I love scrapbooking and I love the look of dimension on my pages; but sometimes the speed and ease of digital scrapbooking is exactly what I need! And for the last week, Stampin’ Up! has been offering some free digital downloads and so I decided to put some of my … Read More
Creating a Scallop Border with Stamped Circles
After creating my Everything Eleanor swap cards for convention (this card), I was left with a bunch of circles that I punched out from the middle of the scallop circle image from the stamp set. I think it is meant for journalling but since I had been trying to make … Read More
Scrapbooking Sunday: Quick 8×8 Page Layouts
Alright, I’ve decided it is high time to resurrect Scrapbooking Sunday and there is no time like today to get started! I thought I would share a couple layouts from my upcoming Scrapbook in a Night class that I’m holding at the end of the month. The idea of this … Read More
Convention 2012 Display Boards!
One of the big reasons to go to convention is to see all the tons of amazing samples and displays. They have huge boards that are organized by common colors (so you get a rainbow effect as you walk along the boards), by artisan award finalists, and boards full of … Read More
Scrapbooking Sunday: A Punch Art Bunny For Spring!
Happy Easter to you! I hope you have a wonderful day full of fun and happy moments. For my blog post today, I wanted to share a scrapbook page I created to hold some of our Easter moments this year (I knew what color outfits the kids would be wearing … Read More
Scrapbooking Sunday: Using the Simply Scored Board
For the first time in I don’t know how long, I actually created a scrapbook page without copying a sketch or a sample of someone else’s. All because I got my hands on the new diagonal score plate for my Simply Scored and wanted to play with it! I had … Read More
Scrapbooking Sunday: Mixed Bunch Color-blocked Page
So, this is my last weekend to prep before the big Northwest Women’s Show here in Seattle. I’m grateful to have the opportunity to present a crafting demonstration on their Home Style stage on each of the 3 days; so I’ve been trying to square away exactly what I’m going … Read More
Scrapbooking Sunday: Thinking of Spring
Its Sunday, and so I’m back again with more scrapbooking ideas. This week, I decided to start from a sketch that came from some friends of mine. They recently started a challenge blog called The Paper Girls Challenge, where twice a month they post some kind of crafty challenge. Their … Read More
Scrapbooking Sunday: Summer Fun Simple Layout
Oops, got behind posting todays scrapbook layout. This is one of the first pages I did last year when getting back into scrapbooking. I had ordered the Country Club Simply Scrappin’ kit because I thought it could be very versatile and I think it totally works. I love Simply Scrappin’ … Read More
Scrapbooking Sunday & A Superbowl Special!!
As I mentioned last week, I’ve been getting back into scrapbooking recently and so I’m hoping to be able to share with you some ideas for how to use your different Stampin’ Up! supplies to make some fun layouts. So, today is week 2 of Scrapbooking Sunday and stick around … Read More
Scrapbooking Sunday: Mixed Bunch page
Since the end of last year, I’ve started to get on a scrapbooking kick. I realized that I had a lot more fun and was much faster with scrapbook pages when I started from a sketch and so I started playing along with some sketch challenges. This was a page … Read More
Progressive Scrapbook Page using Spice Cake DSP
So, yesterday I shared with you the first part of my progressive scrapbook page. I had created an 8.5” x 11” scrapbook layout and so today I wanted to share how with a few simple touches you can turn that into a 12” x 12” scrapbook page. You can see … Read More