Scraps Of Mind

Join Wildheart of Wildheart’s Works for this week’s edition of Texture Tuesday. Wildheart is a Paintshop Pro expert, but I know you’ll enjoy the tips and tricks even if you’re not a PaintShop Pro user. And you’ll find plenty of ideas to help you work with textures in your own program.

A Fall Texture for You

Here in the States it still feels like summer, we have had near 90 degree temps in my state of Kansas. I thought it would be nice to make a texture and a glitter tile for us to get in the fall mood .

One thing I do love about fall is that the leaves turn such beautiful colors. When I was a little girl we had a maple tree out in the front. The leaves would turn such robust colors of red and orange. Maple leaves are really, in my opinion one of the prettiest, in the fall.

Things that I love about fall also are the field trips to the pumpkin patch with my son and getting treated to apple cider, freshly made and ice cold. Oh, and pumpkin pie made from scratch, the smell of the pie permeating the whole house.

Now there is only one thing I dislike about fall and that is the ever looming approach of winter. Here in Kansas our winters have traditionally been known to be bitterly cold with wind chills below zero.

Now that I have had a chance to share a little of myself with you let me now share this fall texture …

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… and a fall glitter with you.

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To use these, or any of the textures the Wildheart has created for you in this series, just right click on the image and choose Save link as… or Save target as…

Then you can open the texture tile onto your layout and stretch it to fit. Use your blending modes to blend the texture with your background paper.

You can see more of Wildheart’s textures at her blog, Wildheart Works or feel free to contact her at joecheray@gmail.com

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Texture Tuesday -last week’s segment

Scrapbook Idea: Scrapbook your Garden

Top 10 Scrapbook Ideas to Rekindle Your Scrapbooking Inspiration

Regular readers of Scraps of Mind may recall an article I wrote a couple of months ago explaining how you can advertise your blog for free using Entrecard. That’s the little graphic thingy in my sidebar with the gold bar at the bottom.

Basically you sign up (click on the gold bar if you haven’t already signed up), put the Entrecard widget on your blog and then go and visit other blogs and click on their widget to earn Entrecard Credits (EC). Your visit will be recorded in their Entrecard dashboard and usually they will return the visit, also earning you ECs. You can then use your ECs to advertise for a day on any Entrecard member’s blog, as well as accepting advertisements (earning more ECs) from other blogs to place their graphic in your Entrecard widget.

It’s very easy and, whilst taking a little bit of time, can be a very effective way of generating more traffic for your blog.

But traffic is not the same as readers!

The theory is that potential new readers will come to your blog, read what you have to say and come back for more. But what can happen is that Entrecard ‘droppers’ will mostly hit your blog, click on your Entrecard widget and then zoom off. Never looking at your blog at all.

So your stats look great, but you haven’t improved your readership at all.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

First you need to make a call on whether it’s traffic or readers that is more important to you.

If you chose Readers then here are some tips to turn that traffic into new readers.

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Saturday Scrapbooking Ideas #24

Rub-ons can be quite expensive for paper scrapbookers. Well why not try making your own?

Print your rub-on design onto a sheet of transparent film using your home printer. You don’t want to load too much ink onto it so change the setting to Draft.

When you’ve printed out your transparency you can apply it face down on you layout and rub the back of it with the back of a spoon to transfer the design to your layout.

It’s probably best to choose a simple design or an alphabet character to minimise any fuzziness on the transfer. And I would recommend you try it out on a scrap of paper before applying it directly to your scrapbook layout.

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Top 10 Scrapbook Ideas to rekindle your Inspiration

Welcome again to this week’s Five Freebies on Friday. There’s some groovy Scrapbooking Freebie goodies in this week’s round up, so enjoy.

And don’t forget to leave some love when you download your freebie. A simple thank you comment makes all the difference to the designer who will have put a lot of time and effort into creating your freebie.

1. If you’re into alphabets you’ll love this page of assorted alphas at Free Digital Scrapbooking.
2. This little string of beaded flowers from Sweet Digi Creations is so cute.
3. Rockin’s Ruckus has a great kit featuring butterflies and… flies, would you believe?
4. Time for some doodles from Scraps From UKDaisy.
5. And to wrap up the week, here’s a pack of four circle frames from RMW Creations.

Other related posts:

Five Freebies on Friday 5 Sep 2008
Five Freebies on Friday 12 Sep 2008
Five Freebies on Friday 19 Sep 2008

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Welcome to Part 4 in this fantastic series on How to Scrapbook Your Life Story from Kylie Moore of KylieM Designs. Enjoy this segment and if you missed the previous episodes, the links are just below. This week is a bit of a time out segment, for you to recap on what you’ve covered so far and perhaps bring yourself up to date. Once again, Kylie has a free QuickPage to help you get started. See below for the link.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Welcome to week four of Scrapping your Lifestory.

I was hoping to have the next installment of this series all prepared and ready for you this week, but I am in Adelaide for Uni and it has ended up being way more busy than I anticipated! I did put together another Quickpage to help you on your way.

But let’s take this week to catch our breath and recap on what we have covered so far. I hope you have all been thinking about those first jobs that you had, remembering some of the funny stories. I know for myself I have spent lots of time giggling as I think back to the things I got up to!

And how did you go with scrapping the story of how you and your partner first met? This might be a difficult layout to scrap if you’re talking about an ex-partner but remember, it’s all part of your life story so it’s worthwhile trying to include it in your album.

And then of course there’s our relationships with the various members of our extended family. Although this is not a topic that’s often explored, you can guarantee that it will be of interest to your children and grandchildren in years to come as they try to navigate their family tree.

Please let us know how your journey is going, and I will be on board again next week with the next part of the series!

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You can catch up on Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this series here.

You can read more of Kylie’s work and check out her designs at KylieM Designs. Stay tuned for Part Four next week.