Diptych Dreams

Our recent retreat attendees had one workshop called Diptych Dreams which was an arch shaped book with an Italian theme. My original was at the time winging it’s way back overseas from America as it had been photographed for a magazine interview in a magazine called Scrapbooking and Beyond. The interview was back in July [...]

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Basement Cat turns Thirteen

If you are not a fan of I Can Has Cheezburger, then you might not get the joke here.  Basically, the site has evolved the concept of an enlightened higher being known as Ceiling Cat, who is always a white cat and his evil counterpart, Basement Cat who is nearly always portrayed as a jet [...]

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Winter Grunge

Well the new Tim Holtz stamps came into the office this afternoon, so naturally I had to, er, quality test them.  Yes, quality test, that’s the phrase. So this is what’s been lying around on the table for a few days: pages from a Glimmer Glass Frosty album, coloured with Slate, Frost, Turquoise and Suede [...]

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We’ll always have Paris

I’ve been working on a little something for Adrian to cheer him up. The page might take a while to load as there’s lots of photos today. Each page has been glimmer misted then covered on the reverse with Artylicious paper. I’ve used Tim Holtz I See Paris stamps and the journalling throughout is typed [...]

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The Night Shift

Many of you spotted that the peacock stamps had sold out on the Create and Craft website, almost in the first day. Well yesterday there were several conversations back and forth about whether we could send a top up order to them. Of course we can I said. It’s not as if we’re busy with [...]

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Grand Canyon Scrapbook

I have been to Las Vegas twice on trade show trips and the first time, I regretted not having time to take a trip to the Grand Canyon. This time, we were determined not to miss the chance of a lifetime. I took loads of photos and it’s taken me a while to come up [...]

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Calling all Scrappers – we need you!

Charity Crop Children In NeedFriday November 16th 11.00am-9.00pmCome and Play! Calling all Scrappers … we need you and your time and creativity to make lots of money for Children in Need !!! We are hosting a wonderful scrapbooking crop on behalf of Children In Need on Friday 16th of November and we need your support. [...]

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Vegas Lights

I seem to be getting well and truly hooked on this digital scrapbooking thing. I’ve been playing with some photos from Las Vegas and a program called Memory Mixer. I just LOVE how these pages turned out. I tried adding a touch of contrasting colour, but I prefer it like this. Really lets the photos [...]

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Snapshots of Italy

I have really enjoyed getting my digital photo library organised and sorted out. It’s so much easier on the joints in cyberspace, no heavy boxes to lug around! So, here are some digital pages created with my Italian holiday snaps. Click on an image to get a larger version.

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Cat Scrapbook

webrescatmini01.jpg Originally uploaded by graphicusuk I’ve been playing with digital scrapping. Here’s a little 8 page album I created using some photos of the boys. You can see the whole album on Flickr – click on the picture or the flickr slider in the side bar.

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