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July 25, 2008
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A Letter From The Editor In Chief
By Jami Petersen
The summer weather is really starting to heat up. I hope that everyone in the Midwest is finally drying out and I’m sending a special prayer to my family and friends back home, and also everyone who was affected by the floods and tornados. You are all in my thoughts.
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Celebrate July!
By Melodee Langworthy
Whenever July 4th comes around, I’m excited to wear our annual red, white, and blue t-shirts bought from our local Old Navy and celebrate Independence Day to its fullest! Scrapbook pages and other paper crafts make great gifts and memoirs for this wonderful holiday. Incorporating traditional images like stars and stripes made out of our nation’s bold colors is the perfect place to start!
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Crafting With Kids: Scrapping with Mommy
By Tracey Locher
I’ll come right out and say it. I am a Scrapaholic. Scrapping makes me happy. Scrapping is my creative outlet. I spend way too much time and money on my scrapping and I love it! As summer approaches, I will most likely cut my self imposed DSA, “Daily Scrapping Allowance,” so I can enjoy the warm weather, visits to the beach, and work on getting back in shape. With that said, I will probably still average three hours a day on my scrapping, which includes creative time and computer/blog/website time.
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Family Reunions
By Various Artists
Family reunions are fun and memorable. There are few times when a whole family can gather together and just enjoy one another. During the summer is when we see the most reunions so here are a few family reunion layouts we thought you’d enjoy.
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Pens: Stars & Stripes
By Judi Kauffman for Sakura of America
Fourth of July, Independence Day: It’s time for fireworks and picnics, family reunions and parades. It’s also time to say thank you to the men and women who serve our country or the veterans who served in times past. If you’d like to send cards to soldiers, visit the Angel Stampers for Soldiers website angelstampersforsoldiers.com.
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Fun in the Sun & Water
By Design Team
Summer equals fun in the sun and fun in the water! When the sun hits your shoulders while you’re sitting next to the water, that’s when you realize how much you look forward to summer every year. Now, you may not be ready to come indoors yet so remember to document the summer’s events with photos and a journal. When you’re ready, come inside and turn these memories into scrapbook layouts and hot paper craft projects.
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Vacations
By Design Team
We love to hear about our readers’ vacations and see how you turn your vacation memories into great layouts. This month we have four designers sharing they vacations from around the world. Join us in their adventures. It’s the best of traveling without all the hassle!
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Bunny Showdown
By Beth Price
Oh how we love our pets! They are a part of the family and often times they are a part of our scrapbooks. We asked you to share with us layouts showing the pets you love, and, let us tell you, every submission we received was just plain adorable! Beth Price made “Bunny Showdown” after taking this photo of her cat and bunny. What a great photo and creative way to show how much she loves her pets!
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Patriotic Milk Carton Mini Album
By Tracey Locher
Everywhere you look these days you see or hear someone talking about “going green”. From companies telling you how they manufacture their products with hydroelectric power to home improvement channels developing new programs to teach us how to “decorate green,” the green trend is everywhere. Yes, it has even hit scrapbooking. There are many manufacturers already producing green scrapbooking supplies. The future of scrapping is going to be green and gorgeous!!!
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Very special wedding invitations
By Maureen Blackman
When our eldest son, Toby, and his fiancée, Charlotte, were planning to marry in Venice, Italy 2 ½ years ago, they asked me to make their wedding invitations. I was simultaneously honoured and nervous. I obviously wanted to make something special for them, but I was also worried that they wouldn’t like my ideas. Fortunately everything worked out well, they loved the first design I came up with and, as the wedding party was only a small one (all of us flying to Venice for 3 days on a bright, cold December day) I only had to make 12 invitations.
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Do Me a Favor Part 2
By Design Team
Last month we showed you several variations for shower gifts and guest favors. This month we continue with even more great ideas. When you are deciding what to make for a favor to hand out at a wedding or shower there are so many things to consider: cost, whether to buy or make your own, finding something that represents the couple, finding something that will fit the theme of the wedding, and if it’s something you envision your guests being able to save and use at a later time.
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Our High School Grad
By Jean Marmo
Just looking at this photo still gives me chills - our youngest son as he graduated from high school. We are so proud of him. It wasn’t always easy but he did it. He reluctantly agreed to allow me to take photos to document the occasion. The school colors were orange and black and these papers picked up some of those colors. Although my children are now 19 and 24, I continue to scrap them as much as possible. I want them to be able to look back and remember those family moments that they may have forgotten. This is a way to keep them close to me even if they are not physically close.
