Kiss and Tell Scrapbooking

Big Picture Classes: Library of Memories Community & Stacy Julian Appreciation Week (March 2008)

The Story {the journaling} :  "So its been about 8 years since I discovered Stacy Julian - I've always been a scrapbooker but Stacy and Simple Scrapbooks really introduced me to awesome modern scrapbooking.   I've been "modern"  scrapbooking since about 1998 but it wasn't particularly cool or fun until I "virtually" met this lady and all of her fun friends.  They've inspired me and help me document my happy life."  (and probably actually make it happier).  "Love my online peeps:  Online Friends - Online Books - Online Learning."

What prompted this?  A combination of a couple things - one being that I found this scrapbook page I made 5 years ago:  Blast from the Past:  "Stacy Julian Appreciation Week - March 2008" made during the grand old days of Simple Scrapbooks:

Side Note On Photographing Scrapbook Layouts:  My scrapbook layout picture taking skills still aren't perfect, but taking that same original photo of the layout and tweaking it in Google's free Picasa photo program:  1. I cropped it to a square; 2. I hit the "I feel Lucky" button; 3. I adjusted the sharpness with the slider tool; and 4. I created a border. And voila - that same layout looks a lot more internet ready right?

Another reason for all this gushing?  I've learned some things over the years thanks to my online friends, online books and online scrapbooking classes and communities.  Today I've been thinking about that and about how I have real feelings for my virtual scrapbooking friends - some of whom I've never and will never meet - others whom I have met in real life - and scrapbooking friends I've met online who become real life friends.  I've been thinking about how Patti Knox's interview over at Debbie Hodge's Get It Scrapped / Masterful Scrapbook Design so touched my heart and that I knew her and Debbie's essence just from listening to them talk to each other about scrapbooking for one hour.  (Click Here for Debbie Hodge's Masterful Scrapbook Design interview with Pattie Knox from November 2012 all about Telling Family Stories and Scrapbooking Old Photos). 

This online scrapbooking thing isn't just about recording your family memories, its also about finding your people.  I know I've found mine.  Its also about appreciating life and thinking about the bigger picture, what you want to focus on and remember and what you want to leave behind.

I've been a fan of Stacy Julian and her Big Picture Concept since her book came out in 2005 and I read it cover to cover on an airplane ride up to see my Grandma Grace.  I took Library of Memories (now called Photo Freedom) in 2007 and took the alumni course every year since.   This year I think my class enrollment turned into a pumpkin and former students had to sign up again so this was the first year I haven't been in Library of Memories / Photo Freedom - it feels weird.  I miss it.  The class is completely awesome in so many ways, but it is so amazing to go on that scrapbooking journey with so many other amazing women - and get to hear and see Stacy Julian videos every week for 10 weeks.  Yep, I miss that.

I am a member of "A Library of Memories Community" which I think was a one time payment of $15.00 for "Forever Access" to get a weekly email every Thursday.  I admit that often times I just get the email and I put it into my "Library of Memories" folder on gmail, but I think if I used it more often my scrapbooking would be even more awesome.

So just for fun, I thought I'd take a look at the Big Picture and Photo Freedom Books today and listen to Stacy's video message in the BPC Class. I took a look at the last Weekly Challenge and it was this:

Creating
It's time to create something with some square-punch pictures! Make a page or a card or a fun note to put under someone's pillow. Square-punch pictures are ready to go and EASY to use. Please note how happy this creative exercise makes you!

So I didn't follow the directions exactly but I did use a couple of square sized photos.

------------

If you are in A Library of Memories Community there are 4 chats in 2013:

Your chats with Stacy Julian are scheduled for:
Friday, January 25th 2013 at 5:00pm PT
Thursday, May 9th 2013 at 10:30am PT
Saturday, August 3rd 2013 at 8:00am PT
Thursday, November 7th 2013 at 2:00pm PT

OMGitsKatie's Haul Video & Its Game On OMGITSEMILY!

Ok, so there is this adorable scrapbooker here in Sunny St. Pete who goes by the You Tube handle "OMGITSEMILY" and she does scrapbooking haul videos and you can watch them by clicking here!

Adorable right?  The only problem for me is that she lives here in St. Pete and she is, I believe, singlehandedly buying up all the $1.49 American Crafts Thickers at TJ Maxx and Michaels!  It must end!  I need some too!  Watch my "Game On Emily" clip!  (it starts around 12:30)

 

If you are looking at the blog via iphone or some other devise that doesn't take flash (sorry I used ustream), here are some photos from my shopping trip:

Color Shine by Heidi Swapp at Michaels:  I got the Primrose.

