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This month’s issue is full of “Perfect Patterns!” Every article, every challenge focuses on using patterned papers and our creative teams shine in the challengs:  title, color, journaling, scraplift, lyrical and recipe. Anita Designs is our spotlight designer. Get to know her and her creative team, plus download three parts to the beautifully patterned full [...]

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When printing your layouts for your album, it’s always fun to have 2-page coordinating spreads, and yet most of us scrap single page layouts. This issue may change the way you approach your multiple-photo layouts! We have gathered the best of the two-page layouts and multiple-photo single page layouts we could find for our issue [...]

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This layout by contributor Lin is just one of the many, many gorgeous double-page layouts that are featured in the January 2012 issue of the Artisan Notebook ™. This issue is loaded with great ideas about how you too can produce creative and unique double-page layouts to better display your photos and tell your stories. [...]

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Beginning with the January 2012 issue of the Artisan Notebook ™ we have started a new monthly feature written by Tiffany Landry. Tiffany herself describes her this project by saying, ” It’s a fun project with the potential to draw out essential pieces of me in an unexpected format-someone else words.” Be sure and pick [...]

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Beginning with the January 2012 issue of the Artisan Notebook ™ we are pleased to feature a new featured article by Amy Martin. Join Amy each month as she provides inspirational ideas on one template can be used in a variety of ways to achieve a unique and personalized layout. Debb Cozzi used the inspiration [...]

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It’s the happiest season of all, and our December 2011 issue reflects the joy and wonder of Christmas, gift-giving, card making, calendar making and more.  We couldn’t end the year without giving a shout out to Project 365 too. Our site spotlight shines on The Digichick, a site known for its amazing designers and hybrid [...]

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“Mom!  Grandma!  Auntie!  Tell me a story!” Children and adults of all ages love hearing stories about family members and themselves, and this month’s issue of The Artisan Notebook is an depth-look at the story-telling in our scrapbook pages.  Our seven creative teams share how they followed our journaling prompts and challenges in our Color [...]

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Our theme this month is “All About Us” and all of our challenges have a fun spin on it:  journaling, title, color, scraplift, recipe and inspiration.  Whether “Us” is you and your husband, boyfriend or BFF, this issue celebrates the joy of our most special relationships.  Our seven creative teams rock their layouts for each [...]

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It’s back to school time in the western hemisphere and to celebrate our theme this month is LEARN A NEW TECHNIQUE.  Every team member this month was asked to take a photograph or create a layout using a technique they’ve never used before and then to share it with our readers.  Enjoy reading about how [...]

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From the glories of mountain peaks to the flutter of a lone hummingbird in our garden to the rushing waters of a waterfall to the joy of finding a shell on a sandy beach, nature has a way of making us stop and lose ourselves in the moment. Taking photos during these special times and [...]

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