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A Letter From The Editor
By Jami Petersen
The Craft And Hobby Association’s (CHA) Winter Trade Show is the largest of its kind. Manufacturers from all over the globe gather to unveil their new releases for the year and also showcase all the old favorites. It’s a product lover’s dream come true.
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Letters to the Editor
By Jami Petersen
I used to scrapbook when I was young and still at home, many moons ago. But, back then scrapping and paper art was not the in thing to do. In my small town, you could not find the fantastic supplies that have been available for the last 10 or so years. So, I completely lost interest in scrapbooking and paper artwork, until a co-worker invited me to join your scrapbook magazine newsletter back in 2003. Your magazine got me back into scrapbooking and art. I love the tips, wonderful layout examples, the supply lists and the wonderful little notes from you that feel like you are talking to an old friend. Thanks to you and your crew, I have been scrapping strong since then. I just wanted to let you know that you inspire us more than you may know.
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Best Book Bargains
By Design Team
The Scrapbooker's Creativity Kit provides a unique and exciting way for scrapbookers to get the inspiration they have been seeking - simply draw a few cards and create! Inside the kit, you will find inspiration cards sorted by color and word. These cards are starting points for creating layouts that spur the you to think beyond the obvious.
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Rub-ons for Beginners
By Di Hickman
Back in the day rub-ons were called dry transfers or Letraset and used mostly in the graphic design industry. As crafting became more and more popular we began to see rub-on transfers breaking into the craft market in the late 90’s and they really came into their own in the past few years.
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Frugal Scrappin’
By Lori McCausland
Celebrate the Season...Frugal Scrapper style! When it comes to using my stash, it usually includes some "trash" and this Frugal Scrappin' "Celebrate the Season" mini album is no exception. For this project, my “trash” was a left over SEI 2009 showcase fall/winter catalog. On the cover of this catalog, SEI used one of their new lines called “Morovia”. When I saw the rich colors of teal, rust and tan mixed with taupe and cream, I just knew these colors were perfect for making one of my “famous” Frugal Scrapper mini albums. This also gave me an opportunity to play with my Slice and distress inks for the title. Since I couldn’t find the exact color I wanted to use for the word “Seasons”, I cut each letter with my slice, ran the letters through my Xyron X and distressed them with some of my favorite distress inks and glimmer mist.
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Celebrating Our Heritage
By Design Team
This picture shows my child, niece, and nephew's love for their material grandfather's outlandish stories - from me running nude at two in the front yard to a bull chasing my Uncle Bill all the way back to school to get his whipping from the schoolmarm! I can only imagine what he is telling them in this picture. He has been known to embellish his stories - or, should I say lie? It is not to show-off or be prideful. He just wants to be a wonderful grandfather, who the kids love to spend time with and will always remember a bit of his imagination. He, my dad, is otherwise known as Granddad.
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Love
By Design Team
Two summers ago my sister-in-law had a quiet wedding ceremony in her parents backyard. It was a beautiful day and I really enjoyed taking pictures of the happy couple. Here I captured the beaming bride and groom dancing their first dance. I wanted to use lots of white space in this layout. So I tore a few pieces of the pattern paper and stamped the journaling spot above it. Adding a few buttons for embellishments it gives the layout a bit of umph without taking too much away from the photos.
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Jumbo Valentines - P3: Pens, Postcards & Photos
By Judi Kauffman
Next to my husband, friends, family, and dog, Pens, Postcards and Photos top the "What I Love" list! Valentine's Day is a good time to bring what I call "P3" together. It's the perfect mix.
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Sports
By Design Team
Sometimes a photo from behind an athlete, showing the game from their line of sight, tells a great story. Our son started playing indoor soccer last fall and enjoys playing almost all of the positions. I was lucky enough to capture this photo of his body language during his first (and last!) stint as goalie. The picture so perfectly shows his feelings about tending goal that an enlarged photo and a caption were nearly all that this layout needed. The next time you’ve got a good story-telling photo, let it shine with a simple layout.
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Under Our Tree
By Anna-Karin Evaldsson
I wanted to use a big tree on this layout, since we got engaged under a tree which has a special meaning to us. I love trees and enjoy thinking of new ways in which to use them on layouts. A woodgrain stamp and a woodgrain transparency, as well as various ‘love’ related stamps, word stickers and embellishments were used to add to the theme of love and growth. The layout was also inspired by the ‘101 things you can do with your scrapbook supplies’ challenge on Two Peas in a Bucket, based on Jennifer McGuire’s book with the same name. The challenge was to distress rub-ons by applying them to textured paper and then sanding over them. Other techniques used on the layout include stamping, hand stitching and glimmer mist.
