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Welcome From The Editor
By Jami Petersen
Oh my, it’s already July! I hope all of you have exciting plans with friends and family this month. Maybe you’re camping, playing sports or simply celebrating in the backyard. Whatever you do, make sure you get outside and enjoy the weather and the beauty of nature. Don’t forget the camera to capture all those sunny moments. Won’t it be fun to scrap those pictures in the throes of winter? Or maybe you’re ready right now! If so, pack up some supplies along with the picnic gear and get inspired by the articles in this month’s issue.
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Best Book Bargains
By Design Team
Paper Celebrations includes over 50 paper creations, cards and keepsakes to mark all of life's special occasions including Mother's Day, birthdays, weddings, anniversaries and more. Inspirational projects include gorgeous gift boxes and bags, cleverly shaped cards, keepsake books and beautiful album covers.
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Fun In The Sun
By Design Team
Digital stamps, also called masks or transparencies, are a simple and beautiful way to add interest to the focal photo of your layout. They’re especially effective when placed above photos that have lots of open areas with little detail (“white space”).
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Imaginary Vacation Collages
By Judi Kauffman
Where would you go for a vacation if money, time and other normal considerations didn't matter, if you could land on the moon, climb to a mountain peak, visit Rome and Paris, ride a bike across Peru?
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Photo Transfer Tags
By Jules Eickmeier
While there are several products on the market and several methods of achieving a photo transfer, I prefer the Blender P-O pen by Chartpak to all others. I have used the strapping or masking technique but find scraping the watersoaked paper off the back of the transfer image messy and not always complete. I have used the gen that is applied several times with a twenty minute waiting period between each application and found it too time consuming. So, for easy and instant gratification, I use the Chartpak pen.
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Vacations
By Design Team
In the summer of 2008 our family went on a trip around Iceland. The nature there is really overwhelming. I treasure the memory of seeing the ice floating to the sea. So beautiful! And the picture of me and my youngest daughter is one of my favorites, and I also wanted to use it on a layout. I decided that I would combine these two things in one.
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Renewed Purpose with Digital and Stamping!
By Maggie Lamarre
With summer comes the urge to redecorate and spruce up to make things fresh! I've had this old frame for a while and wanted to do something with it, it hit me once I saw some fabulous papers. I knew right away I wanted to breathe life into it. With the digital papers and my trusted Cuttlebug machine it was a snap.
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Color Select Studio
By Design Team
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 & white AND color.
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Picture Puzzles
By Jami Petersen
Jami is bringing her scrapbooking out of the album and onto the coffee table. This will be the perfect ice breaker at your next social gathering. Jami chose weddings as her theme, but kids, animals, cars...once you start making these picture puzzles you won’t want to stop.
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Pocket Book
By Jami Petersen
Special relationships and precious memories can live forever when lovingly scrapbooked with quality products from Close To My Heart. With their unique collection of scrapbooking kits, exclusive papers, inks, and step-by-step programs, preserving your memories just got faster, simpler, and easier! Let Jami show you how to transform sweet note cards into a mini scrapbook.
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A Vacation to Remember
By Toby Skaggs
My daughter snapped this photo of her new husband during our vacation in Destin, Florida. It was a long day and the idea of just posing with a smile didn't go over very well. It was his best funky look.
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Head for the Table, Reversible Placemats
By Judi Kauffman
Are you up for an easy challenge? Look through the 12" x 12" double-sided papers you have on hand and pick several that coordinate. Remember: easy isn't cheating. You can use papers that were designed as a collection - that's what I did.
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Amazing Acrylic Album
By Tracey Ryalls
I was feeling like I was in a bit of a rut and needed something to shake things up in my scrapbooking when I decided to try working with acrylic albums. It was a little intimidating at first, but the challenges of working with acrylic were just the cure I needed to snap me out of my doldrums and it turned out to be a lot of fun.
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Into The Wild
By Sookie Francisco
The idea to make an animal train came to me when I created some animal cards. Why not paper piece more animals and put them on a train? Then, alongside the animals were pictures of my daughters, my husband and myself.
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Pretty Girl Project
By Jennifer McGowan
My daughter is 4 years old and has quite a collection of hair bows and barrettes. We had them in a basket in our bathroom drawer, but were constantly on the hunt for a missing barrette or one of a certain color to match a particular outfit. I came up with this altered hanger as a way to store all of her hair accessories in an organized and attractive way.
