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• Amy Martin
• Karen Becker
• Steph from the Daily Digi
• Izzy Hyman

Picks of the Week

• Friday Letters
• Smart Sound Royalty Free Music
• Joco Couture
• Focusing Problems post at Pioneer Woman

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A couple weeks ago during Paperclipping Live!, an audience member suggested I place a flower underneath the metal clock that I would be adding to my page as an embellishment. I love the idea of placing a metal clock on top of a soft flower — that is exactly the kind of contrast-layering that excites me. But I didn’t want to do it this time. Why not? I explained to the audience that because the paper underneath was a busy floral pattern, the flower would have little impact. It would look fine, but it’s curving petals would only be minimally detectable above the curving lines on the patterned paper.

Then I showed some patterned paper with graph lines — monotone paper with straight lines that would contrast with the curving organic lines of the flower — and explained that setting the clock on top of a flower, on top of the graph paper, would have great impact! It would definitely be worth it in that case!

This is a concept Izzy and I use for business decisions, and it’s one I have often used while scrapbooking, but I never thought to actually verbalize it until that night during Paperclipping Live! At that moment I decided to make it another of my scrapbooking mantras . . .

Invest in actions that cause maximum impact with minimal effort.

You have a finite amount of time, resources, and attention. How can you focus on the actions that will make a difference?

• Ignore the temptation to keep adding embellishments, just because you have embellishments that match the colors or the theme. If the page looks good with what you’ve already placed on it, call it done and move on.
• Use fewer photos on your scrapbook pages — just enough to tell the story. Satisfy yourself with enjoying the rest of the photos on your computer, on your blog, or as a framed slide show.
• When deciding whether to fix something that isn’t as perfect as you wish, determine how impactful it would be to “perfect” the problem. If it would make a huge impact, it’s probably worth the effort. If the impact would be small, then why bother?
• Buy scrapbook items that are versatile for a number of layout subjects, rather than specific themed subjects. Buy letters stickers in classic fonts, and in colors like black, white, or brown –colors that will work on any page, with any color scheme.

Next week’s video tutorial will highlight one product I have used again and again, in multiple ways, and with multiple styles. It is a tiny little embellishment that has had enormous impact!

This episode will be for the Paperclipping Members. Now that you know the topic, you can decide if this is the right time to get your membership, and whether a membership will be the impact you need to make your scrapbooking even more personal and more unique. Take a look at the details here.

Weekly Roundup

• The Paperclipping Roundtable – Memory-Go-Round
• The Paperclipping Digi Show – A Peek Inside Creative Teams

Heads Up!

• Paperclipping Live! – This live scrapbooking show is every Tuesday at 6:30pm PST. Are you free?

Last week, one of the Paperclipping Members, Karen, was feeling stuck and unhappy with a few layouts. She took advantage of my offer to Paperclipping Members: If you have a design problem, you can send me a picture of your layout and a description of what is bothering you. I will share your page with the audience during Paperclipping Live! and give you some personalized design tips. You don’t have to be present during the live show — there will be a recording for you to watch when you’re available!

Sometimes we can use a little help applying the principles in the videos to our own projects. I want to make sure our members get as much out of the videos as possible! And if you’re not a member but have been enjoying all the other stuff we have going on around here, I want to thank you for participating and contributing your own thoughts and ideas!

Best Regards,
Noell

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The Panel

• Vinnie Pearce
• Angie Lucas
• Nancy Nally
• Noell Hyman
• Izzy Hyman

Sponsors

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Picks of the Week

• The Best of Card Creations
• ThisIsPhotoBomb.com
• Pictory
• The Sweetest Occasion

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That’s the subject of this week’s Paperclipping Digi Show!

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The Panel

• Janet Phillips
• Kelly Lautenbach
• Steph from the Daily Digi
• Izzy Hyman

Picks of the Week

• Tumblr.com (Kelly on Tumblr)
• Digi Designs of Kate Hadfield
• iMovie for iPhone 4
• Doodlebug Design Plain and Simple Flourish Chip Album

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More Links

• Canvas on Demand
• SpoonFlower.com

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The Panel

• Ana Cabrera
• Nancy Nally
• Noell Hyman
• Izzy Hyman

WE HAVE A SPONSOR!

This show is sponsored by Big Picture Scrapbooking. Click here for the promo code to save 10% on any class at BPS!

Picks of the Week

• Incredibooth for iPhone, and Bump
• Cosmetic Applicators and baby wipes!
• iPhone 4
• Saving and using tiny scraps

Update: Here’s a link to Nancy’s Cinderalla Layout.

How to subscribe…

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Want more ways to use your leftover scraps? Or maybe you love embellishments and you’re in the mood for more layering and clustering ideas? Good news! Today we have both in this episode of Paperclipping! This is a members-only video, so if you’re a member, pull up a seat and get ready to scrap when it’s done!

If you’re not a member, and you’re hanging around here, I bet you would enjoy becoming one! You’ll get access to the current 151 tutorials, plus two more every month! Check it out here.

