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A Simple Card Sketch for a Quick and Easy Card
It’s Monday, since my focus has been on scrapbook pages, I thought today was a good day to do a card sketch. If you missed sending out a card for Mother’s Day, you can knock this out pretty quickly and stick it in the mail today! My example is themed Happy Birthay because my son…
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How to Care for your Acrylic Stamps
I get this question alot, especially from new stampers so I wanted to share with you what Close to my Heart’s answer to this question is… Although our stamps are very durable, care must be taken when removing them from the carrier sheet, especially for the first time. To avoid tearing your stamps, gently loosen…
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Same Subject, Different Years, A Two Page Scrapbook Sketch
How do you scrap the same subject, but different years? I have 4 pictures, 2 are one year, and the other two could be the same year, but I have no way of knowing. Since I tend to use more two page layouts than single ones, I decide to just do one two-page layout since…
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Color My World…
Our color preferences are often motivated by the memories we have and the reactions to the mood that color brings. My favorite color is blue. Blue brings me peace, whether it is blue sky or blue ocean, sometimes I wonder if it is because I have blue eyes and for years I thought my eyes…
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Leftovers Anyone?
Do you keep leftover buttons and beads you find because you know they will come in handy at some point in the future? I wanted to share with you a few ways to use these found treasures in your scrapbook pages. Using a strong adhesive, you can add buttons and beads to your scrapbook titles,…
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Scrapbooking Baby Pictures
Scrapbooking baby pictures is fun. Today I am going to show you a layout done completely on the computer. Digital scrapbooking use to be very popular, but I was always a hands on type of scrapbooker. To me it is therapy… cutting the paper, stamping the images. If I am following directions to complete the…
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Where You Store Your Scrapbooks Matters!
Are Your Scrapbooks Safe? Are your grandmother’s old photos in the attic in a box? Time to get them out of there! Safe Scrapbooking doesn’t just start with quality, acid-free supplies, but it ends with where and how you store completed albums. Improper conditions can cause more damage than acidic elements. To maximize the longevity…
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Tying Together the Layers
Here is a great way to tie colors and layers together. I want to share with you another layout I completed for my Aunt to give me cousin. Here are several pictures of the friends in the neighborhood where he grew up. Using a block E size stamp set, I was able to stamp the…
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A Shammy Just for Stamps!
The New Stamp Shammy! We have seen the Close to my Heart Spritz Cleaner and the scrubbers go away, but in it’s place is the new Shammy for your stamps. Let’s face it, a lot of you were using baby wipes anyway, and while they are disposable, this is a much better solution. Just a…
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Motivation for Monday with Direct-to-Paper Inking
Good Morning! Today I have a scrapbook page for you to use as a sketch and the technique of direct-to-paper inking. It features space for a 5 x 7 photo as well as 2 4 x 6 photos. You can choose whether you want to have a small 2 x 2 photo on the left…
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Scrapping Old School Photos
I have been asked by someone dear to me to create a scrapbook for her son, who I also adore, so I said yes. In the box was an assortment of school photos. While I could have done a page for each year, I thought that would be just too much when I didn’t know…
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We’ve Got Snow…Again
Happy Monday! I can’t believe that yesterday we had 60-degree weather and no snow was in sight. Today it looks like we have gotten 3″ so far and it is supposed to go on all week! I am glad that scrapbooking is an indoor activity. Today’s sketch is based on a layout I did of…
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Don’t You Hate Unfinished Projects?
Don’t you just hate unfinished projects? I cut the pieces for this layout over a month ago, but since it required I get out the cuttlebug and cut the small papers with the Thin Cuts® I just set it aside for later. Well, later has arrived and I am calling Fridays “UNFINISHED FRIDAYS”. Every Friday…
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Scrapbooking is a connection word in many social circles
Scrapbooking is a connection word in many social circles; whether you are talking to pre-teens to those of “a certain age” (sorry, I can’t wrap my head around calling myself “a senior” to everybody in between. Usually everyone still have some printed pictures, but that has been changing over the past 30 years and how…
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Trip of a Lifetime Layout and Sketch
Early this morning, I returned from a trip I took with my mother who is 82. It was just her and I. I wanted to be able to spend some one-on-one time with her while she still knew who I was. You see, I had an experience when I visited my grandmother, in a nursing…