Happy springtime! If you fancy a little springtime scrapbooking, now is a great time to pick up some classes from the archives with a big discount! All of these classes have run previously, so all the materials are ready for you once your registration is processed and you can work through the lessons at your own speed. They all include permanent access, so you can buy now and save for a rainy day if you prefer! The spring break sale includes five different offers: three class bundles and two individual classes.

This Year’s Story Bundle: the starter course on album philosophy plus all 12 months of process videos – a mix of 12×12, 6×12, and pocket pages. Normally this would be at least $75 (more if you buy the months individually) but right now you can grab the whole set for $50. Click here to register for This Year’s Story.

The Layering Bundle: Three classes with a focus on paper layering! Includes Layer on Layer on Layer, I Love Layers, and Use What You Buy: Stencil edition. This set would ordinarily come to $55, but right now you can get all three for $40. Click here to register for the Layering Bundle.

The Productivity Bundle: If you have plenty of supplies but never seem to just get started and actually make stuff, this set of three classes will kick start your productivity with plenty of composition plans that let you just start cutting and sticking all that pretty paper. Start with a Sketch, Half & Half, and Use What You Buy: Bold Papers edition would usually run $55, but right now the set is just $35. Click here to register for the Productivity Bundle.

Clear the Desk was the most requested class for the sale – and it’s the answer that comes up most in the live chat any time someone asks what class to take during a livestream. Who am I to argue? Normally $15, but right now it’s $10. Click here to register for Clear the Desk.

And Most Magical Scrapbook seems relevant because my spring break includes a little Disney adventure this year! This class tracks my entire process for scrapbooking a two week trip to Disney World, so it is useful if you have a similar holiday to scrap, BUT I don’t make these pages with heaps of specific supplies or characters or anything like that, so if you enjoy process videos and are happy to change the topic when you work on your own pages, then there are two whole 12×12 albums worth of pages included here! This class usually runs $30 but right now it’s $20. Click here to register for Most Magical Scrapbook.

If you already have an account at shimelle.com, your purchase will be added to your existing account. If you are new to my classes, you will also receive an email with your login details. If you don’t hear anything within 24 hours of your payment OR you would like to use a different email address than what’s on your payment, please email me.

Sale prices end 10th April 2026.

Thanks so much and happy springtime scrapping!

Hey howdy hey! It’s certainly time for an update here, as I’ve been scrapping away in class and on YouTube and trying to be almost halfway decent at Facebook, and as a result I haven’t said anything here. Let’s finally put that right, shall we? I’m actually just at the beginning of a brand new class so why don’t we start with that?

Just JOY is a six week online scrapbooking class with 20 prerecorded video lessons plus 6 livestream scrapping sessions. We’re focusing on all the happiest things about scrapbooking, from page composition to colour combinations and embellishment techniques, but it’s not a case of just copying what brings me joy. Every lesson is accompanied with a checklist of joy to help you identify the things you love most about this craft.

Click here to see more or click here to jump straight to signing up!

It will be December before you know it, and that means Christmas classes! Journal your Christmas and Share your Christmas both start on the 1st of December as usual! And there’s something new this year if you like to plan and create ahead of time – I see you, team #organised! From Monday the 3rd of November, I’ll be sharing five days of videos preparing pages so you can hit the ground running in December by adding your pictures and writing. It’s five 90 minute videos, designed so you can watch and craft a little each day for a week, save it all up for one weekend of crafting, or slow it down and do a session or two each week of November. I will be using the supplies in the shopping list below, and I’m scrapping in 6×8 as I have for many Christmas journals now. You’re welcome to use any supplies and any album size – the ideas will adapt. It’s worth knowing that as I use page protectors, I don’t need to create all of my pages in the order that they end up appearing in the book. As such, I’ll be creating a library of things that I’ll then choose from as I make my 2025 album in December, so you’ll see a mix of page and pocket sizes in these five days of crafty content, including 6×8, 4×6, 3×4, and 3×8. There are also some shaped pages and folding pages for interactive elements. You can take this class with or without Journal your Christmas, although obviously it will fit well with that project in mind. Ready for December 2025! is $15 USD and starts on the 3rd of November. Click here to sign up!

