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Posts Tagged ‘Scrapbooks’
OK, I Give Up! More Snow Stuff!
Aloha, all!
The last time I posted I said that I was so OVER snow. And I just sit and read about snow, I don't live in it. I can't imagine what you gals and guys who've been living with so much of it this winter are going through (well, yes, I've been there/done that – 50 inches the last winter we spent on the mainland).
But when there are grandchildren involved and their mother (a photographer) takes pictures of them, I have to give in.
Both of these scrap pages are made with Stampin' Up!'s My Digital Studio, and both feature photos of one grandchild each. The photo layout is one of the built-in layouts provided in the software package that comes with My Digital Studio. I modified it just a bit, added the background paper, some snowflakes from digital "stamp sets" and some journaling backgrounds made with digital "punches." All digital! Not a speck of paper wasted trying out different colors for the mats! And (best of all) no added clutter in the craft room! That's the real plus because it seems to be in a constant state of disarray as I am cleaning up after Christmas and getting the new Occasions Mini Catalog stuff set up.
If you have any questions about My Digital Studio, I'll be glad to help you with them! I've taken all of Stampin' Up!'s tutorials and have a lot of practice doing lots of fun pages (fun is my mantra for 2011!). There's also an online resource for everyone who uses My Digital Studio – MyDigitalStudio.net. Lots of great samples and discussions! If you're not quite sure you want to buy this software, go check that website out – you'll be hooked!
And whether you're making cards or scrapbook pages or anything else creative today, have fun with it!
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Aloha, all!
I have something a little different for you today – a scrapbook page!
I did this page as part of a challenge – to make a simple 6" x 6" scrap page with one photo element. Well, the newest Stampin' Up! Scrapbook Albums are for 8" x 8" pages! I think that this is just a terrific scrapbook size, and so I made my page that size. I'm really hoping that we'll have plenty of Christmas photos of our grandchildren to fill up a whole album!
This paper is from the Candy Cane Specialty Designer Series Paper from the Stampin' Up! 2010 Holiday Mini Catalog. The whole set is made to coordinate with the stamp set, A Cute Christmas, which is one I don't yet have. I'll probably give in and order it this week – just too, well, cute. But the papers work well with other products, too, including the 2-Step Bird Punch which I'm showcasing here. I punched a Real Red and a Garden Green bird, and just switched out the branch that punches with the birds. I sponged the edge of the birds and their wings, which gives that some nice depth.
That's all there is to this page! And it's a great page for an album introduction. You really don't need much more than this through a whole album. Too many people stress over their scrapbooks and never get anything done. I admit to doing that also, but I'm really working hard at getting out of this mind set!
I hope you'll take some time to scrap this winter – and have fun with it!
2010 Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog – The Last Post!
Aloha, all!
Well, this is it. My last post with products from the Stampin' Up! 2010 Summer Mini Catalog. It's been a great mini catalog from which to shop!
Today, something different to end it all – scrapbooks!
Earlier this summer, when my husband became ill and was in a hospital far from our home for over a month, I made a small scrapbook with photos of his garden, his pets, and his Bridge Club friends. He truly did enjoy having this small scale album with him to show off to visitors, not to mention the nurses and other staff! The album, of course, was from the Summer Mini Catalog. It holds 6" x 6" scrapbook pages, and has an Old Olive Polka Dot Designer Cover. The papers that I used for the album from the Island Oasis Set coordinated perfectly with it. (Oooh – think Christmas Colors for this Album, too!) The other album in this photo is another album for 6" x 6" pages, and its cover is a Bashful Blue Herringbone. The papers that I used for this album were from the coordinating paper set, Travel Journal. For pictures of both sets of papers, just go back a few posts on this blog. They're wonderful to work with in scrapbooks!
While there are 6" x 6" scrapbooks in the 2010 "Big" Catalog, none of them has a designer cover – they have a Natural Linen cover and are quite a bit more expensive than these lovely albums. So you might want to consider stocking up!
