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Hello, everyone! Happy Sunday to you! I hope that you are all having a good weekend. Are you ready for a new challenge? As a reminder, all of our challenges this month are photo/color inspiration challenges, and here is this week's challenge: LM #524 - Use the photo and/or colors shown for inspiration on your layout. Here are the wonderful creations from the design team: Deanna Lori S Now it's your turn! Link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, November 28th at 6 PM EST for a chance to be our guest designer for an upcoming month and for a chance at this month's prize - a $15 gift certificate to an online store of choice: We can't wait to see what you create! Thanks so much for stopping the blog today! I hope you have a great day! You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter
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The day after Thanksgiving my family and I made the trek to visit my grandparents. They live about an hour away from our home, unfortunately we don't get to see them as often as I would like to. This particular day we ate, visited, watch some old home videos and then later in the afternoon we helped Grandma put her Christmas decorations up. As I was in the back of her closet getting Christmas decorations out I came across these: (which is why I'm telling you about what happened last Thanksgiving ;) Well, I knew I couldn't leave them there so I grabbed them along with a stack of Christmas decorations and went back downstairs. As I opened the albums my jaw dropped. One of them was filled with more recent color photos (from the 70's and 80's) and the other two were chock full of beautiful, beautiful black and white photos. Isn't she beautiful?!?! The sad part is that we have no idea who she is. There are many photos like this but also many that were written on or had writing next to them. I poured over each page in every album. Inside I was sick, I knew that these photos were crumbling because of the albums they were in. About 30 years ago in the late 70's early 80's manufacturers made what were called 'magnetic' albums. These albums were made from a thick cardstock, almost like chipboard material covered with thin strips of adhesive, very acidic adhesive. The adhesive is what was causing my family photos to fall apart. Covering these adhesive pages is a thin layer of plastic. Some of the plastic covering is made of PVC and some were made of Mylar. I don't know which plastic was on my grandparents album but either plastic is not good. The plastic keeps the acidic fumes close to the photos and therefore the photos deteriorate even faster. If you look at the edges of the adhesive papers in these photos you can see the edges of the pages are already yellowing and starting to crumble. When I saw the pages and some of the photos starting to yellow I knew I had to get them out of the albums. I asked my grandma if I could take the albums and restore them for her. Her reply made me smile, "sure, I'm so glad that you care enough about some old photos that you'll take care of them" Me, care about photos?!? My life pretty much revolves around photos. I stuffed the albums in my bag and headed home. As we drove home I poured over the photos. I grew more and more apprehensive of this huge project I had just created for myself. When I got home I put the albums in my bedroom and let them sit. I just had a hard time wrapping my head around how I was going to get so many photos into albums. I knew I couldn't scrapbook them all in traditional layouts so they sat there in my bedroom. One day I was thinking about this massive project and then it dawned on me. Pocket pages! Yes, that was my answer! I could put the photos into pocket page protectors. It would preserve them and it wouldn't take nearly as long as making traditional layouts would. Once I had a plan in my head I started gathering supplies. I knew I wanted beautiful high quality albums, so We R Memory Keepers came to mind. It's no secret that their albums are beautiful and the best quality. WRMK also has pocket page protectors and journaling cards. I also wanted to make sure there was a digital copy of these photos because most of them are one of a kind. I bought this Photo, Slide, and Negative Scanner and I must say that I was thrilled with the way that it worked. It scanned the photos directly to a memory card and all I have to do is upload those files to dropbox and then my entire family can have access to these priceless photos and it was only around $40.00. I also had one other supply gathered for this project. It's a little strange but it was a necessity. Yup, it's dental floss. Unflavored, please. Oh, and band-aids. Don't forget band-aids. Over the next couple of weeks I'll have more details about the entire process we went through to restore these old albums. (Yes, I said we. This is a project that took an army to complete.) Make sure you stop by next week for Part 2 of Restoring Old Photo Albums into Pocket Page Scrapbooks. (Update: Part Two and Part Three) Here's a list of supplies that I gathered for this project: We R Memory Keepers Albums We R Memory Keepers Photo Sleeves Photo, Slide, and Negative Scanner Waxed Dental Floss Project Life Journaling Pens We R Memory Keepers Journaling Cards Self Adhesive Photo Corners band-aids
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New, deeply etched red rubber stamp from Sweet Grass Stamps. Realistic stamp of a Monarch butterfly chrysalis for representing transformations, or spring / summer cardmaking and scrapbooking layouts. *** Stamp is unmounted, untrimmed rubber only, no foam cushion or mounting block. *** Actual stamped image measures 1/2" x 1 1/4". Made in USA. Thanks for looking! °¨¨°º0º°¨¨°°¨¨°°¨¨°º0º°¨¨°°¨¨° Need an ink pad? I have several colors to choose from: http://www.etsy.com/listing/265977301/ranger-archival-ink-pad-24-colors-your How about mounting supplies? I also carry EZ Mount Foam and acrylic blocks: http://www.etsy.com/shop/sweetgrasstamps?ref=hdr_shop_menu§ion_id=5189856
