Birthday Cards: Idea 4
October 5, 2008 by Genie Balfour · Leave a Comment
The final one of our birthday cards ideas is the least feminine so suitable for male family members and friends, too.
Sometimes we can get a bit concerned as we see the years pass and the numbers increase, so this card reminds us to ‘Laugh’ for ‘age is only a number’.
For me, leaving my teens was the hardest age. My husband hated turning 50, and our son-in-law has just turned 30, much to his chagrin! We’re all different.
Read on to find out how to make this card.
Birthday Cards: Idea 3
October 2, 2008 by Genie Balfour · Leave a Comment
The third card in our mini series of birthday cards ideas uses tags which are always popular and come in all shapes and sizes.
Read on to see the instructions for this simple card.
Birthday Cards: Idea 2
September 30, 2008 by Genie Balfour · Leave a Comment
I love to give birthday cards. However it can be an expensive business buying cards for everyone I want to give one to. That’s one reason why I started making my own.
Read on for the instructions on how to make another one of our simple birthday cards ideas.
Birthday Cards: Idea 1
September 29, 2008 by Genie Balfour · Leave a Comment
With large and growing families we are always looking for birthday cards, and nothing could be simpler than using our scrapbooking supplies to make them.
In this case it’s our digital scrapbooking products, but we’ve included instructions for paper, too.
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Using Sketch #18 for a ScrapGirls Challenge
August 15, 2008 by Genie Balfour · Leave a Comment
Can you make a layout with just three products? We did when using sketch #18 for a ScrapGirls challenge.
ScrapGirls had a fun week recently when they invited everyone on a Staycation. “What’s that?” I hear you say. It was a vacation at home – save money, save fuel but still have a great time. They had lots of fun competitions and challenges with prizes.
This challenge was to send Moss the dog, the ScrapGirls Moss-cot (mascot!) on vacation. You’d be amazed the places he ‘visited’ and the things he ‘did’.
Why Digital Scrapbooking?
July 21, 2008 by Genie Balfour · Leave a Comment
Why digital scrapbooking rather than paper scrapbooking?
We’re having a conversation about digital scrapbooking today. You may have got the idea from a few posts that our layout designer, Isabella, is a new convert to digital scrapbooking – and like all new converts talks about little else these days! lol! So, with the promise of a little peace for a while, I decided to interview her so she could get it all off her chest for this post, lol!
Layout with Scrapbooking Sketch #17
July 11, 2008 by Genie Balfour · Leave a Comment
We said we’d come back today with a sample layout made with this month’s scrapbooking sketch #17.
It’s a local beauty spot for us at ScrapbookingGems.com: peaceful and uncrowded. Just the place to go when you want to get away. And it’s in an area that’s one of Scotland’s best-kept secrets.
I met a lady one day who has lived here for many years. We were talking about how we liked the area and how pretty it is. She told me that at a family wedding in the south coast of England she was talking with a young wedding guest who asked where she lived. When she told him, he said he knew it well as it was his most favorite place to go hill-walking because he could walk for days and not meet another soul.
“But don’t tell anyone about it,” he said.
It seems that those who know it don’t want to share it. lol!
15 Things I like about the Scrap Girls Club
June 30, 2008 by Genie Balfour · Leave a Comment
We asked Isabella what she likes about the Scrap Girls Club, and we said we’d let you know. Here is her reply …
15 Things I like about the Scrap Girls Club
- I like that I don’t have to drive a long distance to my nearest scrapbook store
- I like the surprise each month, I’m like a child opening a gift
Scrap Girls
April 25, 2008 by Genie Balfour · Leave a Comment
Did you know: Scrap Girls, the digital scrapbooking website, has frequent SALES? Almost every month! They will have anything from 15-25% off their products – but always in odd numbers like 14.8% or 18.6%, lol! They are so generous with their reductions they will often give their newsletter readers an extra few dollars off on top of a sale.
And even without a sale, ScrapGirls products are still great value! 
Are you new to digital scrapbooking? Then look out for Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed in their next sale and learn just how EASY it is to scrapbook on your computer.
Will you only find end of line products and those things no one ever wants to buy in their sales?
Digital Scrapbooking Layout: 100 Degrees F
April 23, 2008 by Genie Balfour · Leave a Comment
Thinking of summer coming with warmer weather, this digital scrapbooking layout remembers the hot summer of 2003 when the highest temperature ever recorded in the UK was 100 degrees F. Only for one day, mark you, and for a short time at that. LOL!
The scrapbook supplies used in this layout come from digital scrapbooking company Scrap Girls. What products were used here?
Read on to find out. Read more
Layout with ScrapGirls’ Freebies
February 5, 2008 by Genie Balfour · 2 Comments
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We made this layout with ScrapGirls’ freebies, thus disproving the old saying ‘You never get anything for nothing!’
