ScrapScene is officially three years old! You can see our first month of posting here: April 2006. Time sure flies! We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who contributes to making ScrapScene: our sponsors, the readers, all the inspiring scrapbookers and designers out there and everyone who takes the time to send [...]
Creatively Yours – Design Team Call The CY DESIGN TEAM SEARCH has begun! We’re always on the lookout for talented Design Team Members and a new term starts soon! The current DT finishes up their term on May 1st. We have some special things planned here for May, so the next DT term will be [...]
Oh my, Donna Downey is teaching in my hometown this weekend! I wish I knew this earlier or I would have been there, four hour drive or not! Here Donna shows peeks of the class projects she will be teaching at Tomorrow’s Treasures in Smiths Falls, Ontario. Speaking of Donna Downey, her event, "Inspired," is [...]
Yay, it’s the weekend and spring is upon us. Looking forward to enjoying the great weather this weekend! Shimelle Laine has an interesting post with tips and advice for beginner scrapbookers. I have a real weakness for anything depicting clouds so of course I love C.D. Muckosky‘s cloudy layout. Wow, these passport holders made by [...]
The Scrapping Spot is thrilled to announce Melanie Stanczyk as our guest designer for May. The new Lily Bee Design Design Team is: Stephanie Howell (DT Coordinator), Lori Gentile, Brenda Hurd, Nicole Harper, and Katrina Huerta. Kitschy Digitals Guest Designers can be seen here: Cathy Pascual, Jen Jockisch and Jo-Anne te Raa.
Paula’s Kit Club This is the April kit – "Down on the Farm"! Join the club or clubs! Sign up for the wait list! This kit contains items from 15 different companies (& countless antique store and eBay auction finds!): 13 sheets of paper from 4 different companies; Tons of VINTAGE labels and ephemera (some [...]
Where do you create all your scrapbook pages? Where do you organize and store your scrapbooking supplies? Maybe you are not happy with your present scrapbook room or workspace. Are you looking for some ideas to improve your situation? There are many options available to you as a home owner or apartment dweller for creating [...]
Jane Dean is a lucky gal – check out the new studio space she will be moving into! Bella Blvd shows the studio space of Ja na Eubank in a post here. One photo is shown below. On the Modish blog, you can see the work space of Nicole from the Etsy shop, "Three by [...]
Croppin Paradise – Weekly Challenge (4/13-4/19) This weeks weekly challenge in Paradise is brought to you by Lisa, a member of our fabulous Design Team! The challenge this week is to scrap a round layout and to use some sewing on the page. You can machine stitch, hand stitch or even use rub ons. No [...]
This is part 2 of our post about ideas from vintage craft books that are suitable for scrapbookers or paper crafters. To see part 1, please click here. I am so loving these vintage craft books that Todd found. The photos below are of pages from "Encyclopedia of Crafts," from 1975. There are so many [...]
To view our past post about using dollar store items for scrapbooking and paper crafting projects, please click here. Retta, of Foxy’s Weblog, tells us, "I always scan up and down the aisles of my local Dollar Stores for scrapbooking related items. My first stop is where they keep school supplies. Clipboards, sketchbooks and small notebooks [...]
I have this ‘thing’ for vintage craft books. As a matter of fact, I’ve now got two series’ of vintage craft books from the 60′s and 70′s. The other other day, Todd came across this collection that you see below, "Encyclopedia of Crafts." It is from 1975 and has so many wonderful crafts. I just [...]
I saw the idea to apply rub-ons to decorate Easter eggs on someone’s page on Facebook, so thought I’d give it a try. I’m sorry I don’t remember who it was (they weren’t one of my "friends"). If it was you, let me know! Such a great idea! These photos below show the Easter eggs [...]
Mon Scrapbook – Design Team Call We are currently looking for talented Canadian designers to join our creative team. Selected candidates will receive every 2 months: – A custom kit – A basket of products worth $ 25 to present a technique or a step-by-step project on the store blog – A store discount on [...]
Happy Easter, everyone! Looking to buy or sell handmade items? ArtFire is another site like DaWanda and Etsy that sells handmade items from individuals. Hambly’s blog talks about Jeffrey Rudell‘s tutorial on making paper flowers and shows some made by Allison Kreft Abad using their screen printed overlays. One photo is shown at left. [...]