You can download the trailer for this tutorial here.

Beautiful You

Journaling to Trinity reads: You are one of those rare people who are naturally beautiful both inside and out. You have so much empathy and it drives you to take care of others. But you don’y do it at your own expense or when it compromises your integrity. You’re also unbelievably responsible, always remembering everything and giving the rest of us desperately needed reminders since, unlike you, we forget everything (we don’t know about Aiden yet).

You are a loyal friend. People love you and it’s easy to see why…You’re a fun and very lovable girl.

Self Expression

Hyman Tribe

Journaling reads:

Blake’s been singing this humorous jingle from the comedy, “Nacho Libre.” [the song: "I eat some bugs. I eat some grass. I use my hand to wipe my...tears."] The kids giggle so much at this song and Israel and I couldn’t tell if they knew what word the song actually implied. Israel finally asked Blake, “Do you know why that song is so funny? Blake, with a suspicious look on his face said, “Because he ate bugs and grass and that makes him cry.” We agreed verbally with Blake and left the kids to their innocence.

Opposite Sets Of Genes

Journaling reads:
Blake: happy at home – Trin: has to get out
Trin: hands-on artist – Blake: techie geek
Blake: designs graphic explosions – Trin: draws flowers, fairies
Trin: organized and level-headed – Blake: a slave to passionate ideas
Blake: expressive with words – Trin: expressive with visual arts

You both look at things and react to things so differently. Sometimes your differences may perplex each other. But you also share a mutual admiration for each other’s gifts and differences. It’s very cool.

Life-Stuff Worth Keeping

In addition to the obvious ticket stubs, play bills, and post cards, there are other types of memorabilia/ephemera you might not have considered. Here are five qualities that compel me to save some memorabilia while tossing the others:

1) Tells something about your life.

While the left pocket in the memorabilia protector below holds the common concert memorabilia, the pocket on the right is holding ephemera from my favorite clothing store. Those items say a little something about me right now. Eventually these pieces will move onto a layout or mini-book.

Some items tell a more subtle story about things that are going on in your life. At the end of the school year, Aiden’s teacher sent home a bunch of his first grade schoolwork. As I fished through the pieces, deciding what to toss and what to keep, I found the page below in a Valentines book where Aiden drew a picture of himself handing his great grandmother a heart.

At first I thought it was strange that he depicted Grandma Holt in bed, until I put the clues together and remembered that the month before he drew it, we had been visiting her in hospice. She died a couple weeks before Valentine’s Day. This drawing means that our visits, and Aiden’s relationship with Grandma, had enough of an impact on him to include it in his Valentine’s story two weeks later.

2) Captures handwriting

The handwriting alone doesn’t do it for me, since we’re talking about collecting current ephemera, and there are a lot of possible pieces to save based on the handwriting criteria alone. But coupled with something else on the list, it’s very cool. Below is a story in Blake’s handwriting. He is a natural writer and I noticed that he used story-writing as a way to deal with a frustrating scenario involving a sibling.

Actually, I’ve noticed he’s not the only one in my family to deal with situations this way. I may (or may not) want to combine these stories about various family members into one scrapbook story about family tendencies.

3) Demonstrates learning and progress of a skill or natural talent

Aiden is also a writer — actually all five of us are — and after he wrote the “book” below, he pointed out to me that he included a problem and a solution in his plot-line, something he had recently learned.

4) Demonstrates a person’s interests, natural tendencies, personality

Trinity draws almost every day, and most of what she draws has bright colors, hearts, and rainbows. I want to share her common art subject in a future scrapbook page, and I decided to save one that also included characters from her favorite movie, Hairspray.

5) Shows a relationship

Below is something I saved that my Dad wrote to me, way back in 1980.

When I was around fourteen, I decided to save this playful piece of paper my sister and I occupied our minds with during church. I could just journal something like, “My sister and I loved to play and tease, even during church,” but that doesn’t say it the way this does . . .

And this is something I found in a paper pad. It’s the score sheet kept by one of my kids’ favorite babysitters from a game she played with Trinity. I love that Emily’s teasing personality will be forever implanted in our memories with this one piece of paper.

Are you ready to start USING your memorabilia and need some inspiration? Below are some links to episodes with some layouts and mini-books. Paperclipping Members can watch the corresponding episodes in the Member’s Area, but if you’re not a member, you can see the projects in the blog post. If you want to see the tutorials as well, please click here to learn to learn about membership.

Everyday Items (for memorabilia specifically, look for the Starbucks mini-book)
Using Newspaper Articles on Layouts
Vacation Mini-book
Love Notes Mini-Book

A few more standard scrapbook pages:

Comfort Zone
Artsy Girl
Typical Friday

Weekly Roundup

• The Paperclipping Roundtable – Uninterpreted Bits
• The Paperclipping Digi Show – Not Ready To Go There

Don’t Forget!

• Paperclipping Live! – This live scrapbooking show is every Tuesday at 6:30pm PST. Are you free?
• The Paperclipping August Challenge

You Voted!

