Here are the top 3 craft studios that I am currently drooling over:

Paulamw’s craft room. More photos of her craft room HERE.

Bubblegum Sherbet Fizz’s craft room. More photos of her craft room HERE.

HeyLucy’s room is another one to get inspiration from. Love it! More photos of her craft room HERE.

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Web Wednesday: Craft Room Webbies

Love, love, love the colour and Cindy’s stash…drool worthy!

If you look at the top left part of the photo, you’d see an old bird cage that Cindy is now using to hold her silk flowers.

More photos after the jump!

According to Cindy, she got the pink boxes from Ikea. Darn, I wish we have IKEA down here in New Zealand! Ack!

Look at her stash of ribbons! Yummy! : -)

I love the 3-tier shelf on Cindy’s desk…she got it from Target I also love the pink lamp!

For more photos of Cindy’s room, you can go HERE.

Thanks again, Cindy for letting me feature your room and share with the other mad croppers out there

For you out there, if you or your friends want your scrapbook room featured at the Mad Cropper, let me know. Drop me an email at christine(at)b5media(dot)com

Stay happy!

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Featured Scrapbook Room for the Week: Masonspaige

A video tour of Kelli Crowe’s Scrapbook Room. Kelli is one of the Garden Designers at Two Peas in a Bucket. All I can say is she’s got a gorgeous scrapbook room.

It shows you what organizer she used to separate her embellishment and the lovely ideas board. I love that one! I want one too!

I love it!

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VIDEO: Kelli Crowe’s Scrapbook Room Tour

I’ve often been asked by friends and online buddies alike how I got started with scrapbooking.

I have always loved to jazz up my photo albums even before they became an actual ‘hobby’ with all the glitz and glamour it now entails where you got archival-safe products and all that. I loved crafty endeavours even as a child and all my photo albums will have little notes of where it was, what we were doing (similar to what we call ‘journalling’ now) and cut the photos up to make some sort of collage. I also used to cut up designs from old gift wrappers and newspaper clippings to jazz up my ‘layouts’ — We call them embellishments now.

I got into the ‘real’ scrapbooking mania complete with all the materials (cardstocks, embellishments, journalling etc) around about late 2003 or early 2004 when an online friend of mine, Gem showed her layouts to the e-group. I fell in love with them and knew that I had to do them as well.

The first few layouts I did where not inspiring at all but it did inspire me to even have my own craft room at home. It was great! The layouts above were one of the very first layouts I made.

I don’t get to dabble in my layouts as much as I want to only because of my work and family commitments but I’m hoping that I’ll be able to have more ‘me’ time to create more scrapbook layouts.

What about you? How did you get started on scrapbooking?

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How did you get started with scrapbooking?

This week’s featured scrapbook studio to draw inspiration from is from Keightyj in Flickr. I was drawn to her use of ‘antique’ style cabinets to store her scrapbook materials and tools. I love, love vintage!

Image credit: Keightyj

Collage created using Picnik

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Featured Scrapbook Room: Keigthyj in Flickr

For the month of July 2008, below are our top 5:

5th: Scrapbook Layout Idea: Travel Theme

4th:Chipboard Letters by Making Memories

3rd: Scrap Room Envy

2nd: Amanda’s Scrapbook Room

and our most popular post for the month of July is…..

1st: Free Digital Scrapbooking Kit

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Mad Cropper’s Top 5 Posts for the month of July 2008

If you want to promote your design team calls, contest, challenges or anything scrapbook-related, drop me a line at christine@b5media.com

To all you mad croppers thinking of setting up their scrapbook area, here’s Rhonda’s Scrapbook Desk to inspire you. Looks very tidy eh? I love the view. My old craft room had a view like that. But sadly we had to move. Now, my only view is our street.

Sigh.

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Rhonda’s Scrapbook Desk

Here’s another one to make you green with envy! Lisa Brown’s craft studio is divine!

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Lisa Brown’s Scrapbook Room

I was surfing the web when I found Amanda’s scrap studio. Isn’t it amazing? Her Dad built the table and shelves for her! Lucky her!

Click HERE to view the rest of her scrap studio.

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Amanda’s Scrapbook Room