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Take up scrapbooking as your next hobby and you won’t be able to stop. With the amount of free online scrapbook paper, digital designs and fun add-ons it’s possible to scrapbook all from your computer. Just purchase, print off and use all those crazy, funky and beautiful layouts and images to create something memorable and special. Learning to scrapbook is EASY and it’s one of the best ways to innovatively display and preserve photographs that will be prized for many years to come. Discover the fun and joy of seizing those special moments of life by learning to scrapbook. The subsequent tips...

If you love shabby chic and you’re continuously on the lookout for little additions for your home, why not give some of these 25 shabby chic projects a go? All are easy to do and make use of inexpensive materials and scraps that you can pick up on digital designs, eBay, at car boot sales or even on the beach! Complete these projects and you’ll have 25 gorgeous shabby chic items to be proud of.   Easy Shabby Chic DIY Projects that Cost Next to Nothing   LACE LAMPSHADE For a nice-looking lampshade, take a timeworn plain lampshade (or if...

Your scrapbook is finished, it looks great, and what you need to do now is to print the book, out and get it bound. To give it that great look when it is finished you want to get a wooden cover put on the book. But wait! Wood is so heavy these days, and it is important to remember the transient lifestyle most people have these days. Jobs change, and we move around a lot more than we used to. Moving from city to city, and often living in walk up apartments. There is a solution though, now you can...

Digital scrapbooking is very popular these days. The key question to remember when you are creating your scrapbook is do you want to keep it on your hard drive or on the cloud forever? You probably don’t, because hard drives can wear out, and stop working. Computers do not last forever, and is it really safe to keep the scrapbook you have spent hours designing on the cloud? Maybe it is, but is that a chance you really want to take. The in thing to do these days is to print digital scrapbook paper, and turn your digital scrapbook into a physical...

Paper crafts are so varied, and of course origami is one of the most popular, but that just one of the options open to you when you create a white paper to work with. Creating flowers, dolls and yes of course airplanes are some of the simplest options. Don’t forget once you have mastered those you can push yourself into making some more expansive and breathtaking creations.   While you might think of origami has a solo hobby, it does not have to me. Firstly if you choose to teach your children this beautiful art can be one of the...