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

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

View the rest of Ali’s new studio HERE.

Happy viewing!

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Ali Edwards’ new Scrapbook Studio

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

6. Fireworks Layout Challenge

7. What Kind of Scrapbooker are you?

8. Mad Cropper Contest: Win $300 worth of Wasau Paper® Creative Collection Products

9. Free Download: Digital Scrapbook Halloween Kit

10.  Using Stickles on your Scrapbook Layouts

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Mad Cropper’s Most Popular Posts for 2008

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: Mini Books. I love mini-books because I am a busy person. I wear so many hats in my life that it is quite difficult to juggle them with scrapbooking. Mini-books is a good compromise and I can’t wait to start on my scrapbook projects for next year!

4. Jessica Sprague Challenge: Scrapbook your home, city or neighbourhood. I love this entry because this is a good idea to post where you’ve lived in certain points of my life. So far, since arriving in New Zealand in January 2002, I have moved houses twice not counting the first house I shared with the Husband.

5. An Awe-Inspiring Scrapbook Room. Gotta love Maisonpaige’s scrapbook room. I’d love to have a craft studio like hers!

6. Turning Your Scrapbook Layouts into Invitations and Announcements. I like to be able to do something useful with my scrapbook layouts and this is one idea I’d try one of these days!

7. The contests and giveaways I featured and/or run on Mad Cropper. How could they not be my favourite posts?

8. How to get published in a scrapbook publication. Very helpful from Scrapscene.

9. The freebies that I have featured here on Mad Cropper for the year of 2008.

10. Scrapbook It – 2009 Wall calendar. Hmm, will I have the time to do this scrapbook project?

What about you? What are your favourite Mad Cropper entries for 2008?

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Mad Cropper’s Favourite Posts for 2008

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

Here are some of the products in store for us between 30-50% off!

Pink and White Gated Album

Inspiration Kit by Hopper Cropper – original RRP $18 down to $12.60!

I’m going to buy this one! Drool, drool, drool!

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Two Peas in a Bucket Big Sale!

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