Whatever you call it — scrapbook studio, creative space, craft room, scrapbook corner, they’re all the same. It’s a place where you unleash your creativity. A zen kind of place where magic is discovered and great artworks are created!
Here are the top 3 craft studios that I am currently drooling over:

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

Everyone who’s been following me at the Mad Cropper knows that I am a big fan of Ali Edwards. I even had the chance to interview Ali once and have featured her works at the Mad Cropper from time to time.
So me featuring photos of Ali’s new scrapbook studio will not be a surprise to anyone.
If you’re in the throes of updating your own scrapbook space then I hope this feature inspires you

As I mentioned earlier, I am taking the opportunity to feature the top lists for 2008 in the last few days of the year.
Here are 10 of the most popular posts of 2008 as measured by the rating and entries made by our readers. Click on the links and find out why they are the most popular entries for 2008:
1. Scrapbooking can be disheartening too.
2. Mad Cropper has been tagged!
3. Learn to Dance DVD – Bloggy Giveaway
4. Journalling Idea: In the Good Old Summertime
5. Mad Cropper Contest: Random Act of Kindness Contest

2008 is about to draw to a close and what better way to end it with my top 10 lists.
This post is dedicated to my top 10 favourite entries for the year 2008.
They are, in no particular order:
1. My entries on the Scrapbook DT calls here on Mad Cropper. I’ve received so much feedback on it from you guys that I’ll be promoting more DT calls as I receive them
2. My interview with the Scrapbook Diva, Iris Babao-Uy. She’s so talented. I enjoyed viewing her layouts. Such an amazing person! Love you, Iris!
3. Tips for the Busy Scrapper: …read more

I’m pleased to feature Cindy Shipman’s Scrapbook room this week. You’d have to agree with me, her room is simply divine and I love the color combination — pink and green! It reminds me of the pink and green wedding theme that I featured at Our One Heart.
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!

We all love Two Peas in a Bucket…and we love it more when our favourite site goes on sale!
Here are some of the products in store for us between 30-50% off!
Pink and White Gated Album

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!

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 …read more

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

Hello mad croppers…I thought I’d start something new wherein I’d post the top 5 most viewed posts every month to give you an idea on what you may have missed for the month.
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…..