Valentine’s Day Part 1

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With the Valentine season upon us many keen card makers and scrapbookers will be planning and preparing their projects. Their love for their craft and their families shines through.

There’s a saying that it’s the thought that counts.

So let me encourage you with a story from my friends to show you the truth of that old saying, and discover that the warmth of the memory of the occasion WILL long outlive the events of the day.

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Valentine’s Day: Warm Valentine Memories

What warm Valentine memories have you not scrapbooked yet?

They often say it’s the thought that counts. So with the Valentine season upon us let me encourage you as you create your Valentine cards or plan your photographs for your Valentine scrapbook pages, or make them: the warmth of the memory WILL long outlive the events of the day.

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Scrapbooking Tools - Basic Guidelines

For starting scrapbooking or cardmaking you require the same basic craft tools . These are: a cutting tool, pencil, ruler and eraser, a creasing tool, adhesive, paper and card. There are many other useful items, but these basics will get you off the starting blocks. You can add other more specialized tools as and when your enthusiasm or wallet allows. As a general rule I encourage you to support specialist craft stores (large, small, physical or online), however sometimes it can be less expensive to buy some more general items at other less specialized stores.

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Start Scrapbooking Today!

If you want to start scrapbooking there’s never been a better time to take the plunge! There are so many wonderful scrapbooking products available from beautiful scrapbook papers to stickers, kits and embellishments that add pizzazz to your layouts. Papers are available in sizes 6″ x 6″, 8″ x 8″, as well as the traditional 12″ x 12″ so it’s easy to make a scrapbook any size you want …

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