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The Scrapbooker’s Lament

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I put them together and created the Free Scraps of Mind Yummy Treats Scrapbooking Recipe Book.

It was only intended as a Mothers’ Day promotion, but hey…why stop there?

Why not give her a little extra present this Christmas. Who knows, you might get some of the yummy dishes baked for you in return.

And she’ll never have such a gorgeous cook book again. We’ve gone for quality over quantity in the Yummy Treats Scrapbooking Recipe Book.  Nine delicious and beautifully presented sweet treats that will totally make your mouth water.

You can download the PDF file, print it out and put it in a nice cover (perhaps one you scrapbook yourself) or you can download the high resolution files for even better results.

If you want to get the PDF ebook PLUS all the High Quality files then use this Download button. The zip file is 30 Mb.

If you just want the PDF ebook then use this Download button. The PDF file is 3.13 Mb.

All the scrapbook recipe layouts in this book are created with digital scrapbooking techniques. If you’d like to give digital scrapbooking a try (and you really should, you know), then pop over to Step by Step Digital Scrapbook where you’ll find everyting you need to know to get you started on the right path.

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Yummy Treats Christmas Stocking Filler

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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.

Time to Think About Your Christmas Designing

With Thanksgiving just a couple of weeks away and Black Friday the day after it is time to start thinking about getting your sites ready for Christmas if you haven’t already started to.

I put together a few tiles to get us thinking about Christmas site designing and prepping.

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 with Wildheart

Texture Tuesday with Wildheart - Scraps of Mind

And even better that that was when Digital Scrapbooking came into my life.

I made this video telling the story of my scrapbooking journey for my Step by Step Digital Scrapbook site that teaches beginners how to digital scrapbook, so it has references to the site. But I thought you might like to hear the story. And regular readers of Scraps of Mind might enjoy seeing my head bobbing about on their monitor.

Prior to my scrapbooking days I always believed that I didn’t have a creative bone in my body. And it’s only thanks to scrapbooking that I have come to realize that this is simply not true.

My love for scrapbooking motivated me to start Scraps of Mind which is devoted to all things scrapbooking. And my desire to share how digital scrapbooking can so easily unlock your creativity was what motivated me to start Step by Step Digital Scrapbooking. I wanted a place where beginners could find out what they needed to know to get themselves started.

And I wanted to be able to offer them the opportunity of extra coaching help to really kick start their creative journey. So I designed and created the Step by Step Digital Scrapbook Mentoring Program.

Anyway I hope you enjoyed the video.

How does it compare to your own story? I’d love it if you would share your scrapbooking journey in the comments section below.

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One Woman’ Scrapbooking Journey

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Saturday Scrapbooking Ideas #28

Sometimes it can be really hard to come up with just the right words for your journaling. You rack your brain but nothing seems to really work. Ever had that experience?

Well why not turn to your kids for the inspiration?

Ask them what their memories of the event in your photo are and use their word for your journaling. This is even more poignant if the photo is of them.

Top 10 Scrapbook Ideas to rekindle your Inspiration

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Saturday Scrapbooking Ideas

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Hooray for Five Freebies on Friday. Yes it’s that time of the week again when Scraps of Mind brings you a great collection of Scrapbooking Freebie goodies.

As always I ask you to make sure you 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 lot of time and effort into creating your freebie.

1. There’s a pack of gorgeous papers over at Miss Edna’s Place. She’s putting together a kit to raise awareness for the search for a cure to cancer. And you’ll love the beautiful bouquet of flowers in the corner of each paper.
2. Le Scrap Folies is offering this very elegant QuickPage for you.
3. There’s a beautiful Whimsical Winter QuickPage over at Midnight Charms. Very elegant.
4. Get in the party mood at La Cueva de la Osa Honey with this great happy-go-lucky Danielita kit.
5. I just love this template from Meine Freebies. And I know you will too.

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Five Freebies on Friday 7 Nov 2008
Five Freebies on Friday 24 Oct 2008
Five Freebies on Friday 31 Oct 2008

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Step by Step Digital Scrapbook
The digital scrapbooking site that ’s designed especially for beginners.
Create wonderful art works from your photos quickly and easily on your computer.
No mess, no special workspace needed, no cleaning up.

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Five Freebies on Friday - 14 Nov 2008

Five Freebies on Friday - 14 Nov 2008 - Scraps of Mind

In that time she has brought us many beautiful and interesting textures. And I thought it might be a good idea to talk about how I like to use them in my own scrapbooking.

Regular readers of Scraps of Mind will know that I’m a user of Photoshop Elements 5. My understanding of the mechanics of other software programs is limited so I’m writing this from a PSE perspective.

What is a Texture?

Textures change the surface of your photo or element to look like it is made from another material

In PSE they are found in the Filters menu. And by activating a layer and applying a texture filter you can change the appearance of your photo by making it look like it is made out of another substance: canvas or brickwork for instance.

