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Today’s episode is for our Paperclipping Members. I’ll show you how I packed a mobile scrapbooking box for a 5-week trip. Below are a couple of the layouts I completed while away (plus, there was this other one I shared in the last episode).
Opposite Sets Of Genes
12×12 layout Journaling reads: Blake: happy at home – Trin: has to get out
Trin: hands-on artist – Blake: techie geek
Blake: designs graphic explosions – Trin: draws flowers, fairies
Trin: organized and level-headed – Blake: a slave to passionate ideas
Blake: expressive with words – Trin: expressive with visual arts
You both look at things and react to things so differently. Sometimes your differences may perplex each other. But you also share a mutual admiration for each other’s gifts and differences. It’s very cool.
Supplies: Patterned paper (Crate paper, My Mind’s Eye, Creative Imaginations, Making Memories spiral journaling notebook) * Ribbon (Stampin’ up) * brown cut-out flowers (K.I. Memories lace paper) * other: polka dot ribbon at top, unknown source, blue beads added to the flower on the piece with the title).
Life With You
12×12 layout Journaling reads:I love combining hobbies with you and turning them into our full-time careers. We had no idea when we first started out almost 13 years ago that our lives would be so creative and full.
Supplies: Patterned paper (Basic Grey) * Black brads (Imaginisce) * Crocheted lace (unknown source) * Black cardstock at top of photo (Bazzill) * Black rub-on at top of photo (unknown source) * Rub-on letters (at bottom) (Heidi Swapp for Advantus).
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While there is nothing wrong with a vacation album or minibook that simply highlights the trip’s activities, there are some trips that add up to more than just that list. Some vacations impact you at a deeper level than the exciting agenda can show.
For today’s free episode, I’ll share a vacation minibook I made for a trip like that. I’ll share how I found connections among my memories of the trip that led to a theme which I carried through the entire book. Many of us will have family vacations to document this summer, and I hope this episode gives you a new way to think about how you can approach your album or mini.
Below are a couple photos of the book I featured in the video. You can see the rest of the book in a set on my flickr page by clicking here.
The Two Of Us (In Sedona)
Supplies for these pages: Spiral minibook (7 Gypsies) * Patterned paper and title (My Mind’s Eye, background paper of second pic unknown) * Scroll sticker (Creative Imaginations) * Letter stickers (Creating Memories).
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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
This book cover is made by Maya Road and is 9×9 inches. The chipboard pages inside are 8×8.
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.
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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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Today’s episode is for our Members. If you’ve ever struggled to make a rectangular collage using different-sized photos, you’ll appreciate this one. I’ve come up with a very simple formula to make that often frustrating task very easy! If you’d like to watch today’s episode, as well as the other 99 waiting for you in the archives, but don’t have a Membership, please visit the Membership Information Page.
Below are the layouts I shared in the episode…
Easter 08
You see that pink egg over on the far right? That was a tag from one of the goodies I bought the kids last year. I got a kick out of the fact that last year’s Easter came so early, the product manufacturers posted the date on all the tags…I guess to make sure we were ready!
Journaling on layout reads: We’ve been adjusting our Easter tradition a bit over the last few years. We moved the early morning hunt and breakfast outdoors last year. This year we hid plastic eggs instead of our colored eggs (we still color eggs, though). Blake has played Easter Bunny with Dad and I before waking up the kids for the last few years. And this year they got more stuff and less candy. One thing remains the same, though…total fun and the enjoyment of Spring.
The circular tag and title arch are the Memory Makers Noteworthy Glitter Die Cuts. The swirly flourish is from Bazzill.
Wonderful Beautiful Amazing
The overall up-and-down placement of the 2 large photo blocks, as well as the shape and placement of the two paper journaling blocks were inspired by a layout by Ali Edwards that appeared in Creating Keepsakes Magazine a year or two ago.
Journaling reads: We’ve been taking day-trips through the canyons near Superstition Mountain and Canyon Lake a lot lately. It’s only minutes from our home–one of the reasons I am so happy with where we live. We all love the scenic drive, looking at the cacti, cliffs, and joking about how Blake convinced Aiden that the winter moss on the rock walls is called, “souvenir” because Aiden wanted to collect some to bring home during this particular trip.
Today–Jan. 4, 2009–we took advantage of the rare overcast weather for great lighting and color saturation. Israel and I each brought our cameras and tripods and caught some fun memories while you kids climbed and played. I love this.
Typed journaling on photo: Trinity was having a hard time getting through the thorny path to join you on the butte. You went down and carefully led her, just like a gentleman. Later I thanked you and you said, “That’s okay. I enjoyed it.” What a cool dude…you make your mama so proud.
The digital text that I layered onto my photos (except for the journaling) are all from Ali Edwards’s Loving Life Word Art and her 12×12 Life text frames. I will demonstrate how to do this in Photoshop Elements in a future episode.
The butterflies and folliage rub-on’s are new from My Mind’s Eye. The more subtle rub-ons that add texture to the page are older ones from Chatterbox.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you ever feel unhappy with your Christmas-themed scrapbook pages, you might be making the common mistake many make when combining red and green. Today we released a Quick Tip for the Members that explains why those complimentary colors are not as easy to pair as you might think–and what you can do to make them truly complimentary–both to each other and to your photos.
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Below is a view of the layout from today’s episode…
Kansas City Christmas
Journaling reads: This year we had the unusual opportunity to have all the grandkids together (although Chad & Ashley couldn’t make it out). Grandma & Grandpa tried so hard to get a photo with all the grandkids throughout the stay and this picture was another failed attempt–the Martineau twins didn’t make it outside. Christmas with the Buckland’s was so fun! We played at a gymnastics place, had lunch at a dinosaur restaurant with lightening storms and giant dino’s, and did some shopping. At home we were cozy in the beautiful Buckland home.
The following people won Lain Ehmann’s drawing from Paperclipping Live a few weeks ago. Some of you have not yet contacted me. If that’s you, please email me with your full name and address at noell@paperclipping.com. Congratulations!
Snippets–
Kristyn (kkg9) & Connie
Special Issue of Simple Scrapbooks–
Jana & Tina (from www.babyscrapbookingideas.com)
This week’s episode for the Paperclipping Members released a bit late in the day, but you’ll find it worth the wait. It is an extra long tutorial that features some parts of our upcoming Special Edition Christmas project.
The Special Edition tutorial will become available next week and Paperclipping Members will get a discount! Be sure to watch for the announcement along with some pictures of the project. Until then, enjoy this week’s tutorial.
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Today’s Quick Tip is for Paperclipping Members. You can find out how to get access to this episode, plus all the archives, by visiting the Membership Information Page.
Today’s tutorial is a simple (meaning, easy) project and it meets two different purposes. First, it’s a tag that identifies whose Christmas stocking is whose. Plus, it’s a miniature minibook for your child to enjoy his or her own past Christmas memories.
Watch the video for all of the details and a how-to demonstration.
Below you can see the fronts of the books on the stockings. The inside pages are in the video…
I hung these today while the kids were in school and had so much fun watching each of them look through their own book when they got home. It was especially delightful when Trinity squealed after seeing the first picture of herself with her new doll from a couple years ago.
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