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December 02, 2008
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Letter From The Editor
By Jami Petersen
December is a month for celebrating. Of course there are several noteworthy holidays and some not-so-noteworthy birthdays (like mine). But with the celebrations comes the gift giving, which can be an expensive undertaking for any family – large or small. I know many of you are watching your wallets this year and being frugal is probably a good thing regardless of the economy. Crafting is the perfect solution for those of us who need special gifts at a bargain price. With this in mind, Scrapbooking.com Magazine has lots of ideas from the best artists in the business. From decking the halls with holiday décor to simple layouts for preserving memories, there’s something for everyone in this issue.
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Letters to the Editor
By Jami Petersen
I just wanted to let you know that I received my prize today. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I was expecting a pack of stickers of something and was totally blown away when I opened the box. I am so excited, you've made my week! Thanks again.
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Glitter Village
By Cher B. Lashley
We all have special memories, scents and/or special ornaments that mean Christmas to us. One of my fondest memories that Christmas was coming was going downtown with my mother and sister (yes, Virginia, before conglomerate malls, people did dress up and go into ‘town’) to look at the window displays in the large department stores. They were truly wonders to behold.
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Hand Painted Christmas
By Jen Cushman
My scrapbook layouts tend toward the artsy. I rarely use premade embellishments, preferring to create my own using a myriad of stamping, inking, embossing and painting techniques. By experimenting with materials and constantly challenging myself to learn new mixed-media art techniques, I feel as though I’m honoring my authentic voice to tell my scrapbooking stories.
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Family
By Design Team
It is so important to have traditions. They are part of the glue that holds families together. Traditions are beneficial in several ways. First, they give children and even teens a sense of security. They know that in an uncertain world, some things stay the same. Traditions also foster closeness in the immediate and extended family. Lasting memories are formed, and hopefully our children will continue the customs in their own homes and make more of their own. Nothing is more important than family to me.
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Festive Pasta Box House and Christmas Queen
By Gabriela Delworth
Christmas is probably the most favourite time of the year to display our festive accessories and decorations. Many of us enjoy making our own every season and even giving them as gifts to loved ones. Recycling should be a very important fact when deciding about the materials we will be using. If we look around our homes, there are many, many things that can be recycled and “re-made” into something fun. And always remember to save all your trimmings and paper scraps for future use. Pasta is one of the most common foods in any household. Who doesn’t eat pasta? Have you ever thought making a little house out of a pasta box? Well you will with this fun project!
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Why do I scrapbook…
By Tasha L Burkett
When I scrapbook it allows me to share with family and friends the story of our lives. Scrapbooking isn’t just for documenting the good times. It shares the good times and the bad times in our lives. It shares with someone how you feel about someone or something. When I scrapbook I am able to let all the worries, stress and just the outside world disappear. It allows me to create without limitations; I am not told what I can and cannot do. Scrapbooking is no longer just putting pictures on paper; it is a place that you can document true feelings and allows you to document when something happened and what has happened on that day.
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Winter
By Various Artists
Have fun this winter and capture the unique beauty of the season on film. You can then retreat to a warm spot, fill up your hot cider mug, put on your thick socks and scrapbook your fantastic photos. Check out some great snowy layouts from our designers to get some ideas for your own!
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C & T Publishing
By Jami Petersen
Jami is bringing her scrapbooking out of the album and onto the coffee table. This will be the perfect ice breaker at your next social gathering. Jami chose weddings as her theme, but kids, animals, cars...once you start making these picture puzzles you won’t want to stop.
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Creative Imaginations Demos
By Jami Petersen
Creative Imaginations developed the bare elements line to give scrapbookers and paper crafters high quality paper board and wood products. The amazing shapes, sizes and forms will spark your creativity. Exceptional quality materials give bare•elements products an upscale look and feel. Each paper board product is wrapped in smooth white paper, making it easy for Jami to decorate. Get some great ideas for your next project!
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Decopatch
By Jami Petersen
Jami is bringing her scrapbooking out of the album and onto the coffee table. This will be the perfect ice breaker at your next social gathering. Jami chose weddings as her theme, but kids, animals, cars...once you start making these picture puzzles you won’t want to stop.
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Lasting Impressions
By Jami Petersen
Fantastic scrapbooking ideas and supplies for your scrapbooking projects! All aboard! Lasting Impressions is moving to new and exciting places and invites you to become part of the family, and make scrapbooking a part of your life. Let Jami help you on your journey by demonstrating techniques and ideas for dry embossing, party planning and digital scrapbooking.
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Christmas Memories
By Patti Hamil
These are pictures of me when I was little. I was 2 years old and my Daddy always made Christmas special. These are pictures of me having "tea" with him at a table and chairs that he made, another one of him taking down the tree with me laying on the piano bench being sad, one playing peek-a-boo and the last one is me sitting under the tree begging to open "just one" present! I'm so glad that my parents took pictures like this!
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Christmas Boxes and Popper
By Anita Mulcahey
The holidays are just around the corner and putting your gift into a wonderful handmade gift box or popper will wow the recipient and they are really fun and easy to make.
