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Paperclipping 162 – A Mini-Book in Two Hours

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

I’m excited to share this week’s member episode! You’ll get to see me assemble a mini-book using a template and some tips — plus my task-batching process — in just two hours! Actually, you won’t see the entire two hours. We only show you the essential parts!

Anyway, you can do this!

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Below are pictures of a few of the pages shown in today’s episode –

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H (Tuscon) - cover

H (Tuscon) - pages

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H (Tuscon) - 3

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Favorite Scrapbook Projects from 2010

Saturday, January 1st, 2011

I’ve been seeing people around the web posting their favorite layouts and projects from the previous year. This activity can be revealing as to what you might want more of in future projects. And it seemed like a great way to portray yourself — to show all your best stuff at once! Ha!

So here are my favorite stories, all designed in 2010 in order of creation…
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The story behind this layout is personal and close to my heart, enough reason alone to love it. I also like the balance of a free-flow style with a clean, bright, white and simple one — both in terms of aesthetics and personal style, but also because it feels like an accurate visual representation of Izzy and me and our personalities.

I also really like those hearts I designed.

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This is one of my all-time favorite mini-books, not just of the year. It holds so many real pieces of a major part of my life. Plus, the earthiness of it feels so much like me. You can see the rest of the book here.

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This page highlights everything about our wonderful, simple, yet fulfilling and happy life. I love all the little reminders in words and photos of how lucky I am. In terms of design, these are some of my favorite colors to scrapbook with. And, just like the first layout, this is another example of the balance of clean and graphic + free-flow style that feels so me.

I can’t fail to mention that I made this on assignment for Ella Publishing’s Top Most Influential Scrapbookers for 2010 after they chose me along with eight other wonderful people. That was definitely a highlight of my year as well. You’ll find this layout and some other awesome ones in a book on finding “Time To Scrapbook,” with 27 tips from Ella’s 9 chosen most influential.

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Number one, I love those photos. I love that crazy, crazy, sweet dog that we rescued from the pound. I love that this illustrates the joy we assume we brought him and the joy he has brought us.

I love that I was able to keep the focus on the photos for this page, while also being able to add lots of brightness and happy details. The photos on their own are so brown (it’s our brown living room). They need the energy of the color and the swirling wire, the topsy-turvy tags, and all the fun stuff to portray the happiness this dog brings us.

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This was my first big digital project. It’s actually hybrid, but I think of it as digital, since 99% of the sweat happened at my computer. I am so happy that I was able to tell such a large story with so many photos in one simple album. My biggest reason to feel good was that I discovered my own digital work flow as I made this — a workflow that is so simple and enjoyable.

You can see the rest here.

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Isn’t this on the opposite end of the style spectrum from the previous mini-album? I love indulging in many different styles. Usually I mix those styles, but once in a while I indulge in one or the other when the time is right. And for Halloween, the time is right for this. I love playing with this look at Halloween time. I also really love the photos Izzy took of the kids and the fun memories they hold. This is definitely a very favorite from 2010, even if that book doesn’t stand so steadily (my only gripe).

See the rest of the mini-book here.

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I love this closeup of Trinity. I love the layout and that I was able to play on the bright summery colors while keeping the focus on that beautiful face. This page is more structured and less free-flowing than what I typically love (as was the digital mini-album) but I love it for the story. The style is a definite story-match for me.

Shine on, Trinity — my sunshine girl.

That’s it — just 7 layouts and projects that fit into my favorite list from 2010. I’m looking for another year of designing my stories in 2011. Happy New Year and shine on, all you happy talented paperclippers!

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New Year’s Predictions Party Activity & Mini Book

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

New Year's Predictions MiniBook
I’m getting ready to prepare this book for New Year’s Eve 2011! It is both a party activity and a minibook with a bit of documentation.

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The overall concept is to write questions regarding the coming year that all of your guests (or family members, in my case) can answer as predictions. Next year you can gather again and compare your answers to the reality!

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You can also ask for general predictions from each person.

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And if you like the tradition of eating fortune cookies on New Year’s Eve, you can even make a pocket for the fortunes. We added our names to each of our fortunes.

