Monthly Archives: October 2012

Bless this Mess with Junelle Jacobsen

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One of my favorite people to watch make art is at it again!  Junelle Jacobson will be the featured instructor at Christy Tomlinson’s mixed media class, “Bless This Mess” which starts Tuesday, October 23rd.  This is a sequel to the first class Junelle did earlier this year.  She is a great teacher and a lot of fun to watch.

I first “met” Junelle at a Layout a Day (LOAD) challenge, and loved her scrapbook pages.  We then were in one of Christy Tomlinson’s first online classes, and we all began to see and love Junelle’s unique and creative touch on all the pieces we were doing.

One of things that is most fun with some of these classes, are the FaceBook groups that go with them!  How fun to see what other classmates are doing and meet people with similar interests from around the world.  I hope you’ll think about joining us!

Fall Festivities at the Pumpkin Patch

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The colors and activities of fall are always so wonderful to capture! I feel blessed to live where there are seasonal changes that allow us to capture great outdoor pictures with vibrant hues of yellows, oranges, and reds! This past weekend we went out to Pinehaven Farm to enjoy their fall activities and go out to their pumpkin patch to pick pumpkins!

We had two of our daughters, and their daughters, Princess 1 (14 years old) and Princess 2 (five), with us. The girls decorated small pumpkins as pirates and cats with little sets of adhesive foam cutouts. What a great idea to decorate with stick-ons so that your little pumpkins will last till Halloween and not deteriorate by carving too soon.

A farm has to have animals to be complete, right? Their animals seem like a combination of “regular” farm animals and a zoo. There were miniature horses, (I think I would own one if I was in the country again!) goats with the cutest babies, emus, yaks, sheep, geese, a llama, peacocks….. I don’t even remember what else! Princess 2 was always in a rush to see the next animals before the rest of us were ever finished looking at the ones we were standing in front of.

We rode tractor pulled wagons out the pumpkin patch. Princess 2 barely got off the wagon and found her perfect pumpkin before everyone had even gotten off the wagon. In fact she had to wait for everyone to get off the wagon before racing back up the steps.  She set her pumpkin on her seat and got back down to find another one. We all had fun looking at different shapes and sizes and picking out some other pumpkins. There was some surprise as to how prickly the stems and vines still on the ground were. I heard “Ouch!” more than once.  When we got back to the wagon, Princess 2 spread her arms out, looking around saying, “My pumpkin is gone!” With years of experience under our belts, we braced ourselves to deal with what could be devastation. What were we thinking? She jumped back off the wagon and found another perfect pumpkin just steps away, and quickly climbed back up the steps to take her seat on the wagon. Whew… it’s so nice to have people with a pleasant attitudes!

 

True Scrap 4, October 19-20, 2012

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Don’t miss your chance to get in on an incredible weekend “getaway” to get crafty, scrap, learn, and have fun!  You don’t even have to leave home to go!  Lain Ehmann is the hostess with the mostest and she brings us “the galaxy’s ONLY online, live virtual paper crafting event.”

Here’s what you get:

Inspiration and Education from 15 A-list instructors…

Five virtual project make-and-takes…

Pre-Event PJ Party…

Virtual goodie bag…

All for one low price…

All from YOUR computer!

Drum roll, please….. the classes and instructors are:

Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, “Dirty Fingers, Clean Design: Messy Techniques with Clean and Simple Results”
Erin Bassett, “Art Journaling 101: A Beginner’s Guide”
Monica Bradford, “All I Really Need to Know About Journaling I Learned in First Grade”
Kellie Crowe, “Get Your Butt out of That Rut!: Kelli’s Excellent Adventure to Find Scrapbooking Inspiration”
Laura Denison,”One and Done: Mini-Album in an Hour”
Jennifer Gallacher, “The Boys Are Back in Town: Making Manly & Masculine Layouts”
Nic Howard, “Tag! You’re It! Using Tags as Canvases for Inspiration, Experimentation, and Play”
Noell Hyman,”Story Core Design: A Storytelling Process for Scrapbooking”
Katrina Kennedy, “Everyday Portraits: Capturing Personality Through the Lens”
Nichol Magouirk, “The Art of Layering: Tips & Tricks for Creating Dimensional Scrapbook Layouts”
Gretchen Schmidt, “Stretch Your Sketch: Take Creative Control of Your Scrapbook Sketches”
Katrina Simeck, “DON’T Say ‘Cheese:’ Natural Kid Photography”
Jessica Sprague, “All About Actions: Photoshop Actions for Beginners”
Heidi Swapp,”Your Memory File: A New Approach to Scrapbooking”
Jennifer Wilson, “Try Hybrid: Go-To Digital Techniques for Paper Crafters”
Find out all the details about the event and the classes at the True Scrap website.  Hurry and don’t miss all the fun.  Oh, if you can’t stay for the whole party, it’s recorded and you’ll have access to anything you had to miss!  I hope I’ll see you there!

 

Threads That Bind

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I have used various kinds of fibers to bind loose pages together from time to time, without a lot of thought other than whether it looked nice.  However, I recently wondered why the preferred fiber is a waxed linen thread.  Why linen, and why wax it?  Well, I searched online and thought I’d share what I learned!  Unbleached linen is both strong and has a long life.  The waxing is done to keep it from tangling and being able to grip it firmly to make any knots.  It wasn’t rocket science, but it was interesting.

Whether you like to creating photobooks, scrapbooks, or journals of all types, at some time you may want to pull some pages together to make something unique, or simple put together some loose pages. I recently ran across a great online resource for making all kinds of booklets, Making Mini Scrapbooks, Instructions and Inspirations.

I’m working on something now that will soon need to be bound together, and I’ll show the end result upon completion.  Until then, here is the front cover: