I love Shimelle's video Series on Two Peas called The Adventures of Glitter Girl.
Her videos make it so easy to get a page done and to include lots of photos, embellishments and patterned papers.
This two page layout is based on her Adventure #52 (I was so happy to learn that she was bringing this series into 2013.
The Century Scrapbook Project is a scrapbook album in which I am making one 8.5x11 page for each year between 1900-1212. Yesterday I found my International Student ID from 1990 and earlier in the week I listened to the PaperClipping Roundtable #131: Learning to Share which was all about scrapbooking your single lady days, so the early 90s were on my mind when I woke up today and I made this page:
This page is all about trusting your gut and I learned that lesson back in the early 1990s.
What to do with those old boyfriend photos? No, don't cut them up - cover them up and put them in a pocket, see how I made this page on ustream:
So here's to trusting your gut & 1991!
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Here is my August 2012 Counterfeit Kit Club:
As a way to recharge my creativity, I enjoy playing along with the Counterfeit Kit Club Blog. This month's colors are red, navy, yellow, craft, olive green, light blue and brown and a touch of pink. The patterns are gingham, stripes and lines, polka dots and flowers. The embellishments include flowers, pinwheels, banners, ribbons and twine, summer things, tickets, and lots of color with white embellishments.
I'm thinking I'll try to make 12 layouts with this kit and maybe finish off a mini book about summer.
I plan to use my die cutters to make lots of the embellishments and letters and such; I might even break out my stamps and inks. We'll see.
I am thrilled to be the Guest Designer this month over at "The Studio Challenges" Blog by Amanda Jones. If you need a great challenge this Sunday, go check out her post Try A New Scrapbooking Technique That You've Never Tried Before!
My page included misting, stencils and puff paint!
The Studio Challenges post includes scrapbook pages from Amanda Jones, Anna White-Sharman, Christina Collins, Daphne Wuenn-Rihm, Ellie Augustin, Emi Parczewska, Jan Tatomir, Julie Dix, Kat Benjamin, Katherine Sutton, Petra Offrell, and Valerine Mangan. Go check out all of the "new technique" goodness and try a scrapbook technique you haven't tried yet - it is fun!
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What We've Been Up To & Major Tangent Alert about Tom Cruise:
Ok I'm off to do some actual archery, swimming, and kayaking with a group of energetic 7-10 year olds.
Yesterday we all went to Blizzard Beach - and when we got back Charlie said that Tom Cruise and Suri were at Blizzard Beach too! I guess we must have totally missed them, but I couldn't help to imagine some of the one liners I'd say to Tom Cruise if I were to be standing in a water park slide line with him, here are a few:
1. "Seriously, you were married to Nicole Kidman and you messed that up? Did you see that singing and dancing movie with Ewan McGregor?" Seriously, wow they are light years hotter than you. (I probably would NOT have actually said that out loud - but seriously - Nicole Kidman is a goddess).
2. "My lawyer says hi." (Our personal lawyer -even though we are ourselves lawyers - is the same lawyer that battles the church that Tom is hooked up with, so I'm guessing Tom would not be a fan of that comment either and again, I probably wouldn't actually say it out loud).
3. "Did you see the Cathy Zielske's Spoof Video on Scrapbookology" on You Tube??
4. "You had me at Risky Business and Jerry McGuire, but lost me on the Today Show and Oprah's couch."
5. "Yes, sure, you can borrow our sunscreen. You don't want to return that kid with a sunburn."
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Ok that seems too snarky right? Thing is, I used to have a major crush on Tom Cruise back in the 1980s when he was in Risky Business etc. But he's gone down this intense weird road since then and I just totally lost all attraction for him. I know I'm just some random fan, but I don't get crushes on movies stars that often, so when they fall it is disappointing. My current movie star crush has been Andy Samberg for a good 8 years now - I know, super different than Tom Cruise. I have eclectic tastes. But bottom line? Funny is way more important than conventionally cute.
Debbie Hodge did a post on Get It Scrapped called Pinterest Boards for Scrapbookers to Follow and included my Paper Strips Pinterest Board. I sometimes use my boards for inspiration for scrapbooking, I especially like to use them for ideas for my "half-baked" pages *(see below for definition). I have boards for scrapbooking with paper strips, stars, circles, hexagons, squares, triangles, and a host of other shapes and ideas. Here are a few pages I created inspired by the paper strips board:
I love Pinterest and have lots of boards - some may think maybe too many - but I tend to fall in love with things and get totally immersed - and this is what happened with me and Pinterest. And, I usually pin things while I'm on the stepper (my aunt thought I just sat around eating bon bons and pinning things all day - in my dreams).
