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Paperclipping 103 – Visual Memoirs

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

If you don’t have a Paperclipping Membership you’ll be happy to know that today’s episode is free for anyone to watch. In this tutorial I introduce my idea visual memoirs using mini-albums where we can tell a more complete story than what typical scrapbook pages and albums allow.

If you enjoy today’s episode, you might want to consider getting a Membership so you can watch all of the tutorials we release. For example, last week’s member’s-only video gave instructions on how to create the bead-effect on the cover of this mini-album. It also shared information on the various size and types of pages I used.

Note: you can also download the high-quality version of today’s episode.

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Paperclipping 102 – Minibook Tips

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Paperclipping 102 - Minibook Tips
Do you love mini’s? Do you wish you loved mini’s? In this episode I share a minibook idea, an organizational tip, and a technique. This episode is for Paperclipping Members, so if you’re trying to watch it but can’t, you can learn about the Paperclipping Membership by clicking here.

Below are some pictures of the minibook in the video…

You * Me

YouMeMiniBook
This book cover is made by Maya Road and is 9×9 inches. The chipboard pages inside are 8×8.
YouMeHangerCloseup
I found the vintage pieces (the clock face and drawer knob) at my local vintage scrapbooking store, Mystic Paper. The wire hanger is from there as well, but I’m pretty sure it’s not vintage. The spinner arrow on the clock is definitely not vintage…it’s made by Tim Holtz.

Want To See More?

You can see more pictures in the photo set I added to my Flickr page. I expect to have a lot more of this project completed next week and will add more photos then.

I know many of you are working on minibooks for your moms for Mother’s Day so I hope this episode gives you some inspiration and help. If you’re not gifting a book, consider making one about your relationship with one of your children. That’s what my book is about. I’ll share more in an upcoming episode.

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Did you see that Jana Oliveira won the Paperclipping Monthly Challenge for March? You can see her winning page at The Crop Circle.

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Paperclipping 90 – Love Notes Minibook

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

This video is available to members only. Learn about a membership here.

Below are photos from the featured book…

Love Notes

Inside pages are 5×7

Love Notes

The drawing on this picture is hard to see. Here is a closeup below, although it’s only slightly clearer…

Journaling reads: You kids show us so many expressions of love and some of those take form in love letters and drawings, both to us and to each other. This is that story of how you kids take love and spread it around.
Love Notes
Journaing reads: A year or two ago Trinity started taping envelopes to their doors and walls to act as mailboxes so the kids could write and send notes to each other. (Note: these aren’t just for Valentines. They stay up all year long).

Journaling reads: Aiden’s “mailbox” on the hallway wall just next to the boy’s bedroom door.
Love Notes

Journaing reads: This is Blake sending drawings and notes to Trin over his DS. Trinity is sending notes back to him and they were supposed to be sleeping. It was a school night, but how could we stop them when Dad had just read Trin’s note to Blake, “I love you!”

While we were out for ice cream, Dad turned one of Trinity’s lip drawings into a hat.
Love Notes

I plan to add more to this book, starting with this page. I will also be adding read paper to the inside cover of the back, which you see here on the right.

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Paperclipping 84 QT – A Thrifty Minibook Tip

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Paperclipping 84 QT - A Thrifty Minibook Tip
Today’s Quick Tip for the Paperclipping Members is a suggestion from viewer, Ashley Moseley. Her tip is an inexpensive alternative for acrylic albums. Watch the video to find out what it is.

The coupon for a discount on the Membership is still available on the Membership Information Page and will be there for a little while longer. Take advantage of the discount while you can!

To see more about the project I made with Ashley’s idea, see below…

Computer Log

Last year we discovered our young computer geek has forgotten that his body needs activity, too–not just his brain. We started requiring a certain amount of physical activity and limited his time on the computer.

Since he was having a hard time remembering, I made this for him…

We weren’t sure if he’d actually crack it open, but he really liked it and so far it seems to be helping.

Inside the cover I placed a picture of him doing something physical. Pointing to it is a hand that says “this.” Below is another pointing hand that says, “before this,” and a photo of him with his greatest love.

