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Looks Like I Have to Start Over!
We have talked about organizing before. I have showed you my room, talked about ways to organize different things and thought I had made considerable progress in my own scrapbook room. BOY WAS I WRONG! My daughter, her husband and 4 sons have moved into our basement until they can find where they want to…
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Motivational Monday Sketch
For today’s sketch I have chosen one from Studio J using the You Rock Paperpack. The paper is retired but if you really like the set, I can try to find one for you. Using the large circle left I can keep the size of her photo and still have some fun background going on.…
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Help! My Pictures are Stuck Together!!
I have a TON of printed photographs. Back in the day where you actually sent film in to be developed. (my grandkkids would call this the dark ages) You had the option often times to get double prints so you could share pictures with family and friends. While this was a great concept in theory…
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Retiring My Reflections PaperPacks
Here is a list of the paper packs that are retirling this year, all are “while Supplies Last”. So don’t delay or it will be gone. If you have any questions, please let me know. Z1830 Brown & Tan Glitter Paper Z1847 Green Glitter Paper X7195B Jackson Paper Packet X7196B Blossom Paper Packet X7184B Chalk…
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Memory Keeping On The Go
This month’s Close to my Heart Special is our My Crush Books. I am excited about this promotion because I am going to get one for each of my grandchildren that are old enough to write. I think it is a great way for them to “document” their summer vacation. I might even offer…
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Motivational Monday – Inspiration from Studio J
Do you do digital scrapbooking? Myself, I am a hands all in kind of gal so I don’t do digital but Studio J has so much more to offer, even if you DON’T do your scrapbooking digitally. Today’s sketch is taken from Studio J and is so cute. I have to finish getting my pictures sorted so…
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Happy Memorial Day
Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country’s armed forces. The holiday, which is observed every year on the last Monday of May. This is an important fact to remember as Memorial Day is also the traditional “beginning of summer” holiday. Personally,…
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Great Way to Use Leftovers
If you are like most scrapbookers and cardmakers I know, you HATE to waste, and you REALLY Hate to throw things away. I was finishing up the layout for the sketch challenge yesterday and was staring at the sheet of unused letters on the page thinking “now will these be usable anymore?” after all, you…
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How Will You Make This Sketch Your Own?
Good Morning, It is 5am and I am thinking it is time to start sharing sketches with you again. My hope is that I, too will complete a layout using the sketch and post it for all to see. I chose this sketch because in my unsorted mess of pictures, a subject for another day,…
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There is No Excuse for No Photos Anymore
Do you think about stories in your life with no pictures to remember the situation?. Here is an idea to remember…
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Designer Decor – Flip Stand Album
Made from clear Acrylic, this Designer Decor Flip Stand Album Clear acrylic stand with rings for displaying photos up to 6½” × 5¾”. Stand has slot for inserting background image; instant photograph frames from the Cricut® Artbooking cartridge work great! This stand would be helpful in so many ways, You can use it as a…
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Do You Ever Wish You Could Start Over?
So no, my morning didn’t start out with milk and cereal on the floor, but looking at the scrapbook room, my computer and parts of the house not yet the way I want it, I don’t want to stop the merri-go-round, but send it in a whole new direction. I have never been the most…
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Using Your Old Stash of Scrapbook Supplies
I was first introduced to scrapbooking at a woman’s meeting at church, my daughter Karen was going and asked me to accompany her. If I knew then that I would be so involved with scrapbooking twelve years later would I still have gone? You bet! Scrapbooking isn’t just creating pages with pretty papers, buttons and…
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Days Until Christmas…REALLY?
As I was looking to see what was happening on April 7th in years past. here is the first thing I see : April 7 is the 97th day of the year (98th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 268 days remaining until the end of the year. I don’t know about…
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Wishing you a Blessed Easter
I would like to wish all of you a very Happy Easter. Whether your day is filled with eggs and candy, or religious observants, or both as we do in our home, I wanted to share good wishes to all of you. I will spend it with family, and since we finally live in a…