I started Pinterest with Boards like "For The Home" and "My Style Pinboard" and it seemed like a great way to keep ideas for the house and for what to buy when I'm clothes shopping.
Pinterest quickly became a place to consume and store scrapbooking ideas. I pin things if I like them even a little bit. I don't worry about going back to see them again; but I like the idea that if I would like to see them again, I know the board where I can find them.
*Definition: Half-Baked Page = a scrapbook page that you start and then put away for a month or two until you feel like finishing it and if you never finish it, that's ok too. I like to have a stash of half-baked pages for when I want to finish a page quickly - when the story inspiration hits, then the scrapbook-y part of things is half done.
LINKS: You can also check out some of my other Pinterest Boards:
6. "Mister Mister" Scrapbooking with Mists
7. I {heart} hearts: Scrapbooking with Hearts
10. And my personal favorite pet project: Scrapbook Improv
Go check out my boards, its lots of scrapbooking eye candy. When I'm looking at the boards I treat them sort of like magazines and flip through them not really paying too close attention, but sometimes something catches my eye and I go make something. Mostly, I use Pinterest for consuming lots of stuff to go live in my brain for a while; I think that with creativity you need just as much input as you have output so Pinterest is like taking in creative fuel.
Taking photos to the edge of the page - what a cool little design trick that I've never really explored before - until last night! This concept was one of the challenges in Elizabeth Dillow's Twelve Design Challenges in the Big Picture Classes I'm taking AND it was coincidentally the topic of an article I read at Get It Scrapped by Debbie Hodge (click here for the "Bleed Edge" article there).
I was super inspired and made seven of my "half baked" pages using this technique and I gathered almost 200 examples on my Pinterest "Full Bleed" Board. I still have about 4-5 more that I'd like to get started. AND! I even finished one of these layouts last night!
I had that 5x7 photo from a long time ago, I had played with the colors on the computer and printed it with a focal color on her face with black and white in the rest of the photo. The colors came out really intense and while her eyes are really very blue, they look a bit unnatural and I could never figure out how to use that particular print on a page. While I was looking for photos to use for the full bleed approach, I figured I'd use it since I was just "practicing" this new to me concept with these pages.
SCRAPBOOK TIP! Having the mindset that you are just "practicing" with your pages gives you more creating freedom! Chances are when you "practice" you'll come up with pages that you never would have otherwise and some of them you will end up adoring, like I do with this one.
Journaling: "Vision: Its not about how you look, its about how you see. (adapted from a Henry David Thoreau quote). / You have your own unique vision and you are so sure of yourself. You come up with the most creative ways to do things and you make observations that let us know that you are a deep thinker."
And yes, those paper strips are from my new 6x6 Amy Tangerine paper pack - the neon-ish colors worked perfectly with the overly bright focal colors on this photo.
I have been scrapbooking for a long time so it is so fun to have a new perspective, to learn something new, which has really been there all along.
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I'll have more of the completed pages coming up soon!
Scrapbookers, Imagine This: You just received your print order, several envelopes of your latest and greatest pictures, and you now have a new and exciting stack of awesome photos just waiting to be scrapbooked! There's the birthday party photos, photos from your last vacation, and some really adorable photos of your 8 year old. You are all excited to scrapbook them! You rearrange some things on your to do list and you somehow find 3 hours of uninteruppted scrapbooking time. You put your photos in your photo organization system. You get out your adhesives, scalloped edged scissors and that new pack of embellishments shown at the last CHA. Ready! Set! And Nothing. Instead of "Go!" you are at at dead end STOP! You stare at the dreaded blank page and then it hits you: The Dreaded Scrapbooker's Block.
