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• Jackie Wood
• Debbie Hodge
• Noell Hyman

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Want some ideas for your die cuts — both manual and electronic?

Try using negative space from your cuts as a place to add texture and dimension.

Eleven Textures to use with your Die Cuts

Here are some textures to experiment with…

1. glitter
2. fabric
3. a cluster of brads
4. a cluster of buttons
5. heat emboss
6. Distress Emboss
7. dry embossed paper
8. glossy paper
9. metallic paper
10. textured homemade papers
11. flocking

What other textures can you come up with?

Shine On,

P.S.> Want some scrapbook ideas for cuts that look great with texture and ways them on a layout? Today we released a video tutorial where I put together three different scrapbook pages with different types of die cuts and textures.

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Do you avoid including memorabilia and ephemera from your life because it ruins your gorgeous designs?

Or do you use them but feel like they make your pages less attractive?

In this episode I share lots of tips for making the stuff from your life look awesome (or beautiful!) on your pages. You’ll also see me assemble three different layouts with ephemera (all boy pages!) start to finish.

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In this video I share some fun ways to look beyond the obvious uses of your cuts and to get a lot more out of them and the paper you cut into. You’ll see lots of examples, the process of an entire layout coming together, along with a great technique to use with your color mediums.

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Need a fresh scrapbooking idea that’s on-trend but also simple and budget-friendly?

I want to share with you one of my favorite videos, which shows the process for some of my favorite layouts.

In the video I share a template for scrapbooking pages with small bits and pieces — whether they’re your leftover scraps or those cute little cut out pieces in your newest patterned papers.

You’ll be able to use this Flexible Template over and over for a totally fresh scrapbook page every time. Just take a look at the layouts below to see what I mean.

Shine On,

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Layouts from the video are below…

Be Yourself & Love It

Dog or Goat?

Yet Another Day @ Starbucks

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The Panelists

• Amy Tan
• Kelly Purkey
• Katrina Kennedy
• Noell Hyman

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Do you ever struggle with how to mix patterned paper?

Have you heard a few rules here and there, but still find it a bit confusing?

The fact is, there aren’t any real rules for mixing patterns. There are lots of different methods, and people like to call them rules. Unfortunately, it’s the myth of the “rules” that leave scrapbookers feeling like they can’t do it.

Here’s the good news…

You don’t really need to learn all those “rules.” There’s just one single concept that will help you mix patterns well, and it’s extremely simple.

I’ve pulled a video out of the Paperclipping Library to share with you so you can see for yourself how those “rules” aren’t, in fact, rules. You’ll see how that one single concept leads to every wonderful patterned paper combination that exists.

With this concept you can become an expert, yourself.

Go ahead and watch the video. When you’re done you’ll be able to take all your leftover patterns from older collections — the ones you’re not sure what to do with — and start mixing them with each other.

And after that…?

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Shine On,

The Panelists

• Jennifer McGuire
• Michelle Houghton
• Noell Hyman

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Looking forward to some fun summer photos to scrapbook?

Here are lots of ideas for summer and vacation pages, mini-books, albums, shooting photos and choosing photos, and even ideas for packing so you can scrapbook while on your vacation…

1. A Vacation Scrapbook with Project Life
2. Easier Vacation Scrapbooking
3. How to Choose Your Best Vacation Photos
4. Five Ways to Tell Your Vacation Story Through Photos
5. How to Make a Vacation Scrapboook
6. How to Choose Your Best Vacation Photos
7. Six Ways to Scrapbook Outdoor Greenery
8. How to Capture the Setting and Set the Mood
9. Big on Photos, Short on Time: A Summer Mini-album with 44 Photos
10. Organic Background Techniques for Outdoor Nature Scrapbooking
11. Techniques for Bright Color Effects
12. Four Ideas for Making Your Own Summer-Themed Scrapbook Accents

In addition to these articles, Paperclipping Members can watch these video tutorials in the Membership Library…

• A Vacation Scrapbook with Project Life – 218
• Organic Background Techniques – 201
• Summertime Photography Tips – Paperclipping 112
• Make Your Vacation Album More Meaningful – Paperclipping 107
• Packing to Scrapbook on Your Vacation – Paperclipping 110

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Shine On,

The Panelists

• Ali Edwards
• Mercy Tiara
• Julie Fei-Fan Balzer
• Noell Hyman

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• Basic Grey Capture Line
• Kelly Purkey Letter Stickers
• Studio Calico – Sundrifter Die Cuts

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Every scrapbooker needs a good exit strategy.

And an entrance strategy.

What for? For those big overwhelming projects — such as vacation and travel scrapbooks — which most of us tend to procrastinate or never finish. Or both.

What’s funny is we’re almost always excited to scrapbook them. So why don’t we?

They require too much work!

