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Stress-Free Scrapbook Journaling Ideas


Do you find it intimidating when you come to journal your scrapbook pages?You are not alone! Many scrapbookers find it hard to get started when it comes to adding journaling to their scrapbooking layouts.If you are one of those people who go blank at the thought of having to journal, don't worry.

Need A Scrapbook Journaling Idea?


Try using song lyrics in your next layout.Song lyrics can be a great source of title and page inspiration for a scraper.

50 Ideas to Get Organized and Enjoy Your Scrapbooking Hobby


Scrapbooking is a wonderful hobby! Besides being relaxing and fun, it also allows you to be creative and to spend quality time with your family and friends. Plus, it results in a storybook of lifelong memories.

Scrapbooking on a Budget


Memories are priceless, but the cost of preserving them can be high. Here are nine tips for making the most of your scrapbooking budget.

50 Ways to Use Your Ribbon for Scrapbooking, Home Decor, Crafting and Fashion


Scrapbooking:Tie onto a tag, photo mat, border, or photo as an accent.Use with a hole punch to make a booklet.

Copyright: Five Facts Every Scrapbooker Needs To Know!


Here are five basic things that EVERY scrapbooker should know about copyright:#1--When you create an original scrapbook layout, card or other project (not from a sketch, scraplift or idea book) you AUTOMATICALLY own the copyright. No, you don't have to add a copyright notice.

Soap Making For Beginners - Melt And Pour Process


As you will learn, soap making can be simple or complex. Some people enjoy the challenge of going all out professionally, which is fine.

The Easy Way to Make a Special Present


We all know someone who is difficult to buy a present for. Someone who has everything they need and would not appreciate 'normal' gifts.

Gift Baskets - Create Simple Easy Gifts For the Person Who Has Everything!


Have you ever thought about giving a personalized Gift Basket?Is it just me or do you also get excited when you give a gift to your friends and family and you know they love it!The downside you give a gift and you just know they hate it! Unfortunately you can't always get it right because what seems right and the appropriate gift for you isn't always right and appropriate for the person you are buying for.Take my mother for instance, if you don't buy her a gift say for Mothers Day you will be in the bad books for weeks.

A Brief History of Candles


For centuries man's progress has been lighted by candles. However, people know only very few things about the origin of candles.

Easy Steps to Scrapbooking with Young Kids


Kids grow up so fast and if you don't try to capture some of these wonderful memories through some means, they'll all slip through the fingers just in a snap. And scrapbooking is a fabulous way to preserving those memories, by combining the photos and journaling of your kids.

Scrapbooking Childrens Favorite Stories


Countless memories are built during the formative childhood days. If there's an excellent means to record them down in some ways, it'll be scrapbooking.

Woodworking - Creative, Relaxing and Timeless


The title reflects Woodworking as a hobby, not as a vocation. Vocational woodworking is pretty much the opposite of the adjectives in the title because of the intense pressure to produce quickly in order to make it pay the bills.

Spruce Up Your Pages with Scrapbooking Embellishments


Having this nagging doubt that you may upstage your precious photos or clutter your pages with scrapbooking embellishments?One moment you're just so tempted to paste the embellishment onto your page, and the next moment you're questioning yourself, "Should I? Should I not?" You even wonder if you're just trying to force that simply irresistible page accent onto your page to satisfy your craving for? more embellishments.Well, you're in good company.

When It Comes To RC Airplanes You Can Choose From Ready to Fly, Almost Ready to Fly or Scratch Built


Soaring through the air, watching the clouds and the birds fly by. No, you are not flying your own private plane, but you are doing the next best thing.

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