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iNSD Lifebooks Donation Drive Weigh-In!

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Please Report Your Total Here!

FINAL WEIGH-IN TOTAL: 640 Lbs!
Roxane, founder of Shared Scraps, and I asked you to gather all of your less-than-loved scrapbooking supplies and donate them to your local social services for children under state custody to use for their Lifebooks. To do this, you have to actually hunt down the person in charge of this program by calling your county’s social or human services office. It’s not unbearably difficult, but it’s not super easy, either. Kudos to those of you who did it!

Roxane had a crop she was attending and two days before its scheduled date, asked the ladies to bring their extras. Look what this awesome group of women brought to their local Lifebooks contact person…

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I have been hearing lots of awesome results and now is your chance to weight in! We are excited to find out the total weight of all who are participating! Please weigh in by commenting on this post with your pounds. Don’t be shy. Some of you are newer to scrapbooking and don’t have much to give. Some of us (like myself) had just recently decluttered and had to dig pretty hard to find stuff we could part from. Whether you had a desperate need to purge and have a lot to give, or just a little, please weigh in so we can announce a grand total!

Much appreciation to the generous sponsors of our event:

* Prima * My Mind’s Eye * American Crafts * Ali Edwards Designs * Big Picture Scrapbooking * Scrapbook.com * Creativity Prompt * Dedra Long *

Scroll down to the previous three blog posts to see how you can enter to win prizes from our sponsors!

iNSD 2010 Challenge 3 – Embellishment Gatherings

Friday, April 30th, 2010

May 3rd- ETA:

THE WINNERS!

Thanks to all who participated. There are a lot of great pages in the comments for people to look through! The following five were chosen randomly. Congratulations! Please email me at noell@paperclipping.com and give me your mailing addresses.

Scrapbook.com $50 Gift Certificate:
Kim Strother – Here is my link to the embellishment clusters. Thanks

http://lovejoyscrap.blogspot.com/2010/05/submis…

Prima Product Package:
mllwyllw – This is my header grouping…

http://mllwyllw.blogspot.com/2010/05/nsd-mini-a…

American Crafts Product Package
Jana – Cover of a mini album with embellishments

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb49/Janaina…

My Mind’s Eye Tiny Dancer Package
mllwyllw – This is my anchor line embellishment

http://mllwyllw.blogspot.com/2010/05/nsd-mini-a…

My Mind’s Eye Maggie May Package
rosann – Here’s the layout I created from the embellishment gathering challenge.

http://people.paperclipping.com/photo/my-style?…

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Submission to this challenge must be during or after our celebration on Saturday, May 1st, 1-3pm PST.

THE PRIZES

(must be at least 18 and a U.S. resident)
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One winner will receive a $50 gift certificate to the online scrapbook store where I love to shop, Scrapbook.com.

Prima Product Package

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One winner will receive the following Prima products:
* 1 Donna Downey Line 8×8 Canvas Album
* 1 Donna Downey Line Stitched Word
* 1 Strawberry Kisses Essentials Tube of Flowers
* 1 Pack Say It In Pearls Centers
* 1 Pack E-Line single pearls and gems
* 2 Bunches of Small Roses
* 1 Pack Belle Arte Script Roses

American Crafts Product Package

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One winner will receive a selection of products from American Craft‘s popular new Dear Lizzy line.

My Mind’s Eye

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One winner will receive the Tiny Dancer kit from My Mind’s Eye. Another will win the Maggie May kit. Worth over $30, both kits come with 14 sheets of double-sided, textured, 12×12 card-stock papers plus over 45 mix & match accessory pieces.

THE CHALLENGE

Create an embellishment gathering on a layout, a minibook page, or an altered book page based on one of five different types that I demonstrate during our live celebration on Saturday, May 1st, 1-3pm PST. The page must be about yourself, must be completed during or after our celebration on Saturday, and must be posted somewhere on the internet for us to view. Please do not submit a project you made before attending or watching the iNSD 2010 Paperclipping celebration. You may submit up to five times.

To participate, please leave a comment on this post with a link to a photo of your page. If you are on facebook, please come to my blog to enter.