If you’re scrapping Christmas along with us this year, you are always welcome to use any supplies you like and anything you already have in your stash! Use what you buy, of course! But if you fancy some Christmas scrapbook shopping this year, I’m here for you with that too. Here’s my shopping list (contains affiliate links) and what you’ll see in my Christmas class videos this year. (There’s a Disney Christmas collection out this year that I think is really lovely if you’re having a Christmas park trip or have something Disney themed over December. I’ve added it to the end of the list because obviously not everyone will have a mouse-themed Christmas! So as with everything else, you can pick what you like and leave the rest.)

If you’ve never joined in the fun of Journal your Christmas (the scrapping and writing class) or Share your Christmas (the photo and video class), you can find out about those and sign up right here.

Please note I have not done a new stamp design for Christmas 2025. This saddens me but the variability of tariffs when I’m in the UK and most of you are in the US just makes it too unpredictable this year. I don’t want you to end up paying more than you expected and equally I don’t want to end up with an unexpected bill either. Around the time I needed to open the usual preorder, the situation was changing a great deal. I will hope that next year we have a better understanding of how those agreements will work and if so, I will bring stamps back in 2026! I do have a limited number of stamps from previous years, so email me if you’d like one of those and I’ll talk you through the options.

This Wednesday, the 12th of March, is I LOVE LAYERS day!

I Love Layers is an online scrapbooking class in event style: if you’d like to join in on the day, you can learn and scrap right along with me. If Wednesday doesn’t suit your schedule, you can watch and craft at absolutely any time you like after the day comes to a close.

Layering is my happiest part of crafting, and I have a long form class on this subject, so this is more of a blitz through all the details that can make your layering as eye-catching, creative, and enjoyable as possible! I will be covering:
*Background layering of inks, paints, or patterned papers
*Making your stash lean into layering (without buying new)
*Layers to frame a single photo
*Making layers work with multiple photos
*Layers specifically for journaling
*Clean versus messy layers
*Knowing when to stop

All of the above have pre-recorded content you’ll be able to watch on Wednesday, plus I will scrapbook live so there’s an opportunity for you to layer right along with me in real time and complete a project on the day. (It’s okay to start with the livestream and come back to watch the prerecorded later if that’s better with your time zone. It will make sense in either order.) Participants receive a list to help you gather supplies suitable for the scrap-a-long, so you won’t have to waste time going through every paper and die-cut you own while we’re all crafting together.

I Love Layers is $10 and open for registration now by clicking here!

If you have an existing class pass, I Love Layers is included so you don’t need to do a thing. (You have this and 1 2 Punch coming your way to bring the existing class pass to a close!)

Next up is The One Two Punch!

If you signed up many moons ago for Use Your Punches as a coming soon, you are already signed up for this and do not need to do a thing!

This class grew out of my original Use What You Buy process but once I got started, I had way more things I wanted to share than what fit in the short workshop format. Instead, we now have a class with twenty videos: ten are in real time with minimal speeding up (there are some quicker edits for things like letter stickers and you don’t have to wait for any paint to dry!) so all ten techniques are easy to follow, and ten take those same techniques showing the same idea with different photos and different supplies but this time in a sped up edit of roughly 20 minutes. The class uses quite ordinary punch shapes: circles (plain, pinked, and scalloped), hearts, stars, butterflies, and the like. All the techniques can be used with a variety of shapes, so the first and second video for each idea do not use the same punch. The focus is on shape punches but there are a few times I add in a border punch as an optional extra.

There is one set of videos already there on the class forum when you sign up and then new content starts Friday and moves forward from there! Class will finish right around Easter. I changed the pace on this so no one feels they have to do heaps of pages every week to keep up. So the twenty videos finish mid June instead. Thank you to those who shared their opinions on the pacing of classes. It is impossible to have one pace that is best for everyone but there were many good points made and some will be really useful for other projects later in the year!

One Two Punch is $20 and open for registration by clicking here!

