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The Mad Cropper - All About Scrapbooking

Archive for April 2005

April 24th, 2005

Encyclopedia of Scrapbooking - now available from Creating Keepsakes!

With this comprehensive guide you’ll get 320 pages packed with how-to’s, ALL NEW layout ideas and more.
* Discover how to duplicate the techniques the experts use with step-by-step instructions and photographs.
* Find answers to all your scrapbooking questions in this authoritative guide.
* An [...]

By Christine -- 8 comments

April 24th, 2005

Cardstocks and Patterned Papers

Cardstocks and Patterned Papers work hand-in-hand. They complement each other. Plain cardstocks are normally used as a background while patterned papers are used to give life to any layout. A layout is what you call your finished product.
The image above is what you call a 1-page LAYOUT. It is a combination of cardstocks and [...]

By Christine -- 0 comments

April 21st, 2005

Stamping, Scrapbooking and Creative Expo in New Zealand — on now!

New Zealand’s answer to the United States’ CHA Expo is the Stamping, Scrapbooking and Creative Expo 2005. The SENZ Expo is not as big as its American counterpart (who can beat the US in terms of size and $$$ anyway?) but for us locals living down under, it’s better than nothing!
For the first time, [...]

By Christine -- 0 comments

April 21st, 2005

A Beginner’s Must Haves

There are so many products and tools available in the market that could overwhelm someone who wants to dabble into scrapbooking. When I started out a year or two ago, I didn’t know one item from the other let alone have an idea on what “acid-free” or “lignin-free” means. I was so overwhelmed! I thought [...]

By Christine -- 6 comments

April 12th, 2005

The Beginning

I re-discovered scrapbooking in late 2003 when all my friends overseas were going gaga over it. I didn’t know what “acid-free” papers meant. I couldn’t tell the difference between an eyelet, a brad, a washer, the difference between a layout, a cardstock and a patterned paper and the like. I was totally clueless.

As I embarked [...]

By Christine -- 1 comment

April 10th, 2005

WELCOME TO MY WORLD

Well, my scrapbooking world that is…
Scrapbooking for me has gone beyond an ordinary hobby. It has re-awakened my creative self — an aspect of my being that has lain dormant for almost a decade now.
And thanks to the persistent urging of my wonderful shoppaholic and scrapbook-obsessive friends, my creative self has come alive again through [...]

By Christine -- 1 comment