By the way, the intro page to 2011 will go on that blank page on the right.

In the next couple of days I’ll be gathering answers to a few of the questions (lesson learned from last year — don’t ask questions that will be hard to track — I have one of those!). I’ll also type up a new round of questions and add them to the 2011 pages.

If you’re a Paperclipping Member, you can watch Episode 132 in the Member’s Area for a more descriptive tutorial on the book and to learn the technique for that black glossy swirl pattern on the cover. It’s my favorite part of the book!

You can also watch Episode 133 for the design principles underlying the mini-book cover.

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Twenty-five Merry Days – Days 6-8

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

Day 6

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I’m using Ali Edwards’s 12×12 overlay for almost all of my pages. The only time I’m not is when want to keep a photo’s original 4×6 proportion. For this page I increased the width of the photo to 8 inches, had it printed onto 8×8 paper, and then added a piece of glitter XOXO paper to the bottom. Behind that is a cream patterned paper, but it looks white because of my poor quality photo (sorry!).

Day 7

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Even though Ali has been putting her photos within the lined framework of her digital December Daily design, I’ve been using it as a photo overlay whenever I have a photo that I liked cropped as a square. It’s the easiest page ever.

In Photoshop…

  1. Crop the photo to 8×8
  2. Drag the 12×12 overlay onto the photo
  3. Click the Command (Control on a PC) +Apostrophe keys to show a grid for easy scaling of the overlay)
  4. Click Edit > Transform > Scale
  5. Click on a bounding box and drag it to size. I drag the corners to the first group of intersecting lines on the grid, which is a quarter inch into the page
  6. Click the Command + ‘ keys again to remove the grid.
  7. Rejoice in a page that took two minutes and move on!

Day 8

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Early on in the process I figured out that with the overlay scaled down to fit my 8×8 pages (sides and corners are a quarter inch away from the edges), then my photo space inside the main box is 7×5.8 inches. If my photo doesn’t work as a square, but doesn’t have to keep the 4×6 proportions either, I can use the overlay as the framework the way Ali does.

I scale the overlay, add my photo, and then add my journaling, printing it as one piece on photo paper.

Easy peezy.

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Twenty-five Merry Days – Day 5

Monday, December 27th, 2010

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Journaling reads:Izzy decided it was time to put outdoor lights on this year. I’ve tried to do it a bit in the past, but I’m not really capable and it was either gaudy and embarrassing, or extremely simple.

I found big red bulbs — the type of bulb that reminds us both of the lights everyone had when Izzy and I were both kids. I made a guess at how many strings we needed and it was perfect.

Izzy got up and went to work, even getting up on top of the roof over the garage. And it was one very hot Arizona winter day.

At one point, when Izzy was sweating and close to finishing, a boy we’ve never seen before walked up to us and said, “My mom is putting lights up but she can’t really do it. I’ll see if she’ll let him (meaning Izzy) do the lights for her.”

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I had more journaling than could fit in that little tiny rectangular box at the bottom of the digital overlay. Fortunately, there was plenty of empty space on my main photo. A little scrap of Christmas paper was all I had to add to these pages once I printed them.

Simplified Process

Am I going to add transparency or paper insert pages like Ali Edwards for this project? Maybe, maybe not. I’m applying my principle of starting simple, which I shared in detail in the video tutorial on Task-Batch Minibooking.

Right now I’m doing the fundamentals — the basics of what I need in the book. After the important pages are done, I can add what I want or need to flesh it out. I’m pretty sure my book will mainly be these basic fundamentals without the inserts.

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Twenty-five Merry Days – Days 3-4

Sunday, December 26th, 2010

Day 3

I’m keeping my December Daily album very simple this year. For most days I am using the Ali Edwards 12×12 31 Days Overlay, scaling it down to fit an 8×8 page.

