Hello, and welcome to our 'All you need is Love' Australasian 'Close To My Heart' Blog Hop.  If you've arrived here from Maz Wood - aMAZing Creations , then you're in the right place.   If you've landed here by accident, no problem!  Please join in by following the link at the end of this post.   With February not far away, there's lots of creative thought around the world for the  upcoming Valentines Day, often associated with young love or perhaps a secret love,  and the sending of anonymous cards. Not so in our house. We have no teenagers anymore, but we will be celebrating our  38th wedding anniversary in March. The recent paper pack called 'Now and Forever' is a beautiful collection of designs in a  colour palette that is right up my ally! So I decided to try and use all of the papers! Before I share my project though, I think it's worth mentioning that although I've been  scrapbooking for over 20 years, I have NEVER, EVER p...

  Hello, and welcome aboard our 'Are we there yet?' Australasian 'Close To My Heart' Blog Hop. If you've arrived here from Maz Wood - aMAZing Creations , then you're in the right place.  If you've landed here by accident, no problem, please join in by following the link at the end of this post.   As suggested by the title of this blog, today we are featuring the paper pack, 'Are we there yet?' from the January - March catalogue. When I first saw this pack, I wasn't sure I'd be able to come up with much, due to the lack of travel over the past few years. However, inspiration struck early one morning and now, I don't think I will have enough of it to cover all the things I've thought of!  In 2017, I was one of a group of four photographers who travelled to Tiri-Tiri Matangi Island, off the coast of Auckland in New Zealand. The island is a sanctuary, free of pests, where birds and plantlife flourish naturally. If you...

All of a sudden, 2023 is here! I have to say I’m excited to start this new year. So many plans, goals and opportunities are afoot, it feels like my whole life has been moving towards this moment.  Which of course, it has!!  Hi, I’m Lynda, The Scrapbooking Photographer’. Thanks for stopping by, and reading my introductory blog. Future blogs will hold all sorts of tips, ideas, and information on both scrapbooking and photography, plus layout ideas, but I thought at first it would be prudent to introduce myself and share some background. ‘The Scrapbooking Photographer’ blends two of my passions. It’s a great description of what you’ll find here in the blog, and across my other media…..You Tube, Facebook and Instagram. Here’s how the scrapbooking part of it came about…… Circa 1970 - I have very vivid memories from my childhood of an old tin absolutely full of black and white photos. Every now and then Mum would get the tin out of the cupboard and look reflectively through the phot...