I'm pretty sure OMGitsEmily and I bought the exact same stuff tonight!

The coveted $1.49 Thickers: I cleaned out the Tyrone Marshalls!

And I picked up some matching Kenneth Cole sandals - because, you know, its important to match your shoes and thickers.

Ok, seriously; I'm pretty sure neither Emily nor I need any more Thickers' after today's haul, but just in case - Emily:  Game on!

Big Idea Festival Day 1: #Happy Mail: Bee Card

I don't often make cards but my daughter loves to get notes in her lunch box; I made this after watching the Day 1 Video from Stacy Julian over at Big Picture Classes.  I am so totally thrilled to hear that Angie Lucas and Ella Publishing are joining Big Picture! 

P.S. My Layout "Justified" graced the cover of the first ever Ella Publishing ezine!  Check it out:

I'm a big fan of all that Angie Lucas does and I think it is a perfect fit for her to be part of Big Picture Classes!  Yay!  My old favorite Simple Scrapbooks seems to be coming back together.  :)

You can read more about the Ella Publishing and Big Picture Merge At the Ella Blog "The Daily Trumpet"!  

P.S. I suggested the name of Ella's blog "The Daily Trumpet". So it always makes me smile to see their blog banner.

 

Paperclipping Roundtable: Link Lists for the Scrapbooking Podcast

I love the Paperclipping Roundtable and love to listen to the episodes while I'm scrapbooking.    I also love to listen to old episodes so I thought I'd create  some link lists according to how I like to listen to them or search for them (since the site is a little hard to navigate if you are looking for the older episodes and its hard to tell what the subject of the shows are because of the creative title):

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE EPISODES WITH STACY JULIAN OR DEBBIE HODGE:

#1 Stacy Julian Zen Master of Scrapbooking

#4 The Chaotic Show

#7 The Process of Scrapbooking

#12 Heart on Fire Brain on Ice

#15 The Mini Book Show

#20 This is Stacy

#28 Poopy Stuff in our Backgrounds

#29 Oh The Trunk

#33 Uninterpreted Bits

#40 You Won't Be Interested In This Topic

#46 Hone Your Intuition

#47 Scrapbook the Commute and Lunch

#49 All Twelve Months

#52 Hook Drugs

#55 Almost Live from CHA

#58 You Forget

#60 Innovations in Scrapbooking

#63 Strangely Obsessed And Sick Group

#64 Long Projects Chronicled

#67 Library of Freedom

#73 Scrapworthy Lives

#76 Summer CHA 2011

#81 Organization on the Move

#84 So Cute Today

#92 The Two Page Layout Show

#100 CHA Baby

#102 I say Awesome and You Say Cute

#105 Categories of Amazingness

#107 Scrapbooking Teens

#111 In Ten Easy Steps

#119 Imagine

#121 Your Personal Style

 #123 The Confession Show

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE EPISODES WITH ANGIE LUCAS OR WENDY SMEDLEY:

#4 The Chaotic Show

#7 The Process of Scrapbooking

#11 Viewer Mail

#17 Scrapbooker Know Thyself

#18 The Yin and Yang of Who I Am

#24 Hidden Journaling

#31 This Show Kicks A

#35 Memory Go Round

#41 I fought Sorting By Color

#42 Titles Don't Have to Stop Traffic

#48 If My Husband's Listening

#53 Getting It All Together

#57 The Closet Trendsetter

#66 Thinking Inside the Box

#71 For Big Scrapbooking Projects

#77 Masters of the Long Arm Extension

#79 The Personality Episode

#87 Questions, Lists and Prompts

#95 Before You Entered the Picture

#100 CHA Baby

#106 Scrapbook Procrastination

 #113 It Makes You Brave

 #123 The Confession Show

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE EPISODES WITH ALI EDWARDS OR BECKY HIGGINS:

#3 Ali Edwards on Story

#6 How to Deal With All That Stuff

#16 Implanted Under Your Skin

#17 Scrapbooker Know Thyself

#19 How Vintage Are You?

#32 God Bless Ikea

#36 Go Outside

#45 Pile On Ali

#46 Hone Your Intuition

#49 All Twelve Months

#56 Breaking the Quote Rules

#68 Taking Photos You'll Love

#72 Working In the Scrapbooking Industry

#79 The Personality Episode

#89 Makes Me Want to Go Make Something

#97 Yes, Yes, and Yes.