For more information on our iNSD event and the projects we will be doing, please click here. Be sure to join us from 1-3pm PST at http://www.paperclipping.com/live

iNSD 2010 Challenge 2: Embellishment Symbols & Colors

Friday, April 30th, 2010

May 3rd ETA:

The Winners!

Thanks to all who participated. The following three entries were chosen randomly. Congratulations! Please email me at noell@paperclipping.com and give me your mailing addresses.


My Mind’s Eye Feeling Groovy Kit:

rosann – http://people.paperclipping.com/photo/embellish…
Here’s my entry. My symbol is the owl and my color scheme is purple and pale yellow.

My Mind’s Eye Freebird Kit:
mllwyllw – My papers are from a mod-retro stack I’ve been saving for something fun and THIS IS IT! They are really fun papers. My main embellishment is my initials. Inspired by Ali Edwards using her initials on her pages. I am doing a mini board book that will have one question answered on each of the 6 pages.

http://mllwyllw.blogspot.com/2010/05/national-s…

Paperclipping Altered Books DVD:
luvblklab – http://people.paperclipping.com/photo/albums/ch…

My symbols I chose Is the letter S (first letter of my name) When I was a child I would always write S’s the doodle around them and since my altered book is about my childhood I thought it would be appropriate. My other symbol is a tree for a personal reason that I have come to realize lately in my life.
I used nature colors blues, greens, oranges and blues and have many other nature symbols throughout my collection birds owls etc.

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THE PRIZES

(Must be at least 18 and a U.S. resident)

My Mind’s Eye

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One winner will receive the Feeling Groovy Kit by My Mind’s Eye. Another will win the Freebird kit. Both kits are worth more than $30 and come with 14 sheets of double-sided, textured, 12×12 card-stock papers plus over 45 mix & match accessory pieces.

Altered Books Tutorial DVD

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One winner will receive this special edition Paperclipping DVD tutorial where Dedra Long and Noell Hyman show you how to alter unwanted old hardcover books to make them your own beautiful works of art and another avenue for telling your own stories. In this video which is more than 1 hour long, you will learn:

* Three different ways to alter the cover of your book.
* How to bind and cover the pages inside the book.
* Techniques for making your pages interactive and fun.

Find out more here.

THE CHALLENGE

Choose a color scheme and a main embellishment symbol that represents you in some way. You will use these for our project(s) on Saturday. Lay your papers and embellishment choice on your table and photograph them together (one picture). Post your picture somewhere on the internet. For an example of how I photographed mine, see the photo on this post.

To participate in the challenge, please leave a short comment on this post that explains your choice, plus a link to your picture. You have between now and Sunday at midnight to complete post your entry. If you are on facebook, please come to Paperclipping.com to enter.

For more information on our iNSD event and the projects we will be doing, please click here. Be sure to join us from 1-3pm PST at http://www.paperclipping.com/live

iNSD 2010 Challenge 1: Journal Your Story

Friday, April 30th, 2010

May 3rd ETA:

The Winners

Thanks to all who participated. The following three entries were chosen randomly. Congratulations! Please email me at noell@paperclipping.com so I’ll have your email address and we’ll be able to get the coupon codes for your prizes to you.

Capture Your Dream Workshop
juliamueller – My mother gave me the trait of creativity. She and her father and brothers were all artists. I have waited for years to try my hand at painting, but have found i actually do have some talent. From my father I got a quiet, loyal nature.

Ali Edwards Digital Designs Package

Karin – Why was your name chosen for you?

My father’s father was from Norway, and he had a cousin in Norway that he would talk about named Karin (car-in). My dad always thought it was a pretty name, so that’s what he wanted to name me. I’ve always really liked my name because I haven’t met many others with it and because of my Norwegian heritage being so close to me since I am third generation.

Big Picture Scrapbooking Workshop – A Baker’s Dozen
Karin – Which of your mother’s personality traits do you share? Which of your father’s?

