Paperclipping: The Video Podcast | Design Your Story

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We have a winner for the Tattered Angels package! Using a random number generator, I got #16. The lucky 16th comment and winner is:

Luvblklab(Sarah) [Moderator] 4 days ago
I would love to see some ideas on journaling and titles
Great giveaway and can’t wait to try these background techniques!

Sarah- Please send me your mailing address so Tattered Angels can send you your prize!

Thanks to everyone for all the great ideas! You will be seeing a lot of these topics in our video tutorials over the next handful of months!

On the heels of an episode where I used some gorgeous Glimmer Mist to easily make artistic looking backgrounds, Tattered Angels has asked me if they can give away a package of the mists I used! In addition, they’re throwing in a package of Nature Glimmer Chips. I used a number of these chip pieces while working on my altered book during National Scrapbook Day.

One of you will enjoy winning these products…

A 2 oz. bottle each of Chalkboard — Banana Pudding and Evergreen). A 2 oz. bottle each of Blue Skies and Lavender Fields Glimmer Mist. And Glimmer Chips from the Nature Collection.

(affiliate links).

To participate, you must be 18 years or older and a resident of the United States. To enter, please leave a comment answering this question: If you could choose the topic of the next Paperclipping video tutorial, what would it be? If you can’t come up with a topic, please let me know which episode was most helpful for you!

This drawing closes on Friday, June 11, 2010 at midnight. Good luck!

The concept of a mini book made from a toilet paper roll is brand new to me. Around here we’re all about re-purposing items that would otherwise to go waste. You can’t even tell those pages are made from a roll!

I hope you enjoy pictures of Linda’s book here, give her some praise by leaving a comment, and then head over to her blog post to see more about the T.P. mini concept!

what the judges said

All of the decorative elements set a fun tone for the story of of the book, which is about a visit to a theme park:

• How can we not love that fabric binding — such a great idea and a wonderful pop of color.
• The binding & tags add a casual but energetic feel to the book keeping with the theme park vibe.
• We love that the main front cover is divided into a white area and a pink area, which resembles the binding of a book, but there are a number of overlapping elements that make this line less ‘rigid’ and formal.
• The tag tiles give a whimsical feel, especially as they are placed a little haphazard.
• The doodled border around the white panel, and the mix of different colors on the little tabs all support the theme of the album

Other thoughts:
The cover of that album is just adorable. We love all the layering, and the use of fabric pieces for the embellishments is a very nice touch — change of pace from the ordinary paper and pre-made embellishments out there.

see more

* Linda Tieu:

• her Crop Circle page
• Back To Paper blog

* May Contestants:
Come see the other submissions for the May Challenge.

join the june challenge!

What are you doing with all that you see and learn at Paperclipping? Please share with us by participating in our monthly challenge! June is already posted and ready to go with a number of different topics to choose from. Please hop over and take a look!

Hey, Papercipping Members!

First of all, thanks so much for being a member! We couldn’t do any of this without you!

If you have been a member for a while, you might have noticed a change in some of our content – especially with the release schedule. In the past, we put out two free episodes every month for non-members. In 2010, we changed this and started releasing free episodes rarely, every once in a while.

This confused a few people. I have received three emails from Paperclipping Members in the last few months, asking why we put out fewer episodes than we used to. If there are three of you asking this same question, I figure there must be others wondering about it. I want to make sure we’re always communicating with you, which is why I’m writing this…

From the first day we started our membership program, we have always produced two members-only videos per month, and that has never changed. If the videos seem more sporadic these days, it’s because we’ve stopped putting out free ones as often. As a Member, you may not have realized that half of the videos you saw before weren’t members-only videos. The were free videos AND members-only videos.

We originally thought that we had to release free episodes on a regular basis to attract new viewers, who would then choose to become members. It was extremely difficult to keep up with those weekly videos because they take many hours to produce, not to mention the exhausting demand of having multiple layouts/projects to share every single week. At the same time, we weren’t getting quite enough new members to make Paperclipping self-sustaining.

Last fall we realized that by putting out free videos in between our two members-only ones, we were actually stopping people from getting memberships, because two free episodes a month was plenty of content to many people.

As soon as we made the free ones more sporadic, the memberships surged.

We began recording the Roundtable instead of releasing regular free videos, and this has helped others discover Paperclipping. It has become a key ingredient for us to find new potential members. Roundtable episodes are much easier to produce, and they do what we had hoped the free videos would do. And the show doesn’t interfere with the member videos.

Our number one priority is keeping our commitment to the members. The free stuff — like free videos, Roundtable, Paperclipping Live!, and monthly challenges — only continue if they bring the results we need to stay in business.

I hope this makes sense: you, as a member, are still getting the exact same amount of member videos as before. It’s just that there aren’t so many free ones now. Think of it this way: If you didn’t have your Membership, you wouldn’t be seeing new episodes very often at all.

We value your Membership because it allows us to do what we love. Please let me know if you have more concerns.

