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Saturday, January 19th, 2013Set Yourself Up for Unique Mini-Books – Paperclipping 198
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
Every mini-book is an opportunity for creative play.
When I want to be at my most creative in scrapbooking, I work on a mini-book. I love flipping through my mini’s and finding unexpected forms of pages. They still surprise me, even though I was the one who made them.
How do you come up with ideas for ultra creative and original books?
You need to expand the way you think about what items are. We limit ourselves when we only regard things with their most obvious purposes or with the purpose for which they were originally intended.
Don’t worry if you feel you’re not good at seeing new purposes for things. The more you do it, the more possibilities you’ll see. Once you get going it doesn’t stop and then it becomes a matter of finding the time to try all your ideas!
By the way, if you want some help I have lots of video tutorials on this subject, including one I just released this week. In this week’s episode I share some specific things you can do to set yourself up for making creative unique mini-books. I share…
- A different word to use that will help you to free your mind from the overly rigid way of thinking about pages and covers.
- The kinds of everyday life items I keep for future minibook pages and covers that will be totally unique, including all of the items that I have in my stash right now.
- Some of the characteristics I look for in an item that suggests to me it will be a good possibility as a page or cover.
- How I store all these random items that will eventually become parts of my minibooks.
- How to turn your store-bought mini-books into something entirely original.
- Two actual examples of turning an every day item into a mini-book page. You’ll see how I transform two non-scrapbooking items into pages for my family’s Hawaii mini album.
Does this sound like a tutorial that could ignite your mini-book adventures?
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Shine On,
Noell
Scrapbooking Outside the Page Protector – Paperclipping 187
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Do you ever get bummed when your beautiful dimensional page flattens inside the page protector?
Do you ever wish your standard scrapbook pages could have the yummy interaction and 3-dimensionality of a minibook?
Ready to think outside of the box to get the best of both worlds?
Here’s a tip!
You don’t have to choose just one. Try this:
Protect your photos, ephemera, and standard pages behind page protectors, but add some fun goodies to the outside of the plastic!
I’ve been doing this for a few years now. It works, it’s beautiful, and it’s really fun!
Need some ideas?
I shared a bunch in the newest Paperclipping Video tutorial this week! You’ll see many very different ways to scrapbook outside the page protectors for both standard layouts and for Project Life, too!
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Interactive and Dimensional Mini-Book Techniques – Paperclipping 183
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
One of my favorite things about mini-books is that they’re the perfect platform for dimension and interactive elements.
Right now many of us are making mini-books: minibooks to document the holidays, and mini-books as gifts (I know there are some of you holed up trying to finish last minute gifts!).
This week I’m sharing a video tutorial that shows six different dimensional and interactive techniques that you can use, not only for the holiday season but for any other subject, as well. Actually, you can use these on your standard scrapbook pages, too.
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Paperclipping 144 – How To Mix Styles
Monday, May 10th, 2010You need the free Flash Player to view this video.
Update 5-12-10: Some of the video feeds were not working yesterday but they should all be fixed now. Enjoy!
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Below are the projects I shared in today’s episode…
Electronic Love Letters
MiniBook
The journaled introduction to this book: In Nobember 2006, as some of us prepared to take a trip to K.C. for Christmas, there was a a sudden jump in emails between us — Buckland siblings and spouses and our parents. With most of us spread out across the country, many of thee sometimes funny and sometimes emotionally supportive emails became a fun way for us to reminisce, become re-acquainted, and to remain tied together as friends and siblings.
These are some of my favorite of the sillier and playful emails. Much love to my parents and siblings.
A note on the supplies: I assembled the main pages and embellishments on this album about two years ago I think. I only finally added the photos and emails (on white cardstock) last Saturday. I’m so sorry that most of these products are no longer available. I can tell you that the two aqua-green inserts at the very beginning and end of the book are product packaging from Prima and are current.
It’s All About The Details
12×12 layout
You can read the journaing for this layout in the article in which I originally posted it.
Share!
What are your favorite styles? I think mine are probably vintage (although I never do a pure version of vintage) and an “artsy” style (which can be broadly defined). I would love to hear which styles you would love to mix into one project and whether you’ve attempted before! Please share by leaving a comment.
Paperclipping 142 – Scrapbooking with Everyday Items
Monday, April 19th, 2010You need the free Flash Player to view this video.
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Here are the projects from this episode…
It’s All About The Details
12×12 layout
Journaling reads: Trinity – You have great attention to details. You’re afraid of making mistakes. You’re a perfectionist. You’re also extremely independent, so it makes for some interesting situations when I find you trying to do something on your own but you have to come over to me again and again with detail-oriented questions. Today it happened with you making P.B.+J. sandwiches, which you’ve done a hundred times before…
Trinity: Mom! I want to make peanut butter and jelly but this says “jam!” I can’t find any jelly in the fridge.
Mom: That’s what we use because jelly has too much sugar. Sometimes what I buy says “spreadable fruit.” It’s all just used the same way as jelly.
Trinity (you ran out of jam and went to the closet for more but then came back to me, distraught): Mom! This has a totally different word on it that I can’t read and there are CHUNKS in it!