You might well ask if there are going to be albums in the 2010 Holiday Mini Catalog. Indeed, there are. But both of them are for 8" x 8" scrap pages. A nice size and I'll definitely be buying – and using! – them. But for efficiency in the use of Designer Series Paper, you can get 4 pages out of one sheet for a 6" square album, while the 8" square allows you no more than if you were making a 12" square album – one!
Here is a full description of the albums. You have only until just before midnight Mountain Daylight Time tonight to order them! I'll be glad to place the order for you if you'd like to call me (808.854.6145). Or you can go directly to my website and place the order there!
Tomorrow: Welcome the 2010 Holiday Mini Catalog with another of the Diva Coffee Break Team's color challenges!
Designer Kits in My Digital Studio
Aloha, all!
As I showed you yesterday, you can use My Digital Studio to make a scrapbook all of your own design. I did most of the layouts myself, and picked embellishments, stamp sets and papers from all over the place in the program.
Today I’ll share a couple of pages that I made using one of the built-in Designer Kits, Sunny Day. In these Designer Kits, there are entire pages all laid out for you. All you have to do is find your photographs and click and drag them into the spaces designed to holdl them. MDS resizes the photos for you automatically (it does this no matter how you lay out your scrapbook pages.)
What I scrapbooked this time was my trip back in May, where I visited my son and his family in Oregon, family and friends in Maryland, and a couple of side trips to different parts of Pennsylvania. The first page is the page that will be on the cover of my book. Stampin’ Up!’s printer will be offering books with leather covers, books with printed photo covers, and so much more! You can even get individual pages printed, and then add your own 3-D embellishments to make a hybrid page! This book, though, is just for printing.
Unfortunately, for today’s blog, I’m a bit limited in the pages I can show you because the pages contain photographs of lots of people with whom I enjoyed my trip, and I’m not going to bother them with requests to be able to post their pictures on the Internet. But you’ll get the gist of what MDS can do.
For one thing, I’m probably not someone who would put pink, green, orange and turquoise together on a scrapbook page. It really takes a good designer to make that color combo work. And Stampin’ Up! has some darned good designers, because I think this works just fine!
The page above is one that I made myself, but using only elements available in the Sunny Day Designer Kit. I didn’t need permission from the azaleas and rhododendrons to show their photographs off!
Beginning today, I’m back in the craft room to make some cards for swaps. Then I’ll be off for a couple of days while I go with my husband to Honolulu. I hope to get some of those swap cards done to share before I leave!
Meanwhile, start thinking about all those scrapbooks that you’ve been putting off because you just don’t have the time. When you get your own copy of My Digital Studio, you’ll get them done in NO time!
My Digital Studio – A Special Scrapbook
Aloha, all!
I have been waiting all summer to be able to use My Digital Studio to create a very special album to commemorate our family’s time at Bear Lake, Minnesota, this summer. Now I’ve finished the album, and it’s ready to be sent off to be printed (not quite yet as Stampin’ Up!’s printing service is not quite ready to take orders yet!)
This will be the cover of the album. There’s not much in the way of embellishments, but the alphabet is one that comes with MDS.
The photograph is a very unusual photo of SEVEN loons swimming in formation near our dock. We couldn’t believe that many were swimming peacefully. Unfortunately, the only camera at the ready was a lower resolution camera. But we’re happy to have the photo anyway.
As the week goes on, I’ll share some of the pages from the scrapbook with you. As I don’t have the opportunity to get photo releases from most of the people in the album, most of what I show will be scenic pages. Not bad, though!
A Bit of Scrapbooking Fun
Aloha, all!
I spent most of last weekend putting together a scrapbook of photos I took when I visited my son and grandson, son’s significant other and her son. We had two wonderful days out and about in Portland, Oregon. On a Saturday we visited the Oregon Zoo, which is a delightful place to spend a day. Then on Sunday we visited the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden. I couldn’t imagine trying to please an 8 year old and a 6 year old – both boys! – at a flower garden. Wrong!! This garden has lakes and ponds, and the lake and ponds have ducks and geese. The first order of the day was to buy a very large bag of goose and duck food (of course). Believe me, no one was bored!