In scrapbooking textures are probably more widely used to help create interesting background papers for digital scrapbook layouts.

Unlike with brushes and gradients, PSE doesn’t allow you to load and save your own textures in the textures filter. At least I can’t find a way. If anyone knows of one I would be very grateful to hear it.

So my favorite way to use texture files is to blend them with backgrounds.

Now the beaut thing about blending textures is that it doesn’t matter if you have a low resolution texture file. It will still give a great result when you drag it out to cover your background paper and apply a blending mode.  I’ll show you what I mean.

The above image shows you a 300 pixel per inch background paper. I have dragged onto it a tiny texture image that I saved from one of Wildheart’s previous texture posts. It’s just a little 72 pixel per inch image and you can see how tiny it is. Now let’s look at what it looks like when I drag it out to the full size of the background paper.

The texture layer is now covering the background paper and although there will obviously be a degradation in quality, it will not be apparent when we complete the next step, which is to blend the two layers together.

You can blend the layers together in a variety of ways.

In this example I have used the Overlay blending mode (found in the drop down blending mode menu in the Layers Pallet). You can see the different the texture has made to the paper. It really gives it dimension and substance. And yet the paper doesn’t not look anything like the raw texture. I love doing this to customize my background papers.

You might pick a different blending mode. I recommend you select one in the blending menu. This will highlight the field in the menu box and then you can use your mouse scroll wheel to scroll through them all and pick the one you like.

Alternatively, you can reduce the opacity of the texture layer in the layers pallet to blend it softly into the layer below.

Different textures will work best with different blending options.

Have you tried using textures in this way?

Or maybe you have other favorite ways of using them. I’d love to hear your ideas in the comments below.

How do you use textures in scrapbooking?

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How to Use Textures in Scrapbook Layouts

How to Use Textures in Scrapbook Layouts - Scraps of Mind

Creating Keepsakes is discontinuing their paper publication, Digital Scrapbooking Magazine.

This will be a sad loss to the digital scrapbooking community, as typically digital scrapbooking only tends to feature as an isolated segment in the mainstream scrapbooking magazines.

Lin Sorenson VP of Editorials for CK has published an announcement of the demise of their DS Magazine on their community website:

Dear CK Media employees, readers, and loyal contributors,

I am saddened to share the news that, due to difficult conditions in both the economy and the publishing market, CK Media has made the decision to cease publication of the print version of Digital Scrapbooking magazine after the February/March issue (on sale Jan 6, 2009)….

You can read the full announcement here.

For those with outstanding subscriptions CK has pledged to honor them with other Creating Keepsakes product. I’m not sure that is really a fair trade. As many digital scrapbookers will not be interested in magazines that cater mainly to paper scrapbooking. As far as I am aware Digital Scrapbooking Magazine was the only one on the market that catered exclusively to digital scrapbookers.

So I guess digital scrapbookers will have to continue getting all their digital scrapbooking info from the Internet and reading it on-line.

R.I.P Digital Scrapbooking Magazine

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Farewell to Digital Scrapbooking Magazine

Farewell to Digital Scrapbooking Magazine - 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.

Last week I brought you some fresh and interesting textures from Torley Textures. This week I am going to show you a few frames that I made with more of the textures found in this incredible array of stunning textures.

I recommend that if you haven’t checked out the link I gave you last week to go and download these gems, to do it this week. It is a huge asset to your texture and pattern library. They can be used in Paintshop Pro and Photoshop.

I do want to point out that for frames something that has a slight pattern or texture to it yields the best results. You could certainly use something with a bit more WOW factor. However, if you want a more uniform look to your frame then a texture or pattern with more subtle detail works best.

The first frame is made from a texture called Styxx.

This next one is Vertical Chiffon

and last but not least a lovely Mocha

I want to mention as well that I have had issues with my hosting company this week and have a back up blog and domain over at blogger yet.

I will be using http://wildheartsworks.net from now on and it should be ready to go soon after Google is finished propagating it. I am liking blogger now more than I used to as there is more out there that you can do with it than you used to be able to and you don’t have to settle for the standard templates Blogger has to offer.

You are free to snag these for your own frame files or whatever you want to use them for.

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 with Wildheart

Texture Tuesday with Wildheart - Scraps of Mind

I was looking at my Google Stats for Scraps of Mind the other day and I noticed just how many countries are represented in the different visitors who come to Scraps of Mind. This just blew me away.

As you can see, it’s a pretty broad coverage.

But I know that not all these visitors are actual readers of Scraps of Mind. Some just surf in and surf out.

So I thought it would be good to know just where all my Scraps of Mind readers actually do come from.
If you have reached this point in the post, I can safely assume you are a reader and not just a surfer.

So let’s have a hand-holding moment and reach out around the world, linking up in Scrapbooking.

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Where Do All the Scrapbookers Live?

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