Scrapbook Club Announcement!

What have you done with the photos you have taken over the past several months? cameraWhy not save your photos where you can see them and share them?

If you are like the majority of people, they are digital images and are living on your camera’s memory card, the cameral roll in your phone, or they have been transferred to live on your computer. If that’s exactly where your images are, are you getting a chance to view them and enjoy them; or share them with others? Even share them with those who are in the photos? If, ‘Yes,’ then I bow and applaud your actions!

If not, I would like to invite you to join me in getting some memories onto pages we can view and share! This will be a monthly event, and to get this party started, I am offering to share 7-double page layouts, which include the cut dimensions and layout instructions, all for the low cost of…. FREE!

adventure fundamentals workshop

Adventure Fundamentals

Register for the club workshop and you’ll receive the cutting instructions. Then, on Sunday afternoon, October 9th, you can join me for an online LIVE event and we’ll put our pages together! The event will be recorded so don’t feel like you miss out if you can’t attend live. The vibrant colors in the Adventure Fundamentals paper pack will be perfect for putting together summer memories! We’ll push through October with our scrapbooking, and also have our October LIVE event at the end of October.

You could use the cut instructions on coordinating papers you have, or follow along with me and, with just a few supplies, have as close to a done-for-you scrapbook as you can get!

To make it easy to follow along, future workshops will be sent to you after you have ordered the Close to My Heart paper packs we will be using. You may order each month separately, or all at once. It’s up to you! However, should your order reach $150, be sure and let me know before you place your order, so that you can receive Hostess credit!

We will be using these Close To My Heart products for this first September workshop:

adventure-fundamentalsgood-life-complements

You will also need your basic supplies:

  • Paper trimmer
  • Tape runner / Adhesive
  • Foam Tape or squares
  • Corner Rounder
  • Small scissors

To use the suggested Close To My Heart products order right away! The LIVE workshop info will be sent with your cutting instructions, and you’ll have email reminders closer to that day.

Artful Adventures Scrapbook Club

How to Join:

  • Order your products from my Close To My Heart online shop for each month you wish to participate (anyone may join us for September – just register below)
  • Order by the 15th of the month to allow shipping and cutting time!

What You Get:

  • Full Color Instructions with (7) Double Page Layouts, with easy cutting guides so you don’t waste paper. These will be sent around the 15th of the month
  • LIVE Online Class towards the end of each month to watch the layouts being assembled, answer your questions and inspire you to get your layouts done and in an album
  • LIVE Class Recording available for playback anytime

Imagine completing 7 double page layouts each month!

Even if you haven’t completed any this year, you can finish the year with 28 double page layouts if you join us each month!

Supplies for our October Workshop (7-double page layouts):

Optional October Workshop– Jeepers Creepers:

Supplies for November Workshop (7-double page layouts):

Supplies for December Workshop (7-double page layouts):

Cheers to YOUR Artful Adventures,

KS

 

Arts, Crafts, and Scrapbooking Updates

Today, I wanted to let you know about three things:

  • The new Close To My Heart Holiday Expressions idea book is available
  • Where you can find Tracie Claiborne’s Journal Your Life class
  • Donna Downey’s Find Out Fridays

The new Close To My Heart Holiday Expressions idea book became available September 1st. It is full of all kinds of items to create scrapbook pages, pocket scrapbooking, cards, and various paper crafting projects, including some Cricut projects. These items are available through December 2016. Don’t delay and miss out! See the Holiday Expressions now.

I promised I would let you know where you could get Tracie Claiborne’s “Journal Your Life” online class, so a little update today to give you the link. No, I don’t make anything from your purchase. She just put together a phenomenally helpful class on journaling. So whether you have been averse to journaling, or you are sometimes stuck, you may want to check it out!

Something else you may be interested in is Donna Downey’s new free series, Find Out Fridays. Each week we will have the opportunity to watch an artist open up a pre-selected group of materials they have been sent, and show us what they decide to do with them! I am sure those of you who are interested in art/mixed media, you will really enjoy this series.  Here is the first segment, with Jane Davenport.

Here’s to YOUR Artful Adventures,

KS

 

What’s the Story – Journaling Your Life

For those of you who enjoy keeping documenting your life and those around you with photos, don’t forget to write the stories, as well!  Previously, I’ve written about journaling in memory keeping in this post: The Palest Ink is Better Than the Best Memory

Kristie Sloan with Tracie Claiborne

Kristie Sloan with Tracie Claiborne

During a recent “family” reunion with my ScrapHappy group, we were fortunate to have Tracie Claiborne of the ScrapGals Podcast join us in person. Tracie allowed us to be the first participants of a new class she is putting the final touches on, regarding journaling and telling the stories of our lives.

She offered so many ideas to capture memories about not only special events, but to go beyond the surface of a photos and use them to tell so many other stories.

