A Letter From The Editor By Jami Petersen December is a month for celebrating. Of course there are several noteworthy holidays and some not-so-noteworthy birthdays (like mine). But with the celebrations comes the gift giving, which can be an expensive undertaking for any family – large or small.
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Best Book Bargains By Design Team Now you can see just what makes a layout go from "nice" to "wow!" Each idea presented in Kick It Up is accompanied by two layouts: one that shows a well-designed page, and a second that shows the same layout kicked up to the next level.
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Earth Love Gift Set By Danni Reid I have always loved to create gift assortments for family, friends and my husband's teaching staff (which includes 55 certificated and classified employees). With the current economy, it is sometimes easy to cut back on our scrapbooking budgets because we can "tell the story" when the economy turns around.
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Celebrating Family By Design Team My youngest daughter is a dancer. My mom, Joan Kolbaba, snapped this photo one morning as Lyssie danced to her own special music.
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Cooking & Recipes By Design Team Does your family prepare traditional recipes for the holidays? Include those recipes with your layouts. Ask your family members about their favorite dishes and create a page to remember them. Family members will love looking back at kitchen memories you have preserved.
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Cry 4 Us By Dr. Irit Shalom This layout was inspired by an ad I saw, the first word I thought was "go green - save the planet". So this is actually about us crying crocodile tears for our poor mother earth and doing nothing really to save it. The watch symbolizes we are out of time. The crocodile photo was taken on my son and husband's trip in Brazil at 2007.
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Winter Holidays By Design Team Celebrating Hanukkah with our 9 month old, Shane, was a real treat. This page captures our family moments - singing, lighting the menorah, eating latkes (potato pancakes). During the holiday, Shane started to crawl; he was motivated to try for electronic gadgets like the TV remote.
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Music of the Soul By Pedro Kuperman Brazilian artist Pedro Kuperman uses gel inks by Sakura of America to create vibrant illustrations on a variety of surfaces. He created “Cream of Clapton” by using Gelly Roll® Metallic pens on a black canvas. Sakura’s 3D gel inks can also be used on non-porous surfaces like plastic, glass, ceramic, and metal.
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Remember By Connie Mercer This layout was inspired by a story that I didn’t want to get lost through the years. I had some of the toy tractors Papa had given the boys, when they were small, so I asked him to hold them-what a perfect back drop to “tell the story”.
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Scrapbooking the Everyday Moments By Rita Barakat These are pictures of my youngest in her car seat. She was just giggling and acting silly and of course I had my camera ready! I can't help but think how beautiful she is in this moment, just being herself; I didn't want to forget this moment.
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Color Select Studio By Color Select Color Select Studio is an easy way to achieve the highly sought after color
select effect on your pictures. This unique program is designed to change
any digital photograph from color to black and white and color. It is
simple to use so anyone can use it on their photos even kids.
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Ho Ho Hybrid By Jami Petersen Do you like the convenience of digital scrapbooking, but don't want to give up the textures of traditional scrapping? Then this is is the Webisode for you. Jami mixes the ease of digital with the satisfaction of 3-D embellishments in a special holiday gift album for her Grandma.
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The Chocolate Project By Jami Petersen Just in time for the holidays, Jami has come up with a tasty stamping treat—stamped chocolates. We know that presentation is key, so Jami also has a box template to share that will hold these tempting morsels. When the box is made from shimmery cardstock, the gift is complete.
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Sugar & Spice By Alix West I know it wasn't the perfect photo, they weren't all looking at the camera, it's a tad blurry, and the color is a bit off, but I love this photo anyway! It's my girls, having fun, being silly, and getting excited about the holidays and I wanted to capture that in my layout. When I spotted Manda Bean's Hip for the Holidays kit, I knew it would be a perfect match for the photo with it's bright, non-traditional colors and fun patterns. I really just threw this one together, bu tI was very happy with the result!
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Square One - Reversible Calendar Cards By Judi Kauffman While looking at a pad of 2-sided Christmas theme papers the other day, I noticed that the patterns on the back of many sheets weren't Christmas-y at all. The colors coordinated from one side to the other, but the stripes, flowers, and other motifs weren't particularly seasonal. It reminded me of a favorite reversible jacket I bought at Chico's - one side festive and dressy with a bit of gold sparkling through a multi-color print and the other side black with pumpkin/brown stitching.