#100 CHA Baby

#104 On Blogging and Scrapbooking

#119 Imagine

#124 The Things That Amaze You

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE EPISOSES WITH MAY FLAUM OR TAMI MORRISON:

#22 Burnt Cookies

#24 Hidden Journaling

#61 Access Your Creativity

#76 Summer CHA 2011

#85 The Many Faces of Neutral

#92 The Two Page Layout Show

#95 Before You Entered the Picture

#105 Scrapbook Procrastination

#114 My Experience of Your Experience

#118 Not A Themey Person

#120 Not A Fan Of Neon

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE EPISODES WITH SHIMELLE LAINE or CHRISTINE

URIAS:

#30 CHA Summer 2010

#38 A Metaphysical Bandwagon

#74 Polka Dots With Buddhist Temples

#80 The Glitter Queens

#81 Organization on the Move

#85 The Many Faces of Neutral

#90 Scrapbooking the 80s

#103 Too Precious to Scrapbook

#109 My Supplies are Talking To Me

#110 Clash of th Die Cutting Machines

#117 Take Your Scrapbooking To The Beach

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNTABLE EPISODES WITH ANNA CABRERA OR JULIE FEI-FAN BALZER:

#4 The Chaotic Show

#6 How To Deal With All That Stuff

#9 Does Size Matter?

#15 The Mini Book Show

#21 The Sum of Our Stories

#23 Design Teams

#25 Jen McGuire Gets Her Fix

#29 Oh The Trunk

#34 When They Get Hot They'll Black Out

#37 World's Worst Mom

#43 Different Scrapbook Styles

#44 Stories in Hand

#48 If My Husband's Listening

#51 Location Location Location

#52 Hook Drugs

#55 Almost Live from CHA

#59 Smart Phone Photos

#61 Access Your Creativity

#62 Not That Deep

#65 As You Wish

#69 Everything Could Use a Rhinestone

#72 Working in the Scrapbooking Industry

#80 The Glitter Queens

#84 So Cute Today

#88 I Scrap Dead People

#94 The Future of Scrapbooking

#99 A Page On Y'all

#107 Scrapbooking Teens

#114 My Experience of Your Experience

#116 How to Mail A Coconut 

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE EPISODES WITH OTHER AWESOME SCRAPBOOKERS:

#77 Karen Poirier-Brode

#87 Laine Ehmann #60 Lain Ehmann

#91 Elizabeth Dillow

#91 Stephanie Howell

#96 Cathy Zielske

#101 Steph from The Daily Digi

#105 Heidi Swapp

#108 Molly McCarthy

#73 Stephanie Medley-Rath #108 Stephanie Medley-Rath

#109 Dina Wakely

#103 Wilna Furstenberg

#113 Karen Grunberg #101 Karen Grunberg

#115 Jessica Sprague   #96 Jessica Sprague #88 Jessica Sprague

 #115 Monica McNeil

#116 Kristina Werner

 #117 Amy Tan #102 Amy Tan

#51 Liz Ness

#27 Kelly Purkey

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE CHA EPISODES & Scrapbook Industry & Trends:

#4 Live From CHA

#11 Viewer Mail

#16 Social Media and Scrapbooking

#23 Design Teams

#27 Plain Old Green

#30 CHA Summer 2010

#34 Question & Answers Episode

#50 The 50th Episode Celebration

#52 Hook Drugs

#55 Almost Live From CHA

#60 Innovations in Scrapbooking

#65 As You Wish

#72 Working in the Scrapbook Industry

#73 Scrapworthy Lives

#76 And I Might Be Wrong

#78 So Proud to be a Part of It

#83 The 6x6 Paper Pad Show

#94 The Future of Scrapbooking

#99 A Page On Y'All

 #100 CHA Baby

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE ON PHOTOGRAPHY:

#26 Organize Your Photos

#59 Smart Phone Photos

#68 Taking Photos You'll Love

 #112 Photography Equipment

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE ON JOURNALING AND STORY TELLING:

#3 Ali Edwards on Story

#21 The Sum of Our Stories

#24 Hidden Journaling

#32 Telling Family Stories

#44 Stories in Hand

#58 Techniques for Capturing Story

#87 Questions, Lists and Prompts

97 "Memory Keeping"

#101 Journaling vs. Embellishments

#104 On Blogging and Scrapbooking

#124: Telling Stories about Cultural Changes Over Time

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE ON SCRAPBOOKING TECHNIQUES:

#2 Donna Downey The Artist

#8 Scrapbooking Tools

#19 How Vintage Are You?