If I have multiple photos to fit on a second page, I make my own collage.
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I’m adding patterned paper to any empty spots, and sometimes a number. I was planning to order a set of circled number pieces but decided to keep it simple and use whatever thickers or chipboard numbers I already have in my stash.
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Journaling reads: In typical Hyman fashion, after strung the lights, Blake went to his room to his computer while Trinity and Aiden helped me decorate the tree. Israel noted how happy Christmas trees make me. Per Aiden’s request, we bucked the tradition of saving the star topper for last and did it early on instead, despite Trinity’s objections. But before long, Trinity was dancing for the tree.

Day 4

As you saw on Day 4, which I posted last week, if I only have a single photo to add to my second page, I either print it up at 4×6 or scale it to 8 inches wide. Then I mount it on patterned paper. Most of the time I’m putting my journaling directly onto the photos (which you saw in Days 1 + 2), or in the overlays. That didn’t work for Day 4, so I typed it up separately and placed a scalloped scrap between the photo and journaling.
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Contrast and Embellishments in Scrapbooking – Paperclipping 156

Monday, October 25th, 2010

In this week’s scrapbooking video tutorial, I share the principles of design related to contrast and show how you can use contrast to help you choose, make, and cluster embellishments into groupings. There are times when you want high contrast, low contrast, or contrast plus repetition. This episodes gives examples of when you use each one when scrapbooking with embellishments.

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Below is the mini-book I featured in the tutorial . . .

All Hallow’s Eve 2009

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You can watch me design this cover in Paperclipping 154 – Advanced Design with L-Frames.

I loved working with this minibook cover made by Teresa Collins! She created it for Thanksgiving but I wanted it for my Halloween book. The price for this is so low, you may want to consider the entire kit for Thanksgiving, plus a second cover for Halloween! I altered my cover by spraying it with Glimmer Mist in Tiger Lilly and Pumpkin Pie. Since Tiger Lilly isn’t available, you might try Jack O Lantern or Sugar Maple as a second mist color.

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Some of the items on my cover: Prima Flowers, Venice * The Girl’s Paperie Toil & Trouble Charm.

I made the foundation of my title from an old piece of sheet music that had belonged to my husband’s mother decades ago. I distressed it with Tim Holtz’s Old Paper Distress Ink his Ink Blending Tool, some water spritzing, hand-wrinkling, and edge fraying.

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Supplies available for purchase: Girl’s Paperie Skull Charm

Journaling reads: Aiden – You were so excited about 2 features of yoru costume this year.

1) You loved being able to peek through the eye-holes of the sheet and then throw the sheet back, popping your head out.

2) You loved the thumb holes of that skater shirt you were wearing underneath the sheet. Just like your head, you thought it was the coolest to be able to pop those through!

Watching your excitement and energy is one of the joys of my life. Love. <3

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Tim Holtz Type Charms * Tim Holtz Hinge Clip

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Journaling reads: Blake – This wasn’t the easiest Haloween for you. You love good costumes, or at least good masks or makeup. Always have. This year the only costumes you were interested in were masks for $50 – $100!

Fiinally, we decided to have Dad paint makeup on your face, which you liked last year. But the makeup we got ended up being difficult. It dried on your face and cracked. You didn’t like that and could barely move your face.

On top of that, you had stayed up all night at David’s slumber party the evening before. CRANKY is an accurate word for you this Halloween. The contrast between you and Aiden was . . . hilarious.

Love you, dude!
Mom

All Hallow's Eve 2009 - 4a
Prima Black Butterfly Swirls * Tim Holtz Type Charms * Tim Holtz Metal Numerals

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Toil & Trouble paper

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Teresa Collins Library Card and Pockets * Tim Holtz Hitch Fasteners

Journaling reads: Trinity – You wanted to be a devil. I wanted to make sure your costume was little-girl friendly. I decided to play with contrast: make you the cutest, sweetest, prettiest devil ever. We found a dressy red outfit you could also wear at Christmas time. I put your hair in ringlets.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

You were gorgeous. Innocent. Little girl. Even with that studded choker on. :)

Love it!

All Hallow's Eve 2009 - 5b
Bazzill Bling Button * Tim Holtz Type Charms

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My Mind’s Eye black flocked paper * Girl’s Paperie Metal Charm * Prima black velvet flower with metal and bling

Ready to learn how to better use contrast for embellishing gatherings? Head over to the Member’s Area or get your own Paperclipping Membership today!