We are not yet digital scrapbookers (if you are, would you answer a question for us later, please?) Yet after just a few free newsletters there were enough products to make a successful digital scrapbook layout – and we were surprised how easy it was to do with just a basic knowledge of the program we used.
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Scrapbooking Snow
January 23, 2008 by Genie Balfour · Leave a Comment
It’s winter and it’s time for scrapbooking snow pages.
This simple digital scrapbook page shows Isabella’s daughter in the snow. The photo was taken by her fianc? (now husband!) The title is playing with words for this was taken soon after they got engaged.
Accomplished scrapbookers read on to find a link to more challenging designs and for some excellent digital scrapbooking supplies.
Those who are new to scrapbooking will find some tips here too.
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Christmas / Holiday Scrapbooking Layout Ideas
December 6, 2007 by Genie Balfour · Leave a Comment
We’re all looking for Christmas / Holiday scrapbooking ideas at this time of year. Well maybe not quite yet – got to buy the presents and get them wrapped first. But we’ll be looking for ideas even if we don’t have time to make them just now.
With that thought in mind it’s good to make time to plan the photos you might want to take. And isn’t this a cutie? I saw this photo by Gandalf81 at stock.xchng. The title came to mind as soon as I saw it.
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Scrapbooking Favorite Toys
November 19, 2007 by Genie Balfour · Leave a Comment
I hadn’t thought about scrapbooking favorite toys until I had a trip down memory lane recently.
I remembered having a monkey as a child that when you wagged it’s tail its head would move. Move the tail up and down, and the head nodded; move it from side to side and the monkey shook it’s head.
I’d never heard anyone ever talk about having one. Well, the internet being what it is, I came across what was called a Yes-No Monkey yesterday. They were made in Germany in the 1950s. You could get Yes-No Bears, too, although it would be quite hard to move their tails … maybe their mechanism was different.
Online Digital Scrapbooking from HOTP
July 2, 2007 by Genie Balfour · Leave a Comment
Have you seen the new online digital scrapbooking from HOTP? It is indeed hot off the press and ready to use!
Drag and drop your photographs into hundreds of layouts from HOTP’s designers. Add your journaling and your page is done. Store and share it online, or download for a very small fee. You can have your page mailed to you or mail as a gift to family or friends. You can even make up a whole album and have it delivered. Cool!
This is creating a digital scrapbook at its simplest. So you’ve no excuse for not getting all those photos into albums now. Try it out and tell us how you like it. You’ll find lots of tips from Sarah Naumann on how to use it.
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Digital Scrapbook Pages … Simple!
April 29, 2007 by Genie Balfour · Leave a Comment
“Making digital scrapbook pages is simple? I don’t believe you!” says Hannah. Then adds, “Is that possible? It sounds so complicated I’ve given it a wide berth.”
Would Love to Scrapbook but Don’t Have Time?
April 26, 2007 by Genie Balfour · Leave a Comment
Would you love to scrapbook but just don’t have time?
Is your hard drive packed with photographs you’ve done nothing with apart from clog up your computer?
Are your photo CDs piling up on the corner of your desk?
Would you like a really simple way to scrapbook at least some of your digital photos?
If you said ‘yes’ to any of these questions then we have the answer for you …
Digital scrapbooking made simple is coming soon to a screen near you! Then you’ll not be able to say you’d love to scrapbook but don’t have time! And you’ll have no excuse not to have all your photographs in scrapbooks!
More about how, soon.
UPDATE: it’s here at Paper Wishes Digital Get tips from Sara Naumann
[tags]digital scrapbooking, Hot off the Press, photography[/tags]
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Loads of Photos but No Time to Scrapbook
April 22, 2007 by Genie Balfour · Leave a Comment
Do you love to take photos but have no time to scrapbook them?
How would you like hundreds of scrapbook layouts at your fingertips so you can simply drop in your photo, add a little journaling and that’s it done in no time at all?
Well, just like the cinema ads say, it’s coming soon to a screen near you!
Soon you’ll not only love to take photos but you’ll have no excuse to say you’ve no time to scrapbook them, too. Stop back again soon and we’ll tell you more.
*** UPDATE: ***
It’s here now at Paper Wishes Digital. Get great tips from Sara Naumann .
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How to Find the A-Z of Digital Scrapbooking
April 3, 2007 by Genie Balfour · Leave a Comment
Ellie had seen some excellent examples of digital scrapbooking at various websites and wanted to have a go.
What she didn’t want was to have to splash out just yet to buy one of the photo software programs in case she didn’t like it, so thought she’d cheat and try it out in what she did have and was already familiar with … Microsoft Publisher.
And here is Ellie’s first attempt at a digital scrapbook layout.