#25 Jen McGuire on Techniques

#29 Technology in Scrapbooking

#31 Arts & Crafts

#33 Using Memorabilia in Scrapbooks

#43 Different Scrapbook Styles

#54 At Peace With Buckling

#69 Scrapbooking Embellishments

#75 I Don't Drip Either

#80 The Glitter Queens

#85 Using Neutrals in Scrapbooking

#89 Stamping on Scrapbooking Layouts

#98 Digital Scrapbooking

#110 Clash of the Die Cutting Machines

#116 Making Card with Scrapbooking Supplies

#122 Using Non-Scrapbook Items in Scrapbooking 

#120 Scrapbooking Colors and Trends

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE ON MINI BOOKS & ALBUM STORAGE:

#15 The Mini Book Show

#45 How to Finish Mini Books

#57 Scrapbook Albums

#62 Art Journals

#64 Long Projects Chronicled

#67 Library of Freedom

#71 Big Scrapbooking Projects

#82 Making Unique Mini Books

#105 Categories of Amazingness

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE ON TRAVEL AND VACATIONS:

#51 Location Location Location

#74 Polka Dots With Buddhist Temples

#117 Scrapbooking Outside and on Vacation

#118 Travel & Vacation Scrapbooking

PAPERCLIPPING ON HOLIDAYS AND CELEBRATIONS:

#39 Halloween Scrapbooking Ideas

#48 Holidays & Celebrations

PAPERCLIPPING ON SCHOOL PROJECTS  & PROJECT LIFE & Other Stages of Life:

#17 Becky Higgins on Project Life

#20 Chronological Scrapbooking

#28 Adopted Children

#37 School Scrapbooking

#47 Scrapbooking Work

#49 All Twelve Months

#77 Scrapbooking Your Spouse / Marriage

#84 Scrapbooking Your Parents or In-Laws

#88 Family History Scrapbooking

#90 Scrapbooking The 80s

#91 Scrapbooking The Military

#95 Scrapbooking Step Families, Divorce, and other Sensitive Family Situations

#96 Year Long Projects

#107 Scrapbooking Teens

#114 My Experience of Your Experience

 #115 Project Life - 6 Months Later

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE ON SCRAPBOOKING ORGANIZATION:

#6 How To Deal With All That Stuff

#22 Unfinished Projects

#41 Sorting by Color

#53 Getting It All Together

#66 What to Bring to Scrapbooking Crops

#70 Shared Scrapbooking Spaces

#81 Organization on the Move

#102 Scrapbooking Systems

#108 Budgeting for Scrapbooking Supplies

 #111 Scrapbook Organization

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE ON CREATIVITY:

#1 Stacy Julian Zen Master of Scrapbooking

#5 Why People Don't Scrapbook

#7 The Process of Scrapbooking

#12 Heart on Fire Brain on Ice

#14 Done is Better than Perfect

#18 Why You Scrapbook

#35 Memory Go Round

#36 Zen Habits for Scrapbookers

#38 A Metaphysical Bandwagon

#40 You Won't Be Interested In This Topic

#46 Hone Your Intuition

#56 Breaking the Quote Rules

#61 Access Your Creativity

#79 The Personality Episode

#93 A Vintage Scrapbook Story

#103 Too Precious to Scrapbook

#106 Scrapbook Procrastination

#113 Getting Beyond Creative Scrapbookers Block / The Blank Page

#119 Imagine - Book Review

#121 Your Personal Style

#123 Weaknesses and Struggles in Scrapbooking / Page Layouts

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE ON SCRAPBOOK LAYOUTS:

#9 Scrapbook Page Size

#42 Scrapbook Titles

#63 Review of 4 Pages by 4 Scrapbookers

#86 Design Principals on Scrapbook Pages

#92 The Two Page Layout Show

#109 Review of 4 Scrapbook Layouts by 4 Scrapbookers

 

 

 

Improv Scrapbooking: You MUST watch this!

Holy Sea Monkeys Jumping Over Toasters Batman!

Shimelle's Make Everyday a Scrapbooking Adventure Video!

Shimelle Laine doesn't mention the concepts of improvisational comedy as applied to scrapbooking, but this is exactly what she is talking about in this video.  Watch it.  And then watch it again.

P.S. I recently made this page inspired by one of Shimelle's videos - she's got a ton of really great videos over on youtube and at the Two Peas in A Bucket Site or her site www.shimelle.com.  Seriously good stuff.

 

Orange You Glad? My First "Get It Scrapped" Layout!

