Freebie Friday

Today's Freebie is a collection of unusual buttons © 2003 Ronna Penner. You can download the collection at scrap-bytes.com.

Happy Scrapping!,
Colleen

What's New Wednesday

Today's What's New Wednesday item is Basic Grey's new Cupcake Collection. You can buy it at your local scrapbooking store or online here.

What a great collection for all the upcoming summer outings.

Colleen

Tuesday Tips

Today's Tuesday Tip is a reminder that this Saturday, May 3rd is National Scrapbooking Day. Scrapbooking stores throughout the country will be celebrating. Check with your local scrapbooking store to see what special events they have planned.

Online scrapbooking stores are celebrating as well with freebies, challenges and discounts. A list of a few of the many sites with celebrations is available on the official National Scrapbooking Day website.

Get together with your friends this Saturday and get scrappin'.

All the best,
Colleen

Make It Monday

Today's Make It Monday inspirational item is a Coach handbag. What does this inspire you to make? Scrapbook paper? Embellishments? A card? Something else?

Go get creative!,
Colleen

Saturday Sketch

This 5-photo, 2-page layout was created using a digital kit. Don't despair if you are a traditional scrapper. This layout is easily duplicated when broken into steps.

1. Start with a solid background paper.
2. Cut large paisleys or crescent moons from patterned paper and adhere to the background paper.
3. Trim the 5-photos to size.
4. Using a large circle punch or Coluzzle circle template, cut a half circle from each of the two end photos as shown.
5. Adhere photos to pages.
6. Adhere ribbon so that it overlaps both the paper and photos.
   
7. Pierce the middle of each felt or paper circles (as well as the paper where the embellishment will go) and insert a large brad (or a button) through all layers and splay the back the back of the brads to secure.
8. On a slightly larger circle of felt or paper, add your layout title and journaling.
   Adhere to layout.
9. The final touch is a coordinating frame adhered over the main photo to highlight your subject.
   

Digital kit: Rainy Day Sunday Add-On, designed and copyrighted by Amy Bleser. See yesterday's Friday Freebie to grab this kit for free.

Please send me your completed layouts. I helps keep me motivated to create these sketches each week.

All the Best,
Colleen

Freebie Friday

Today's freebie is available for download from digitalfreebies.com. Rainy Day Sunday add-on kit is by Amy Bleser.

Happy Scrapping,
Colleen

What's New Wednesday

Making Memories as new tool, the Slice digital design cutter. It will be available for purchase summer 2008. I can't wait to get my hands on it. Here's why...

1. It's small, only 5 inches square.
2. It's light, less than 2 pounds.
3. It doesn't require a computer.
4. It can cut almost every paper - including vellum, vinyl, textured cardstock and photos up to .5 mm thick.
5. It can cut any size of paper.
6. It doesn't require a computer cartridge with special matching keypad.
7. It is cordless (though it shows one in the picture on the right, that is for the recharging its batteries).
   
8. It claims to be easy to use. The video seems to confirm it.

Possible problem. I have not seen a price.

As soon as the Slice becomes available, you can be sure I'll be posting a link on where you can get yours.

Happy Scrappin',
Colleen