With the holidays here, since it has become so popular, I was thinking how much fun it would be to show some of my family how to capture some memories with Pocket Page scrapbooking. The cards come in a zillion colors and styles, and pretty much offer something for every taste or occasion. Not only can these cards make scrapbooking easy, but the cards can be used for so much more. Since they have images, words, or even phrases, they can make quick work of a card making project, or even a “traditional” scrapbook page, and can be a great addition to a mixed media piece, or art journaling! Here was a previous post showing different uses for pocket cards.
Did you know that you can create that same pocket page look digitally? It’s really not difficult! Close To My Heart’s online software, Studio J makes it easy! Or what if you want to create your own pocket cards? You can do that, too!
Watch the video and see how easy it is.
A Gift for You!
I would like to let you all know how much I appreciate you following my blog. It is my desire that as I share things I like to do, that you’ll pick up some tips and tricks along the way; and that you’ll want to try new things. As a special “Thank You” to you, I’d like to offer these two pages of pocket page cards. All you have to do is print, and cut. You can even size them down to an 8×8″ square and print them on a letter size paper, to use any way you’d like.
Right Click the button to download, or click to view, and then download.
Welcome to Make It Monday blog hop! If you’ve come Gina’s site at GinaZee.com, you are in the right place!
Now it’s my turn to show you an idea! If you’ve been following along lately, you know that today is the day that the Creative Christmas Bundle goes on sale! 15 Crafters/Designers – 15 products – 1 low price – for 1 week only!
My contribution to this special bundle is an online Art Journaling Basics class! You can find out about it here, but don’t order from that page, because for a few dollars more you can get the entire Creative Christmas Bundle!
Today, I want to show you a project using Karen Fitting’s contribution to the bundle. Karen takes photos of flowers through the whole year, and then finds her favorites to create a calendar. She has put one each month of the year on a separate photo and save them all as 4×6″ .jpg images. That way, we can use them however we want to!
I decided that I would like to make an at-a-glance type calendar in a 12″x12″ size. I created a digital template with twelve 3″x4″ segments. Since the the original images are in a 4″x6″ size they don’t size down without losing part of the image, or changing the proportions. I chose to size them down as much as possible and then just leaving off a bit of the image. That way the photo and calendar remain proportional.
Images from Karen Fitting’s contribution to the Creative Christmas bundle.
After I got all the images on, I linked them all together and sized the entire block of images to about an 11″x11″ square, and changed my background to black.
I added the “2015” text so I’d know the calendar year. Pretty smart, right? Save it all in a single image and it’s ready to print!
Right now, during the month of November, you can print two 12″x12″ layouts from Close to My Heart’s Studio J, for $5.00. This may be a good time to get some of your photos onto pages, or just print your calendar. You could print the calendar on both sides of the double layout, and you’ll have a calendar to give and one to keep!
Watch how to create the calendar page in Studio J.
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Now, hurry over and check out how Beth Soler from Scrapping Wonders is using the Bundle to prep for her December Daily album! If you’re not sure what that even is, it’s an album to capture all the memories of December in one great place, urging you to capture bits of each and every day in December!
One of the products in the bundle is a set of adorable advent calendar pockets designed byConnie Hanks from Clicky Chick Creates. The numbers I’ve been using in the countdown are from her set!
Meet Connie Hanks:
Life continues to take me on an amazing journey. I’m a mommy, wife, photographer, scrapbooker, crafter, volunteer-extraordinaire and child of God who never outgrew seeing the world as colorful as a fresh box of Crayola crayons! I’m blessed to live with my “4-family” in beautiful San Diego, California with my loving husband Steve with whom I fell madly in love with at just 19 years old (many, many moons ago!), and my 7- and 5-year-old daughters that you will see are the stars of most of my photographs and scrapbook pages. I love to dream, travel, play with my daughters, sing while my hubby plays guitar and rarely miss an opportunity to be behind the lens when I’m with family and friends. No matter what title I might bear, or what hat I wear, I am a creative soul to my core. I love writing my memories, my stories to share, pairing them with photos and getting inky, dirty-fingers creating layouts, cards and anything crafty. I am creative. Behind the lens. At my desk. In the kitchen. With my daughters. It all makes me a happy, blessed, grateful wife and mama <3
I started Clicky Chick Creates in 2013 as a way to share my colorful view of the world in photography and crafts. In 2014 I began sprinkling in lots of creative tips and tutorials. I hope you enjoy my creations and join my mailing list so you don’t miss a single colorful adventure!
Connie’s Holiday Tips:
Making a teacher’s card, a handmade gift for a best school friend, are fun ways to get crafty time not just for me, but with my children.
Just 2 more days until the release of the Creative Christmas Bundle!It will only be available for one week, November 24th – December 1, at a VERY special price. So don’t miss out!
One of the 15 crafters and designers contributing isBeth Soler from Scrapping Wonders. Like so many of us, Beth uses her phone to take a lot of photos. However, she also USES those photos. She loves to find apps, tips, and tricks to make it easy to get those photos off the phone and actually use them. I think a lot of people are worse about using their photos from their phones, than they are just getting them off their camera!
Beth’s contribution to the Christmas Creative Bundleis a class showing us apps she uses. She has made it easy for us by using videos to walk us through how she does it! If you ever use your phone for snapping photos, you won’t want to miss her class!
Meet Beth
I have been scrapping and crafting for ten years. I love preserving and sharing family memories, recording history for my husband and three active kids, extended family and friends. I love all things crafty as well.
I am a phone-photo NINJA, stealthily snapping photos, then swiftly and skillfully transferring, organizing and using those photos in super-fun projects to save and share.
My techniques and project tutorials will train you to be phone-photo NINJA, too. As an independent consultant for Close To My Heart, I am also your link to exciting products to make your projects shine.