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Silver Thumbprints
By Rita Suddick
I love art of all forms. I’ve been working in the Arts since I was seventeen, first in music, and for the last twenty years in an art gallery. During my second semester of college, I took a jewelry class. Immediately, I knew that it was a passion that I would continue throughout my lifetime.
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Festive Birthday Cards
By Eva Alvarez
I like to give a personalized birthday card for my family and friends. I began to scrapbook cards. My first one was very simple, but since then I have done a lot, the great majority are birthday cards.
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On the Borderline
By Laina Lamb
I created these pages to highlight a few of my favorite photos from a recent cruise our family took. Between the 11 of us on the vacation, we managed to take over 500 photos. Instead of trying to create a scrapbook for all of the photos, I chose to create a hybrid photo album to finish the job more quickly. I fell in love with a few of the photos and decided to make scrapbook pages out of them anyway. These were two of them.
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Yogurt Flower Cup Vase
By Mari Koegelenberg
I love to re-use and alter plastic containers, my daughter loves the Drinking Yoghurt variety and has one regularly, so as you can imagine I have quite a few on hand. My general rule of thumb is that if I can wash it in the dishwasher and it survives (or my poor dishwasher survives! lol!) I can re-use it. The majority of containers in my scrap area are recycled containers that I have washed and cleaned in the dishwasher.
Trust me, the more Hybrid projects you attempt, the more your eyes will open to all of the possibilities there are to create beautiful things from everyday items. Never be scared to try something new!
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A Colorful Cornucopia
By Gayle Martin
My daughter recently got married and these are some of her engagement photos from their weekend in Orlando. She was not especially eager to take this photo as she felt it was cliché, but I love it. I appreciate their fun spirit and sense of adventure in picture taking. With this in mind, I wanted a light-hearted design for the entertaining image.
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Scrapping Your Heritage
By Alicia S. Giess
This page was created as a result of a heritage challenge to scrap some photos from your past which your parents/grandparents might have taken which made you say “huh?” or “why?” These are some old photos of news events that my grandmother/mother took from their old black and white television.
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Paper Or Plastic
By Monica McNeill
I was inspired by my regular grocery bag from Central Market and in celebration of Earth Day I incorporated it into my layout about my going green journey. I was a reluctant recycler in the beginning but now look for ways to repurpose even in my scrapbooking! This layout used my grocery bag as a design element & packaging from product as a journaling spot.
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Journal Prompts: Summer Fun
By Design Team
Summer is here and that means picnics, barbeques, baseball, and festivities galore! The warmth in the air is inspiring in itself but if you need an extra nudge, we have what you’re looking for –quotes, poetry, and humorous sayings to kick the summer off with a sunny start.
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A Rainbow of Ideas
By Theresa Lee
My inspiration for this layout was a project by Ronda Palazzari, which resurrected my teenage fascination with arranging colors according to the color spectrum. I had recently read an article about the meanings of colors, so the two ideas fused together with this black and white photo of my two children, Michelle and Chris, and I just let my right brain take over from there.
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Beyond Journaling
By Tara Orr
I often find that my layouts don’t have enough room for journaling. When I want to include, but don’t have the space or don’t think it suits a particular layout, I will create a hidden journaling tag as I did with this layout.
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Family Frames
By Jessica Bowne
I recently redecorated my living room in Americana theme. I wanted to do something unique for my mantle. I chose six different patterned papers that I thought went together well. I wanted all my frames to be the same color but different shapes and sizes for an extra creative affect. All the frames are black with a red antiqued finish. This project is easy enough for a beginning scrapbooker to complete.
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George at the Sea
By Anna Koziarek
This photo was taken at the Polish Sea in 2007. George was playing a whole day on a beach, running and screaming, and suddenly he sat and started looking at the sea enchanted by its movements. I tried to find papers, stamps and embellishments that would perfectly match the theme – I hope I managed.
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Tilano Charm Bracelet
By Nicole Crosby
I wanted to make a gift for my Aunt Kennie – something personal and wearable. I decided to make her a charm bracelet. Using the Tilano Images Transfer Kit, a few charms and some family photos I was able to make her a custom charm bracelet. If you would like to make one for yourself for someone else, here are the instructions.
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