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Share Your Creations 
Weekly Consumer Newsletter 
Volume V Issue XV 
April 12, 2004 

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in this issue
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Welcome from the Editor
Learning New Techniques with All My Memories
Win 2 Sonnets Albums from Creative Imaginations
7gypsies for Autumn Leaves Challenge
Elegant Scrapping Made Easy

Experimenting with Glass Lab Slides
Share Us with Your Friends and Win BIG!
Walnut Ink: Just Add Water
Triple Play - Good Friends
Embossing Magic with the Hot Boss
More Paper Craft Ideas!
Color Blocking
Sensational Seasonal Layouts

Fabulous Face-Lift for The Sizzix.com Scoop
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Lots of color. Your favorite product images. An easy-to-read font. The all-new Sizzix.com Scoop will be turning heads everywhere it goes. The familiar Plain-Text newsletter was recently re-launched in a picture-friendly, HTML format. But the real beauty is that it’s free when you become a member of Sizzix.com.

Learning New Techniques
By: Jorjana Brown of All My Memories
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It’s hard to believe it is spring! What a year it has been. Scrapbooking just keeps getting better. Each day I gain a greater appreciation and love for scrapbooking. You know how Oprah has her favorites. Well I thought I would share some of my favorite techniques with you.


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New Idea Book From Karen Foster Design!
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ANCESTRY ART, Karen Foster's a NEW idea book, teaches you how to research your family history and create ancestry scrapbooks, boxes, theme books and more.

Watch for NEW fishing, water sports, soccer and patriotic paper and stickers!

Ask for these products at your favorite scrapbook store or online at
www.scrapbookpaper.com.

Win 2 Sonnets Albums from Creative Imaginations!
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An innovator in the scrapbooking industry needs your input! Provide your insight into your scrapbook shopping experiences and preferences for a chance to win two Sonnets Albums from Creative Imaginations!

click here to complete this week's survey.

ScrapGoods, Great Kits, Great Value
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Have you seen ScrapGoods? These jam-packed kits focus on a different technique each month and give you everything you need to explore it. Learn how to weave with ribbon and paper, plus try rub-ons and hidden journaling with the April 2004 kit, available now!

Get more information at
www.scrapgoods.com.

7gypsies for Autumn Leaves Challenge
By: The Scrapbooking.com Magazine Design Team
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Put on your traveling clothes and grab your suitcases, because we are traveling back in time with 7gypsies for Autumn Leaves this month! 7gypsies for Autumn Leaves challenged our design team with their wonderful papers, embellishments and journals. See what great ideas the Scrapbooking.com Magazine design team came up with from old to new and back again.

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See What's Fresh and New From Déjà Views®
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When you need something fresh and new, reach for Déjà Views® Fresh Print™ Collection Collection's playful patterns and colors. The collection's 12" x 12" papers, vellum verse sheets and unique 6" x 6" swatch books come in Peaberry, Blueberry and Cranberry. Delivered to you fresh, acid-free and non-perishable. 

Click here for more information.

Elegant Scrapping Made Easy
By: Gimi Willie
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Not all of your photos and memories require bright colors or busy embellishments to make a meaningful layout. Now and again you can have a timeless, graceful layout that speaks to your grownup side. Here are some techniques that will be sure to add that simplicity and polish to your layouts.

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New EZ Walnut Ink™ by Fiber Scraps™
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New EZ Walnut Ink™ by Fiber Scraps™ is pre-mixed, ready to use and specially formulated to be acid free. No more messy mixing, dipping or spraying to get that instant aged or shabby chic look. Neat, clean and easy to apply to any paper with the handy dauber applicator. 

http://www.fiberscraps.com

Experimenting with Glass Slides 
By: Chris Ramirez
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It’s time to put on your white lab coat and gear up the microscope because we are taking a closer look at experimenting with Glass Lab Slides. Science and scrapbooks are coming together, much to the amazement of many. These fascinating glass slides have a myriad of possibilities and uses. Under closer examination we can discover how well they fuse with commonly used elements of scrapbooking.