Knock knock.  Who's There?  My "Orange You Glad" layout is over at Get It Scrapped!  This was my first assignment for Get It Scrapped and their first post with the creative team layouts.  It is so fun to see how everyone interepreted the Pantone Color of the Year "Tangerine Tango.  Here's a little peek at my layout:

Want to see the whole thing? And other orange layouts by scrapbookers like Chris Asbury, Kiki Kougioumtzi, Kelly Purkey, Jana Morton, Doris Sander, Christy Strickler, Ashley Horton, Tanyia Deskins, and Tami Taylor...

Go check out the Get It Scrapped Article "Scrapbooking With the Color Orange"!

I created a photo collage in Picasa of all sorts of photos of me and the kids wearing orange - one of us is almost always wearing orange - its one of our favorite colors to wear. 

Then I spent some time deciding which color base paper to use, here were my options:

What color would you have chosen?

P.S. When I first got the "Tangerine Tango" assignment from Get It Scrapped, I was playing lifeguard for my kids in the backyard in the evening and I took a bunch of "orange" photos with my iphone in 5 minutes.  I had originally intended to use those photos for the project but had printing issues (ahhh technology - I have such a love/hate relationship with all thing tech).  Anyway, we seriously have orange everywhere - I was even wearing orange shorts sitting outside of my orange (ok, salmon colored)  house (our interior walls are orange too - and no I'm not kidding - I seriously love orange).

I am planning to print up this screen capture of my iphone and I'll do another orange page with these.  If you can't tell what the photos are here's the list from the top left "1. fireworks (yes there are always fireworks going off in our backyard because we can see St. Pete Beach from our house & they often do fireworks for weddings etc. so we see fireworks from the backyard all the time); 2. kids in the pool with orange beach ball; 3. my feet in front of the orange cement with our handprints from when we put in the pool in 2005; 4. my son's orange crocs; 5. me in my orange Beatles t-shirt - it is my absolute favorite because it is old and soft; 6. orange hula hoops - yes we each have one; 7. an actual orange growing in an orange tree in front of our orange house;  8. orange "crotans" in my mother-in-law's yard (she lives next door); 9. orange dish soap and Nemo hand soap; 10. collection of my orange books including 4 hour work week, idiot's guide, and linchpin; 11. orange nozzle on garden hose; 12. orange attachment thingees on the new Ikea swings; 13. another orange beach ball photo; 14. orange ocean kayak; 15. orange nemo sprinkler water game thing; 16.orange bouys that floated up to our house and now decorate our "pergola"; 17. orange bird of paradise in full bloom; 18. orange pavers - we actually chose the ones that were called "orange crush"; 19. my legs and orange shorts - my view of the kids while lifeguarding; and 20. orange light on my minivan."  And, seriously, I had to edit because I took more orange photos than 20.  Saying I love orange is probably an understatement.

P.S. I'm totally copying & pasting this description list for when I do that scrapbook page!

Want to support this blog and get more awesome scrapbooking ideas?  Go check out these affiliate links:

 

 

$76 Scrapbook Yard Sale Haul Video

Whoo Hoo !  It was the Scrapbooking Yard Sale at Whim So Doodle Today and I made a HAUL VIDEO!  Here it is:

 

$20 for an art class next Saturday for me and my daughter to take together!

$28 for 5 paper packs (6x6):Heidi Swapp Sugar Chic; Heidi Swapp No Limits; Crate Paper Story Teller; Studio Calico Take Note Collection; & Amy Tangerine Sketchbook.

$26 for 4 organizing bins; 4 mini books; 4 packs of embellishments; 4 packs of Theresa Collins journaling cards;  one pack of metal clock faces; one acrylic stamping block; one Creative Memories paper trimmer; and one piece of 12x12 Studio Calico patterned paper;  PLUS an assortment of Barbie garden pots, presents, shutters and hats for my girl. 

And lots of fun conversations with scrapbookers and art journalers.

What a lovely Saturday Morning.

*

Now we are off for another adventure - more on that soon.

 

 

One Basic Sketch -> Five Scrapbook Layouts

One basic scrapbook sketch -> Five Scrapbook Pages In Progress:

Hello Scrapbookers!  I'm back from my scrapbooking hiatus!

I've been busy living life and making memories.  Last weekend I walked over six hours on Treasure Island Beach in the sand in the American Cancer Society Relay for Life; my team raised over $3,000.00!  Go Team & A Big Thank You to all of our sponsors!