My Mom and I both like to keep busy with making things and learning to make things. We’re both scrapbookers and like craft projects. We’re both singers. We like to give gifts to people and read magazines. We love owning our dogs and taking care of them. We love the same TV shows and a lot of the same movies. We both like to collect things and have a hard time letting go of things. We’re curious about our heritage and like to get to know all of our relatives and keep up with them. We like to travel and go to concerts. We both ask a lot of questions.

My Dad and I both like to write and blog about our daily lives and thoughts. We both like things to be orderly and cleaned and planned, yet like to be creative and try new things. We both like to garden and cook. We like to talk music, books, and movies. We’re both very emotional and deep and get upset easily. We’re really good at remembering people, their names and faces and details about their lives.

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Below are the prizes and the challenge description. Good luck and have fun!

THE PRIZES

Capture Your Dream Workshop from Creativity Prompt

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One winner will receive a Capture Your Dream workshop, which is a 6 weeks long, self-paced course that is designed to help you realize your dream with a unique mix of scrapbooking and self development. There is no “magic” or “secret” involved, but rather a journey of self exploration with guided journaling and inspiration prompts. Think of it as a marked trail for you to walk through towards achieving your dream.

But there’s more to it. Along your journey you will also be making a 6 by 6 mixed media mini album with step by step instructions and printable templates. The mini album is not only there for you to learn a ton of new techniques but also as a bag of motivation for your journey. The workshop is held entirely online and you will be receiving an e-mail with a pdf file every weekday for 6 weeks.

To commemorate National Scrapbooking Day Avital will be offering 50% discount throughout the month of May, dropping down the price from 49.95 USD to just 25 USD. Learn more here.

Ali Edwards Digital Designs

One winner will receive a package of some of Ali’s favorite digital products from her collection at Designer Digitals.
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A Baker’s Dozen class at Big Picture Scrapbooking.com

One winner will receive…
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Over the course of one month, Darci Dowdle (Stacy Julian’s little sister) will help you gather specific pictures, papers, and products from your own overflowing stash and you’ll create 13 layouts — a baker’s dozen. Daily emails will tell you how to prepare in a new “egg”-xilarating way and then daily downloads will inspire to you to think outside the “egg carton” and put it all together to get pages done. Let’s get together and whip up some vibrant and meaningful pages! See more here.

THE CHALLENGE

Choose from among the questions below to answer on a layout, a minibook, or an altered book that we will assemble during our iNSD event on Saturday. To enter to win, please share your journaling with us in a comment to this post (not on facebook). This must be new journaling content that you wrote no earlier than when I first posted these questions (meaning, you can’t pull from a layout you’ve made before or journaling you wrote before I posted these questions yesterday).

You have between now and Sunday at midnight to enter. You can enter up to five times (as separate comments). I will choose randomly.

THE JOURNAL QUESTIONS

Why was your name chosen for you?

What was happening in the world when you were born?

What is your earliest memory of home?

What was your favorite hiding place as a child? What is your favorite hiding place as an adult?

Describe your favorite outfit as a child, and as a youth. What about now?

In your opinion, what has been the most significant world event that has taken place during your lifetime and why?

Write about some places you went with your mother. With your father.

Tell about your civic or political activities.

What frightens you and why?

What is your greatest joy? Greatest sorrow?

What is your personal secret to happiness?

What lessons did you take as a child?

What personality trait do you admire and why?

What was your most embarrassing moment?

What would you like to be remembered for?

Where, when and why did you go to college?

Did you have a close relationship with any of your grandparents? Tell about it.

How do you feel about death?

Tell a story about you and each of your brothers and sisters.

What was (is) dating like for you?

Tell about a teacher or class that had a great influence on you.

Tell about teenage social life: Your friends, dances, movies, dating, activities, etc.
Were you ever in drama, speech, sports, pep or glee club?

Tell about your first “crush”. What was he or she like?

What are your favorite foods? What foods do you detest?

What color was your house, your bedroom, your living room as a child?

What did you do as a child that got you in the most trouble with your parents? With your teacher?

What games did you play in your home or neighborhood?

What places in the world do you want to visit, and why?

What is the most trying experience that ever happened to you?

What is the most wonderful thing that ever happened to you?

What is your favorite book? What do books mean to you?

What are your most precious and deeply embedded values?