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Enjoy Life, Make Memories, Create Scrapbooks!
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Turn those cherished moments into treasured memories with a little help from Keeping Memories Alive. Scrapbooks.com is your one-stop-shop for super low prices on over 10,000 of the latest and greatest scrapbooking products available. Click on the link below to see what's new and order your free 116 page catalog. 

Shop Today at
scrapbooks.com!

Share Us with Your Friends and Win BIG!
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If you're reading this newsletter, chances are you enjoy receiving it each week. We are pleased to announce that you could also receive a new All-Terrain backpack from Cropper Hopper just for referring your friends to our newsletter! The process is easy and safe, our non-invasive questionnaire has space for your friend's email addresses and sends them a friendly invitation to receive our weekly newsletter. For each of your friends that signs up, you will receive an entry in our drawing to win an awesome prize!

click here to refer your friends!

Buzz On In -- BusyBeeScrapbooking.com
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QuicKutz 30% off Every Day with Free Shipping over $50.00!


New SEI Retrospect Kits in along with items from Sunshine Papers, Idea Tool Box and 7 Gypsies. 


Buzz on in to
http://www.busybeescrapbooking.com

Walnut Ink: Just Add Water
By: Sheila Doherty
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With shabby chic being all the rage these days, walnut ink is a product that has grown more popular in the scrapbooking world. Not only is it easy to use, but it yields excellent results for weathering and aging paper. Walnut ink is just what it sounds like: ink made from old, dried-up walnuts.

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New Memories Made Easy Albums from Colorbök
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Colorbök has done it again! Check out these great new Memories Made Easy Albums! With five trendy new fabric albums to choose from, there is sure to be one that will fit everyone's individual style.

Colorbök is the creative source for the creative mind!

http://www.colorbok.com

Triple Play - Good Friends
By: Jennifer Howland
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These pictures show three little girls who are three very good little friends. Two are sisters, the other is their cousin. As young as they are, they realize that sometimes family makes the very best friends. It’s very easy to incorporate these black and white photographs into scrapbook pages for all skill levels.

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The Hot Boss Idea Book is Here!
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The Hot Boss idea book is now available! The Hot Boss tool is a heat burner that allows embossing powder to melt and create artistic effects. This book gives detailed instructions of how to incorporate this tool into your scrapbooks, rubber stamping and paper crafts. Buy your Hot Boss tool and Idea book today!

Embossing Magic with the Hot Boss
By: Martha Reed of RubberStampingIdeas.com Magazine
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Once a beginning stamper has mastered the magic of embossing it becomes quite an addictive part of our repertoire. We are always looking for new and exciting ways to use the rainbow of embossing powders we have in our collections. One of the hottest new tools available for our embossing pleasure is the Hot Boss from Carolee’s Creations.

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Go Punch Crazy! 6-in-1 Punch Wheels at Crafts By Hand
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Fill out your punch collection with 6-in-1 Paper Adventures Punch Wheels. We're closing out the old to bring in the new and at only $10.95 you'll save a bundle. Choose from: Classics, Halloween, Tropical, Leaves, Christmas, Train, and Harvest styles.
 
NEW 3" x 12" Dual Tone Journal Strips exclusively at Crafts By Hand! Use these strips to outline your pages for journaling or cut 'em up for punches. Don't use your precious 12x12 paper on embellishments when these will do the trick. 10 popular colors, 20 strips total for only $1.50.

Try Crafts By Hand today
More Paper Craft Ideas!
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You already enjoy reading the latest articles and hearing about the latest products in the Scrapbooking.com newsletter... now DOUBLE your treasure with news and information by signing up to receive the RubberStampingIdeas.com newsletter!


click here to sign up today!

Work when you want, change it anytime
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Unique heavy duty pages allow you to store items then work at your leisure. Pages snap out for a large working area and lock back into place. Adhesives are repositionable, you can always make changes and you can store photos, supplies, home movies, etc. all in one place!