Not only does it help Blake (and us) remember that he’s supposed to do something physical because of the “PA” initial he must check before logging in his time, it will also be a fun record for him later. I expect to add a handful of the numerous pictures I’ve taken of him at a computer.

I used Technique Tuesday’s date stamp to make the log, and Autumn Leaves’s stamps to decorate the bottom of the pages.

You may not have a computer geek with a serious addiction, but you may have someone who loves the TV a little too much. Or maybe your children need to mark their progress reading books, picking up their room, or fulfilling responsibilities around the house.

Whether it’s a log or a regular minibook, I think Ashley’s money-saving tip is a fantastic idea.

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Paperclipping 68 QT – Acrylic Mini Tip

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Paperclipping 68 - Acrylic Mini Tips
Today’s video is a Quick Tip for the Premium Subscribers and will help you assemble acrylic minibooks.

If you’ve been around Paperclipping for a long time, you’ve seen parts of this minibook in previous posts and tutorial videos. Below you can see the entire finished book–a compilation of notes and photos of what I was doing almost every hour on February 2nd this year.

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Acrylic Mini Album: Maya Road

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3 Ways To Scrap Your Daily Life

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Are some of you still struggling with the idea of scrapbooking about yourself? If so, I have an easy topic to start you off: make an account of your day. Here are three very different versions of this concept…

1) Record Your Activities For The Day

Over-Inflated
12×12

I took my camera around with me one day and snapped just a few pictures. I also recorded all of my activities and their times.

A grid-type layout is a simple solution for this type of page, but if you’re feeling artsy, consider a free-style approach. I gave a step-by-step tutorial on how to make this background to the Premium Subscribers.

Main journaling reads: I must have an over-inflated sense of how much I can accomplish in 24 hours. My to-do list is always too long and I never come close to checking all the items off, even though I really pack it all in as tight as I can.

Journaling in the cloud-like spots: (a schedule of everything I did one day–same day as the pictures).

***A note on acidity: I am pretty sure tissue paper is highly acidic. I would never use it on a layout with old photos, or any I can’t reprint. On the other hand, I have no problem using modern photos, such as the ones on this layout. Since there are so many pictures of myself and my children that are on safer papers, and since I back up my digital photos, I won’t mind if photos like these reach an early demise.

2) Summarize A Typical Day

5am To 5pm
12×12

Whether you work full time or stay at home, some of us have a typical schedule. This was my regular Monday schedule last year. Instead of listing the schedule with words and times, I placed pictures (and a few words) onto the clock according to the time I did them.

The day starts at 5am and circles all the way around and ends at 5pm.

Note: I elevated some of the circles with foam dots and some with a double layer of foam dots. This is great for dimension.

3) Take A Photo An Hour

Semi-Transparent Acrylic Mini-book
2-28-08

Some of you may remember when I took the challenge from Illustrating Stories to take a photo every hour for one day. I decided to turn this project into a minibook. Each hour and it’s picture gets their own page. The tabs tell what time it was when I snapped the photo. I will share the entire minibook soon. This is a sneak peek.

There are so many ways to document an average or typical (or even an atypical) day: lots of words, lots of photos, on a layout or in a mini-book. If you struggle to get comfortable scrapbooking about yourself, this concept is an easy non-threatening one. What are you waiting for?

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Is The Schoolwork Flooding In?

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

My latest Schoolwork Scrapbook–photos of the inside pages still to come.

Many of you have the Schoolwork Scrapbook Tutorial and have already used it to make your children a book that displays some of their work and art. Others of you are planning to make your first books at the end of this school year. But do you know what to do with all that stuff your child is bringing home now?

The Problem

Originally, I had a high-quality file folder for each of my children to keep their work in while the year is progressing. I found that not only did everything not fit into my folders, but they were too much trouble to deal with when I was in a hurry cleaning up, and instead of putting stuff in them, I ended up stacking all three of my kids’ work together in the cabinet on top of the fie folders. This was much easier for me, throughout the year. But when the school year was over there was a little confusion sometimes as to whose work was whose.