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Table Scraps: A Canvas Shadowbox Frame
By Cher B. Lashley
There are times when I am going through the stacks of photographs that I come across one that signifies a memory that is so special to me that I don’t even want to hide it away in my scrapbook, but rather, have it where I can catch a glimpse of it every now and then while I’m traversing through the house. As always, my problem then becomes how I am going to present it or frame it to fit into my personal décor. Finding a suitable frame can be as daunting and sometimes as expensive as buying another piece of furniture while never being sure that it is perfect until I get it home. So, it was while I was looking at my stack of empty frames that I decided that I would make my own frame for this very special photograph of my son.
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C & T Publishing
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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Creative Imaginations Demos
By Jami Petersen
Creative Imaginations developed the bare elements line to give scrapbookers and paper crafters high quality paper board and wood products. The amazing shapes, sizes and forms will spark your creativity. Exceptional quality materials give bare•elements products an upscale look and feel. Each paper board product is wrapped in smooth white paper, making it easy for Jami to decorate. Get some great ideas for your next project!
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Decopatch
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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Lasting Impressions
By Jami Petersen
Fantastic scrapbooking ideas and supplies for your scrapbooking projects! All aboard! Lasting Impressions is moving to new and exciting places and invites you to become part of the family, and make scrapbooking a part of your life. Let Jami help you on your journey by demonstrating techniques and ideas for dry embossing, party planning and digital scrapbooking.
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Puppy Love
By Tammy Malone
I find that I am spending much more time on making my photos shine because that is what draws a person's attention to a scrapbook page. The papers and embellishments are just extras that help it pop. For this layout, the photograph I wanted to use was not the best because photographing my Yorkies can prove to be a real challenge. So I decided to do a little digital work on it by adding a background, some digital brushes and a soft edge to my photo.
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Photobooks: My Very First Year
By Angela Ploegman
Recently, when I was thinking about how best to do some Year-in-Review pages for my two young children, I discovered Digital Quick Page Albums. These albums are fast, fun, easy to use and best of all they look great! They are also a great way to compile a lot of photos in a small space. The 4x6 quick page format was perfect when I went to scrap a year in my daughter’s life and the entire project took only about two hours to complete. The laminating even makes the project kid-friendly, so if my four-year-old ever spills his milk on the pages, I can just wipe it off and put it away without any worry of permanent damage.
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A New Take on Hybrid: Digitally Enhancing a Paper Layout
By Bevin Dunn
When I think of hybrid scrapbooking, it usually includes ideas like using a computer to create journaling for paper projects, or printing digital layouts and adding physical embellishments to give them more of a 3-D feel. While preparing to teach a digital class at a local scrapbook store, I stumbled upon a different take on hybrid that has given me some great ideas for breathing new life into older paper projects.
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Square One - Backgrounds Part III: Keep Going!
By Judi Kauffman
In Backgrounds, Part I and Part II, I showed how to alter solid color cardstock and printed papers and explored a couple of ways to put them into use. I’m calling Part III “Keep Going!” to show even more ideas for using what you’ve altered. This time, the topic is making cards, with emphasis on getting the most from every scrap of paper and cardstock.
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Fun Dip
By Karen Shand
Madalyn’s older sister & brother, Victoria and Alex, convinced Mom to buy them Fun Dip at the local store. When Madalyn saw that her siblings had candy, she wanted some too. So into the highchair she went with a cup of the green sugar and her stick. When the stick was gone, she just licked the sugar off her fingers. She was so happy to be just like the big kids. As you can see from the photos, she loved every minute of it! I think she remained green for a couple of days.
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Adhesives 101
By Di Hickman
Pop into any scrapbooking or craft store and you’ll see the adhesives aisle - a whole row dedicated just to sticking your projects together. No matter what that project should be, there is no doubt a specialized adhesive for it. For a beginner to scrapbooking, browsing the scrapbooking aisles can be daunting enough, but then to be confronted with more options of how to actually stick the pages together, well it’s enough to send you screaming to the hills! One of the main reasons for scrapbooking is displaying photos in an aesthetically pleasing way. As such, it’s important to remember to use archival-safe adhesives that are acid free and therefore photo safe! With all that said, I thought I’d share some of my favorite adhesive, tips and tricks.
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All-Grown-Up Acrylic Album
By Julie Howard
As the mom of a beautiful seven-year-old who loves to model, I often will take my daughter around the yard and have impromptu photo shoots. The photos for this album were taken on a fairly warm day in March - no snow on the ground, just chilly enough to need a sweater, and just wet enough to have a few muddy spots.