It’s not all fun and games with a vacation album. It’s organization and planning, too. And making all the pages can take a long, long time.

In order to start, it helps to have an exit strategy so you know you’ll be able to easily finish it up and move on if you get bored.

Project Life Makes it Easy to Start that Big Vacation Album

• Project Life makes it easy to get all the photos in place, making the organization and planning part simple and fast.
• With all your photos viewable you feel much more motivated and excited to work on the project.

Project Life Allows for Exciting Scrapbook Layouts

• The D-ring album means you can insert as many standard scrapbook pages as you feel motivated to do. Bring on all those fun layers of product!

Project Life Makes it Easy to Finish that Big Vacation Album.

• When you’re tired of the album and ready to move on, you can complete whatever remains with the simple insert cards.

As someone who quickly gets tired of large projects, I’ve learned to start with an exit strategy so that you’d never know by looking at mine that I got bored and wanted to move on.

Do you have a big vacation or travel experience waiting for you?

Let Me Share My Process with You for Making a Vacation or Travel Scrapbook

I lived with Filipinos in the Philippines for over a year and collected lots of photos and life-changing stories. I know what it means to feel overwhelmed. But the process I’m using to put together a beautiful album is exciting, fun, and simple!

I shared this process in a video tutorial for the Paperclipping Members. Members can now find it in the Member’s Area and on iTunes.

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Shine On,

Does it scare you to commit to an idea if you can’t guarantee to the outcome?

When you’re just working with pre-designed scrapbook supplies it’s not as big of a deal if you don’t know exactly where you’re going with a layout idea because you can lay the paper pieces down to see if you like them there, and move them around (or off) if you don’t.

Working with pre-designed products requires a lot less commitment and unknown territory than working with techniques. The fear of messing up everything you already have on your page can keep a lot of scrapbookers from trying many of their page ideas. So can the often ugly earlier stages of many color mediums that require layering and depth.

Do you ever find yourself NOT doing something on a page because you’re not sure how it will turn out?

We’re not always sure we want to take the risk.

Fallen – Assembled on Video in Paperclipping 217

This week I wanted to share my process — start to finish — for layouts on which I’m relying more heavily on techniques and when I have no idea how it will turn out. You’ll see my process from the very beginning…

• Choosing a photo.
• Deciding what to do with the other photos from the same event.
• Choosing which scrapbook album the layout will work best in.
• Drawing from prior inspiration I saw once but didn’t save.
• Choosing my background.
• Trying a possible technique for the background.
• Finding a Plan B for a technique that didn’t work as I hoped.
• Experimenting with a crackle and stain technique.
• Trial and error (and a solution) for a title from a Cameo cut and an embellishment.
• …And ultimately bringing the page together to its finish.

When it comes to techniques, experimentation is a necessary part of the game. Hopefully this video episode will help you see how to make it a part of the process, to get past the scary “ugly” phase that is common in the early stages of many techniques, and how to adapt the “failed” pieces so you can use them in other ways.

Ready to watch and then try it for yourself?

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The Panelists

• Dina Wakley
• Shimelle Laine
• Michelle Hernandez
• Noell Hyman

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The Panelists

• Stacy Julian
• Debbie Hodge
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• Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?
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Hi Izzy,
Firstly, you should know that I only have one subscription online, and that is to Paperclipping…

…Noell has a wonderful way of giving substantial instructions to whatever she is demonstrating. She does it in a way that makes me feel as if she is in my craft room with me. Her voice is natural and calm. She does not repeat the same words over and over.

I thoroughly enjoy every video. The information is clear and the products she uses are often recycled or inexpensive. I have watched many videos in the past, but none that are as informative.

Please pass on my sincere thanks to your lovely wife, and tell her to keep doing what she is doing! I love to watch and learn! Congratulations on a job so very well done!

Grace Norman

Thank you, Grace, and all of you others who make us feel very good about what we do.

CLICK HERE to learn about our video tutorials and the Paperclipping. Maybe you’ll agree with Grace! :)

I used to slap that little devil off of me and follow my guardian angel, but not anymore…

I realized we can have everything we want — we can succumb to temptation, then get forgiveness and make it right by making layouts that are one-and-a-half pages. You really can scrapbook great designs and well-journaled stories together.

With one-and-a-half page layouts — meaning the standard 12×12 page plus a 6×12 page for the journaling — you can be as wild and care-free as you like by first making the page of your dreams on a 12×12 layout and ignoring the journaling.

But don’t worry. Your reckless ways don’t have to stick with you…

Nobody will ever know of the secret wild child that lies within because you can clean up your act by providing the story on a supplemental 6×12 page.

Multi-Page Scrapbook Layouts

My Baby Blanket Story – One-and-a-half page spread.

Multi-page scrapbook layouts are great for ephemera and memorabilia. And of course, they’re great for multiple photo pages.