The Solution

At the end of the summer I held a live event for those who own the tutorial, and one of the geniuses in the audience shared a wonderful idea. (Terri, was that you???). She suggested using those giant zip-lock bags that many scrapbooking kits come in.

I started doing it this year and it’s working out perfectly for me. They’re easy to open, easy to label, and a great size. If you’re swimming in school and art work already, you might want to try this.

What Is The Schoolwork Scrapbook?

For those who are unfamiliar with my Schoolwork Scrapbook and the special edition tutorial that gives you step-by-step instructions, you can find out about it and see detailed pictures by following this link.

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Converting An Unloved Photo Book To A Gorgeous Mini-Album

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

This is the story of my daughter’s dance growth this past school year.

I found this photo book, brand new and wrapped in plastic, at Goodwill. It had a big, ugly blue ribbon on it and was covered with a very un-trendy looking label that disguised its potential. I removed the white paper inserts that filled each page so that I could use it as a transparent album.

I love the canvas cover and the fact that I can protect my photos behind the plastic while still getting the dimensionality of a regular mini-book by placing embellishments on the outside of the plastic pages.

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Ballet & You Now

Products used: Patterned paper (Close To My Heart, Creative Imaginations); Gaffer tape (7 Gypsies); Flower (unknown source); Stickers (Creative Memories, Creative Imaginations, 7 Gypsies): Transparencies (Hambly, Creative Imaginations, My Mind’s Eye); Word stickers (K.I. Memories, Ali Edwards for Lisa Bearnson’s KOTM); Brads (Making Memories, Creative Imaginations); Stamp (Ali Edwards for Lisa Bearnson’s KOTM); Ink (Staz-on); Rhinestones (Heidi Swapp); Rub-on’s (Art Warehouse, Anna Griffin); Glittery embellishment frames and flowers (Making Memories); Ribbon, buttons, and tulle from own stash.

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Paperclipping 47 – Transparent Issues

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Paperclipping 47
Are you interested in using more acrylic and transparent products? Have you been curious to try an entire transparent mini-book but felt intimidated? This video for Premium Subscribers will give you some tips and tricks for dealing with all of those transparent issues.

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Technique Time: Distress Embossing Powder, Up Close

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

As a follow-up from yesterday’s video tutorial, we’re going to look at some more examples using Tim Holtz’s Distress Embossing Powder with products that need a color adjustment or new life.

Felt

First let’s start with a closeup of the felt you saw in the video yesterday.

In the photo above you can see both the original felt piece, along with the altered piece. Click on the photo, then “all sizes” to get a good look at the color variation.

Coasters

I have these coasters that I bought a few years ago; you can see them on the left of the picture below. If we can alter unloved books and bare albums, we can alter a scrapbook coaster, right?

To do this you need:
coaster
paper bag
PVA glue
Sandpaper
a smaller circular design (I used a Maya Road rub-on)
letters (I used Heidi Swapp’s Rub-on letters)
Tim Holt’s Distress Embossing Powder
Versamark Ink
Heat Tool

1) Brush the coaster with PVA. 2) Adhere a piece of the paperbag to coaster and let dry. 3) Cut away excess paper bag and sand edges. 3) Press edges into Versamark Ink and dip into Distress Embossing Powder. 4) Heat with heat tool and then rub with your finger. The powder contains release crystals that will aid in the distressing look. You don’t need to do this on the felt. 5) Add rub-ons after embossing (or you’ll burn away your rub-on’s).

Wings

This is a fun technique where we get to combine the Distress Embossing Powder with another of our favorite products, Stickles, for a magical look.

I had a scrap of paper from My Mind’s Eye with these wings chopped off of a dragon fly. I cut it out, added a dark brown shade of Distress Embossing Powder around the edges for some three-dimensionality. Then added a sparse amount of Diamond Stickles for an iridescent-look you often see in real insect wings.

What can you do with some of your leftover scrapbook pieces? Unless you’ve only just begun scrapbooking, there are probably all kinds of things you can do with your stash to meet all your needs.

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