Today's Tip

Create Polaroid look-alike by cropping your photos into squares. Next, mat these photos with white cardstocks and you'll have "Polaroid photos" in a jiffy!

Today's Tip

Do you have many photos from the same event with distracting background? Why not crop these photos and turn them into design elements for your page? Line them up to form a page border for your scrapbook layout.

Today's Tip

Need a totally creative title for your beach vacations? Next time you're out on the beach, write out your place of vacation in the sand and take a picture of it. Then use photo as a die cut title for your vacation layout.

Today's Tip

Racking your brains for more creative titles? How about looking to movie titles to create your next page theme? "My Best Friend's Wedding", "A Cinderella Story", "Chocolate Girls" and tons of interesting ones around. Go to http://imdb.com/search if you need some help with your movie titles.

Get Cooking!!!

You've been CHALLENGED!!!!!

How about cooking up something good?  This is a "recipe challenge" of sorts.

I don't want you to scrap a recipe, I want you to follow the recipe below to cook up a delicious layout.

• 3 circles
• 1 picture
• 5 buttons
• scallops
• 1 heart

Mix all together and show us your finished product!!

INFO - Scrapable Moments, Comox - CLOSING

http://scrapablemoments.com/

From the website:

"Scrapable Moments is closing and this is your chance to save big. Perfect time to get some great Christmas gifts at great deals. Hurry in as we are closing soon and things are going fast. Everything must go.

Thank you to all my loyal customers throughout the years but it is time to stop spreading myself so thin and focus on my family. I will miss you all but am looking forward to finally being able to scrapbook again.


Please note there is no free shipping given the already deeply discounted product."

Today's Tip

Want to create a stitched look on your layouts? Do you own a pair of pinking shears? Use it to cut a straight line down a piece of heavy cardstock. Then use the edges of the cut cardstock to trace zig zag stitches on your layouts using a fine black pen.

Today's Tip

A fun way to create bullet points to your journaling is to use brads. To make sure that your bullet points are lined up evenly on your layout, poke holes using a thick needle point where your bullet points should be and then inserts your brads.

Contest Results

Well, the contest period has closed, and then some, and no posts to the blog.... so no winner :(   I guess I get to keep the prize.

But, we're closing in on 250 hits to the blog!!!  Woohoo.

Anything you want to see here?  Let me know!

Today's Tip

Do you tend to have a hard time recalling specific details to an event? Then bring along a small notebook with you and quickly jot down answers to date and place of event, people, highlights, activities, feelings. Then tear out these handwritten notes and place them with your photos. Whenever you're ready to create your layouts, you'll have all the handy answers on hand.