 

It is fine with me when life gets busy and scrapbooking gets put on the back-burner; but there comes a point when I feel the need to put scrapbooking back into my daily routine.  It  has been challenging since along with working, being a mom, and the cancer walk; I'm halfway through a Bikram Yoga 30 day challenge.  Bikram Yoga class is 90 minutes, but getting there, doing the class and recovering from the class takes more like 2.5 hours.  So my scrapbooking and blogging time has been limited lately, I needed a jumpstart.  This is what inspired me:

 

Layouts by Celine Navarro of The Green Frog Studio:  In order to make the most of my scrapbooking time, last night I took a basic page concept from Celine Navarro and used it to start 5 pages of my own.  Celine's pages have a common feature in that she uses one large horizontally oriented photo so I went with that concept.  I went through my digital images and picked five and printed them out so that they were 8.5 wide.  Then I picked the top and bottom patterened paper.  I adhered everything together with a glue stick and machine stitching.  I also added the titles.  Later I will add the embellishments and journaling.  Here is what they look like so far:

Having these pages "half-baked" will make it easy to finish them.   Having one concept to apply to several pages makes it easy to get several layouts started at one time.  Getting pages done satisifies my desire to do some daily scrapbooking.  I'll post the finished pages when they are done.

P.S. Yes, all of these pages use papers from the Die Cuts With a View "The Snapshot Stack" so these will be part of my series where I make 24 pages from one DCWV stack!

If you wish to support this blog, please check out one of the following Studio Calico Patterned Paper Packs (Amazon affiliate links) and Thanks!

 

 

Stacy Julian

I've been a fan of Stacy Julian's since I bought the book The Big Picture and read it on the airplane ride to visit my Grandma Grace, I think it was the summer of 2005.  It is now 2012 and I'm still a fan and I'm enrolled in her Twelve Class at Big Picture Classes and it is as awesome as I expected.

That's my screen on February 12th - Stacy does an online Chat with the Twelve students on the 12th day of each month.

I had been a fan of Simple Scrapbooks Magazine but wasn't very familiar with Stacy until I read her book.  I fell instantly in love with Stacy Julian and her philosophy.  I'm not alone, thousands of scrapbookers across the world share my love of Stacy.  I've been a fan and a follower of hers for seven years now, I've taken several classes with her at Big Picture Classes, and although we've never met in person, I can tell you, she is pure awesomeness in every way.

 

So when I wanted to get the word out on "Ice Cream for Breakfast Day (March 21)", I knew that one blog post from Stacy would make a huge difference in the number of people "going" to this celebration of life created by my friend Julie "Rosenstud's"  late husband Bruce C. Rosenberg.  At this time we are at 2,900 "going" and I have the goal of having 10,000 going by tomorrow - is it possible?  I think so! Here is the Link to Stacy Julian's Blog. 

Chances are if you are reading my blog, you are a scrapbooker and chances are you are a fan of Stacy too.  Here are twelve links to my blog posts all about Stacy Julian and Big Picture Classes and Library of Memories:

1. Stacy Julian's Twelve Class in 2012 at Big Picture Classes

2. 12 Scrapbook Layouts about "You" meaning "Me" for Stacy Julian's Twelve Class 

3. How I Organized 60 Layouts Using Stacy Julian's Library of Memories Album System

4. Custom Made Storage System for My Library of Memories Albums

5. Library of Memories Storage System "After"

6. What Makes a Scrapbook a "Simple Scrapbook"

7. Stacy Julian's Creative Crop Challenge 10+10+10

8. Stacy Julian Appreciation Week Layout

9. Stacy Julian's Freedom Friday Challenge

10. Stacy Julian's Library of Memories Community: 1st Challenge: Red, White & You

11. Stacy Julian's Have More Fun Class: "No Toe Dipper"

12. Stacy Julian's Free BPC Class "Cocoa, Daisies and Stacy"

So Thank You Stacy for the blog post to get the word out about "Ice Cream for Breakfast (March 21)" Day and thank you for years and years of inspiration and scrapbooking fun!

If you'd like to support this blog and get Stacy Julian scrapbooking goodies, please check out these affiliate links:

 

 

Blogging for Scrapbookers

I do a lot of my blogging from my iphone!

Blogging about scrapbooking was the topic of a recent Paperclipping Roundtable.  When I listened to the episode, I was on vacation and I listened via my iphone.  During that vacation, I was also taking photos and videos and even blogging via that same iphone!  I've been scrapbooking for as long as I can remember and I've been blogging for about 5 years.  Coincidentally, during my recent vacation last week, I had my highest page view count ever - about 2-3 times the amount of page hits as normal.  I'm not really sure what caused the increase, but I am happy to see more readers.  If you are like me and want to read more about blogging and scrapbooking, here are some informative links:

1. Shimelle Laine's Online Class: Blogging for Scrapbookers.

2. Paperclipping Roundtable Episode #104 On Blogging and Scrapbooking

3. Lain Ehmann's 20 Ways to Make Money Scrapbooking (and Blogging about Scrapbooking)

4. How to Make a Scrapbook Blog Background

5. Katie The Scrapbook Lady's Advice on Using Caution When Using Personal Information on Scrapbook Layouts and Scrapbook Blogs.

