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Nov

20

Tutorial: Creating Texture with Cardboard

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Create texture on your pages with non-traditional items. Rita Barakat from Scrapping from the Inside out, shows you how. Click here to go to tutorial.

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Nov

20

Tutorial: Embellished Stick Pins

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Lucy Edson shows how to further embellish stick pins in this video tutorial from A Million Memories. Click here to go to tutorial.

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Nov

7

Giveaway: Pixie Petals

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pixie petalsLisa Truesdell is giving away these crochet flowers, as well as a set of tags from Pixie Petals. Click here to go to her blog to leave a comment.

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Oct

31

Tutorial: Rolled Paper Flowers

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Learn how to make rolled paper flowers in this tutorial by Tia Bennett on the Creating Keepsakes blog. Click here to go to tutorial.

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Oct

13

Halloween Scrapbooking Projects

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Grab your scrapbooking papers and stickers and create these inexpensive Halloween projects from our sister site Craftbits.com

Halloween Bag Toppers

Tin Of Bones Invitations

Written by guest editor Shellie Wilson

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Oct

6

Tutorial: Fabric Flowers

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Learn how to make these fabric flowers on the Studio Calico blog. Click here to go to tutorial.

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Sep

17

Book Review: Embellishment Handbook

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Karen Buck, the Cincinnati Scrapbook Examiner, has posted a review of Sherry Steveson’s new book, The Scrapbooker’s Embellishment Handbook.  Click here to go to review. For two other reviews click here and here.

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Sep

12

Giveaway: It Takes All Kinds

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To celebrate the return of their blog the team at It Takes All Kinds is giving away this embellishment pack. Click here to go to the blog for instructions to enter the giveaway.

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Aug

19

Tutorial: Change the colour of brads

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Deena Zieglar shows a simple method for cutomising your brads. Click here to go to tutorial.

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Aug

17

Tutorial: Dimensional Paper Flowers

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Take your paper flowers from flat to dimensional with this tutorial from Nicole on the Nic Nac blog. Click here to go to tutorial.

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Aug

8

Tutorial: Muslin Flower

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Follow this link to learn how to make the muslin flower shown above using Maya Mists from Maya Road.

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Jul

8

Video Tutorial: Paper Flowers

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Donna Salazar shows how to make her signature paper flowers using dictionary papers. Video by way of Angela Butler.

Click here to go to tutorial

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Jul

6

Trend: Using Felt on Your Cards

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Using felt embellishments is a really popular trend right now.

You can make your own as I have done on the sample card by using a die cutting machine. I used sheets of felt from the craft store in…

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Jul

3

Tutorial: Artsy Made Easy

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Visit the Creating Keepsakes blog for a quick and easy tutorial by Mou Saha, on adding artsy effects to your scrapbook pages. Go to tutorial.

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Jun

27

Tutorial: Flower Stems

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Cheeky Magpie shows how to make these lovely flower stems. Go to tutorial

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Jun

25

Discount Products: Scrap it in Bling

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Scrap It in Bling is an embellishment only online store that features a weekly special at discount prices. This week: BasicGrey Bling It!

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Jun

18

Paper Flower Tutorial

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Julie Balzer of Balzer Designs has posted this tutorial for making an artsy paper flower. She used newspaper, but if you;re concerned about using archival items you can substitute book paper or scrapbook papers. Go to tutorial.

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Jun

15

Trendwatch: Pinwheels

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Maybe it’s because it’s summer but pinwheels seem to be popping up everywhere lately.

Cheeky Magpie has a tutorial and free template for making a working pinwheel.

They were featured in the May Studio Calico kit which included a pinwheel stamp.…

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Jun

4

Tutorial: Paper Lace

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paperlaceLisa Pace shares step by step instructions on making your own paper lace using a decorative border punch. Go to tutorial

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Jun

3

Tutorial: Easy Ruffled Ribbon

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May

20

Discount code for SCAL

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If you have a Cricut machine and have been thinking about buying the Sure Cuts A Lot software, Cheeky Magpie has a 10% discount code to share!

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May

13

More Free Printables

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Cupcake tags and place cards/bag toppers from Ez  Creature Comforts. I think the cards would be perfect for journaling!

In this economy using printables makes a lot of sense since you can reuse the items over and over. Plus you can dabble in…

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May

8

Paper Flower Tutorials

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Lisa Pace has posted three tutorials for making paper flowers.

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Sewing Pattern Flower

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Tissue Paper Flower

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