Have you ever been hit with scrapbooker's block? If you are a kid, chances are you haven't and you can stop reading and go play now! But if you are a scrapbooker who is over the age of 18, then you might know what I'm talking about. If you haven't experienced scrapbooker's block or perhaps you just need a definition for this frustrating condition, here's how wikipedia defines this common scrapbooker's ailment {please note I took some liberties with the "writer's block" definition and adapted it for our concern "scrapbooker's block"}:
"Scrapbooker's Block is a condition, primarily associated with scrapbooking as a hobby in which the creative goddess loses the ability to produce new layouts. The condition varies widely in intensity. It can be trivial, a temporary difficulty in choosing how many photos should go onto a particular layout or which embellishments to use for a visual triangle on the page to tie it all together. At the other extreme, some "blocked" scrapbookers have been unable to work for years on end, and have been known to continue to buy supplies despite the complete stop of production of scrapbooking layouts or mini books. It can manifest as the affected scrapbooker viewing her work as inferior or unsuitable, when in fact it could be the opposite. Scrapbooker's block is a common affliction that most memory keepers will experience at one time or another, it is "an inability to begin or continue scrapbooking for reasons other than lack of basic skill or commitment".
Who's been there? I know I have, more than once. Can I get an "Amen" scrapbooking sisters?
Scrapbooker's block can be caused by these five common problems:
1. Lack of Inspriation: Oh sure there are dozens of inspiring projects on Pinterest and over at Two Peas, but nothing really "speaks" to you and your creativity just isn't sparked by anything - not even a glittery fire lit with hot-off-the-CHA-floor-patterned-paper by scrapbooking LOAD Coach Lain Ehmann herself.;
2. Over Awareness of the Audience: Whether your audience is your own family or your online scrapbooking friends, you cant' seem to make anything because you keep thinking about what so-and-so will think of your completed scrapbook project so you just don't start or complete anything.;
3. External Circumstances like stress or health issues of the scrapbooker. This will happen to all of us at one time or another.;
4. Sophmore Syndrome: Intimidation from a previous success. Maybe you had a layout published in a magazine or recognized on an online scrapbooking gallery and now you are afraid to make another layout because you don't think it will be as awesome as the last layout.; or
5. Perhaps the most dreaded of all "Trying to be Perfect": You can't seem to do anything at all for fear that it might not be perfect and you'll ruin your photos, your supplies, or your own ego.
Let's check in with wikipedia again and see what they say about the brain on scrapbooker's block {again I'll take some liberties and re-phrase to make it crafty}:
"Scrapbooker's Block is more than just a mentality. Under stress, a human brain will "shift control from the cerebral cortex to the limbic system". The limbic system is associated with the instinctual processes, such as "fight or flight" response. Because the person is primarily thinking in instinctual (learned) behaviors, creative processes are hindered. The person is often unaware of the change, which may lead them to believe they are creatively "blocked"."
So enough of the problem, chances are you are just as familiar as I am with the causes or stresses of scrapbooker's block; what you really want to know is just how do you cure scrapbooker's block?
1. Take a Scrapbooking Class or Listen in on a Scrapbooking Group Discussion.
A few years ago I took Lain Ehmann's LayOut A Day (LOAD) Challenge and the exercise of making a scrapbook layout everyday for a month helped me get to a place where I could scrapbook no matter what; I think the key factor in this system is the short deadline.
While I have been scrapbooking for well over a decade, I still take an occasional scrapbooking class to keep things fresh. My favorite place to take online scrapbooking classes is Big Picture Classes. I'm currently taking Stacy Julian's Twelve Class and Elizabeth Dillow's Twelve Challenges Class.
My favorite "Scrapbooking Discussion Group" otherwise known as a "podcast" is The Paperclipping Roundtable Podcast. The Paperclipping Roundtable "airs" on itunes every week and is about an hour, topics include scrapbook organization, the process of scrapbooking, and scrapbooking tools and tricks. Listening in always gets me in the mood to do some scrapbooking.
2. Keep a Scrapbooking Ideas Journal.
Whether you keep your ideas in a plain notebook, a fancy and embellished journal, or on your iphone; writing things down helps. Even if you never go back to the list, the act of having written down an idea helps to keep it and grow it in your mind. Depending on your personality, you may love or hate lists; but either way, try writing down ideas for a month and see if your ability to overcome scrapbooker's block improves. My bet is that it will.
Pinterest is also a great place to keep ideas. Major warning: Pinterest is also a major time waster and can result in feelings of insecurity and inferiority since there are amazing ideas and photos there; so use Pinterest with caution.