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A Page Out of Life
By Design Team
In A Page Out of Life, a surprisingly diverse group of women get together at the local scrapbooking club and, in the process, uncover photographs that reveal a trail of secrets. It’s a funny and meaningful story that women will enjoy and the first novel to be written that uses scrapbooking as a backdrop. This novel from a new voice in literature is now available.
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For the Love of Cardstock
By Jennifer Armentrout
We all love scrapbook products…pretty patterned paper, buttons, flowers. I would venture to guess that you probably have as many of these goodies tucked away in your scrap area as I do (and that is a lot!). The only problem…. keeping up with the latest and greatest products can be brutal to your wallet.
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Making Your Own Die Cut Papers
By Chris Pozzi
Die-cut background papers are all the rage in the scrapbooking world right now. Die-cut backgrounds are available in scallops, zigzags and ornate shapes. But, what can you do if you don’t have access to them or you favorite paper doesn’t come in die-cut shapes? Why, you can make your own of course. It is not as hard as you would think.
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Embrace Your Embellishments!
By Dana Shutt-Mendibles
Seeing colorful embellishments on a layout should be candy to your eyes. If done properly, the choices you make will add extra texture and dimension to your layouts – and it’s a lot of fun! Just keep the following tips in mind…
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Freecycle pairs people with stuff - and keeps it out of the landfill
By Cameron Sullivan
It started with a pair of wooden bookcases I dreamed up for my kids. The bookcases would replace two melamine cases that are falling apart. I joined Pleasanton Freecycle in search of somebody else's castoffs. Then I joined Dublin Freecycle (accidentally signing up for the Republic of Ireland group the first time around), followed by San Ramon, Danville, Livermore, Dublin, Stockton and Tracy.
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Using Sketches to Build Pages
By Gayle Martin
When ever I am going to create a layout, my first step is to sketch out the design I plan to use. This allows me to determine the size and quantity of photos I plan to put on the page. There are a variety of blogs on the internet that feature page designs for you to work with if you need some inspiration. My next step is to print the photos or select the photos that I want to use, as this will help me determine the papers and elements that I want to use.
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Literary Lane: Vacations, Reunions & Fun in the Sun
By Design Team
One of the best parts of summer is time spent with family. Many of us will take vacations, travel to family reunions, and hang out in the sun. If this sums up your summer, you’re probably excited about all the pictures you’ll take and memories you’ll make. When you’re ready to turn your memories into layouts, travel through Literary Lane and re-live your summer fun!
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Basic Training for Guys
By Ted M.
You watch football. You rarely say "Excuse me" after you belch, and you know that if the A's stand any chance of getting to the playoffs this year, Chavez will have to show some hustle. Diaper is a four-letter word and you know there is no possible RIGHT answer to the dreadful question, "Do these jeans make my butt look large?" Yep, no doubt about it, you're a guy.
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Around the World with Paper
By Celeste Brodnik
My husband and I are lucky to be able to travel a lot and I, of course, take tons of pictures on these trips. They are definitely one of my favorite topics to scrapbook. Usually when I start a layout, I look for a sketch that will go with my photos or draw inspiration from a layout online or in a magazine. The end product doesn't always look like the sketch or layout from which I drew inspiration, but that's what makes the layouts uniquely mine.
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International Scrapbooking
By Josée Grandbois
I love scrapbooking my summer photos because the light is perfect and the colors are beautiful. Summer is the most inspiring season for me. Even if I use a lot bright colors during the year, summer has the brightest. I hope my layouts will inspire you.
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Piecing the Pieces
By Nana Campana
As I scrap, I sometimes wonder if I am the only person who experiences huge obstacles when it comes to finding the right embellishments for my pages. At times I have the right sticker but in the wrong color. Other times I have the right letters but in the wrong size. This everlasting dilemma was solved when I encountered the art of paper-piecing. As I was looking over some pre-made pages on eBay, I came across many layouts that had beautiful and “perfect” embellishments. I loved the handmade look they portrayed so I began to research their origin.
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Cookbookin’™ Tag Time
By Judi Kauffman
Some of my fondest summer memories involve cooking up batches of damson plum jam and soft dinner rolls with my grandmother. Though now that I think of it, I’m not sure how we survived. No one had air conditioning in those days. The kitchen was well over a hundred degrees. When we were finished, we sat on the back porch to wait for the Good Humor truck so we could cool off with orange popsicles.
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Punch Magic
By Deborah L. Lewis
Check out the buzz, border punches are hot! This article is a demonstration of using punches in a different way. Fiskars border punches are easy to use because of the built in matching pattern that gives the perfect punch every time. The squeeze punches surprise anyone that has used punches in the past with their ease of squeeze. Children even love using the squeeze punches for their crafting and school projects.
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