1 Kit – 4 Hybrid Projects by Cara

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The Love Birds collection by LilleyScrap Designs came out this week and I had the pleasure of creating a few hybrid projects with the kit that I am excited to share with you! First, I created a basic card using the kit: If you look at the card from the side, you’ll notice that the [...]

Holiday Letters From My Cat (Plus a Freebie!)

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Not so long ago, I was a newlywed… My husband was off fighting in Iraq and it was up to me to go back to our wedding list (I’d only created it a few months before) and send out our Christmas cards.  Our first Christmas cards together, signed only by me. I thought of the [...]

Digital Collage Sheets 101

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If you’ve browsed Etsy or follow any crafty blogs, you’ve definitely come across scrabble pendants, bottle-cap necklaces or other jewelry that was created using really small images.  The artists who create the jewelry typically purchase the images they use in a collection of images on a digital collage sheet. Digital collage sheets are also referred [...]

5 Tips for Tackling A December Daily Project

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The Christmas season, with all it’s special seasonal magic, is going to kick off in full force just a week from today in the United State on the crazy shopping day that is Black Friday. For most families, the holiday season is full of shopping, socializing, baking, family gatherings, gift giving and is (hopefully) a [...]

Top 10 Photos To Capture This November

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I can hardly believe it is November already! The crisp, cool, breezy mornings and the final signs of beautifully turning red leaves really put me in the fall mood. Hopefully, you’re ready for fall as well and I’d like to suggest some ideas for “10 Photos to Capture” this month. 1.  Leaves. Take some photos [...]

Scrapping Our Pizza Night

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Saturday night is special in our family as we continue a dinner tradition my husband and his family partook in growing up: Pizza and Root beer. Due to the fact that we live in a very small town and pizza joints are few (and don’t deliver) – I tend to be the pizza maker most [...]

Hybrid Tutorial: Matchbox Size Mini-Notepads

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If you’re looking for an easy set of holiday gifts, party favors or a quick batch of notepads, this tutorial will walk you through how to create a set of four notepads of your own in less than 30 minutes!

How to Resize A Digital Scrapbook Template

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This quick video tutorial will show you how to resize your 12×12″ digital scrapbook templates to work with irregularly sized layous.

1 Calendar, 3 Ways: Part 3

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This is the last post in our calendar series this week and today we’re going to talk about using the calendar grids we created earlier in the week to create a 6″x6″ desktop calendar. The first option for creating your desktop calendar is to use the 6×6 calendar pages that I showed you in my [...]

1 Calendar, 3 Ways: Part 2

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Today’s calendar project features this 12×12 inch record frame (by MCS). In the first post in this series, I mentioned that I ended up creating three different calendar projects – all leveraging my original 12×12 version. This is the second of those projects. As soon as I got home from Costco, I was excited to [...]