6. HGTV's Feature Blogger of the Month featuring Elsie Larson from A Beautiful Mess

7. Slide Share on How To Build a Successful Blog.

8. How to Launch a Successful Blog.

9. Cathy Zielske's Top 10 Scrapbooking Blogs

10. Stacy Julian's Top Ten Blog Posts

What is funny about my blog is that I have lots and lots of page hits, but not a lot of comments; so sometimes I am not sure what works / doesn't work on this blog except by looking at the page hits, but that doesn't really give me an accurate picture of what I'm doing right/wrong in terms of creating an interesting and useful blog. 

If you are a reader of this blog, please take a moment to leave a comment and let me know a little about you; how you found this blog; and what you like / don't like about it. 

Thank you! 

Making Scrapbooking Videos & Systems & Top Ten Ways to Systematize Your Creative Process.

This week's Paperclipping Roundtable Podcast is about SYSTEMS.  I love the concept of systems and creating systems to solve problems that come up again and again.  Lately I've been making scrapbooking videos and I definately need to work on my systems associated with that process and I'm working on that, for example, I need to work on my system of making them shorter!

Here are some great resources for creating systems for your creative process:

1. Creativity Tools - Start Here!

2. How To Plan and Manage Creative Teams.

3. The Dynamics of Creativity

4. How to Systematize Your Creative Writing

5. Systems are Great, But Systems Don't Solve Everything in the Creative Process

6. Why You Should Learn a Productivity System.

7. Zen To Done: The Ultimate Simple Productivity System

8. Why Creatives need a Productivity System.

9. Creatica: A Model to Systematize Creativity's Stimuli

10. Unlocking Your Creative Genius Potential with Mind Mapping

Want to read more and support this blog?  Check out these books about systems on Amazon:

 

 

Celebrate the People You Love & 10 Ideas for Mini-Books!

10 Reasons Why I Love You Mini Book:

I'm taking Stacy Julian's Twelve Class at Big Picture Classes and this week focuses on People You Love, the audio message from Stacy this week focuses on a Simple Scrapbooks mini-book called 10 Reasons I Love You.  Several years ago, I actually won a few of these mini-books at the National Scrapbooking Day crop my local scrapbooking store, Scrapbooking in Paradise.  I love making mini books but haven't made one in a while, maybe I'll make a few before Valentine's Day.  Here are 10 links to Mini Books I have Made.

1. 10 Reasons I Love My Husband Mini Book (This is the Simple Scrapbooks product that Stacy Julian was talking about in this week's Audio for the Twelve Class).

2. Home Made Thankful Mini Book

3. Turning Old Hard Cover Books Into Scrapbooks

4. A Day In The Life Mini Book

5. Autobiography in Mini Book (One Page Per Year)

6. My Life In Three Words Mini Book

7. My Daughter's Mini Book Incorporated Onto A Scrapbook Layout

8. December Daily Mini-Book

9. Board Book Mini Albums

10. Metal Mini Book

It looks like its been about 5 years since I did this type of album for my husband, maybe I'll make another one.

Want more mini books?  Check out these links:

Winter 2012 CHA Bella Blvd. Scraplifts

Last week, I posted that I'd have my CHA Bella Blvd. inspired scrapbook knock-offs up on Sunday {here's a link to that blog post}; we got back from a ski vacation and I've been busy getting back to my daily routine and haven't had a chance to blog until now.  So here are three pages inspired by the Winter 2012 CHA layouts from Bella Blvd.:

1. Button Heart Layout. 

Scraplift: I have tons of buttons but don't often use them on my scrapbook layouts so it was fun to have a purpose for some of these mismatched buttons. 

The Story:  Since many of the CHA layouts have only one photo, I picked a photo that was very meaningful even though it is not a perfect photo; it is the first photo taken of our whole family - it was taken in the garage - actually here in my home office / scrapbooking room since we had a little crib set up in here- on the day we brought Allison home from the hospital.  Allison is now 8 years old and I didn't do a lot of scrapbooking when she was a baby since I was very busy, so its fun to take out these old photos and scrap them now.