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Whimsical Winter Layout By Karen Lang This whimsical layout captures the mood and fun of a beautiful winter moment. I kept the look of this page very loose and freestyle, to add to the whimsical mood of the subject matter. Choose a single photo to be the highlight of your composition. Then, simply cut various pieces of patterned paper and solid cardstock, and arrange in a collage as shown.
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Christmas Tree Album By Jan Hennings I wanted to create a Christmas album that would not only be a centerpiece for our large living room table but also hold photos of our happy holiday memories.
Designing a template for my album was as much fun as making the album itself. Using scrapbooking supplies in unique ways may result in a fun and one-of-a-kind design.
I wanted to create a Christmas album that would not only be a centerpiece for our large living room table but also hold photos of our happy holiday memories.
Designing a template for my album was as much fun as making the album itself. Using scrapbooking supplies in unique ways may result in a fun and one-of-a-kind design.
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Holiday House By Pamela Young In my opinion, Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year. And it is so much to fun to make your own decorations for the home. Maya Road sells these awesome chipboard houses that you can alter and use for any season. So of course, I had to make a Christmas house. Think of how much more special your Christmas village is when you have made the houses yourself, exactly like you want them to be.
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Holiday Cards By Sherri Thompson Holiday cards are one of my favorite types of cards to make. It really gets me in the mood for Christmas! This set of cards features several designs which could be easily mass-produced by creating them assembly-line style. Mix and match the elements for a variety of card designs. After the holidays, use these design ideas to make cards for the next occasion!
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Soup & Bread By Kristie Coleman I completed this project for some Design Team work over at Creative Cookbooking. We were to scrap our favorite soup and bread. For this assignment we needed to include photos, recipes and shopping lists. I am currently working on an entire scrappy cookbook while serving on the design team. This project is so much fun for me, and my family is really enjoying my renewed interest in cooking a variety of meals.
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N-O-E-L By Stacy Rodriguez I have created this wall hanging for the upcoming holiday. It's so much more fun to make some of our decorations rather then buying them at the store. It gives your decorations that one-of-a-kind feel. This wall hanging would make a wonderful gift for your exchanges at work. You can easily get 3 hangings from one sheet of 12x12 paper.
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Christmas in Canada By Josée Grandbois It’s not an easy thing to take a picture of our 3 kids together. Christmas it’s the perfect time for that.
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Your First Winter Day By Lilach Oren It was the first day of winter that the sun was out. We took our new baby for a walk to get some fresh air without worrying about him getting too cold. I'm sure that he loved his little trip because it took him only a few minutes to fall into a deep sleep.
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Die Cuts for Christmas By Di Hickman Die cut stickers are one of my favorite embellishments for cards and layouts because they are so easy to use! You can really get any design, shape and even curvy joined text! These can really make card making a snap!
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Origami Tree By Amy Wilhelms This is a fun holiday-themed paper project that would be beautiful as a centerpiece or anywhere among the rest of your Christmas décor. I used a slightly non-traditional Christmas paper line by Nikki Sivils, you can choose anything you want and customize it to your own taste.
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Kiss the Cook By Shelly Skala I really wanted to make something that was unique. A thoughtful little gift that could be given to various people such as a new neighbor, my mother-in-law, a friend that seems to have it all, etc. When I received the printable template from The Cutting Café it all just fell together. The thing I love about it the most is how easy it will be to include it in various theme gift baskets which can be given all year long.
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Family Crossword By Nancy Korf With a hard drive full of digital photos waiting to be scrapbooked, I love making pages where I can use multiple pictures. For this layout, I combined my favorite photos from the last year and descriptive words to make this cute, personalized crossword.
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Holiday Packages By Jamie Cripps This card was created for a transparency challenge. I wanted to go with something that would show a lot of the transparency yet something that wouldn’t be overwhelming to the card. After seeing this little snowman on a Cricut cartridge, I knew a snow globe was in need!
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