3. Do some Free-Scrapbooking.
My husband often tells the story about how he was a bad student until he learned the trick of "getting ready" to do homework. He'd tell himself that he was just "getting ready" to do some homework, he'd get his books and pencils, a snack, and sit at the desk; he didn't pressure himself to actually do anything, but, he says, once he was all set up and sitting there he'd do the homework. Try that with your scrapbooking, get some photos out; get out some paper; don't pressure yourself to make anything but if you get even an inkling of inspiration, jump on it and go with whatever gave you that spark.
Another idea is to make a card, or a page in an ongoing mini book with a standard structure, or just to start doodling or punching or free hand cutting some patterened paper. Just start moving and your brain will follow.
4. Just Do It. Make a Page even if it is Not Perfect, especially if it is not perfect! In fact, make an Imperfect Page!
Take your worst, blurriest photo and the ugliest piece of paper you can find. Make a page. Just do it. Once that's out of your system, you'll at least have done something. The fact that its not awesome will give you the confidence to make the next one a bit better because it couldn't be any worse. Just try it.
In the alternative, set your kitchen timer for 15 mintues, and don't spend any time thinking, just do this: 1. Open your photo file and pick one without looking (1 minute). 2. Then pick a neutral colored cardstock, don't spend more than (30 seconds) picking. 3. Pick some letters, give yourself a minute. 4. Paste all that together (2 minutes). 5. Write something on the page - draw four or five lines and just start writing. (5 minutes tops) . 6. You are 8.5 minutes in and you can call it done if you like, but if you wish, pick a few embellishments and stick them down in a visual triangle (5 minutes tops).
5. Find a Positive Place to Share Your Scrapbooking Work.
If you've been scrapbooking for any length of time, chances are your family has lost the level of excitement for your scrapbooking layouts that maybe they had in the beginning. You need scrapbooking friends for this job my friend.
Feedback can be awesome, find a place where you can find some friendly scrapbookers who are at a similar scrapbooking skill level and share your work. You can set up a flickr group or join in a variety of many, many scrapbooking communities online. Or pick a few friends to be your viewing buddies.
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I hope that this article has been helpful or at least a bit entertaining. Please leave a comment to share your most common cause of scrapbookers' block and your favorite solution.
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This is a kit I made a while back based on a Counterfeit Kit Club Challenge - I made the kit, I think I made some pages, but its been a while since I've done this; so I wanted to revisit the idea of a home made kit club. This time, I wanted to take a short cut to the kit-making process. So I came up with an idea to make an easy kit, its not earth-shattering or anything, but I haven't tried this process before. (read on)
I haven't been to Michael's Craft Store in a long time, but I got a chance to go after work tonight and The Snapsot Stack by Die Cuts with a View caught my eye. The colors include black, white, aqua, red, lime green and yellow with some text and beige mixed in; it also includes journaling spots, triangles for banners, borders, and polaroid frames as well as some other elements that can be used as embellishments. There are 48 papers on patterned cardstock, there is two of each pattern. I'm going to challenge myself to make 24 layouts with this stack. I'll add in stuff from my stash, especially my Quickutz and Sizzix die cuts, odds and ends from the Smash line, and journaling spots from Project Life I'll post pictures as I complete them.
Tell me, do you subscribe to kit clubs, make your own kits or do you "not" do the kit thing?
Hey Scrapbookers, we're still on The Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenge Series, but we're switching from the Districts and locations to the characters for scrapbooking inspiration.
First up is the love interest Peeta Mellark: "The District 12 male tribute as well as the baker's son, he is loyal and brave, and will do whatever he needs to for Katniss to survive, for he has been in love with Katniss since they were five years old. Katniss, however, has to act like she's in love with him in order to keep both of them alive. Peeta is described as being medium height, strongly built and has ashy blonde hair." (source The Hunger Games Wiki)
Scrapbookers - if you haven't read this book, I highly recommend it. If you haven't read it, you can still play along. The movie is going to be big and it is coming out in 9 days, so unless you have no access to tv or movies, chances are you have heard of it or at least seen the movie trailers. The point of using The Hunger Games in a scrapbooking kind of way is just to get a fun and diffenent starting point for a theme for a page or project, it is not to make scrapbooking pages about The Hunger Games (although I have done a few of those). Using The Hunger Games as a prompt is to switch up your creative process in a fun way.
