Category: scrapbooking

My lovely family gave me some gift vouchers for our local scrapbooking shop for Xmas. I think I’ve been very restrained in still having some left six weeks later. Tonight at scrapbooking, I decided to use my voucher to buy a few things I probably wouldn’t otherwise have got....

I’ve been taking daily pictures and writing about them for a month today, so I thought this would be a good time to reflect on my first month of blogging. It’s been an interesting process for me. At first I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to do this,...

Before I ventured into the world of scrapbooking I thought it was an expensive hobby for American women who had lots of money and too much time on their hands. ‘Why don’t they just put them in an album and be done with it?’ I used to ask myself....

The January issue of Creating Keepsakes arrived in my mailbox today. It’s the Australian edition of an American magazine, so it has pretty much everything the American one does, with Australian ads and a section for Australian readers to submit layouts.  The style of a lot of the layouts...

I love handmade cards and I’m often amazed by the wonderful creations of my friend Flat Katt, Lil Sis and my scrapbooking buddies on the scrapbooking and cardmaking forum I’m a member of.   Flat Katt was the first person I knew who was into cardmaking in a big...

Almost from the time that I started scrapbooking, I’ve been looking for a brown journalling pen. Black pens are all over the place. Take your pick. I have about six of ’em, of various sizes and brands. There is a pen colour that is sort of brown. One pen...

I spend a lot of time raving about Project Life. I got my first kit last year and found it such an easy way to display my photos and record my memories. I love traditional scrapbooking, but I take so many photos that I want to ‘albumise’, and setting...