I thought I’d share a couple of the scrapbook pages with you. The scrapbook uses Stampin’ Up! products exclusively throughout. For awhile I thought I was going to have to use non-Stampin’ Up! alphabet stickers. But then I found some Avery Label sticker paper, and used one of the Sizzlit Alphabets that Stampin’ Up! offers in its catalog to make my own stickers. When I priced things out, I definitely saved a lot of $$$ (not counting the Sizzix die because I’ve used that a lot already for other things).
This is the left page of a two-page spread.
I had the most fun using the Circle Scissors Plus on most of the pages in this scrapbook. I could adjust it to just fit the image I wanted to cut, then adjust it slightly larger to make the mat behind the photo. Most of the papers here are all papers that are going to be retiring at the end of this month. The Baja Breeze was just the perfect color for this set of photos, and went well with the Kraft card stock, punched with the Photo Corners Punch, as an accent.
The printed papers are from the retiring set of Designer Papers, Parisian Breeze. The stamp is from the set, Under the Stars, and another stamp from that set is on the right page (which I’ll share tomorrow)
The sticker letters are from the Sizzlit Naturally Serif Alphabet die. It’s a long strip die with all the letters of the alphabet–upper and lower case–on one strip. It was very, very easy to cut the sticker paper with it, and all the letters separated from their backing with just a bit of a push from the tip of a straight pin. It’s just the perfect alphabet set for this size scrapbook page (8-1/2" x 11").
Are YOU ready to do some scrapbooking? Beginning this fall, I’ll be offering Scrapbooking Classes in my Craft Room. Let me know if you’d be interested.
A 1940 Memory Book – Part I
Aloha, all!
Last month when my cousin, Sherry, was here visiting us in Hawaii, we started rummaging through a box full of old photographs. Now I know that the readers of the Robin’s Craft Room blog are far too sophisticated about such items as photographs to have them stashed in boxes in closets. You all have them neatly arranged in wonderful scrapbooks, don’t you? No?? Hmmm. I may have a scrapbooking class for you this summer!
Anyway, there in the middle of the box was a book I probably had seen before but had never really noticed.
It was my mother’s scrapbook from her Senior Year in High School. She graduated in 1940, and here in my hands was a book that contained what was important to her all those years ago. My mother passed away several years ago. Looking through this book, though, made me feel almost as connected to her as if she were still alive. Except that I couldn’t ask her questions about it.
Here’s the cover, and over the next month or so, I’ll be sharing with you some of the wonderful little tidbits that I found behind this cover. Some of the sharing will be excepts from an article that I’m going to write about what to consider as you’re preparing a scrapbook in terms of what’s really important to preserve your memories. Think you know all the answers? I may have some new insights for you, based on my own personal experience.
May is National Scrapbooking Month. For most of the month I’ll be traveling away from Hawaii, so I haven’t scheduled any scrapbook classes. But Scrapbooks aren’t going to go away, and I’ll probably schedule something for June–just in time for Wedding Scrapbooks, of course!
Feline Help With My Orders
Aloha, all!
My cat, Cholla (pronounced Choy-a–she was originally a New Mexico cat), knows something’s up when I receive not one but TWO Stampin’ Up! boxes in the mail on one day. Successive days she’s used to. But late last week I sent one workshop order in and, within 3 hours, two of my friends/customers were visiting my Craft Room and ordered up enough for a SECOND workshop order! The supplies are all divided up, and the boxes are stacked ready for people to come get them. And a stack of two boxes is just too much for one cat to resist.
My big personal project last week and this week and probably well into next week is working on taking apart and putting back together again my mother’s High School Graduation memory book. But first I have to get my newsletter done and get some class time in for a couple of new customers who’ve bought Stampin’ Up! products and need to learn a bit more about how to use them.
So–I’ll be sending my Newsletter out later this week! A bit late this month, but it will be worth it. If you’re not signed up for my Newsletter, be sure to do so in the next day or two to be sure of getting my post-Income Tax Day 2009 News from Robin’s Craft Room! Just type your e-mail address into the box at the top of the column just to the right of my latest blog post. You’ll be added to my mailing list right away!
And, if you’re interested in what young women who graduated from High School in 1940 may have put in their memory books, stay tuned right here as I share some of that with you over the next month.
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