Exciting, exciting news! You can now cut many of your Tim Holtz Stamper’s Anonymous stamps with the eClipse! In this video, Tim tells us all about it, shows some examples, and also shows us his other new creations for die cuts and embossing!
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CHA 2012 – Tim Holtz: the eClips Now Cuts His Stamper’s Anonymous Stamps + New Sizzix Dies!
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012CHA 2012 – Thickers Now Come DIY from American Crafts! *Giveaway*
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012American Crafts took their 12 most popular Thickers fonts and created DIY versions! You can mist or ink them, or you can peel off the top layer to reveal an adhesive on which to pour glitter, microbeads, and more!
I have a whole set of them to give to one of you! Leave a comment and I’ll choose a random winner!
Note: Because of international law, you must have a U.S. address to qualify. You have until midnight on Sunday, Feb. 5th!
*Giveaway winner! >> Cre8zhavoc
Submitted on 2012/02/04 at 4:46 pm
So excited to use these! Thickers are the best. DIY Thickers …what could be better? Thanks 4 the chance to win some! *
CHA 2012 – Tim Holtz Demo’s His New Distress Markers!
Monday, January 30th, 2012Tim Holtz gave us an exclusive (early!) morning tour and demo of his new markers. You might be wondering why or how or IF these markers are any different from other markers out there. Just watch and see!!
CHA 2012 – Donna Salazar Demo’s Her Spellbinders Girly Grunge Labels and More
Monday, January 30th, 2012In this demo you’ll see awesome ways you can use the Girly Grunge Labels and how to use the Bitty Blossoms die cut to make dimensional flowers. These are dies and emboss plates from Spellbinder’s. Donna also demo’s her Mixed Media Stax and her Mixed Media Ink.
5 Step Mini-book Prep — Using Memorabilia
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Hi, again!
I love really detailed three-dimensional mini-albums. I have a few that are long-term projects that I complete just one page at a time when I get the urge. I’ve also done a few very simple mini-books that I whipped through in one or two sit-downs.
I tend to feel less satisfaction with those faster ones, though. So mostly I make (or start!) a lot of mini-books that are somewhere in-between. In other words, I expect to complete them in a reasonable amount of time, but I also begin by loading them with lots of details. They end up taking me longer than I expect, and before I’m done I find another album or project I want to begin. Does this sound like you?
A Faster Approach
Well, I’ve come up with a new approach for these mini-books — the books for which I have high-expectations of stellar awesomeness, but that also need to get done within a reasonable amount of time. My new method has been great so far, for both a digi-heavy mini (sneak-peek above), and for my traditional tactile books (sneak-peek below). The method helps with mini-book completion in two ways:
- It makes the process faster.
- It allows you to simplify your final design — midway through the process — if your dreams of the “best mini ever” begin to feel overboard. But you’ll be able to switch gears without ending up with an intricate first half and a “clean and simple” second half.
The other cool thing is that this method came as a result of good design technique, so you won’t be compromising on design. In fact, it will help give you a great foundation in design for each mini-book page.
Interested? It’s the topic for the next Paperclipping Video Tutorial. I’ll show you how this method helped me with a digi-heavy book, as well as a purely paper one. You’ll need a membership to watch the episode and learn the method. So if this is an area you struggle with, but don’t have a membership yet, you can see how to get one by clicking here.
I had hoped to release this on Monday as the first of our August tutorials. It’s much heavier in content than usual, though, and it won’t be ready in time for Monday. We will release it as soon as we can. For now, I’ll share 5 steps for prepping a mini-book that uses multiple items of memorabilia…
5-Step Mini-Book Prep
- Memorabilia – Fish through your memorabilia to find two or more pieces that are related. For example, in the book above, I found four different pieces that demonstrate how organized my daughter likes to be. Some other ideas: concert tickets, items from favorite places around town, school work, etc.
- Photos – Find two or more photos that will help tell the story of your memorabilia.
