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Event Reminders, Don’t Miss Out on the Fun

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I have FOUR things I wanted you to know about.  I didn’t want you to look back and say, “She never told us that!”  So here we go!

1. Paper Pumpkin April Sign-up is due by April 10th!

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My Paper Pumpkin

Don’t forget to sign up if you want to participate in this month’s kit shipped right to your door.  All you need is adhesive and you have a fun little something to make. Our first Paper Pumpkin kit video is online, and there will be more.  I’ve tried to take out the confusion, given you a lot of info about the program, but you’ll go directly to sign up at the MyPaperPumpkin site, and please indicate you’d like to work with me for the “demonstrator” – Kristie Sloan,  Eden Prairie 55347.  Thanks!

2. Get a Clue!  Join up for LOAD513

Artful Adventures Invites You to LOAD513LOAD513, otherwise known as Layout A Day, May 2013, is a challenge to create a scrapbook layout everyday for the month of May. Any scrapbooking method will do!  Paper, digital, hybrid, 12×12, 8.5×11, 8×8…..  made from scratch or by template…. it’s not as hard as it sounds.  I will happily tell you that I have numerous pages with so many stories that would have gone untold, which are a result of prompts or ideas we have received from previous LOAD events.

Space if filling fast!  Hurry to grab a seat with you, me, and 498 of our closest scrappy friends!  Use the code FNF to save $10.  HURRY!   For more info and to sign up, click here! 

3. Scrapbooking Wonders Sketch Challenge

If you’d like to join a scrapbook sketch challenge, go check out the the April challenge at ScrapbookingWonders.  It’s never any fun to play alone – make a page and link it up for a chance to win a prize!  Go check it out! I’ve already submitted a page.

iScrap-n-Snap April Sketch Challenge

iScrap-n-Snap April Sketch Challenge

4. April Free Scrapinar

April Free Scrapinar

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Envelope Art with Windy Robinson

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Envelope Art with Windy Robinson.  Windy will show us how to create gorgeous hand-crafted and hand-embellished envelopes and mail art that will make even the postman smile!

April Scrapbook Challenge at iScrap-n-Snap

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iScrap-n-Snap April Sketch Challenge

iScrap-n-Snap April Sketch Challenge

Some people create their scrapbook pages based on different online challenges that they participate in. Beth over at ScrappingWonders.com has started having a monthly challenge.  Beth is a great source for learning how to work with your mobile phone to actually use all those pictures you take with it.  She regularly does reviews of apps that are very useful for just that!

The April scrapbook page has a template to use, as well as an idea for a color palette in honor of Earth Day this month.  You will find information about the challenge here.  This month’s sponsor is Cara from CaraMiller.com.  If you like to do any die cutting, you’ll be interested in finding out more about Cara’s Whisper products!  Cara even has a digital template for Beth’s challenge, if you like to do digital!

Once you’ve created your page, and uploaded it, go back to Beth’s site and link it up on this page.  Just go towards the bottom of the page, and you’ll see the little thumbnail pictures of people’s pages.  Under the last picture, you’ll see a little bluish button that says, “Add Your Link.”  Click that and add your info!

It not fun to play alone!  Above is my page I’ve made for the iScrap-n-Snap April challenge.  Once you see the sketch, you’ll notice that I turned the sketch 90 degrees so that it would better fit my pictures. You could also you 2 or 3 pictures and use 1 or 2 of the areas for journaling. That’s the beauty of a sketch!  You can really do so many things with it. We talked about varying how you might use a template here.

I can’t believe how old these pictures are.  I always remember it was a great day, but never have gotten the pictures onto a page.  I am also making a companion page to this that has more of the “people” pictures from this event.

What pictures will you use for the challenge?

Scraplifting is Not a Crime

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In today’s episode, let’s look at a way to really save time in your scrapbooking efforts, and that’s by “scraplifting” or using templates or sketches!

You don’t have to always reinvent the wheel with every page you make.  If you see a layout you like, use the basic layout on your own page!  Using your own colors, papers, embellishments and photos will make it your own!  (If you post your page in an online gallery it’s nice to credit who inspired you.)

Templates can really speed a page along, especially if you are digital scrapping.  Page maps/scrap maps are like a blueprint to follow to create a page.  Remember that you can get a totally different look simply by rotating or flipping a template or page map!  Sometimes the orientation of the original is not a good fit with your pictures or other elements of your page.  By rotating or flipping the design, it may better fit your needs.  So, go ahead and scraplift or get a head start using a template or a sketch someone else has put together!

Here’s an example of taking an idea, rotating it to the right 90 degrees, and then flipping it horizontally so that the title could be on the left and leave journaling on the right.  You can see the original design was slightly changed to meet the needs of the new page.  The patterned paper was removed and instead of completely coming up with a design from scratch, we have a new page that will be completely different!  It’s interesting to see that by rotating and flipping it, the two embellishment represented by the circles, have ended up in the same positions around the photo, the top left and bottom right!