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August Challenge Highlight: Jana Olivera

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Congratulations to Jana Olivera, who submitted an art journal that we chose to highlight this month! Her art journal a response to challenge topic #4 – Let’s Get Artsy.
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Jana’s pages come from the paper towels she used to clean up her paint during the July 13th Paperclipping Live event when Jackie and Reenie filled in for me. Jana used toilet paper rolls as the foundation of her pages.

Next week’s Paperclipping episode will be a tutorial on how I’ve made my own handmade journal by re-purposing those gorgeous, colorful paper towels, but it’s very different from Jana’s and I’m loving the way Jana put her own book together. You can see more pictures of Jana’s gorgeous art journal by watching her slide show.

What the judges had to say

We think this is a beautiful art journal. There are so many textures and elements. The layering and details are complex.

There are so many colors in this book but what prevents them from overwhelming us is the balance of color intensity. Each page has a brighter, more intense feature color that pops from the foundation of softer hues.

We love the texture of the soft crumbled paper and the subtle lines of stitching around the pages, which contrast with the shiny hard texture of the beads.

We especially love that this unique piece of art has been made from what we normally consider trash, which proves that art can be made from almost nothing.

Find Jana Olivera

You can find Jana in our community, The Crop Circle. You can see more of her at her blog, 2 Worlds.

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Paperclipping 150 – Task Batch Minibooking

Monday, August 9th, 2010
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What a relief to actually be able to finish mini-books more easily! In this week’s episode, the Paperclipping Members will find out what my new Task Batch method is, and they’ll see it in action for two different mini-books: a traditional one, and a mostly digital one.

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Below are photos of most of the pages in the two mini-books from today’s episode. . .

Queen Of Organized

5×7 mini pages
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Supplies: Tim Holtz Metal Clock Faces with Adirondack Juniper Paint Dabber rubbed on, then partially rubbed off.

The orange patterned paper is from Basic Grey’s Ambrosia Collection. You can get the collection as a 12×12 pack or a 6×6 pad.

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The pink polka dot paper is from Basic Grey’s June Bug Collection. The orange flower is one of six in the Prima Peach Harmony Collection.

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This is another orange flower from the Prima Peach Harmony collection. The metal piece on the page below is a Tim Holtz Muse Token.
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To see more pictures of this book, see my set on Flickr and click on the individual thumbnails to see them all.

Everyday Summer

6×6 mini pages
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The metal piece is a Tim Holtz Philosophy Tag. While the yellow Today papers were from an Ali Edwards kit that is no longer available, the journal/photo overlay for my journaling is for sale at Designer Digitals.
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This overlay is from a different Ali Edwards pack. Ali also designed the Alpha Tab on the left page below.
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I used these Tim Holtz Muse Tokens quite a bit in these two mini-books, adding my own colored brads.
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These Metal Numbers are really great, too.
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Ali Edwards Word Frames were perfect for this photo.
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More great Word Art from Ali Edwards grounds the flowers in the photo above.
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There are a few more pictures to this mini-album. You can see them all here.

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Paperclipping 149 – Repurpose Your Old Items

Monday, July 19th, 2010
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Sometimes a product gets “old” because its intended purpose isn’t helpful for how we scrapbook — especially if the way we scrap evolves over time and we’re not doing the same kinds of things we used to do when we purchased an item.

In this episode, which we’ve released for the Paperclipping Members, I share how I have repurposed old paper, journal spot stickers, photo corners, and raw chipboard shapes. If you’re not yet a member, you can watch the trailer here.

Below are the projects I made with the journal spots and the paper. If you would like to watch this tutorial, get access to the almost 150 episodes in the archives, plus get two new videos every month, please click here to see how!

You & Me

8×8 mini album with a mix of extra pages from other mini-books
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Big Red Bowl

12×12 layout
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Journaling written to Aiden reads: You were so happy to graduate from the tiny baby bowls to this bigger one — the only one like it that we own. For years you have called it the Big Red Bowl and you request it all the time. (July 2008).

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