Scrapbook Layouts based on the Peeta theme could include:
1. Bread / Baking / Daily Bread / Eating
On Eating Cookies:
On Baking Cookies:
This is a stretch, but this layout features photos taken at the restaurant named Panera Bread:
2. Starcrossed Lovers / Crushes / First Love / Love Notes
My daughter's first love is her Daddy, here's a layout about how she writes love notes to him all the time:
My son normally favors me a bit so I was so surprised one Valentines Day when the only love note he brought home was for Daddy - seems like Daddy gets most of the love notes around here!
So going with the theme of love notes to Daddy/my husband Charlie, here's a love note scrapbook layout I made for him:
3. Partnership / Teammate / Working Together
This layout is an ode to the paperwork I do at the office:
These two layouts about work and play are side by side in my December Daily mini book:
And here's a Picasa collage of the scrapbook layouts I've made about work over the years:
4. Bravery / Loyalty / Survival
Here's a layout about how brave my girl is about picking up jellyfish and all sorts of things:
This next layout is about our loyal labrador retriever Dandy:
And a layout about our late black lab Duke:
Those four themes should give you some ideas for scrapbooking pages. If you do make a page, please post a comment with a link. Or just comment if you are following along and didn't make a page. Have you read the book? Are you looking forward to the movie? What do you think about the cast? I would love to hear from you.
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Welcome Scrapbookers, to The Capitol of Panem from The Hunger Games.
To translate The Capitol to Scrapbooking:
1. Theme of Capitol & Total Control: I used a old quote from our Family Words File and some old pictures of my kids taking over the world. The Quote reads: "The Whole Entire World! I overheard Mac saying this to Allison while they were playing: "Ok, now where was I and what was I doing? Oh yeah, I was taking over the whole entire world!" Go get 'em boy but use gentle hands and heart OK?" "You two used to play pretend all the time around 2008." "Just tonight, Allison came downstairs after her shower with underwear on her head!"
Scrapbooking Challenge based on The Capitol from The Hunger Games:
1. Take the Theme of Control and adapt it to a scrapbooking page. This doesn't have to be "taking over the entire world" control, it can be more quiet - like taking control of your own daily schedule to allow some "me" time in there or some time for scrapbooking.
2. Use Overly Bright Colors and Overly Busy Patterned Paper. If you are like me and have lots of patterned paper in your stash, this shouldn't be difficult. However, what can be difficult is drawing attention to the photos and journaling and not letting the overly busy and bright paper overpower the main subject of your page, I think I did a fairly good job of this by using a mat for the photos and printing the journaling on white paper to let it stand out.
If you make a page, please leave a comment with a link. There is a Flickr Group called The Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenge where you can post your pages.
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Welcome. Welcome Scrapbookers to District 1 of Panem, Land of Luxury. District 1 is one of the wealthiest districts of Panem. Its primary industry is manufacturing luxury items for the Capitol. Some of them include diamonds and most likely other precious gems. It seems that names in this district are names of precious items, which may be a reflection on their "glamorous" nature and demeanor. Children in District 1 seem to take pride in competing in the Games, and are among the group of tributes that band together to pick off the weak, called the Careers. Katniss also notes how their costumes are always the best. (source wikia)
Journaling: I don't value fancy cars or jewelry or fashion. I love free time and travel and adventure and good food. I don't particularly love shopping for clothes but I love that Allison has a passion for it. Lists: Stay home days. Walks on the beach. Time to scrapbook. Bedtime stories. Singing in the car. Craft Store. Bar Harbor. Boone, North Carolina. Durango, Colorado. Padanaram, Mass. London, England. Atlantis, Bahamas. Home. Sushi. Habenero Tabasco. Moose Tracks Ice Cream. Extra Wasabi. Dark Chocolate. Lobster. Skiing. Stand Up Kayaking. Bikram Yoga. Getting a Massage. Bubble Baths. Hammock.
Scrapbooking Challenge: Make a scrapbook layout or mini book about your luxury items and leave a comment with a link.
