Live Your Life On Purpose Scrapinar

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Kristie Sloan

Oh my goodness! I almost forgot to invite you!

It’s a new year, and you may have a lot of goals that you’re not sure how you are going to accomplish! Obviously, a lot depends on your everyday strategy and how you plan your life, even on a day-to-day basis. Lain Ehmann from Layout A Day is hosting a “scrapinar” Monday, January 7th, with guest Crystal Wilkerson, creator of “The Life Planner.”

Lain and Crystal will share their tips on planning your year and ideas for staying right on track! Lain’s scrapinars have a heaping dose of fun and happiness sprinkled in on top of all the great tips and ideas shared!

Be sure and sign up, because even if you can’t make it during that time, the event will be recorded and still accessible for free for a period of time. I hope to see you there! Let me know if you plan to come! I can ALWAYS use tips for staying on track of my life plan! I always figure if I even learn one thing, it can be well worth the time I attended! How about you?

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Artful Adventure: ScrapAhead Winter Snowman Scene

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Kristie Sloan

Sometimes it is just fun to create a background layout without the fuss of trying to get it all done. For some reason, when I scrapbook, it’s all about getting a page complete. On the other hand, when I am creating something in a more artful manner, I find it more relaxing and fun!

This method of scrapbooking is no exception. In fact, I enjoy creating the basis of the page so much, I have a secret stash of pages that have backgrounds and no pictures yet! Okay, I’m not suggesting that YOU create a bunch of scrapbook pages with no pictures, (because I’ve already done that) but you can make some pages for things you know happen every year. By that I mean, seasons, holidays, birthdays, you get the idea!

This winter scene with a snowman was just the thing to use for a wintery day with family playing outdoors. These pictures were taken a number of years ago, and every time I ran across them I knew they should go on a fun page like this.

Notice how the bottom snow drift “border” are not solidly adhered to the page. When you ScrapAhead you want to allow places you can tuck photos in, because you don’t really know how many photos you may have, or how you may want to lay them out.

Here’s a quick rundown on this page creation:

Snowdrift border is made from white paper with torn edges, and then edges inked in blue
Blue background paper is randomly stamped with a snowflake stamp and white ink.
Top “Winter” title is made from punched white circles with letters stamped in blue ink.
Bottom “Wonder” title is made of blue paper die cut letters.
The snowman is made of white circles, and scraps of paper used for his hat, eyes, nose, buttons, etc.
A piece of ribbon was used for his scarf.

Always feel free to share your work on our Artful Adventures Facebook Group page!

Art Journal Calendar, Scrapbook Style

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Kristie Sloan

Happy New Year!

Oh my goodness, it’s the new year and I hope you all had enjoyable days during the holidays! Recently, I was invited to join in on a challenge I hadn’t heard of before – making an art journal calendar for the year. Wait, don’t run off before I tell you about it! You may want to try something like this.

Basically, you create your own calendar in an artsy way, and then just jot down something each day! That’s about all the journaling some of us may do! It’s even more than some of us do now! Some people create theirs with 1.5 inch squares, but this one was made with 2″ squares since the pages were large and could accomodate that size. Plus, I’m not sure I can get anything written in something smaller than that!

Since many of you scrapbook, I wanted to give you an idea of how to do this, scrapbook style!

Here’s a basic run down on how my January 2013 was created:

I did this as a double page spread, using 12×12 inch paper.
I first used several die cut snowflakes and and inked over the background using 3 colors of ink.
The bottom was masked off with torn paper, moving it around to ink over the edges and to make my snow drifts.
Snowflakes were then stamped.
Squares were cut from a decorative paper and adhered.
Tiny strips of paper were cut and the days of week hand written and adhered.
Journal blocks were outlined in black to give a little more definition.
Die cut letters were made for “January” and “2013”
White pen was used to make some icicles on the edges of some the journal squares.
White die cut snowflakes were added in a few places.
Glitter glue was added to snowflakes, snow drifts and a lot of other places for added sparkle!

I just finished mine today, but I know a couple of things I’ll write for yesterday. Don’t be put off from doing this, just because you didn’t get it ready by January 1st! There are plenty of days to come, and it could be a fun thing to have and look back at. Just think, 12 layouts to sum up a year! What fun to look back on.

If you end up making something, please come over and share it with us over at the Artful Adventures FaceBook Group!

Art Journaling and Scrapbooking Classes

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Kristie Sloan

Do you ever wish you could get away to attend a workshop that you think you’d enjoy? Or what about a whole artsy, craftsy, scrappy weekend? Ohhh that would be fun! However, that isn’t always something we can make happen. Therefore, Lain Ehmann came up with the brilliant idea to have just such an event – virtually! She calls it TrueScrap, and so far she has held four of them!

Now you can get any of TrueScrap 4 classes individually, and on sale!

Each on is just $9.95 until 12/25!

How about this class with Julie Fei-Fan Balzar! This is a fun class and you’ll get to watch her in action and learn techniques you can try for yourself. Click here to view more details on Julie’s class.

Or maybe you want more scrapbook ideas. Heidi Swapp shows Your Memory File scrapbooking techniques, and you can get some great ideas on ways to incorporate a lot into a small space. You can learn to take your scrapbooking a new direction! Click here to view more details on Heidi’s class.

You may wonder what the “art journaling” craze is all about, or you may like to pick up a few tips and techniques. Click here to view more details on Erin’s class.

Okay, that’s only three of the classes from TrueScrap 4. There are 11 more to look at!

You can see all the offerings by clicking here and scrolling through the classes!

Have fun!

Professional Looking Project Photos Class

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Kristie Sloan

Hello scrappy, artsy, craftsy friends! Have you ever wondered how you could get some great photos of your work so you could share online, or have the photos for other purposes? Here is a wonderful recording of a webinar with Nichol Magouirk showing how you can get professional looking results just like this picture! Nice gift for yourself!

Save $10 and get it for just $7.

You can’t go wrong with this price! Click here to view more details.