by Jane Pinder
 The topic of scrapbooking conjures up an album crammed with photographs and memorabilia. This is all wonderful, but how about a scrapbook page that can be seen every day? Something that hangs on the wall perhaps. Our hanging memory disc is just the thing to make.
Make one for the grandparents showing your children or a wedding day memory for the happy couple. The possibilities are endless and they look so pretty hanging on the wall.
Choose one photograph and colour theme the disc carefully and you cannot go wrong. The basic idea and method is the same regardless of the topic, but these discs are a great way of experimenting with different techniques. We used: Step by Step:
 - Starting with the lightest Paint Dabber, add areas of colour to the chipboard disc. Then add the other blue colours, from lightest to darkest.
- Use the silver Paint Dabber to carefully apply silver ink to the edges of the disc.
 - Silver emboss the Daisy Chains and a couple of the Collage Dotty Wisp images.
 - Cut a square of the black card, slightly larger than the photograph you are using. Then remove a square from the centre to create a frame. Add colour to this frame using the Paint Dabbers, then apply three layers of silver embossing powder to the top left hand corner. Press the Orchid Border stamp into the third layer of embossing powder while it is still molten. Repeat this process in the lower right hand corner of the frame.
- I scanned my photograph, so I could use a printed image rather than the actual original. Trim your photograph to size and attach it to the frame using double-sided tape. Stick a length of fancy fibre to the tape so it shows on the front.
- Tear a strip of matching patterned paper to fit down the right hand side of the disc. Use the darkest blue Paint Dabber to edge both long sides, to highlight the shape. Glue this in place on the disc.
- Use the QuicKutz alphabet dies to spell out the words for your disc. Alternatively, if you have neat handwriting, you can write this! However if you are using the die cut letters, glue them onto the piece of matching paper on the disc. Add a couple of areas of glittery bits, along the edge of the paper. This can be loose or in the form of Glitter Glue.
- Add any other pieces of matching papers, then use foam pads to attach the framed picture.
 - Now for the three flowers. For each flower you will need to punch out two from each size of Daisy Punch. Layer them together and punch a small hole through the centres. Join them together using a silver brad.
- Attach two of the flowers onto the disc itself.
- The third flower is for the hanging at the bottom. Cut a one-inch square of thick card and colour it with one of the Paint Dabbers. Use the Crop-A-Dile to punch a hole in the centre and another one at one corner. Open out the brad in the flower, pass the ends through the central hole and then open out the prongs on the back of the card.
- Take a length of silver wire and pass one end through the hole in the card square. Hang the card piece from the centre of the length of wire. Pass both ends of wire through a selection of beads. Make a hole in the bottom of the decorated chipboard disc, using the Crop-A-Dile punch. Take the ends of wire through this hole and twist them together at the back. Secure them on the back of the disc with tape. Then pass both ends of the wire to the front and twist one end at a time around a cocktail stick to form coils.
- Finally, attach a length of fibre through the top hole for hanging.
Hang from a hook on the wall, then stand back and admire! 
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Japanese Lace Paper Set