I’m happy to say that audience interest in tutorial topics were spread almost evenly among all four of the possibilities I shared last week. This means I’ll probably eventually do all four of them over the next six months (or sooner). I did count up the votes, though, and there was a clear winner. A majority of you voted on this episode topic:

Mini Scrap Clusters
Fill empty spaces with clusters of leftover scraps of papers, ribbons, etc.

Thank you for helping me choose our next Papercipping Video tutorial! We’re taping it today. Watch for its release soon!

Best Regards,

Noell
Host, Paperclipping

That’s the subject of this week’s Paperclipping Digi Show!

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The Panel

• Debbie Hodge
• Nicole Seitler
• Steph from the Daily Digi
• Izzy Hyman

Picks of the Week

• iClipart.com
• Camera+ for iPhone
• Makeit-Loveit.com
• Living Magazine

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All this and more on this installment of the Paperclipping Roundtable!

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The Panel

• Stacy Julian
• Liz Ness
• Nancy Nally
• Noell Hyman
• Izzy Hyman

WE HAVE A SPONSOR!

This show is sponsored by Big Picture Scrapbooking. Click here for the promo code to save 10% on any class at BPS!

Picks of the Week

• Julie Fei-Fan Balzer’s Art Journaling Week
• Suitcase-Style Storage Containers
• Plastic Bullet
• Martha Stewart Crafts Storage Box
• Send Tweets to Evernote

How to subscribe…

Did you know that when you subscribe in iTunes (which is free), you’re helping support Paperclipping Roundtable? It’s true. iTunes measures every subscription, so it’s like casting a “vote” for the show. It helps us move up the ranks and helps us grow the audience.

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Before we talk about the next tutorial, I want to tell you what Jamie Leija is doing right now with the last one. She is a Paperclipping Member and she watched this week’s video tutorial, Task Batch Minibooking. She thought of an involved project she had been wanting to do, and decided the process I introduced in the episode would help her accomplish it. Check out the comment she left on the blog, plus her mid-progress report . . .

Wednesday 12:00 PM
j.leija wrote:

This is a awesome tutorial Noell!! I’ve watched the video twice and am just now going to sit down and start a mini album of a trip to Bali that I took a few years back. I’m making 2 copies of this, one for me and one for the friend who went with me. This is a fabulous concept and the perfect tutorial for what I had already set out to accomplish this week!!

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Wednesday 2:08 PM
j.leija wrote:

Progress report: It’s been 2 hours and I now have 12 pages ready to be decorated! Totally loving this process!

Congratulations, Jamie!

It’s so exciting for me to see how the methods and concepts in the video tutorials are helping scrapbookers to share their stories! I’m still amazed by how quickly I was able to make the two mini-books I shared in the episode, especially when one of them is such a long book.

And I hope you don’t mind me sharing this Twitter message from Avital of Creativity Prompts, regarding this same episode:

“If you’re not a Paperclipping member already, this episode alone is a good enough reason to join.” –Avital Gertner Samet

Thank you,Taly!

Each and every Paperclipping tutorial is the type of content I wished I had received from the in-person classes and workshops I tried taking a number of years back. Those classes varied in price, but individually, they were in the price range of a Paperclipping Membership. Right now a membership will give you access to 150 episodes plus two more each month!

That is a lot of “class” for the price of one! Please check out the Membership Information Page if you are not yet a member, and you are interested in the Paperclipping Video Tutorials.

Help Me Choose The Next Episode

Not long ago, I asked you to tell me episode topics you would love to see. I counted up the similar requests, along with the suggestions that got a thumbs-up by others, and found the most popular topics. Below are four topics I’ve put together based on those requests. Please leave a comment and tell me which one you’re most interested in. The winning topic will become the next tutorial! Here are the choices:

1. One product – multiple ways and styles. Use the same product on a number of different layouts and projects in different ways and with different styles to convey different stories, meanings, moods. This will demonstrate how you can get different results from one product.
2. Compare the different inks on the market. What are the differences and when would you choose each: Archival, Distress, Alcohol, Staz-on, watermark, etc.
3. Design Principle: Use contrast to Layer Items. I’ve done a lot of episodes on layering embellishments. This one will concentrate on the specific principle of using contrast, and will show both traditional and digital examples.
4. Mini Scrap Clusters. Fill empty spaces with clusters of leftover scraps of papers, ribbons, etc.

I’m excited to record the episode that gets the most votes! Please cast yours by telling me in the comments!

Weekly Roundup

• Paperclipping Video Tutorial – Task Batch Minibooking
• The Paperclipping Roundtable – God Bless Ikea
• The Paperclipping Digi Show – Lots Of Rabbit Holes
• July Monthly Challenge Highlight – Jamie Leija!

Don’t Forget!

• Paperclipping Live! – This live scrapbooking show is every Tuesday at 6:30pm PST. Are you free?
• The Paperclipping August Challenge

Wow, there is a lot going on! Good thing it is all so fun! Please don’t forget to vote for your favorite episode topic!

Best Regards,

Noell
Host, Paperclipping