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As the year draws to a close, we wanted to look back at the wonderful scrapblogs that have been created over the year. We have featured many of the most creative and story-telling ones in our regular feature, “The Friday Five“, that highlights innovative uses of Scrapblog. Of the many tens of thousands of scrapblogs that have been published publicly, about 150 have been featured in The Friday Five. These scrapblogs often represent the highest form of art, emotion, storytelling and craft.

Of these, some stood out for their beauty, the new techniques that were used, the power of the story, the simplicity, the scrapbooking style and many more reasons. These scrapblogs influenced us in one way or another. They made us marvel at the skill, they made us look and take note and many made the community learn, laugh, share stories and connect.

More importantly, some of the scrapblogs featured below belong to users whose overall body of work is impressive and formidable and who have been active community members. Alas, we have not featured all active community members, who know who they are and who will be featured in our blog’s “Profiles” category over the coming months.

A few of the scrapblogs belong to Brazilians, who have been a definite and welcome presence at Scrapblog. We saw a strong interest and growth in users from Brazil, who love to create photo-montages (”montagens”) and collages for use in their own social networks. We are preparing a Portuguese version of the Scrapblog site to cater to the many thousands of Brazilians here.

We arbitrarily chose 12 outstanding scrapblogs that stood out this year, which are featured below in no particular order:

“Hunt Christmas Card”, by huntsnlove:

“DW and the Snowball”, by Lala’s Blog:

“A Bit of Norway, Senja Trollet”, by Ninamor:

“Carol”, by brine:

“Blaze’s Halloween Adventures”, by little_m:

“20070923 TriPigtail Poolness”, by Lis311:

“Better Together”, by Danielinhaa:

“Our Wedding”, by Chanteal:

“A Ilha”, by paulistapink:

“Ft Walton Beach 2006″, by ang7880:

“Jamie’s PAW-Sandbox”, by JamiesPAW:

“Post-Halloween”, by sthilari:

Which ones did you like the most? Perhaps we overlooked some outstanding ones, for which we apologize.

Oh, and just in time, we would like to extend our best wishes for a Happy New Year!