Scrapbook Layouts

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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Morris Dancing Merriment

Blending a photo into a background paper A couple of Sundays ago we went to the 2nd Annual Kellybrook Cider Festival. It was an absolute hoot, with lots of different ciders (mulled cider was definitely my favourite), wine, apple juice and lots of apple related food. The event was held at Kellybrook Winery at Wonga [...]

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Scrapbook a Patchwork Quilt

…With this Freebie Scrapbook Template My nephew celebrated his 21st birthday over the Easter Weekend and I made this patchwork style scrapbook layout with some of the photos. It’s a great way to make an interesting shaped scrapbook layout and use lots of photos at the same time. But why stop at one? How cool [...]

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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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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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Five Freebies on Friday – 28 November 2008

Welcome back to Five Freebies on Friday. That time of the week when Scraps of Mind brings you a great collection of Scrapbooking Freebie goodies. Please don’t forget to leave a thank you when you download your freebie. A simple thank you comment makes all the difference to the designer who will have put a [...]

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Digital Scrapbooking Day

“I have been digital scrapbooking for over three years now. I am sure I can give it up any time I want. It’s not like I’m addicted or anything.” Karen Bellamy, chronic digital scrapbooker and self-delusionist.

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Do Your Scrapbook Layouts Shape up?

One of the most effective ways you can add structure to your scrapbook layouts is by using shapes. Shapes can be used to reflect an element in your photo by repeating it. For example if you’re scrapbooking a photo about your toddler playing with a large colored ball, then using circular shapes for your matt [...]

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Scrapbook Albums vs Scrapbook Layouts

What kind of a title is that?? They’re the same thing, I hear you say. Wee-eeell … yes and no. Yes a scrapbook album is a collection of scrapbook layouts. But I’m really talking about scrapbook albums with a theme here. It’s easy to get caught up in the inspiration of individual layouts. And we [...]

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