Where is the most exciting place you have ever been? What made it interesting?

Which of your mother’s personality traits do you share? Which of your father’s?

Would you choose differently if you could choose your occupation again? Why and how?

Tell about your life as the children left home: New interests, what you did with the extra time, new employment, moves, hobbies, etc.

Do you have a best friend? Why do you get along well?

How do you feel about winning? Losing?

Tell about your bicycle experiences.

Do you have a favorite author? Who is it and why?

Describe your Sundays.

List all the places you have worked and tell something about each one.

What things do you enjoy doing today that you also enjoyed as a child?

Do you remember any special fears, fantasies, etc. that you had as a child? Tell about them.

What musical instrument can you play?

What does real success in life mean to you?

What is the value of pursuing a vocation, hobby or activity that you love?

For more information on our iNSD event and the projects we will be doing, please click here. Be sure to join us from 1-3pm PST at http://www.paperclipping.com/live

How To Prepare For the iNSD Challenges

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

For our (inter)National Scrapbook Day event (live on Saturday from 1-3pm PST) we will have some fun little challenges and one big main challenge. To participate in many of the giveaways, you will can join in project challenges that I will be sharing during the live show. The project challenges will be all about YOU.

To go along with our “Give It Away” theme, I am challenging you to give a part of yourself to others by making a project about yourself. Here are the details you might need ahead of time to be prepared…

THE CHALLENGES

I’m not the type that enjoys telling others what to do. I am the type who loves to see a person’s individuality shine and I love to see how people choose to express themselves visually. So there will be no hand-holding at our iNSD challenge project. ;) I will give you the backbone but you will get to decide whether you want your project to be a layout(s), a mini-book, or an altered book (It’s that flexible!).

I will share with you the basics of what you need (the overall shapes and sizes of items) but you will get to choose from your own favorite products. Here we go…

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1) Gather one or more pictures of yourself.

You will have a choice of creating a layout, or starting a minibook, or an altered book (you will not have to finish the mini or altered book to qualify for prizes. You will just need to have a start on it, such as an embellished page, that you can photogragh by the time we are done). You can have as few or as many pictures as you want. Not every page in your mini or altered book needs to have a picture of you.

2) Choose some journaling questions.

I’ve provided a list of optional questions in a post here. Choose the questions that most interest you and print them onto cardstock. Make sure they will fit on your particular project. You can cut them out if you want to be extra prepared.

3) Choose a main embellishment symbol.

Examples are: a flower, a heart, a butterfly, a compass, a clock, a bird, your initials, etc. You might want to choose a symbol that you identify with yourself or your personality, or it could just be something you love or want to use right now. I will lead you through a series of embellishment gatherings (up to 5 depending on how fast we are), so I recommend having more than one. If you will be doing a mini or altered book, you might want multiples of the same embellishment symbol. If you are doing multiple layouts, your main embellishments could vary.

4) Choose a color scheme and pick some background papers.

Since this is all about you, you might want to pick your favorite colors, or colors that reflect your personality.

5) Gather other embellishment possibilities, plus basic tools.

Now that you have your colors and your main embellishments (make sure those coordinate!), choose a variety of other embellishment types that will coordinate. For example:
a. Circles and square shaped embellishments.
b. Flourish stamps or rub-on’s.
c. Ribbon
d. Buttons, brads, etc.

Have a nice stash or varying shaped items that coordinate ready to go, along with your basic cutting tools and adhesives!

6) Have your camera and a place to post photos of your results.

Some of the challenge contests (but not all) will require that you share a photo of your project (even if it’s unfinished, which I expect many to be). You can post your photos to a blog, to a public gallery of any scrapbook site, to your flickr account, or to our own Paperclipping community at The Crop Circle where you can have a free space to share your scrapbooking projects.

PRT 017 – Scrapbooker, Know Thyself

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

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The Panel

Picks of the Week

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Paperclipping 143 – Rapid Fire Scrapbooking

Monday, April 26th, 2010
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Layouts from today’s episode…

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Journaling reads: Dad told me about this conversation he had with you when you said you’re not getting married:
D: What are you gonna do when you get older?
A: I’m gonna live with you guys.
D: Don’t you want to get married?
A: No.
D: Why not?
A (with a tone as if it should be obvious): We got Mom!