Supplies: I used some DCWV baby themed patterened paper, random buttons fastened to the page with adhesive dots; the red polka dot paper is from Echo Park's basics pack, and the letters were from a dollar bin at Target - they didn't stick particularly well so I machine stitched them to the page.

2. Paper Strips and Buttons Layout.

Scraplift:  I loved the design of this page since it uses a big square of patterened paper and lots of patterened strips to give the page a solid base and the diagonal random buttons were a fun addition but don't feel too random, the design of this layouts allows for a lot of stuff on the page, but also allows for photos and jouranling space.

The Story:  "The school photo process - what a detail ordeal - not only did they get the orders wrong both times, but we had to do re-takes of both kids - but both kids were picture perfect cuties."  The back story is that Mac's hair was so long in the first photo that we got him a hair-cut and had a retake done and Allison's photo pose was weird so that while the photo was cute, the amount of space her head took up in the photo was so small you could barely see her face.  So both had to get re-takes and both times the processor got everything wrong about the  photo packages - and there were about a zillion photo package options, it was seriously confusing and even though the pictures were done in October, we still don't have Mac's package straightened out so that's still on my to do list!

Supplies:  KI Memories patterned paper and Bazzill cardstock, random buttons and epoxy stickers and brads, Sassafrass adhesive border stips. 

3. Horizontal Thirds Layout.

Scraplift:  The original page used a dark blue patterened paper base with a tight design, I didn't have something that worked exactly so I used two different Echo Park papers and stitched them together with the middle strip.

The Story:  "CHA 2009:  As a scrapbooker, it was a total delight to take an entire week off work and go get totall immersed in the world of my hobby and to learn about the industry and all the players.  So total interesting to get an upclose peek into this subculture that I spend so many hours in."  In the photo are Tina Cockburn (Simple Scrapbooks & Write.Click.Scrapbook.); me; Angie Lucas (Simple Scrapbooks & Ella Publishing); Diva Danielle (she had a podcast which I'm not sure is still around or not); Lain Ehmann (Simple Scrapbooks & Layout A Day); & Tami Morrison (Funnest Ever Scrapbooker from Simple Scrapbooks & teacher at Big Picture Classes).

Supplies:  Echo Park patterened paper, QuicKutz die cut letters, sharpie marker, and random other odds and ends.

That's all for now and now that I'm back to my regularly scheduled blog programming, I'll have the rest of the seven Bella Blvd. inspired scrapbook layouts up one per day for the rest of the week.

Plus I'll have my Project Life Album pages up soon and the travel scrapbook I made during our recent ski trip; and I'll be participating in Ali Edward's Day in the Life tomorrow - which also happens to be my son's 10th birthday - but I'm under strict order that we are not to celebrate (not sure what to do about that command). 

Cheers.

 

How Old Are You Again? Right now? {Scrapbook Layout Inspired by Noell Hymann's Number Layout on the Paperclipping Roundtable}

Since Mac turned 9 he's been saying that he's still 8 and that he's going to be 8 forever.  Maybe it was because being eight was great or maybe it was because we had a bit of a rough time on his ninth birthday.  Maybe he's just being silly. 

 
This page was inspired by Noell Hymann's page about number paper - click here for the link to her page. 

Supplies:  The Girls' Paperie; October Afternoon; DCWV; Me & My Big Ideas; & Scrap It In Seconds.

Two Peas In a Bucket + Counterfeit Kit Club Challenge + Paperclipping Roundtable + Lisa Dickinson = Third Bird Layout

On the fifth of April, I made a kit for the Counterfeit Kit Club Challenge "A Little Birdie Told Me" based on the Front Porch Kit Club and I wanted to play with my kit so I looked on the Two Peas in a Bucket Scrapbook Gallery for inspiration and found a layout titled Details that incorporated lots of different patterned papers - perfect for my itch to play with my kit.  I made this layout:

 
The story is all about how we've had three different birds try to become our pet 1. a potty talking parrot; 2. a grey cockatoo or some such exotic bird, and 3. the "Third Bird" a yellow little bird whom Allison named "Cutie Bird" over this past Spring Break. 

So today I was listening to the most recent Paperclipping Scrapbooking Roundtable on my iphone so I couldn't see layouts they were talking about, but when Lisa Dickinson started describing hers it sounded really familiar - I scraplifted this from the Two Peas site, but didn't look to see who made the layout and I think her Two Peas name is different than her actual name, otherwise I probably would have recognized it - I've been a fan of Lisa's since she featured in Simple Scrapbooks.    Love this layout & her style in general.  I'm thinking I might scraplift the rest of the layouts on Paperclipping this week.

Here are more "Details" on my layout: