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Guest Jeen Brown makes a lovely stitched tag album from a Wimpole Street Creations kit.

Supplies Used: Paper - Deja View's Time and Again Heritage and Paper Pizzazz Busy Scrapper's Solution for Wedding and Romance; Embellishments - EK Success Jolee,s Boutique Wedding Collection stickers and Making Memories Eyelet words Wedding Collection for the word Cherish; Ribbon is Making Memories Wedding Collection ribbon; Wording - Die Cuts with a View Quote Stacks Scriptures vellum.

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Why not join over 270,000 monthly unique visitors and 37,000 registered members in our ePHOTOzine community, which has been awarded a `Gold Award' by Web User Magazine for best "One-stop-shop online do-everything" photographic site! "A veritable Swiss Army Knife of a site, ePHOTOzine has everything a photographer could wish for". In the third installment in our weekly series of beginners landscape articles, Martin Pettinger takes a look at how bad workmen blame their tools. A lot of photographers yearn for a 'better' camera and 'better' lenses but ask yourself will this equipment mean you take 'better' pictures.

Supplies Used: The dry embossing was done on silver vellum. The title was done with stamped letters that were heat embossed in silver. Their wedding colors were navy and silver, hence the colors used in the layout. Other Supplies used: navy and white cardstock--Bazzill; silver vellum--unknown source; silver ribbon--unknown source; silver embossing powder--Ranger; brass stencils--Plaid; stamps--Sunday International.

Say you want to do a little something extra on your next scrapbook page. Maybe you want to add some texture. Maybe you want to combine two different papers on one page. Or maybe you just feel like trying something new. After years of scrapbooking, I've come upon a few tried-and-true scrapbooking techniques that I do over and over again. Paper tearing is one of those techniques. It's fast, it's easy and I can use it for lots of different page themes and styles. It's a technique I've been using on my pages for years and it never goes out of style.

Christmas is a holiday rich with unique traditions and history. Your family album is a fabulous place to document all the stories, traditions and photos that are unique to Christmas at your house. Whether you're scrapping photos of your beautifully decorated tree, the children sitting on Santa's lap or your traditional family dinner, your photos and journaling will help your family remember all the special memories for years to come. For the background of this Christmas layout, LeNae chose two coordinating tone-on-tone papers from Paper Pizazz? sarapapers(TM), placing a strip of the lighter green paper down the right edge of the background. She matted three photos on chic glimmer paper and overlapped them down the left side of the page. LeNae added the Christmas Overlay(TM) over the photos, positioning the word border down the right side of the page over the lighter of the two green papers. She cut a thin strip of red cardstock and tied ribbons around it, then attached the cardstock strip on top of the Overlay(TM), overlapping the seam between the tone-on-tone papers used in the background. The brads LeNae used to attach the cardstock strip do double-duty by attaching the Overlay(TM) to the page as well. To top off the page, LeNae accented her photos with more ribbon and journaled onto cute tag shapes that she attached on top of the Overlay(TM).

Tired of the typical holiday red and green? Try trendy turquoise and lime instead! Make a fashion statement with coordinated packaging and cards. Skill Level: Beginner Approximate Crafting Time: 1 hr. Skill Level: Beginner Approximate Crafting Time: 45 min. to 1 hr.

Charms, buttons and other 3-D add-ons make these scrapbook pages stand out - literally. Make one to hold your favorite memories and one to hold your favorite cards.