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"Love My BFF" Door Hanger
By Paris Hilton
Since I love to personnalize everything around me, here is a way to create a unique door hanger for your bedroom entrance!
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From Page to Party
By Jami Petersen
Jami is going batty with a glow in the dark Halloween party. She starts by creating a bat place card using a software program and a little paper folding. Next she creates a dry embossed bat using a template that matches her printed bat. The bat gets added to a treat bag that's ready to glow in the dark. This project uses a few tricks and creates some cute treats!
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Pocket Full of Cards
By Jami Petersen
Jami's got something in her pockets fanciful note cards! These note cards feature a pretty embossed flower that's easy to create with a little light, some brass and a stylus. Once the cards are made, they need to be organized, so Jami creates a pretty matching pocket folder. If square isn't your style, you can go vertical too with this pocket full of cards.
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I Love This Game
By Breanne Aullman
I love looking back and somewhat “reliving” my glory days. As the journaling says on the page, “a lot of my best memories from high school came on the volleyball court.” Although I can’t always capture the emotions and feelings I had back then, I do want to remember those days, and what better way to do so than to scrap about them. More importantly, I want to remember the times that I had with my teammates, and this page shows some of that.
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Let’s Talk
By Francine Clouden
This page captures a special moment between my husband and our son Kieran, when he was almost three months old. When I looked at the photos I took, it seemed as though the two males in the house were having a serious man to man talk, hence the title. Once I decided that I was going to use the acrylic bird as part of my design, I knew that this photo would be perfect along with it.
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Family Calendar
By Kristie Coleman
This calendar holds a very special place in my heart. Not only does it feature photos of my beloved family over the course of a year, it was this very project that marked a major change in my scrapping style. Through trying the many techniques that were new to me in this project a whole new world of scrapbooking opened up to me. It is a wonderful world that I am so thankful to have.
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Valentine Card Trio
By Melissa McClary
Valentine’s Day is one of my favorite holidays to make cards because there are no rules! You can choose traditional images and colors such as red and black or shake things up with a modern color scheme of pink, brown, and even blue. For my trio of cards I wanted to use one stamp set and scraps of cardstock to keep them simple and affordable.
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Non-Traditional Wedding Layouts
By Dr. Irit Shalom
My oldest son Ronen and his bride Adi got married a couple of months ago and they both are very "non traditional" people. So they did a lot of unusual things on their wedding day and one of them was to go to the coffee shop all dressed up to enjoy some cold ice cream - and it was December.
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I and Love and You
By Melissa Ferguson
I loved this picture of my son and I on Mothers Day. We were at the beach and had such a great time (I think I am guilty of scrapping this more than once). He really does make my heart sing and these papers and little chipboard heart completely portrayed the feelings I get from the picture of us! The chipboard bird and musical notes were just the icing on the cake.
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Soccer Show Stopper
By Ruth Tacoma
I love kits and I love a great challenge. As a guest designer for A Page in Time Kit Club for September this year I was given the opportunity to create a layout with some amazing product, the Amber Road Collection from Pink Paislee. Even though it was autumn/harvest themed, it provided inspiration to take the paper in a completely different direction - soccer.
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Love You
By Wendela Lam
I made this hanger this for my room to celebrate our wedding anniversary. It was a romantic gift for the two of us. And we’re still very much in love, even after all these years.
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Thankful For You
By Georgia Visacri
The whole idea for this project came after seeing a digital collage tutorial by Nacie Rowe Janitz. I have always been interested in collage projects, ever since the days when I used to do traditional scrapbooking, but I had never truly embraced this art because of the mess I’m able to make every time I use paints, gel mediums and glue. The idea of making a digital collage seemed like the best of two worlds for me because I would be able to achieve the look I wanted for my projects without all the mess! I also wanted my photo to look as it had been “transferred” to the background and for this reason I used the transparent tapes.
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Home Sweet Home
By Tammy Good
I created this piece for my sister in law as a Christmas gift. She is always creating great things for me and I wanted to reciprocate this year! I took care to include some embellishments that tell a bit of a short story about what is special to them and what they love. For instance, the numbers are that of their own house, they love dogs and nature, and have one little girl. This project could be easily changed to reflect your own personal style and interests.
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