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1. How This Scrapbooking Blog Got Hijacked by The Hunger Games
2. The Hunger Games Spoiler Alert! Katniss Everdeen Ends Up a Scrapbooker!
3. The Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenge: Main Characters
7. The Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenge: District 10 Livestock & 10 Holy Cow Funny Stories
8. The Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenge: District 9 Grain & Hexagons
11. The Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenge: District 6 Transportation
Next up is District 1 Luxury. I'll be working on the scrapbook project for that tonight, watch for the post tomorrow. After that we'll visit the Capitol and District 13, then we'll explore other themes from The Hunger Games. I'm applying a concept from improvisational comedy to scrapbooking here - its called "piling it on" -where you keep with one topic or category until you think you can't think of anything else and then you keep on going. The Improv Games associated with this concept is called "The Minister's Cat" {Click Here to Watch Scrooge Play The Minister's Cat - it is quite ridiculous}. So like Scrooge's peeps and their party games, I'm going to stick with the theme of The Hunger Games until the movie's release. Thankfully, the movie is releasing at the end of this month, I'll be hosting a ustream close to the movie premier, time and date for that to come sometime soon.
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So get your Katniss on and put a dish of milk out for Buttercup because we're staying on The Hunger Games for a while.
How to return to your creative zone after a vacation or hiatus:
I've been away from my scrapbooking desk for about 2 weeks, this picture was taken on the plane during my scrapbooking on vacation frolic. I'm back home now and I have some time today to get creative but I'm not warmed up. Instead of spinning my wheels and wasting a lot of time, which I have totally done more than once, I want to get right back in the creativity zone.
Here are 10 links to creativity warm ups - lets see if any get my scrapbooking mojo back in gear:
1. Drawing Warm Up Exercises by Category. I think this exercise could be translated into a nice grid scrapbook page highlighting one category of thing. I just might try that.
2. Left Brain-Right Brain Warm Ups Dance, Draw, Juggle, or Play the Color Game. Hmmm. Ok. I do think sometimes its good to play some peppy music in the scrapbooking room to get things going, nothing too distracting, just something with a fast beat.
3. Find Out What Kind of Creative Type You Are. I took this test but I think I didn't add them up correctly or something because I was the worst kind of creative and I just don't buy that. My results were: 1. C, 2. A, 3. D, 4. A, 5. C, 6. C. So I had had A=2, B=0, C=3, D=1. Then following the math instructions I did A-B = 2; C-B = 3; D-B = 1 for a total of 6. Then I wasn't sure what to do with the uppercase /lowercase thing but I think I was an "acd" or else I did it wrong and I'm a "ACD" so either I'm not at all or totally creative. If anyone "gets" how this test is scored, please clue me in and leave a comment.
4. How To Be Creative. This is a very visually appealing slide share and the maker of this one has several good one to check out. Here are the tips in short: 1. Seek Widely. Seek Deeply. Steal Ideas. 2. Talk to Strangers. 3. Do Not Be Afraid to Fail. 4. Keep Dreaming. 5.
5. Creative Drawing Exercise with Both Hands. There's some trippy music and this video is a bit mesmerizing but the exercise looks like an easy warm up, something that looks like it belongs in an art journal.
6. Simple Scrapper's Reclaiming Your Creative Mojo. I like #5 Play with Your Supplies. I often use this technique and make what I call "half-baked" pages that I come back to later and add the photos and the journaling to, making the base of the scrapbooking pages often gets me going and later makes scrapbooking much faster.
7. Busy vs. Meaningful Scrapbooking. Nettio discusses her desire to give up on the scrapbooking obligations like Project 365 and push her creativity. Good food for thought. But remember, sometimes it is good just to "get busy" just to get the creativity going, but the busy feeling should be one of play not obligation, I think this is what she means.
8. 7 Ways to Beat Scrapper's Block. I like #2 Take a Scrapbooking Challenge. I often use this as a way to get started, I like the challenges over at Two Peas. I miss the sketch challenges at Sketchy Thursdays. If you know of good scrapbook challenge sites, please leave a comment with a link!
9. 3 Things Amy Counts On To Get Her Scrapbooking Mojo Back. Amy says she likes a clean slate workspace. I like this too, but I typcially clean up my space after every session so when I get back to scrapbooking after a hiatus, I have a clean slate. Sometimes, I need to mess it up a bit to get my scrapbooking mojo back.
10. Scrapbooking Inspiration on Pinterest. I've been trolling Pinterest lately for scrapbooking inspiration, for me it has taken the place of scrapbooking magazines and I love that it is as handy as my iphone. I love to randomly pick a scrapbook page on Pinterest and "scraplift" it. It gets things moving in my scrapbooking world.
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