Mom: Yep, honey. This one is the same kind of thing. It’s called, “Preserves.” But it’s all the same. Now relax and go make your sandwich! :)
Herbivorous
12×12 pocketed page protector
Journaling reads: It wasn’t until Blake told me how his friends act disgusted by the way we eat (last month) that I realized it could be hard on you kids socially. It’s been over two years now since I decided to eliminate animal-related foods from my diet and cooking and became vegan. Last Auguest Dad decided (on his own, without pressure from me) that he couldn’t eat animals and their by-products anymore, either, which meant your diets became even more vegan than they already were.
Since we don’t force you to be totally vegan and you like my cooking, it didn’t occur to me it could be hard until Blake’s friends acted that way, no matter how good it looked or how often they admit to loving it when they try it. I’m sorry if you get embarrassed and I appreciate that you give us few complaints. I hope you understand that I have to live with integrity. I make this choice for health and love, for the environment, the animals, and for peace.
My 2nd Office
MiniBook I made from coffee cup warmers
Here are most of the pages:
PRT 015 – The MiniBook Show
Thursday, April 15th, 2010You can use this audio player to listen to the show:
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The Panel
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Sharing Our Mini’s
Izzy’s:
Noell’s:
Click here to see more of The Two Of Us.
Click here to see Cancun.
Click here to see Love Notes.
Click here to see You+Me.
Ana’s Mini’s
Stacy’s Mini’s
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Paperclipping 140 – Accordian Spring Album
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010You need the free Flash Player to view this video.
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Album Details
Album:
The Tinkering Ink Peekaboo Album I used doesn’t seem to be in stock anymore. Hopefully you’ll use something you already have anyway but if you’re looking for a mini with shapes punched out like mine, the closest thing I can find to it is this one, which is on clearance right now.
Album Color:
By experimenting, I got a lovely mottled yellow on my pages that reminds me of colored Easter eggs. You know how colored eggs never come out smooth and perfect like they do on the cover of magazines?. I love the uneven colored-eggs look on my pages. Here’s how I got it:
- Painted 2 layers of Golden’s Gesso. (You could try white acrylic paint if you don’t have gesso).
- Sprayed a layer of Lemon Meringue Glimmer Mist and blended it in.
- Spritzed some uneven splotches of Lemon Grass Glimmer Mist. I rubbed the Lemon Grass with my blending tool. The foam applicator left a lot of “bubbling” in the mist, I think because of the gesso, and then set the bubbles and splotches with a heat tool.
Handmade flowers:
I made my large turquoise flower out of Tim Holtz Grunge Board. To color the petals I painted two layers of gesso, then sprayed and dried multiple layers of Patina Glimmer Mist.
It turns out that the gesso was not holding the Patina dye color, so it came out light, although very beautifully glimmery. Liz Hicks from Tattered Angels suggested using Making Memories Spotlight acrylic paint on chipboard or grunge board if you want the dye color to show more vibrantly.
The tiny paper flowers and the large flower were inspired by the artist, Alisa Burke. The orange paperclipped flower is from Paperclipping Episode #118, which is now archived, but available to our Members.
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More December Daily Album pages: Days 14-17
Monday, January 4th, 2010Day 14:
This page was all about color balance. The reds in the patterned paper were too warm for the cooler red and blue tones in the photo. To make the photo work with the paper I added red Stickles glitter to three of the flowers in a triangle around the photo. That red glitter matches the ornament (it might be hard to see the glitter in the photo) and now the warms and cools like totally fine.
I also wanted to bring the cream color from the sticker, and the white from the flourish and #14, over to the other side. That’s why I chose the white trim for the floral chipboard page and the cream colored tag. Here’s what the page looked like before I added the content:
Day 15:
This day was all about finishing up a huge day of work before letting go (mostly) and taking a long holiday break. I wrote a note about it and inserted a printed up version of part of the work I did that day, which was to finish up my Holiday Photography Email Course for the Paperclipping Members.
Day 16 & 17
The Day 16 page is cut from one of those page protectors from Becky Higgins’s Project 365 album last year.
On the 17th, Izzy and I finished the bulk of the Christmas shopping so I wrote a little note about that and stuck the kids’ Christmas lists inside. They were actually pretty telling lists. Trinity requested all kinds of stuff like “lots of love” and “a delicious breakfast.”
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December Daily Day 5 & Xmas Photos
Monday, December 21st, 2009
Can you tell I’m behind on my December Daily Album? Day 5. Ouch. I’m keeping track and making notes for all my pages, though. I just need to get the photos printed. I’m loving the process of putting this album together, even if I do only have a few pages completed.
And by the way, yes, I’ve skipped Day 4 because I need to scan something.
Random Xmas Photos
I decided to upload a handful of recent photos from the holiday season…
I bought a new set of ornaments this year. They remind me of pomegranates, which remind me of being a kid in my L.A. neighborhood where there was a pomegranate tree. We raided that tree all the time, smashing the round fruit on the street to break them open and expose the red ruby berries…and permanently stain our clothes.
Izzy and I are doing lots of cooking and baking together. So far it’s mostly been cakes, but we did do a batch of amazing Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies from The Vegan Table cookbook.
We’ve been entertaining friends the last few evenings and having so much fun.
I said, “Let’s take a picture of us with our presents in front of the trees…you know, like kids.” Larry totally got into that idea. See? He’s also super happy we gave him the Roku player he’s been dying for. But next time he decides to put on his enthusiastic face he needs to tell us so we can match it.
And by the way, my Tami-Lamb girlie and I are NOT drunk. We’re able to make those faces totally sober. Seriously. :)
That’s one of my five favorite gifts right there. Love that boy.