I’ll let you know when the class is available to everyone, you’ll want to be sure and take it; especially if you are someone who usually steers clear of adding anything but pictures to your memory keeping.

I hope you will also look into joining our ScrapHappy group, and perhaps coming to our next reunion!

Cheers to YOUR Artful Adventures!

KS

 

Art Journal Hybrid Scrapbooking

Today’s adventure is going to take us into a combination art journaling and memory keeping layout, where we’ll use some photos that are less than picture perfect.

js_stpatdayOne of my daughters enjoyed attending the St. Patrick’s Day festivities in St. Paul, Minnesota for a number of years, and I would end up with just some fun photos that I would either see on her phone, or maybe on social media. What better way to use imperfect photos than to combine them in an art journal style layout. When the only photo you have is less than perfect, it suddenly becomes the perfect photo!

My friend Joanna Grant has a number of vintage photos that she shares frequently, and I love them for use in mixed media. I printed several St. Patrick’s Day themed vintage greeting or postcards on my inkjet printer, using presentation paper. Presentation paper will usually give you a much better print to work with, without being as heavy or as expensive as photo paper. After printing and cutting the images, I used some Glue N’ Seal to adhere them to my pages in a mixed media journal, using a collage method; gluing over and under the image.

Vintage St. Patrick's Day prints from inkjet printer applied to layout.

Vintage St. Patrick’s Day prints from inkjet printer applied to layout.

Then I applied some dylusions paint in fresh lime, and lemon zest. Not only did I cover the empty places on the page, but I began to paint over the images.

Apply paint to begin to pull page together and continue building the background.

Apply paint to begin to pull page together and continue building the background.

Then, I applied some plain white tissue paper to a few places, just to give it a bit of texture, and to begin to tone down some of the color. You can see more on applying tissue paper in a previous post.

White tissue paper randomly applied for added texture.

White tissue paper randomly applied for added texture.

Next, I used the edge of an old plastic gift card and began to add a bit of white gesso over the pages, to begin to tone down some of the background. At this point, it was going to overpower the photos!

Gesso applied to tone down some of the background.

Gesso applied to tone down some of the background.

What good Irish layout would be complete without more shamrocks? I went to Cricut.com’s Design Space and found a shamrock image to cut as stencil on my Cricut, then inked on a layer.

Shamrock stencil used for another layer.

Another layer added using a stencil.

 

Random stenciling.

Random stenciling.

That looked a bit overpowering, so I added another bit of white gesso.

More gesso applied.

More gesso applied.

I decided to be done with the background, and added the photos I had printed on my inkjet printer. They, too, were printed on presentation paper. The “St Patrick’s Day” letters were also cut with Cricut. If you wanted to, you could use alpha stickers or hand letter. A squiggly border was drawn around each photo, using a thin marker and a thicker one. Space was left for more journaling. If you look closely, you can see there are even several green “diamonds” added for extra bling!

Photos added to the layout.

Photos added to the layout, with a wee bit of journaling.

It turned out messy and I had a great time creating the layout. I probably wouldn’t have normally used these photos, but they certainly embody the crazy times and outfits. Having taken the photo at the end, it looks like there are some places I may go back and work on a wee bit more… and that is the beauty of this kind of project. It’s done when I say it’s done.

What do you say? Do you want to get messy with me?

A few of my friends are bringing you some GREEN ideas today. Next up, check out Alison Day’s five favorite Green Inspired projects.

Until next time…

Cheers to YOUR Artful Adventures!

KS

Scrapbooking Full Page Photos

This week’s Make It Monday Blog Circle theme is Spring. Since I showed you a mixed media technique for a spring project last week, today we have something geared for scrapbooking.

If you are following the Blog Circle, you will have landed here from Alice at Scrapbook Wonderland, where she shares a layout about springtime and baby animals. I’ll send you to the next link at the end of this post.

Sometimes it is great to enlarge a photo to full page, just to enjoy it even more! The easiest way to do that is digitally. Since most of us are taking digital photos, even if you don’t create layouts digitally, you can print your photo in a size that will give you a full page, no matter what size layout you prefer to make.

Full page photo scrapbook layout

Notice that this photo is not quite the full 12″x12″ size of the layout, which may even make it easier if you were trying to print your photo instead of going completely digital. The closeup creates somewhat of a patterned paper effect for the majority of the page.

Using a small photo of the entire tree puts the closeup into perspective and tells more of the story by showing where the tree is located. Although this photo shows our neighbor’s home instead of our home, it is a great memory since it’s the view we have!

Don’t forget to jot down some info. You may think it will remain meaningful, but trust me, at some point it will be a much more interesting page in your book for the future.

What spring memory would you like to capture with a full page photo? Let us know in the comments.


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After you comment, you’ll want to move on to see what Connie Hanks has in store as she shares a spring themed watercolor party printable!

 

 

 

Cheers to YOUR Artful Adventures!

KS