Remember, if you have a current class pass, this is already included, and this brings your pass to a close.

Then a moment to talk about This Year’s Story! Over 2024, I shared absolutely everything I made to go into my family albums for the year in a class called This Year’s Story. It begins with a starter class all about my album philosophy, how I work with my photo library, and all the practical part of keeping scrapbooks that become cherished books. Then every month of 2024 has a series of videos showing how everything comes together – an entire year of process videos including 12×12 pages, 6×12 pages, and pocket pages of assorted sizes. In total, that was four filled D-ring binders and the most detailed documentation of our lives I’ve ever managed! I absolutely love it.

Some of you asked if I would continue this into 2025. Others asked if I would get back to teaching themed classes that were shorter than a year long. So I’m choosing a happy medium! I will be teaching classes that aren’t all year long, and do have a theme, but the pages I make within that class will be all those stories going into my 2025 albums, so you’ll see mostly 12×12 layouts, but also some smaller pages and pocket pages in the mix. I’m going to begin that focus with a deep dive into the papers, stickers, and embellishments I’ve managed to keep for years and years, for a class all about scrapping with old stash! We will mix old with new, I will get all my January and February stories told and into the album. You won’t need the exact same supplies – that’s never how I teach! I want to enable you to use what you have already purchased and make things you love – it’s learning, not just following directions.

I’m still working out the exact number of videos this will be, but it will be a mix of pre-recorded and live-streamed videos, and as always you can watch any live-streamed video as a replay to make it fit your schedule. You never have to be there live – it’s just an option. (And if you are mostly familiar with my ‘random rubbish’ informal YouTube scrappy livestreams, please know my class livestreams are a different agenda and we don’t just do random chat. It’s the on-topic version of me showing up to teach!)

This class, New Pages from Old Stash, is scheduled to start on the 30th of April, and is $20. Registration is open by clicking here. Registration won’t close early so you can wait for more specific details if you would like, of course. But I open it now for those who prefer to sign up now before they forget. Remember, if you had a class pass, this is the first class not covered by that and you will need to sign up for this one! (I’m not going to open a class pass at this time, so please do sign up rather than waiting for a bulk purchase option. Thanks!)

Don’t worry, I don’t even put my pumpkins out until October so I’m definitely not rushing into Christmas around here, but I do have one thing that needs to come before the season arrives every year, and that’s supplies for Christmas Journal season! This year I have a shopping list and a set of stamps. The stamps are only available here, but the shopping list is the same format I use for my monthly scrapbooking. You can use it as a literal shopping list and add one of everything to your cart and have a full set of supplies to follow along with me as closely as you’d like, you can take it to your local store if you have one and go shopping there, or you can choose similar items from your existing collection of supplies to make your own kit from the stash you’ve bought over the years. All strategies and styles welcome! Journal your Christmas is a project that encourages all styles and making things work for you, so you can follow me step by step if you want or you can go entirely out on your own and both are equally welcome.

First up, the stamps. These will be open for preorders for one week – this closes next Wednesday the 2nd of October so they can be on their way to you in time for Christmas crafting! This year’s designs have plenty of circles which are all separate stamps, plus a separate topper that lets you turn any of the circles into an ornament. There is a mix of handwritten words and a clean retro font that I’m excited to add to the supplies on this year’s shopping list!

It’s a single sheet of stamps this year and there is one difference to ordering for 2024. In previous years, the price has included worldwide shipping. But there is now a much bigger difference in postage cost for domestic and overseas mail, so there are two options. Stamps with UK shipping for £13, or stamps with worldwide shipping for $18. The stamps about 4×6 inches or A6 format, made here in the UK from high quality photo polymer, and sent directly from me to you. Please make sure your shipping address is complete and correct and if you spot a mistake or are planning to move before December, drop me an email with those details.

