free Yummy Treats Scrapbooking Recipe Book that I organised with some digital scrapbooking Scraps of Mind Readers as a gift for sweet-tooths who enjoy seeing their recipes beautifully presented in a fun way. It’s still available for you to download. And here’s another page that you can download and add to your scrapbooking recipe book.

This scrapbook recipe page is made using the Scraps of Mind Free Garden Party Digital Scrapbook Mega Kit.

To download a  full sized high resolution copy for printing out just right click on the scrapbook layout and choose Save Link As… or Save Target As…

One of the most favourite recipes in our family is Bread Pudding.

This should not be mixed up with that stalwart English dish, bread and butter pudding (although that’s yummy too). No, our Bread Pudding is properly called Pudina tal-Hobz and it’s a native dish of Malta.

My Mum used to make this as a way to use up leftover bread and my daughter and I loved watching and helping her to do it. She has passed on now, and it is part of her legacy to us that we still continue to make it. And whenever we do we think of her.

Her recipe has never been written down before. It’s one of those ones that are made with a handful of this and a dash of that. But I’ve decided to try and put it together and created this scrapbook recipe page which you can download and try it out for yourself.

You can use any bread as the base, but it works better with the ‘non-processed’ types of bread as they absorb moisture better. If you do use processed sliced bread (and I frequently do) then make sure it is several days old because you want it to be as dry as possible. I usually leave the slices of bread spread out on the kitchen bench overnight to dry them out.

And if you don’t want to download the recipe scrapbook layout, here’s the recipe for Pudina tal-Hobz without the presentation pretties.

Ingredients

A Loaf of 2 days old white bread, sliced

3 tablespoons cocoa powder

3 tablespoons of custard powder

3 tablespoons sugar

½ a teaspoon cinnamon

3 eggs (beaten)

¼ litre milk

1 glass Sherry (rum or port are fine too)

100 grms (or 3.52 oz) sultanas

50 grms (or 1.76 oz) butter

Method

Cut the sliced of bread up roughly and soak for several hours in a bowl of water.

Soak the dried fruit in the sherry for as long as possible. You can give it a boost by putting it in the microwave for a couple of minutes at a low setting.

Drain the bread in a colander and then squeeze out as much of the water as possible.

Put the squeezed bread in a bowl and add the dry ingredients. Mix well. Tip: it’s easier to mix this batter with your hands rather than a spoon.

Mix in the beaten eggs.

Drain the fruit but keep the sherry aside to add to your pudina.

Add the fruit to the rest of the ingredients and mix well.

Mix in the sherry and add the milk a little at a time, mixing it in until you have a batter with a ‘fruit cake’ like consistency.

Butter an oven proof dish well and pour the bread mixture into this.

Bake in a moderate to low oven for some 40 to 50 minutes. You will know your pudina is ready when you can stick a skewer into the middle and it comes out clean.

Serve warm or cold.

Give it a try. I’m pretty certain your family will love it as much as we do.

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Another year, another bright idea!

If you’ve been a long term reader of Scraps of Mind you may recall a free Word Art Newsletter I used to run a couple of years ago. It was very popular and I received lots of wonderful feedback from readers. Then life stuff happened and I found making time for it was becoming difficult.

Well I’ve decided the time is right to start a new project.

This time I’m offering you a free Mega Digital Scrapbooking Kit.

All you need to do is subscribe to my Mega Kit Mailout here and I will send you the first part of the kit. Then over the next few weeks I’ll send you more pieces to add to your kit until you’ve built it up to a super duper sized mega kit. And I’ll also be giving you lots of scrapbook ideas, tips and inspiration (I hope).

Get your Garden Party Digital Scrapbooking Freebie Kit here

I must confess I’m pretty excited about this project. I loved connecting with you guys through the newsletter and making the word art for you. And now I get the chance to do it again as well as giving you something different.

Paper Scrapbookers can get in on the fun too.

Now this isn’t just something for digital scrapbookers only. If you’re a paper scrapbooker you can also sign up and receive the Garden Party Mega Kit. Then just print out the elements on your home printer, cut them out and off you go. And the beaut part is that you can use your digital scrapbooking embellishments over and over again.

Like I said, this is something a bit different for me and I’m excited about the whole idea. I’d love it if you could help me spread the word by linking to this post on your blogs or scrapbook forums or Facebook wall to let your friends know so they can get the Garden Party Mega Scrapbook Kit too. And if you have a Stumbleupon account, please give this post a ‘thumbs-up’.

By the way, there’s no strings attached to this. You don’t have to buy anything. Just sign up for the Garden Party Mega Scrapbook Kit Mailout here or in the box at the top of the sidebar, sit back and start receiving your humongous digital scrapbook kit. The ultimate Scrapbooking Freebie

It doesn’t get better than that!

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