Take a look at this new product!
www.originalorganizer.com

Color Blocking
By: Chris Ramirez 
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Color Blocking can be a fast and enjoyable way to put life back into your scrapbook pages. The color blocking technique can find its roots in interior design, where the designer’s goal is to achieve a dramatic impact using color. Visual interest is achieved by using blocks of colored cardstock or patterned paper in various sizes and colors.

read more...

Check Out the Choices™ Contest from O'Scrap!™
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New CHOICES™ line from O’Scrap!™

Check out our CHOICES™ CONTEST!

The grand prize is your choice between $1,000 cash and $2,000 product.

Sensational Seasonal Layouts
By: The Scrapbooking.com Magazine Design Team
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Spring is definitely in the air! It makes us sing, it makes us joyful, and it makes us celebrate. See here as our designers show you their celebrations of spring through their artwork. Whether they are encapsulating gardens, flowers, friendship, rainy days or Easter...you are sure to get plenty of ideas that you can "scrap lift" for your own spring pages.

read more...

Adobe® Photoshop® Album 2.0 Starter Edition
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Adobe® Photoshop® Album 2.0 Starter Edition is ideal for scrap-booking. Easily find, fix and organize your photos for the perfect scrap-book creations. Download it for FREE now!

http://www.adobe.com/photoshopalbum/trial/

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welcome 

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Allison Connors
Editor

Scrapbooking.com


I am so excited to share with you one of our newest additions to Scrapbooking.com Magazine! We now have a Bulletin Board Gallery where all of you can share your love of Scrapbooking with each other! Here, you can post your layouts, photographs, tags and cards for all the world to see! Become a member of our Community by signing up for our Bulletin Board. Join in the fun today by
logging on here.

Happy Scrapping! 
Allison











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forward to a friend
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If you're reading this newsletter, chances are you enjoy receiving it each week. We are pleased to announce that you could also receive a new All-Terrain backpack from Cropper Hopper just for referring your friends to our newsletter! The process is easy and safe, our non-invasive questionnaire has space for your friend's email addresses and sends them a friendly invitation to receive our weekly newsletter. For each of your friends that signs up, you will receive an entry in our drawing to win an awesome prize!

click here to refer your friends!











what's happening

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April
15-18
Camp Crop-A-Lot Weekend Retreat
Griffin, GA
16-18
Scrap Retreat Weekend
Houston, TX
16-18
Scrapbook Getaway Weekend
Lake Arrowhead, CA
16-18
Scrappin' Lakeside Lodge Retreat
Antioch, IL
888-905-6343
16-17
bamaSCRAPblast
Birmingham, AL
205-338-8771
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First Annual Canadian Scrapbook Expo
Brantford, Ontario
Canada
519-442-0991
17-24
Shop Hop Round Up!
Fort Worth/Dallas, TX
817-556-3700
 23-25
Angelic Memories- Scrappin' Angels: Scrappin' at the Beach
Pismo Beach, CA
23-25
Ohio Valley Crop-A-Lot Luxury Retreat
Hudson, OH
23-25
Scrap N the Carolinas
Blowing Rock, NC
23-25
Scrap Retreat Weekend
Grandview, TX
23-25
Scrapbooking Gone Wild Retreat
Grand Saline, TX
23-25
Scrappin' Lakeside Lodge Retreats
Antioch, IL
888-905-6343
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Cut it with QuicKutz Workshop Sponsored by the Memories Community
Anaheim Hills, CA











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Congratulations to our survey prize winners!

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February 2004
Catherine
Sweden
April
Duncanville, TX
Robin
Pataskala, OH
Charlotte
Arley, AL











scrapbook tip

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Do you avoid hand journaling right onto the background of your layouts because you are afraid of mistakes? Try writing lightly in pencil first, then go over the journaling with a fine tip pen. Erase any visible pencil lines with a white eraser. No mistakes showing here!

Scrapbooking.com Design Team











this week's sponsors

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Sizzix
Karen Foster Design
Scrapgoods
Déjà Views
Fiber Scraps
Keeping Memories Alive
BusyBeeScrapbooking.com
Colorbök
Carolee's Creations
Crafts by Hand
Original Organizer
O'Scrap!
Adobe










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