hybrid scrapbooking

Digital Scrapbook Freebie

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 [...]

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5 Tips for making a Great Mini-Album

A mini album for someone special makes a great gift. Here’s one I made for my daughter’s 30th birthday. When you’re used to making full sized scrapbook layouts making a mini one can present some challenges. Here are 5 tips that will make your mini-album a fabulous project and delight the reciever.

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Hybrid Scrapbooking a 50th Card

I’ve just made this 50th birthday card and I thought I’d share it with you. It’s a Hybrid scrapbooking card made using both paper scrapbooking and digital scrapbooking techniques and combines the touchy-feely satisfaction of working with paper with the convenience, versatility and virtually unlimited paper and embellishment options of digital scrapbooking.

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National Cardmaking Day

October 3rd is National Cardmaking Day So I thought I’d share one of my more special cards with you. Hope you enjoy. Hybrid Card Making for Someone Special My daughter recently celebrated a birthday, and in what has now become an annual tradition, I flew up to Sydney to spend her birthday weekend with her. [...]

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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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Are You a Scrapbooking Cardmaker or a Cardmaking Scrapbooker?

I must admit that I’m sometimes confused myself. If you have spent any time at all reading this blog you’ll know that I’m devoted to scrapbooking (obsessed? Moi?). In an article I wrote a couple of weeks ago I referred to cardmaking as basically miniature scrapbook layouts. Reader Donna said in her comment “…The whole [...]

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Results of the Scrapbooking Survey

Did you enter the Scrapbooking Survey on Scraps of Mind a couple of weeks ago? Well the results are in and have been counted and analysed by our highly trained team of researchers to ensure the highest standards of integrity and accuracy. And the answer to the question “Paper, Digital or Hybrid, what kind of [...]

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Do you Scrapbook with One or Many Photos?

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article called Scrapbooking Today versus Yesterday in which we explored whether the comercialism in scrapbooking today has de-personalised’ our scrapbook albums compared to the ones our Mothers and Grandmothers used to make. I say ‘we’ explored this proposition because I received some awesome comments on this post, [...]

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Scrapbook Journaling with Your Handwriting

Now I can hear all the paper scrapbookers saying ” No no no! My handwriting is terrible. I don’t want to ruin my scrapbook layouts by scrawling all over them. And what if I make a mistake? I’ll be ruining my supplies trying to get my writing to look good.”

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How to Use Scanned Objects in Hybrid and Digital Scrapbooking

We have a new Guest Writer on Scraps of Mind this week. June is a traditional and hybrid scrapbooker who enjoys sharing tips and techniques with her readers on her blog Scrapping by Design where she makes some cool scrapbooking videos to demonstrate her projects. So when you’ve finished reading her article, why not click [...]

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