- Colors – Lay the photos and memorabilia on your table. Do they contain a hodge-podge of different colors? Congratulations! You now have your color palette! This is how I chose the color scheme for my paper album above: I had an orange piece of memorabilia, a pink piece, and two photos with green.
- Patterned Paper – Find patterned paper to go with the color palette of your photos and memorabilia.
- Book – Choose a mini-book size that will accommodate your memorabilia. Digi scrapbookers: When adding one piece of tactile memorabilia (un-scanned) to a small-sized digi-page, I have had the best visual results if the piece stretches from edge to edge, whether up-and-down or side-to-side.
If you start on these steps now, you’ll be ready to assemble your book when the new tutorial releases!
Weekly Roundup
- The Paperclipping Digi Show – A Little Bit Of Chicken And Egg
Heads Up!
- The Paperclipping Roundtable – We won’t be releasing this episode until Friday so that Nancy Nally can give us a full CHA trade show report!
- Paperclipping Live! – This live scrapbooking show is every Tuesday at 6:30pm PST. Are you free?
- The Paperclipping July Challenge – You have about two days to enter this! Come on, you know you want to…
That’s it for this week’s newsletter. I’m excited to share my two mini-books with you in the next week or so!
Best Regards,
Noell
Host, Paperclipping
Paperclipping 149 – Repurpose Your Old Items
Monday, July 19th, 2010You need the free Flash Player to view this video.
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
Want to see more of this album?
- You can see photos by viewing the photo set on Flickr.
- To see the concept of this album, you can watch the free tutorial here: Episode 103 – Visual Memoirs
- If you are a member, you can also watch another video with tips that show I put this album together: Episode 102 – MiniBook Tips
Big Red Bowl
12×12 layout
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).
Paperclipping 148 – Four Ways to Embellish a Collage Template
Monday, July 5th, 2010You need the free Flash Player to view this video.
Today’s video tutorial will give you four different ways to embellishment a rectangular collage of photos. It doesn’t matter how many photos you’re using, how rectangular the collage is (it can be squarish), or how big your collage is. Once you’ve established your collage, you can choose which of these four embellishment formulas will work best for you!
This episode is only available to the Paperclipping Members. Want to find out what it means to be a member so you can have access to the almost 150 video tutorials? Please click here. Otherwise you can watch the trailer here.
Below are the layouts I featured in today’s episode…
Socks
Journaling reads:
- He puts his eye on the prize
- He lets nothing get in his way
- He’ll climb every obstacle
- He’ll jump any height
He only does this with Blake. Gatsby loves to go after Blake’s socks.
Supplies:
Yellow tags: these are plain old white ones that I’ve had for at least five or six years now. To get this look, color them with Lemon Grass Glimmer Mist, then tone the color down by blending Old Paper Distress Ink inward from the edges with a blending tool.
Other: The letter ‘g’ Type Charm is the only other current product still available. Everything else I used was either old stash or from outside of the scrapbook industry. The cork circle (under the ‘g’ charm) is from the kitchen department of my dollar store. The wire is from the garden section and the beads are from the jewelry section of my craft store.
(Note: Links to the above products are through my affiliate store and I will make a commission from your purchase. All other supplies in the layouts below are also old pieces I scavenged from my stash and no longer available.)
The tag technique in the layout is from Episode 108. Members can find it in the archives to get the step-by-step instruction. If you click on the episode link, you will see the two other ways I’ve used it so far.
Starbuck’s Adventure
Journaling directed to my kids: Before Dad started working from home, these visits to Starbucks were a regular event. Dad and I could get some work done while you guys hooked your DS’s together to play a joint game. Nice out of the house adventure. ’08.
Mama’s Bed
Journaling:
Aiden: You’re gonna have to have three pillows when I’m big.
Me: Why?
Aiden: Because I’m gonna sleep with you guys in your bed. In the middle.
Zoom
Are you ready for the design principles that support the embellishment placement you see on these layouts? Here’s how to get a Paperclipping membership so you can learn the principles to make it your own!
