This week’s episode is part of an on-going series on how to use up old products in general. I’ve heard from you that patterned paper is a particular difficulty, so today I’ll share with you some of the ways I’ve been successful at making scrapbook pages I love with patterned paper I did not. Please click on the player to watch the trailer.
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I happen to be a scrapbooker who works from my stash of scraps more than from new papers. Coming soon will be an episode where I share some of my strategies for making pages with scraps of patterned paper. You’ll get to see layouts come together from start to finish, and you’ll come away with a few different strategies so you can do yourself.
This is for the Paperclipping Members. Members can also watch the other tutorials from the “Old Products” series. There will be more to come in the future. Here are the descriptions and layouts for those episodes. Members can find them in the archives in the Members Area or in their iTunes premium feed subscriptions…
Gather Your Old Products
Repurpose Your Old Items
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Below are the layouts I featured in today’s episode . . .
Sisters & Daughters
12×12 layout
Journaling reads: I left my kids and husband at home this year to spend Thanksgiving with my parents and my sisters and their families. I loved getting to focus my attention on watching my sisters mother their children. Erin and Lindsay are great moms.
A Minute Before
12×12 layout
Journaing reads: I snapped this shot with my phone just before you had a seizure. I missed the warning signs: You weren’t skipping rocks with the boys. You complained of feeling hot and said you wanted to go home. I said that was fine, looked down to grab my stuff, and when I looked up again, you were on the ground in a bizarre position. You had fallen down and scraped the shoulder on which you landed. You also scraped your elbow and your knee, but your shoulder? That’s not a normal way to fall.
I still didn’t get that you had had an aura and were now in the middle of a seizure. I asked why you fell. You said you weren’t able to control your body. I thought you were reacting to the anesthesia. I helped you up, we went back into the dental office where you’d just gotten cavities filled.
That’s when you fell again. You were standing right next to me, my arm around you, and you just dropped straight down. I grabbed you, saw your eyes — those glazed over hollow eyes — and knew you weren’t totally with me now. That’s when I recognized it for what it was. You still have Epilepsy.
We thought you had grown out of it. One and a half years seizure-free is a good amount of time and we were looking forward to taking you off of your medicine in October. I guess that won’t be happening now. Not this year, anyway.
{since some of you expressed concern in the past, and some of you have epilepsy in your family, I thought I would reassure you — Trinity’s doctor took her off her med’s the January after this event and she has been seizure-free all this time! She seems to have outgrown it and we are hoping it stays that way for the rest of her life.}
Tami-lamb
12×12 layout
Journaling reads: I love these pictures of you laughing and making other people laugh. I see you and Israel as the anchor personalities of our group. You’re stable and rational, but still sensitive and caring.
You are–
* a good listener.
* a really great friend.
* a friend of 13 years as of June 2010.
We’ve been through so many different things together. I love having a friend like you, Tami.
Not Shy
8×8 layout
Journaling reads: You were doing your hair in my bathroom. You put a headband on and suddenly squealed, “I”m so cute!” (oh my gosh, you really were!). Then you did a cute pose for the mirror enjoying your cuteness.
{this page is an example of having to find a photo to demonstrate my story, since I didn’t have one of her posing for the mirror! }
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