London here we come

Seona and I are sitting in a ‘Harrods’ cafe at Kuala Lumpur airport waiting for our connecting flight to Amsterdam and then on to London. There’s nothing like being in a foreign airport to let you know you’re not in Kansas anymore Toto. We’re all excited that the trip is finally here, although after 8 [...]

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A Tale of Two Pantries

The picture below is my pantry. You may notice that it’s sitting in the back yard. An odd place for a pantry you might think. Let me tell you the story. I love this pantry. I made it 10 years ago when I bought an old trashed 1940s wardrobe (closet) from a second hand shop [...]

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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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Free Word Art and Scrapbooking Quotes for Spring

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 [...]

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10 Speedy Scrapbook Ideas

We all get those ‘no mojo’ days don’t we? Hey sometimes it’s more like ‘no mojo’ weeks even. So here are ten speedy scrapbooking ideas which I hope will intrigue and inspire you and maybe just kick start that mojo again. Attach a transparent sheet over your photo with a couple of brads and doodle [...]

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My Shakespeare Epiphany

Warning: This post has nothing to do with scrapbooking. King Lear at the DonMar Warehouse Theatre How do you feel about Shakespeare? I mean I know he is probably the greatest icon of western literature but do you like his plays? You probably had some exposure to some of his plays when you were at [...]

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How to download and install free fonts

  One of the fun things about digital scrapbooking is creating funky and unique titles for your digital scrapbook layouts using the features of your photo editing software.  You can see some examples in my Step by Step Digital Scrapbook Beginners Tutorials. Although there are lots of fonts already in your computer’s font library somehow [...]

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Digital Silk

Here’s a bit of fun I thought you might like to play with. If you go to this website here http://weavesilk.com/?a You can play with this little thingumy that lets you create this cool looking sort of silk by dragging your mouse around. The web app is created by Yuri Vishnevsky as an experiment in [...]

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