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Here are new templates to help you scrap those everyday places!

Go here!

It’s actually a preview class as well.

Scrapbooking Everyday Life
with Debbie Hodge
July 7 – July 24 (6 lessons over 3 weeks)
registration is open: $25

Whether you’re participating in Project 365, taking photos of your life as it comes at you, or wondering how to begin documenting the material of everyday life, this class will help you:

* understand the approaches that exist for getting everyday life photos and stories into your albums;
* use prompts to find new material;
* organize, take, and place everyday life photos;
* tell your stories meaningfully; and
* use 6 awesome sketch bundles help you get it scrapped now.

Here are the lessons:
LESSON #1
capturing everyday life for the scrapbook page
approaches for putting everyday life onto the scrapbook page
organizing everyday life photos
sketches: for scrapbooking everyday life

LESSON # 2
prompts & approaches: everyday life at home
focus on photos: everyday life photos, scrapbooking photos of people
sketches: for scrapbooking everyday life

LESSON #3
prompts & approaches: everyday life with friends and extended family
focus on journaling: revealing character on the scrapbook page
sketches: for scrapbooking everyday life

LESSON #4
prompts & approaches: your everyday life
focus on photos: when you don’t have photos
focus on journaling: get some perspective on your pages
sketches: for scrapbooking everyday life

LESSON #5
prompts & approaches: the incident report & the everyday epiphany
focus on journaling: story forms
sketches: for scrapbooking everyday life

LESSON #6
prompts & approaches: everyday outings
focus on photos: lots of photos on the page
sketches: for scrapbooking everyday life

Such a great concept I read on Stacy Julian’s blog.
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I hope I can set aside a day to be able to do this – would definitely be such a great experience to scrap and document about. I honestly feel we should do this EVERY weekend but even that is impossible. We need to check e-mails twice, thrice a day!

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This weeks digital template can be found here.

I love hoarding templates. They honestly save me 50% of design/scrapping time because the composition is already there I just need to choose which papers go where. I am so thankful I’m a digital scrapper to because all I need to do is click on CTRL ALT + G and my papers are exactly sized the same way as the sketch/template. You gotta love digi!

Blending Photos

**You can save a lot of time by getting Anna Aspnes’ masks at Designer Digitals.

Making a Disneyland Album

Many of us are going to be traveling soon and this album will surely be an inspiration to everybody. It also lets you in on a secret – you dont have to too much stuff to make an album, repetitive page designs, white space and pictures + words are all you need!

With trips forthcoming this year, I’m trying to cut down on shopping and have been racking my brains on where to invest my money. There are gold bars I can buy at Monex.Through Monex Deposit Company (MDC) you can purchase silver, gold or other precious metals and coins for immediate personal delivery or arrange for convenient and safe storage at an independent bank or depository. For over 30 years, the Monex companies have been America’s gold, silver and precious metals investment leader. It is said that silver price has shot up as it has exceeded world demand and supply can’t keep up. Who knew?

So I have been thinking which things I can invest on that there is little investment needed and fast ROI. Any suggestions?

Most people struggle with beginning a layout – where to put pictures, how big, what shapes – the composition of a page is hard to do.

That is why there are sketches and templates – for digital scrapbookers!
Like this sketch for example:

This is from the Write.Click.Scrapbook blog. And as CZ would say, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel everytime you do a page. If it works for your next 100 pages, fine. Your family wont notice it. “Trust me.”

You can find most of them here.

Here are some that came highly recommended:
1. DownThemAll!
2. Colorful Tabs
3. IE Tab (If a site isn’t working right in Firefox, quickly switch to IE or back to Firefox by clicking on the Firefox icon or IE icon in the bottom status bar.)
4. Cooliris
5. Morning Coffee
6. PermaTabs Mod

It is better to give something personalized to your entourage instead of a generic wedding entourage token. After all, they are the ones who will be assisting you throughout your wedding so the bridesmaid gifts should be well-thought of. Try to think of the personality of the bridesmaid you are giving a gift to and go from there. There are many ideas at The Knot Wedding Shop. It as top-quality wedding supplies and novelty items ranging from wedding cameras and ring pillows to personalized attendant gifts, cake toppers, and more! Many of these collections are the only ones available today that can be personalized with the couple’s names and wedding date.