http://scrapgirl.today.com Life and Times of a Scrapbooker Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:09:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello scrappers!  I was supposed to post some pages from my Grandma's 90th Birthday album, but I haven't been able to do it yet.  She just passed away and I'm still feeling blue.  I did pick out the pages I want to show you, but won't be posting those until ... http://scrapgirl.today.com/2009/11/06/need-a-little-scrap-therapy/ Unfortunately, I had a gift album returned to me.  My grandmother passed away recently and I got the album back that I made for her three years ago for her 90th birthday party.  I plan on going through it this week and picking out my favorite pages to show you.  ... http://scrapgirl.today.com/2009/10/31/gift-albums-for-an-event/ Hello scrappers!  I have a free digital quickpage for you.  Just download this page and add your pictures (either two or four), add some journaling, and you'll be all set.  See the last post for how I used the page for some photos of a college friend reunion I took ... http://scrapgirl.today.com/2009/10/27/good-time-digital-freebie-quickpage-is-here/ Last month I got together with two friends from college.  One friend I hadn't seen since her wedding around 1990.  She now lives in South Dakota and came to the Twin Cities for a work conference.  It was so fun to see her and catch up on what we have ... http://scrapgirl.today.com/2009/10/21/freshman-friends-reunited-digital-scrapbooking-page/ I just opened a digital kit from my digital designer friend Karyn Robinson called "Flutter By" to play with.  I had some pictures I took last month at a friend's house and had to try out this kit.  This page is of my friend, Allyson, and her daughter.  I wanted ... http://scrapgirl.today.com/2009/10/20/kid-scrapbooking-page-ideas/ For girl scouts, my daughters both went to the rock climbing wall at our local college.  I took a few pictures and did a page for each of them.  For this page I used some chipboard for the title that happens to match the paper.  This page was pretty quick ... http://scrapgirl.today.com/2009/10/14/wall-climbing-scrapbook-page/ I did another set of pages for our friends Christmas photo cards that were sent to us.  I used the same "technique" as I did for the previous family card pages.  I cropped them all as small as I could and then started in the middle of the two pages ... http://scrapgirl.today.com/2009/10/12/more-scrapbook-pages-with-christmas-photo-cards/ Hi all.  I came up with a quick and easy way to scrap all of the photo cards I received from friends and family.  I divided up the photos into two piles--one for friends and one for family.  The pages I'm showing you today are of the family pictures.  I ... http://scrapgirl.today.com/2009/10/09/scrapbooking-your-christmas-photo-cards/ Sorry I have neglected my blog scrappers.  We were so busy last month.  My father-in-law had surgery for a brain tumor and now we found out it is cancer.  If you have ever dealt with this please leave a comment for me.  I'm trying to gather as much information as ... http://scrapgirl.today.com/2009/10/07/just-being-silly-kid-scrapbooking-page/ Hello scrappers!  I don't know if any of you make your own cards or not, but I've found having scrapbook supplies and making homemade cards kind of run hand in hand.  It also saves me some money as cards are running a couple of dollars per card these days.  I ... http://scrapgirl.today.com/2009/09/24/use-your-leftover-letter-stickers-to-make-cards/