Then there are the other supplies I’ll be using this December! This is what you’ll see me use in my videos throughout the Journal your Christmas online class. If you are ordering through these affiliate links (thank you!) don’t forget to check the coupons page. Today there is 9 to 11 percent off your order depending on the total with code SMILE, plus a free stencil to add to your cart. Below the list you’ll find my chat through everything that’s here and why, so you can make the choices that will work best for your style. There are just a couple items still marked as Coming Soon so I’ve placed my order today and will add those once they arrive – I’ve clicked the notify button in hopes I can be quick enough!

I love the number element of my Christmas journals so I started there first to get a feel for the style I plan to create this year, and the red stencil numbers mixed with my stamp numbers are putting me in a retro but fresh vibe that I think will be really fun to create. I’m using a colour palette of traditional red and green plus turquoise, and I do have winter (but not a lot of snow) at Christmas time, so some of my supplies are winter themed. Leave those off if your Christmas is far more tropical! Always pick the things that will work for your stories – that’s why I post a shopping list rather than a specific kit.

I’ve created Christmas journals in a range of sizes – 8×8, 9×9, 12×12, 6×12, and 6×8. I’ve stuck with 6×8 for many years now because it’s a beautiful balance for me in terms of room to write, room for photos, and just enough space to embellish in a way that brings me joy in a shorter time frame than a 12×12 page. This year I’m using a red velvet 6×8 ring binder. I’ve used the same brand in pink previously. While I wish there was an album out this year that had the same supersized binder rings as the album I used last year (designed by Paige Evans), sadly they are all smaller this time around. I know I can make this size work because I have before, but I also know I shouldn’t aim to use heaps of dimensional embellishments as I like to include plenty of pages in my journal and it’s best when it will still close.

I then start with a stack of 6×8 paper pads. I’m going with three 6×8 collection pads that are patterned and artwork based, one that is just tonal polka dots in colours I will use alongside, one in woodgrains, and one pack of plain journaling line papers. I’ve listed two tonal sets here because you might prefer the darker or brighter shades. I will be using the brighter option. Then I add in a few 12×12 sheets that I’ll cut down to smaller sizes, including some woodgrains and cut apart designs for quick pockets or embellishments.

I use my Christmas journal to journal, so I lean heavily into products that help me write down those stories. That means there are several sets of letter stickers in my basket. You might prefer letter stamps or another title product to stickers, but letter stickers are my bread and butter!

Next I pick packs of embellishments and I don’t tend to go for the fanciest kinds because then I find I spend a lot on that pack and never use it! Instead I go for what I know I will use without fear, and that’s die cut packs and sticker books. I’ve put a couple of packs of Christmas florals in for me this year but there are more shapes in those same collections if Christmas flower isn’t a concept that works for you.

Nothing looks done to me until it has enamel dots and gold mist, and you might totally disagree with that one! No problem. I have lined up my reds, greens, turquoises, and gold for this final step.

Along side my stamp set and all of the above supplies for this year, I keep things to my basics really. I’ll have black dye ink plus my Distress Oxide inks in reds, greens, and blue-greens, a set of basic letter stamps, a stamping block, some simple punches like a circle and a border, and probably a roll or two of twine to put through the tops of tags. I haven’t listed those on the shopping list but if you’re just getting started and would like advice, just shout and I can help with that!

Speaking of just getting started – if you’re new to scrapbooking or you’re new to this project and you just want a really simple and affordable way to make a Christmas journal with a kit that allows you to add your photos and writing to tell everything, then this set in either red or green is your answer. It includes an album with lots of page protectors, a journaling pen, and a set of Christmas themed journal and accent cards. You can follow the writing prompts in Journal your Christmas with this and not worry about the embellishment at all! Just the writing and the photos and then drop the odd title card into a pocket here or three. And this kit is actually a bargain because the same album without all the kit and pen stuff is the same price? So might as well go for it! This is totally a way to scrapbook with limited time and budget and don’t let anyone (including me) running away with our embellishments and stamping make you feel like it’s not proper scrapbooking. It most definitely is and it will get your stories told in a book you can hold and bring out every year. It’s a brilliant plan really! Find that here in red or green.

That’s everything to get you through until our class starts as usual on the first of December! Have a wonderful autumn or spring until then and I’ll see you when it’s properly time to talk all things Christmassy!