Comments on: How to Choose Products to Tell Your Story – Paperclipping 208

By: Krystal Arnot

Krystal Arnot — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:29:00 +0000

Loved this episode.

By: Noell

Noell — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:42:00 +0000

Yes, I love the glitter season (December!). :)

I added the journaling to the page about our homemade Christmases after the video was over. I did that before I photographed it — you should have received an email from me with a link to photos from this episode. If you don’t get those emails from me when we release a new video, let me know and I’ll make sure you start getting them. Email me at noell@paperclipping.com.
As for the other pages — they are all intro pages for sections of an album. One thing I will be sharing more on this year is how I’ve grown into a certain way of creating albums and “album stories” over the years. My Nutcracker album will have many pages that won’t have journaling, or at least not much journaling, because it’s an entire album of one event (along with some sub-events, like rehearsals and the Tea Party).
I have another album where the page titles in the album tell a lot of the story on their own, so many of the pages don’t have much journaling. It’s my album about the things we love about visiting my parent’s farm home. Rather than do one single page on this with a list of the things we love there, I’m doing an entire album, each page being something we love. So I don’t feel like I have to journal as much, although some pages do warrant their own written stories.

By: Jenn V

Jenn V — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:21:00 +0000

I love seeing you make so many fun pages! I noticed that none of your pages have any journaling. On these pages do you intend to maybe add some journaling on a 6×12 sheet? Just curious. They are fine w/o any journaling of course. :) Your ballet album looks like its turning out GORGEOUS! I love that you have many opportunities to use glitter. :)

By: Noell

Noell — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:07:00 +0000

For me it depends on the paper. If I love the paper or if it’s more expensive, then yes. I cut out the middles of the glittered papers in the Marzipan page you saw in the video because the peppermint paper is my favorite (and every year for the past few years I find the Christmas papers to be less Christmasy so I didn’t even buy any this year!). And that background glittered paper by My Mind’s Eye is so pretty with a glittered area in the middle, so I cut that out too. Then I backed it with a sheet of card stock I’m not likely to use because it’s an ugly color.
But I didn’t do that with the Nutcracker Tea party page. The bottom page was just okay to me and not worth the hassle of cutting it apart and layering yet another sheet of card stock behind the page to make the page sturdy.
Often times I’ll put the paper I’m not so in love with behind other layers – so I benefit from the bit of color, but the pattern I don’t care for isn’t really visible. I don’t worry about wasting that. And when I’m layering 6×6, there are usually enough copies of a paper that I don’t mind “wasting” that either. I’d rather waste the paper than my time in those instances. ;)

By: mariangeles_spain

mariangeles_spain — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:07:00 +0000

When you layer those big pieces of paper, do you cut out some of the covered part of the paper so you don’t “waste” that much “not-to-be-seen” paper layers?