January issue of ScrapBook inspirations on sale 14th Dec

Celebrate the New Year with us! Inside the issue:
* Make resolution mini books for all the family plus a box to hold them
* Shimmering paint techniques - Mary Anne Walters plays with Radiant Rain
* Your layouts about new beginnings - from babies to new jobs
* Meet Keisha Campbell from the blog A Bit East
* Photographing silhouettes - we show you how!
* Over £1000 of prizes to be won! We're giving away loads of gorgeous stash

Plus loads more - get your copy today!

On page 54 of our January issue we featured Louise Fortune's layouts using lacy cardstock, cut on the CraftRobo. If you're lucky enough to own a CraftRobo (or are extremely patient and skillful with a craft knife!) then you can download the templates that she used to make the designs on her 'eight' and 'numbers' layouts. These templates are in jpg format, which means that you will need to use the 'Auto Trace' feature of your CraftRobo software in order to turn them into CraftRobo files. Click on the links below to download the files.
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In our January issue we featured a lovely New Year's resolution box by Tracie Hudson.
If you'd like to have a go at making it, then download the pdf here. It contains templates and full instructions for making the box and the matchbook inserts.

Edited to add: if you're having problems downloading the PDF email me and I'll send it to you directly.

If you liked Jane Dean's colourful tags in the January issue of ScrapBook inspirations (on sale 14th Dec 07) then you'll love these free downloadable versions that Jane made for us.

The nine birthday-themed designs are available as an A4 PDF or JPG. Both are just the black outlines. To use them simply print onto heavy paper or cardstock and then decorate them however you like.

Download a high resolution PDF (15MB, may take a while)
Download a low resolution JPG (800KB)

To download either right-click on the link and save to your computer.

To view the PDF file you will need Adobe Reader. This is available as a free download from Adobe's website.

Did you see the winning entries to Best of British Scrapbooking 2007? They're all featured in the January issue of ScrapBook inspirations - on sale now.

Sarah Veness, one of our two altered art winners, sent in her wonderful (and frankly, totally mad!) altered welly, drawing curious stares from all over the office. We loved it, but didn't have space to show it from every angle in the magazine. So here are a few extra shots:

Inside a seed packet is a tag with some of Sarah's journaling.

The Secret Garden mini book opens out to reveal flowery photos.

The other side of the boot. We love the flowers peeking from the top!

Locked behind the door to the kitchen garden...

The tool shed!

Make sure you get hold of a copy of the January issue to see all of our winners and to read the story behind Sarah's welly.

Win brilliant scrapbooking basics from Fotospeed!

Glue? Check! Paper? Check! More glue? Check! We’ve got five really useful prizes to give away, thanks to Fotospeed. Each one includes a Herma glue dispenser, a 12x12in Herma transfer sheet and 20 A4 sheets of Smooth Lite DUO paper. For details about Herma products call 1249 714555 or go to fotospeed.com

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Enter today to win these gorgeous goodies from Melissa Frances!

Combining vintage designs and soft colours, Melissa Frances’ supplies are just so elegant. We’ve got five generous prizes from All About Crafts and Herrschners. Each includes a boxed 8x8in album kit, papers and embellishments plus loads more.

For more information about All About Crafts and Herrschners call 01782 396 847 or visit herrschners.co.uk

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Enter our Creativity International giveaway!

If you want to make a page quickly it helps to have your supplies in one place, so wouldn’t it be brilliant to have enough stash to create over 20 pages and even an album to put them in? Creativity International have done just that and have given us five to give away. Each kit is worth £54.99 and includes a cloth-covered strap-hinge album, 11 white hinged pages, 10 assorted coloured papers, decorative borders, a photo template, decorative edge scissors, glue, journaling pen and even an idea book to get you going! For your chance to win see below, or to buy this and other scrapping products go to castlehillcrafts.co.uk or call 01384 485 550.

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Your chance to win lovely stash from Chatterbox!

We know you’re going to love these bumper Chatterbox sets, courtesy of Craft Superstore. Five lucky winners will each get a 12x12in album, 12x12in ‘Villa’ kit (including paper, ribbon, stickers, brads and more), mini album kit, letter stickers, embellishments and oodles of ribbon! Each prize is worth £50 in total.

Enter now to be in with a chance of winning or to find out about the tempting treats available from Craft Superstore call 0870 0842 225 or visit craftsuperstore.co.uk

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This Christmas, for the first time in years, I have admitted defeat and realised I simply won't have time to make all my Christmas cards myself. I've signed up for Shimelle's Journaling your Christmas class and any spare time is taken up with preparing my pages for that. I do still hope to make a few special cards for my closest family and so I was thrilled to spot these free photocard downloads on the Digital Camera mag website. They work in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and there 10 designs to choose from. I'm sure I'll be able to make up a couple of these in time - I just need to find my most Christmassy pics.