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Just about my favorite scrapbook catalog is Paper Wishes. They have a huge variety of items and the pages also have loads of ideas. On the website is their virtual catalog, but you can sign up to get them by mail also.

Type in “heritage” to their search engine and you get pages of great items. For those of you short on time, the “almost done” pages are great pretty much all you do is stick on your pictures and an embellishment and that’s it!  As you look through the pages of products there are several that have just punches or brass stencils.. keep going.. check out all the pages because there is lots of neat stuff there. Don’t forget to click the links under “search summery” as well. There are page ideas to be found and articles also.

For more on heritage scrapbooking, check out Scrapbooking.com. There is a good article there.

Hope this information helps some of you. When you create some of your hertiage pages, don’t forget to pop over to the forums and share your page with us! By sharing your ideas, you get to help out otheres who might be stuck for inspiration. You also could be featured on the blog!

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In keeping with the “Back to School” theme, here are some fun papers for bookin’ back to school layouts. I have recently bought the grade school stack. I haven’t yet used any of the papers, but they are really cute. I made each picture a link so you can see all the different papers that come in the stack. I really enjoy using the Die Cuts with a View papers. I have several different themed stacks. Usually I cut up the different parts of the papes, so what I’ve started doing is getting the 8×8 papers even though I scrapbook 12×12. Then I use just part of it and can see most of the pattern, or if I want it to span the whole page, I can cut it and piece it together. It also saves money.  

So, check them out and don’t forget the Monthly Bookin’ Challenge on the forums. I can’t wait to see the layouts you create! 

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I’ve had this eyelet setter for several years. Before this I had the regular tool kit that had the small hammer and eyelet setter tool that you had to bang on….loudly… several times to make a hole and then bag again…..even louder…. to set the eyelet. It just didn’t work for me. For one thing, even though I mostly do all my bookin’ outside of my home, I’m with a group, and would have to remember to call out “hammering!” every time I wanted to set an eyelet, or else I would either upset the lady sitting at the same table with me as she’s trying to do her handwritten journaling and I’m hammering away, or startling nearly everyone else in the room! If I try to do my bookin’ at home, it’s nearly always after my daughter has gone to bed, and I don’t want to wake her up with the hammering. So, I invested in the Instant Setter by Making Memories. While not “silent” it is quieter than hammering. One (slightly loud) click to make your hole and one (at the most two) clicks to set the eyelet. It usually doesn’t result in an eyelet back that is “perfectly” spread, but one usually hides the back of an eyelet anyway, so no biggie to me. You can adjust the tension on it, so if you have an especially soft eyelet, make it hit less hard and just do it a couple of times to get it as flat as you like. It’s easy to change setter heads, just slip in a new one and it’s magnetically held in place until you take it out. It’s a little on the hard side to clean out the puncher tool as you can’t stick a needle straight in, but there is a hole on the side to do the job, it just takes a bit of doing.

All in all, a great tool for eyelet setting.

Do you have a favorite tool? Let us know over at the Bookin’ Forums!

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I’ve owned the xyron 500 create a sticker for almost a year. This machine applies adhesive to your scrapbook items. You put in your picture, die cut, ribbon… whatever up to about 5 inches, and turn the handle. It comes out the other side attached to a white paper. All you do is peel your item off the paper and stick it to your page or card! Super easy.. and just like you see them do on QVC when they are demonstrating products!

My hubby bought this fantastic product for me for Christmas. I’ve said many times that it’s one of the best presents he has gotten for me. I love it because it makes creating cards or scrapbook pages super fast (after I’ve figured out what I want it to look like, of course!). It’s wide enough to put a 4×6 picture in, but you don’t usually need to coat a picture with adhesive. I usually run several smaller things through it, even my 5 year old can do it….. kids even younger could use it with help. My daughter loves turning the handle and then peeling off the papers she picked and sticking them to her project. I also want to get a smaller xyron because sometimes I just have a piece of ribbon and it doesn’t make sense to run just that through and waste a lot of adhesive.. but xyron makes several sizes of these machines. It’s really great for those items that are hard to use your adhesive runner on, just send your laser cut die cut through this baby and out it comes, perfectly coated with adhesive, ready to peel and stick!

You can find this machine at most craft stores. Joann’s Fabric and Craft online is have a sale on them!

Reading through my emails tonight, I opened my Simple Scrapbook Times newsletter and saw there is a new Cricut out! Apparently it’s exclusive to Michael’s Craft Stores.

Exclusive to Michaels, the Cricut Create™ Personal Electronic Cutter combines the portability of the original Cricut® machine with the functionality of the Cricut Expression™ machine. The Cricut Create machine is the same size as the original Cricut machine, yet it allows cuts from 0.25-inch up to 11.5-inch on a 6-inch x 12-inch cutting mat. The machine also includes an eight-way directional blade, Portrait mode (to cut taller images), Fit to Page mode (to cut the largest cut possible), Auto Fill mode (to mass produce cuts), Center Point function, and Flip function. An improved display screen and sleek design add greater style and convenience.

The machine includes the DonJuan™ font and shape cartridge, one 6-inch x 12-inch cutting mat, and necessary cords and manuals.

So, I’m reading the Scrapbooks, etc. mag I got in the mail earlier in the week and I see an ad for a new little gizmo. Of course I go to check it out, because although I really, really want a Cricut (the original, not even the Expressions), I haven’t gotten one yet, even though the price has come down considerably for the original one. But anyway.. I go check out the website for this new little gadget.. and maybe.. just maybe.. I want this one instead of the Cricut *gasp*???! Hmmm…… Oh, so what is it? Making Memories Slice. Check it out, let me know what you think.. or if you have some other die cutter, let me know what you like/don’t like.

Edit, July 23: Here is the You Tube vid of it.

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