That’s right, little man. You got me…You got me wrapped around your little finger and while I hope you’ll find someone else some day who loves you like I love you, I hope your tiny little finger never lets go of your mama.

Pocket Page

Apologies for the glare on these. I haven’t figured out how I can photograph then well yet.
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Journaling reads: My parents used to take us to ghost towns when I was a kid so when I discovered we had this cool mining ghost town just minutes from our house (nestled in the canyons) I knew I would take them and Erin’s family to see it on their next visit to Mesa.

PRT 016 – Implanted Under Your Skin

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

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Did you know that when you subscribe in iTunes (which is free), you’re helping support Paperclipping Roundtable? It’s true. iTunes measures every subscription, so it’s like casting a “vote” for the show. It helps us move up the ranks and helps us grow the audience.

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Izzy’s New Course: Intro to Video

As Izzy mentioned in the episode, he has created a new “Intro to Video” course for video beginners. If you have an interest in learning some basic video fundamentals, this course will help.

The Paperclipping Roundtable audience can save $17 off the normal price of $50 with coupon code pcvideo, lowering the price to only $33 if you sign up by April 23, 2010!

You can learn more here.

Paperclipping 142 – Scrapbooking with Everyday Items

Monday, April 19th, 2010
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Here are the projects from this episode…

It’s All About The Details

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Journaling reads: Trinity – You have great attention to details. You’re afraid of making mistakes. You’re a perfectionist. You’re also extremely independent, so it makes for some interesting situations when I find you trying to do something on your own but you have to come over to me again and again with detail-oriented questions. Today it happened with you making P.B.+J. sandwiches, which you’ve done a hundred times before…

Trinity: Mom! I want to make peanut butter and jelly but this says “jam!” I can’t find any jelly in the fridge.

Mom: That’s what we use because jelly has too much sugar. Sometimes what I buy says “spreadable fruit.” It’s all just used the same way as jelly.

Trinity (you ran out of jam and went to the closet for more but then came back to me, distraught): Mom! This has a totally different word on it that I can’t read and there are CHUNKS in it!

Mom: Yep, honey. This one is the same kind of thing. It’s called, “Preserves.” But it’s all the same. Now relax and go make your sandwich! :)

Herbivorous

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Journaling reads: It wasn’t until Blake told me how his friends act disgusted by the way we eat (last month) that I realized it could be hard on you kids socially. It’s been over two years now since I decided to eliminate animal-related foods from my diet and cooking and became vegan. Last Auguest Dad decided (on his own, without pressure from me) that he couldn’t eat animals and their by-products anymore, either, which meant your diets became even more vegan than they already were.

Since we don’t force you to be totally vegan and you like my cooking, it didn’t occur to me it could be hard until Blake’s friends acted that way, no matter how good it looked or how often they admit to loving it when they try it. I’m sorry if you get embarrassed and I appreciate that you give us few complaints. I hope you understand that I have to live with integrity. I make this choice for health and love, for the environment, the animals, and for peace.

My 2nd Office

MiniBook I made from coffee cup warmers
Here are most of the pages:
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PRT 015 – The MiniBook Show

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

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Promo code for the Big Picture Scrapbooking class, Colorful You: roundtable

The Panel

Product Picks

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Did you know that when you subscribe in iTunes (which is free), you’re helping support Paperclipping Roundtable? It’s true. iTunes measures every subscription, so it’s like casting a “vote” for the show. It helps us move up the ranks and helps us grow the audience.

iTunes is free. Subscribing is free, so why not use it to download the show? Subscribe in iTunes (iTunes link) right now so your computer will automatically download each new episode as they become available. (If you don’t know how to do that, you can watch a video here that shows you how.)

Sharing Our Mini’s

Izzy’s:

Noell’s:
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Click here to see more of The Two Of Us.
cancun_mini
Click here to see Cancun.
love_notes_mini
Click here to see Love Notes.
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Click here to see You+Me.

Ana’s Mini’s
Stacy’s Mini’s

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