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Category: Scrapbooking

  • So I recently got a new iPhone, and I’m super excited about the camera most of all, the pictures look great from it. My older phone didn’t take the greatest pictures, but that hasn’t stopped me from scrapping them. I thought I’d share a handful of layouts I’ve done recently using pictures from my phone. Sometimes with a less than stellar photo using a smaller page size works great. And for me fun embellishments help take away from the graininess/off color of some cell phone photos. Using a bunch of pictures on one layout works too. Because I used five…

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  • Last month some girlfriends and I went to the beach to celebrate craftiness.  Sarah, Sciarrino, Erin, Kristen, Jenna, and I headed to Pacific City on the coast to get our craft on. We were each responsible for a project or activity, and of course we brought lots of other things to do as well, including games and great food. My project was mini books. Everyone’s turned out so great. I love how different and special they each are. And how everyone had a different process (that’s Kristen’s laid out above). Other projects: natural dyed scarfs, bottle cap art, freezer paper…

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  • We’re back from our vacation up north, and happy to be home after visiting great friends. I am so glad I did this book on the road, for lots of reasons (see blank book here). Mostly I knew I would be too busy to scrapbook the trip if I didn’t and I was right. It took me days to finish the last couple of days that I needed to do here at home. I ended up printing all but a two days while I was up in Alaska, and it made for quick finishing up of the book when I…

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