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Cereal Box Planner
By Cheri Wenger
Today, there is much talk about conservation and ways to “go green” so when contemplating a fun project for this month, I thought I would do my part by showing you how to recycle a cereal box into a beautiful and very functional weekly planner. With the holidays approaching, this makes a wonderful gift idea.
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Christmas Canvas Class
By Nancy Jones
Two small canvases work together to unfold into a surprise book. And inside there are even more surprises, with an interactive little booklet is tucked into the cubby hole of the back canvas. This fun project is perfect for holiday gift or to display on the mantle for friends and family.
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Altered Jumbo Clip
By Gloria Stengel
Jumbo clips are oversized clothespins that will "artfully" hold photos, notes, or even small scrapbook pages on a desk or shelf. This project uses paper and embellishments from a kit to create a one-of-a-kind Note Holder for a calendar page. This altered clip makes the perfect holiday decoration for your desk or table.
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Square One: Green Calendars
By Judi Kauffman
I think my impulse to save and re-use or re-purpose might be genetic. Our family was "green" before the term was used to describe anything other than a color.
My grandfather, a tailor, saved fabric scraps. Those bits and pieces of wool and silk were the things I used when I learned to sew (my dolls had very elegant clothes). My mother saved yarn, turning the extra bits and pieces from sweaters and scarves into lap throws and blankets. One of her creations remains among my most cherished possessions. My dad fashioned new bars of soap out of the small slivers others might have tossed.
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Party Puzzle Invitation
By Design Team
Here’s a fun way to get the word spread about a holiday party. It’s an invitation-as-a-puzzle, and the invitation is slowly revealed, as those on your invite list have fun assembling it to decipher your party details! The puzzle invitation is very easy to create using Avery Dennison’s Clean-Edge Business Cards and their free downloadable Holiday Wizard software with your personal computer and desktop color printer.
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My Shopping Organizer
By Nancy Jones
This is a handy little organizer you can keep in your purse or you storage compartment of your car. You can keep your grocery or shopping lists, coupons, sale papers, and even receipts in it. It is very simple to make and makes a great gift to give friends or family members.
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Printing on Alternate Mediums
By Jules Eickmeier
Most of us who print our photos from our printers do so either on glossy or matt photo papers. These do us well. We print at home so we can crop and enlarge and enhance the photos to our liking.
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Classic Style, Contemporary Design
By Charlotte Cramer
In this layout, I wanted the pictures to show some movement to reflect my daughter running. So I placed them at a slant. I tore the pattern paper and rolled the edge with my finger. I made french knots to finish off the swirl. I then cut out the large flower from the paper and then hand stitched at the bottom to give it a finished look. I knew I would be journaling a long letter to my daughter, so I tucked it away in the envelope.
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Literary Lane: Faith & Family
By Design Team
Our faith and family are important the whole year through but during the holidays we often think more about how essential they are to our lives. Make sure you take some time this holiday season to reflect on your faith and family with inspiration from Literary Lane.
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N-O-E-L Wall Hanging
By Me & my BiG ideas
Nestled away in a mountain cabin, the me & my BiG ideas creative team brainstormed ideas for a festive and elegant Christmas collection. Visions of snow laden trees and glistening snowflakes were the inspiration in creating the new Noel line.
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Stamping 101 – Beginners Guide to Stamps
By Di Hickman
When I first started scrapbooking in 2003 I was definitely a paper crafter, I came from a design background and wasn’t interested really in stamping. Stamps were messy weren’t they? Stamps needed cleaning, drying time and why bother when there are stickers and rub-ons that do the job much easier? Well over the years I have had a complete 180 and now prefer using stamps for many reasons, the main reason being they are much more economical! Appeal to my frugal nature and you have my vote! Yes stamping has an initial outlay but then what hobby doesn’t? You really only need a couple of basic supplies to get started! Stamps, ink and stamp cleaner! For this article we’ll focus on the stamps!
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Cookbookin'™ Ready to Fill Pages & Holiday Ornaments/Gift Tags/Shaped Cards
By Judi Kauffman
On a recent trip to San Antonio I met a designer who was finishing her Halloween and Christmas pages, even though both holidays were still weeks and months away. She's got ready to fill pages that only need photos and a bit of journaling. She was using her few spare hours when she had them, not when she wished she had them.
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The Ultimate Trimmer
By Design Team
Purple Cows Incorporated is reinventing crafting versatility one cutter at a time. This rotary trimmer is ideal for cutting photos, scrapbook layouts, cards, even fabric and ribbon up to 13” wide!
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What’s in a Stamp: Clear Stamp Questions Answered
By Osbaldo Lucero
In a span of a couple of years, clear stamps have moved from the new-kids-on-the-block to a must-have for many stampers. Whether you own shoeboxes full of stamps or wood mounted rubber stamps, you are certainly seeing a lot more clear stamps. Just the many different names used to describe these stamps, i.e. acrylic, polymer, vinyl, silicone, etc. might be enough to make one think twice about using them. In this article I will explain the differences and similarities between the types of clear stamps.
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Winter Holidays
By Design Team
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. - Dr. Seuss
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