December 31, 2008 – 8:39 am
Don’t throw out the clear jewel cases that you get cd’s in! You can make calendars to fit them – they will set up nicely on a table or desktop. Here’s some ideas to inspire.
Firstly, here’s a quick tutorial you can take a look at for instructions on how to alter a cd case and [...]
December 30, 2008 – 8:00 am
Thank you to those of you that have submitted your calendar projects! Such inspiration from our readers. Thank you again!
Nicky Biwaki, a scrapbooking/papercraft teacher from Scotland who is currently living in Japan, crafted this perpetual calendar from paper bags. Photos are shown below. Be sure and visit Nicky’s blog for more of her ideas and [...]
December 29, 2008 – 8:31 am
Welcome to day one of our calendar posts. We will be showing you calendar ideas all week! Hope you are enjoying your holidays!
Ragsnehali shows a calendar she made. It looks like it was bound together with a Bind-it-All. One photo is shown at right. Also, here is another one that is on a refrigerator magnet.
I [...]
December 28, 2008 – 8:16 am
Today’s featured designer is Kara Haupt. Despite only being 16 years old, Kara is a very accomplished scrapbooker with her own unique style. She is currently on the Hambly Screenprints Design Team. Shown in this post are a few pieces of her work. For more, visit Kara’s blog here and her Flickr gallery here. Also, [...]
December 28, 2008 – 7:31 am
TallyScrapper – Design Team Call
TallyScrapper is currently having a DTcall. Upload 3 of your best layouts by 01/01/09. Our design team is selected by our members. Come join us and check us out!! Please click here for more information.
Making Memories for You – February EZine Calls
The Loves of our Life…… could be [...]
December 27, 2008 – 6:28 am
Hoping everyone is enjoying the holidays and getting some good old fashioned fun in with the family! If you have a chance to drop in next week, we will be featuring calendar project ideas all week!
Are you interested in publishing a craft idea book? CraftyPod has a very interesting podcast with interviews of a publicist [...]
December 26, 2008 – 8:02 am
I hope you can bare with us for another Christmas-themed post! Since we’re still in a holiday mood here, we thought we’d show you some more scrapbooking projects for the season.
Jules Eickmeier, of the KNK Design Team, made this Christmas tree out of paper. (At left.) She free hand designed the tree and cut out [...]
December 25, 2008 – 8:00 am
Here’s a wee peek of our holiday photo cards for this year. We finally got them in the mail last weekend!
They were made using ScrapBlog. I love the selection of patterned paper, "stickers" and fonts they have. So many to choose from. I could easily have come up with way more designs and loved them [...]
December 24, 2008 – 8:31 am
Today, we welcome Scrappin Times as our featured brick and mortar scrapbook supply store! For past featured LSS’, please click here.
Scrappin Times is a cute little scrapbooking shop in Benoni, South Africa. The shop is very small, but as owner, Jacki Janse van Rensburg tells us, "we pride ourselves on our friendly atmosphere, and [...]
December 23, 2008 – 7:20 pm
Here are the recipes for the Christmas cookies posted earlier today. (Click photos to enlarge.)
Lemon Shortbread Stars (from "A Taste of Canada," by Rose Murray)
(These are really a lot of work, but very good!)
1 c butter
1/4 c cornstarch
1 c icing sugar
1 tbsp grated lemon zest
1 3/4 c a/p flour
4 tsp fresh lemon juice
Set oven to [...]
December 23, 2008 – 8:30 am
Last weekend, I made 15 1/2 dozen cookies. (With a little help from a certain young fellow, as you can see!) I realize now that this is an awful lot of cookies! It amounts to about 23.25 cookies for each of my family members at our Christmas dinner! So…. I thought we could package some [...]
December 22, 2008 – 9:31 am
Here is some more inspiration from our latest eBook, "Scrappy Gifts!" (This eBook shows projects to make that are suitable for gift giving.)
At left is the original project. A surname plaque using repurposed materials. (More photos can be seen in the eBook.)
Chris Pozzi shows her version of the surname plaque at right. She also used [...]
December 22, 2008 – 8:30 am
If you missed our post last week with gift suggestions for scrapbookers, please click here. Now, if you’re still looking for last minute gift ideas, here are some more:
Craftster Silk Screened T-Shirt – this cute t-shirt says it all, ‘Beware of woman with scissors!’
Basic Grey Rub-On Roller Tool – this little tool was suggested by [...]
December 21, 2008 – 8:15 am
Claudine Hellmuth has a tutorial up on how to make this cute little village. One photo is shown at right. She has also provided a downloadable template.
Virginia Nebel made some beautiful snowflakes using origami. She has posted a tutorial on the Scrapalicious blog. There are also step by step photos posted. One photo is shown [...]
December 21, 2008 – 8:00 am
Serendipity Scrapbooks – Design Team Call
Starting Dec 15th thru January 23, 2009 we will be accepting Design Team Submissions. We are looking at bringing on at least 7 new designers to our team: I will place the requirements for submission in the Serendipity Scrapbooks forum. You can access the guidelines and [...]