Not only that but multi-page layouts are especially useful for old childhood scrapbooks where we tend to have groups of photos of events and ephemera.

My Baby Blanket Story – In the album with a blanket scrap insert and the next page peeking through.

For now let’s focus on multi-page layouts that are one-and-a-half pages long.

By adding a 6×12 page to the usual 12×12, your scrapbook album becomes a page turner because you can see part of the next page behind the 6×12. Who can resist their curiosity with a sneak peek like that?

Chad Was Born – Pages 1 + 2.

This is the page that comes after my layout above. I originally meant for the journaling to go on the right side, as you see in this photo, but when I designed the Baby Blanket page to come before this one in my scrapbook, I moved the journaled 6×12 page to the left so it would go behind the 6×12 page of the first layout.

Sharing Mutli-Page Layouts Online

If you make two-page layouts you’ve probably noticed they tend to get fewer views online. The images are so long that the thumbnails show up small in galleries and they don’t attract as much attention. But if you design the 12×12 first, and then design the 6×12 to coordinate with it, your 12×12 will look good on its own.

You can use a photo of the 12×12 as your gallery thumbnail to attract more viewers. When they click on that thumbnail you can share the full multi-page spread in the supplemental photos.

More One-and-a-Half Page Scrapbook Layouts

Leonardo da Vinci – Pages 1 + 2.

Sometimes your journaling may not need to be all that long, but it’s a bit much for multiple photos and ephemera, like my page above. Now you can relax, fit it all in, and still have fun with layers and design.

Why We Don’t Pay Our Kids to Do Their Choires – 3 page layout – Page 1 (with page 2 peeking out).

My story for this page was so long that it took two half pages to complete. I could have fit all that journaling onto a 12×12 page to make it a full two-page layout (meaning, two 12×12′s). But doing it on two sides of this 6×12 is so much more interesting, don’t you think?

Why We Don’t Pay Our Kids to Do Their Chores – pages 2 + 3.

And once again I was able to fit some ephemera (in the pocket) and also scrapbook with fun techniques.

Why We Don’t Pay Our Kids to Do Their Chores – page 3 (main page).

This next page only had a single photo and the page design is very simple. Of course, I could have fit the typed journaling and the picture onto a single 12×12. But I love this photo that highlights the dancer in her through her bun, her neck and shoulders, her dance bag. Sometimes you want to enlarge a photo to show the details.

Power Elite – One-and-a-half page spread.

That means you have to tell the journaling to move over…over to the next page.

Finding Freedom – One-and-a-half page spread.

Other stories call for an enlarged photo, a long story, and also some techniques. I love that I was able to to create a sense of movement with lots of butterflies on a page that is otherwise very calm and serene. It’s a combination of of the physical peace I can finally enjoy after twenty-five years of chronic neck pain, and the freedom from suffering; the freedom of physical movement.

Finding Freedom – closeup of journaling.

Finding Freedom – butterfly closeup.

Whether you’ve been listening to the devil on your left shoulder or the angel on your right, you can stop being so one-sided! Do both and get everything you want every time you scrapbook.

Not sure how to make the half-page go with the design of your initial 12×12?

No worries! I share how to design 6×12 pages to coordinate with 12×12 layouts in a video tutorial. CLICK HERE to learn how you can get this video.

If you regret pages from an earlier and wilder scrapbook life, this is a great way to go back and add the story! Don’t you think?

So which is it for you? The angel or the devil? Or both? :)

The Panelists

• Amy Tan
• Allison Kreft
• Noell Hyman

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The Panelists

• Angie Lucas
• Jennifer Wilson
• Marilyn Sibblies
• Noell Hyman

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• So Major Journaling Cards
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Remember the old borders we used to make for the sides of our pages years ago? They were often intricate, time-consuming, and sometimes even a distraction from the photos.

Edge gatherings are similar to borders, but they’re much easier to put together and they’re way cooler.
They’re also not so cumbersome.

What are Edge Gatherings, and What Can They Do for You?

Edge gatherings — layered items on either the top and bottom edges of the page, or along the sides — are organic and free form, so they’re much easier to place on almost any page design without tipping the balance of weight.

Design Purpose

But better than that — they have a wonderful design purpose. Edge gatherings will keep the eye circling around the page so it doesn’t easily float off the edge and move onto something else.

I’m assuming you would like people to spend more time looking at your page, of course. Am I right?

If edge gatherings are new to you, give them a try!

Here’s Some Help!

This week’s video tutorial will take you through the process of putting together a few very different edge gatherings for a variety of layouts. You’ll get lots of unique ideas, plus see the general concepts for how to make edge gatherings look — well — edgy.

Or pretty, if that’s what you prefer.

Whatever the style, you’ll see how to make them complement your photos and the rest of your page.

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