In the March issue of ScrapBook inspirations we featured Mary Anne Walters' layout about her mum's love of researching the family's history. The layout included a fan, created from a Martha Stewart template, that Mary Anne's mother filled out.

If you would like to try one with your own family tree you can download the template and get instructions from this webpage.

Have fun!

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To get you started you'll find project ideas from Shimelle Laine, such as this mini book below, in our March issue (on sale 6th February).

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I met up yesterday with some of the ScrapBook inspirations design team and after we got all the official work stuff out of the way a couple of us went shopping!

VV Rouleaux is a fantastic ribbon shop (if you're ever in London it's well worth a visit). Me, Anne and Shimelle spent a very happy half hour in there, oohing and aahing over the pretty braids and ribbons. They even had double-sided velvet which is officially my new favourite ribbon!

Oooh, look at all the pretty colours!

Shimelle (who bought some very pretty braids)

Anne (who bought some cute polka dots and stripes)

I bought a piece of crazy 70s-style braid and some velvet ribbon for Cara and Jane on the editorial team.