Best Wishes,
Noell

P.S.> On a different note — I am excited to share a new, upcoming thing I’m doing for the members. We are launching an event called the Paperclipping Festival! Members who participate will get a link to their blog from Paperclipping (which means you need a blog to participate) and at least one of you will receive an addition of three months to your membership for free!

Please watch your email for detailed information about this exciting event that is soon to come.

Congrats to this very lucky person. Many will be jealous of…

socksmom
“I loved the tutorial on using paint.”

Congrats, Socksmom! Please email me at noell@paperclipping.com with your full name and mailing address so I can send your new toy with cartridge!

We had to share this outtake of Ana’s Scrapbook Trends Magazine interview. She rocks. David Ross makes a quick appearance in this video, too. You can see her final interview here.

If you ever had extra glue showing up on your projects like I do, you’ll want to see this demo of Beacon Adhesives’s Zip Dry Glue at CHA Summer 2009.

Thank you all for your friendship. I hope you are enjoying the holidays this year!

Paperclipping Live is on break until the Tuesday after the New Year. Don’t forget…6:30pm PST! Also, Members should watch their emails after Christmas for the date of the upcoming Member’s Only Paperclipping Live Event.

Watch the video here, or you could watch the HD version instead.

I posted the recording of last Tuesday’s Paperclipping Live show. You can view it in the Paperclipping Live Archives.

Thank you for all of the wonderful comments, emails, and blog postings in response to the big announcement! I was finally able to respond to some of your comments in the last post, so please head over there if you posted something I might have responded to.

You’re all the best!

I will have the next blog article ready soon–hopefully by the end of the day today. Talk to you then.

I am lucky to be friends with a scrapbooker I admire so much. Most of you know Dedra Long. While there are some similarities between us, our styles are quite distinct. There is much we agree on in scrapbooking, yet our personal preferences and natural way of seeing and creating makes it obvious that we are two different people. It’s easy to distinguish whose layouts are whose.

Even when we purchased the same groups of products last Monday, and then scrapbooked together on Paperclipping Live, there is no mistaking our two different styles. You can see the layouts below.

Dedra’s Layout

My Layout

I see Dedra’s style as elegant and classy, contemporary, yet classic. I see my own style as organic and a bit earthy, but quite eclectic.

Doing The Same Thing In Our Very Own Way

Dedra and I both are very conscious of placing visual triangles on our layouts. Note her triangle of black and cream circles with crystal buttons, and my three circles of layered paper. But while I like to make at least one point of the triangle different from the others (and especially love to make my triangles subtle altogether), she likes her pieces to all be the same–her embellishment triangles are a distinct characteristic of her layouts.

Definite Color Preferences

Dedra gravitates toward cooler tones while I reach for warm ones. But you’ll find us both looking for cream. We both love cream. She loves pink. I love orange. We chose colors of neutral territory for this project, but during the shopping, I found myself wanting to add more green while Dedra was needing more blue.

Similarities

It was striking to realize at the end of the show on Tuesday, when we compared our layouts, that Dedra and I made so many of the same choices without knowing the each other’s plans.

1) There were 8 possible patterns between the four double-side papers we chose. We both used the same honey comb as our background (perhaps because it was the closest to cream?). We also used the black and cream patterns and the organic branches, although in different ways.

2) Another similarity is that we both added bling to the organic pattern, even though bling was not a part of the kit we purchased together. We’re both fans of bling and glitter and we’re similar in the ways we place them.

3) The same is true of foam dots and our love for raising certain elements off the page. Dedra’s photo area (what I think of as a present–another common feature of her layouts) is triple layered. She loves to raise each element a little higher than the previous. For example, she raised the white matte with foam dots, then raised the photos and patterned paper on another layer above that, and then her chipboard title area on top of a third level of foam dots.

I used them in my own way–I taped the top of the branch down directly on to paper, then raised the middle of that branch with one layer of dots. Gradually, the piece continues to raise as the ends of the branches have two layers of foam dots.

Claiming Your Style And Branching Out

It’s fun to identify our distinct differences and similarities. If our scrapbooking projects were jewelry, Dedra wears pearls and diamonds, while I wear beads. Comparing your everyday artistic choices to another scrapbooker you admire helps you to pin-point your own natural style, and at the same time, discover new things to try.

Note: I created a new page area for the recordings of Paperclipping Live. Every week I will place them at the following page with their corresponding dates:

If you missed our show on Tuesday and would like to see how we made our layouts, click here.

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12×12 Layouts

I am so happy you have a teacher who understands you and believes in you. You’ve decided to repeat your activities and between that and this teacher, you’re in for an exciting year! Dad and I are so proud of you!

Amy requested that we have a Q&A session during Paperclipping Live. I can go with that idea! I’ll also have a layout ready to prepare because there is likely to be some extra time.

So, if you have a question you’ve been curious to ask (or perhaps you did ask and I accidentally skipped over it) this is your chance. I would love it if you leave your questions in a comment on this post, but I’ll take questions during the show, too.

Thanks!