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craftsScrapbookinGal’s Blog Bits for February 27, 2009
Hello Everyone! Welcome back to ScrapbookinGal’s Blog Bits. This weeks Blog Bits include several giveaways and of course some new How-Tos for you to check out. There are also some New Products out there that are must-sees for all of us serious scrappers. Have a good weekend and I’ll be back Monday with some more cool ideas and information.
- On the Hero Arts Win-A-Day contest, winner Deborah Nolan has some great cards, color palettes, and sketches she shares with all of us. They are so cute! Don’t forget to leave a comment, (today only) for a chance to win a HA Craft Apron! Woo Hoo! Good Luck everybody.
- If you follow Tim Holtz, (no not stalking, just following his blog, etc.), then you need to go see the video he has posted of his trip to Europe plus read all about it as well.
- Now, we can’t forget to visit Cuttlebug Challenges! This week it was Embossing Acetate. Somehow I missed out on the time frame for submissions but I will have a tutorial posted this weekend. I will show what I made from the acetate that my Cuttlebug Embossing folder-Swirls came in. I love recycling but this goes a step further and saves me a ton of money on expensive acetate album pages, etc. and it looks so good! I LOVE MY CUTTLEBUG!!
- If you absolutely love your Cat’s Eye Chalk Ink, then it is essential that you go over to the Scrapbook & Cards Today blog. Designer Kim Hughes changes the look of white flock paper. This girl is some serious talent.
- Head over to Creativity Prompt blog and do the Journaling Prompt. This week is about Childhood Dreams. How great is that?
- Okay, just to get us caught up with the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog, just this once I will post a link to them twice, (I am breaking my rule of never link to the same blog twice in my Blog Bits Column. Never say never!) Anyway, this is so cool you will be glad I chose to do this. It is a must above all musts to see this Burnished Velvet design done with glitter and a Cuttlebug Embossing Folder. It’s awesome and so easy too.
- Studio Calico something is giving away 29 sets of stamps that Ali Edwards designed for Technique Tuesday. The winners will be announced on the 28th.
- Need a little Inspiration? Pay a visit to the Simple Things blog (Jennifer Stewart’s blog) and it won’t be long until you are organizing and creating once again.
Happy Scrapbooking and Creating!
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ScrapbookinGal’s Blog Bits:Week ending February 13, 2009
ScrapbookinGal’s Blog Bits for the week ending February 13, 2009
Sorry this is a little late:
- Hero Arts Club wraps up Favorites Week
- Ali Edwards welcomes Anna Caroline
- Making Memories Countdown to Valentine’s Day 13 blog at Scrapbook.com
- My Artistic Life offers a challenge to use Pink and Brown
- We can’t forget the Scrapbook Layout of the week at HA
- If you want to drool over some gorgeous vintage looking papers and designs, check out the Graphic45 Paper Blog-Gallery. WARNING:The pages are beautiful!!!
- Looking for a way to shoot an Artistic Self Portrait? Head over to Digital Scrapbooking and use the tips by Molly Newman
- Creativity Prompt has a Tutorial for a cool notebook you can make with a simple stapler!
- Last but not least, From Simple Scrapbooks, Getting Organized .pdf Five simple steps to getting organized!!
Happy Scrapbooking and Creating!
ScrapbookinGal
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Keep It Simple Scrapbooking (KISS)
For a long time I would not sit down and Scrapbook unless I had hours of time available and great inspiration for a design in my mind. In other words, I would not sit down and Scrapbook…EVER! Seriously, how many of us ever have enough time or enough artistic inspiration to Scrapbook. Oh, I’m sure there are a few of you out there, but I am not one of them. It occurred to me if I have to wait to get started I will never get started. So I have a new way to scrap and it so simple, it can be done in 10 minutes or 3 hours. It doesn’t really matter how much time you have, all you have to do is get started.
This is not a new or unique idea going on here. If any of you have done Ali Edwards December Daily, this is the same concept, except for our ‘daily’ scrapbooking.
Okay, here goes!
- Buy or create an ‘album’ any size you want but I recomment it be 6″ X 8″ so you will have room to put 4 X 6 photos and your journaling on the pages. Keeping your photos at 4 x 6 will be a huge time saver.
- Whenever you have a couple of minutes, make a background page or two, add frames or lines for journaling, add embelishments, and if you know what pics you are going to be using, make Titles for your pages now.
- Then, later you can add your photos or journaling when you have more time. I recommend making an album with 20 to 30 pages so you will be ready when the photos come back from Walgreen’s or Wal-Mart, wherever you get them printed. I wait until there is a special like 50 photos for $5 and then print a bunch at a time. I put them into Photo Albums until I have time to transfer them to scrapbook pages.
- You will be surprised at the great ideas the come to you when you are looking at a small 6 X 8 or 6 X 6 or 8 X 8 page. I seem to be more inspired with the smaller pages than trying to fill a Huge Blank 12 x 12 page. I made some darling backgrounds that I just don’t take the time to do with my 12 x 12′s because I think it will take to long or waste paper or I can never seem to fill that space!
I have uploaded a few pics of my December Daily Pages just to give you an idea. I will be working on mine this weekend and show you pictures or maybe a video of what I accomplished and how long it took me.
Isn’t the reason we scrapbook so we can record life’s journey’s? Not to win an art contest. Let’s not lose sight of what really matters here. Nothing wrong with art, I love doing art tags and cards, etc., but when I’m scrapbooking, I want to enjoy that journey as well.
Enjoy and Create!!