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As a recent Project Life App scrapper, I’ve made hundreds of pages in the app using Project Mouse cards. But, I miss the gorgeous embellishments from my digital scrapping days. So, I decided to get braver with my app scrapping game. Truth be told, embellishing is much easier using Photoshop Elements but I wanted to …
It is a scary time in the whole wide world. Here in the Netherlands sports are canceled, all public activities and public caterings are closed, they requested us not to visit eachother at birthday or anything or better stay at home! And today they also announced all schools are closed until April 6. I noticed my Oldest Lorena is keeping track a diary of what is happening and what all these changes affects to her. I thought it is a good idea to document this for herself as a memory to show her own kids. And after seeing a lot of you asked for a kit about this theme it made me think I wanted to share a little something with you as gift. Amanda of Amanda Yi Designs and I put together to help those looking to document the covid-19 outbreak we are all experiencing one way or another. Stay home, stay safe, wash your hands and scrap your butts off, be sure to capture the moments you've experienced since covid-19 started with our blog gift, Pandemic! DOWNLOAD HERE
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38702878021834479 good morning and happy friday! are you enjoying your in-between time? 165085142564946522 i love the days that separate the hubbub and mayhem. they’re filled with moments tha…
Welcome to the second post of my 6x6 Series. I'm using one 6x6 paper pad to make cards and won't stop until it's all gone. If you're new to my 6x6 Paper Pad Tutorial, check it out HERE. The sketch I used today is from Mojo Monday. They have been providing card sketches for several
Resources My Blank Step-Out Template For Zentangle® Patterns Light Source Reminder Image for Drawing and Alcohol Marker Coloring My Copic Marker Color Combination Chart Scrapbook Page Sketches, by Katie Butler Paper Tearing Technique I love this technique for paper tearing. Make great water, sky, mountains, land or other scenery by combining different colors. Card Fold Examples I love this chart. I don't know where it came from so be sure to email me if you know the link. I think it is a great resource for cardmaking. "Magic Thirds" Quick Tag and Card Making Concept This sheet is perfect for beginners who want to quickly design a simple and effective card. This trick is particularly nice if you need to make a lot of cards really quickly. To print this sheet, simply click on the image and right click to save it to your computer. This super quick layout is the perfect way to make a scrapbook page with your extra scraps.
Looking for printable telegram papers for your next papercrafting project? Here are some free downloads I have created… Another hump day and my list of to do’s is definitely piling up. Even with some pressing items, I just couldn’t help myself and started working on a scrapbooking mini album. Sometimes you just have to take […]
Join me for today's Folio Flip Album Tutorial where I share how I created this cute Folio with Recollections card stock and Colorbox paper.
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Established scrapbookers know that there’s no better way to chronicle your family’s favorite memories than by immortalizing them as a totally unique, personalized work of scrapbooking art. But for those who are new to the art, creating attractive, artistic scrapbook layouts can seem impossibly difficult.Scrapbooking may look complicated, but it’s…
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Hi friends! Can you believe it's already time for a new Mojo Monday sketch? Time is flying! As always, you're free to play along with any papercrafting products your heart desires and enter as many creations as you like. Use the sketch as inspiration for your creation, then come link it up below so I can come take a look! The linky for this challenge will close on November 1, 2020. I have included dimensions on the graphic later in this post, but feel free to change them up to suit your needs. Today's card is a rare no-stamping card for me. I can't remember the last time I made a card without at least some stamping. But this was an early morning creation where I was trying to be super quiet and not wake the boys, so I just pulled out a paper pad and the coordinating ephemera and got to layering. The Prima Pumpkin and Spice collection was a don't even think about it, just add to cart purchase for me. I love fall, I love Prima, and I love shabby chic. But since most of my design teams moved into Christmas in September, this poor paper pad has just been sitting on the shelf unused! Determined to use it, I picked a few papers, cut them to size, matted with white cardstock and then distressed the edges. I then chose some of the coordinating ephemera pieces to layer behind the focal panel, distressing the edges a bit as well and adding a few stickles accents. Then It was just a matter of gluing it all together, adding a seam binding bow and voila... a no stamping card is born. Now it's your turn! I can't wait to see what you create! Please join me for Mojo Monday! Click here to enter
Did you all notice the brand new look of the blog? I hope it easier to follow!! Today I have made two things.. a card sketch and a page template! I hope you find inspiration from them :) This first sketch is based on this card by Julie, one of the contributing artists! Isn't it cute!!! And here is a sketch of the card! Next, is a unique looking page template! I was inspiring by the bend in a pipe of all things. Well, a playground piece that looks like a pipe! I see those everyday when I pick up my son from school. I thought this would look good for playground photos or action photos. Here is the template! Here is the photo template for those who want print that out! And lastly, here is the template in digital layers! Click on link, save and open in Photoshop Elements! Digital and hybrid scrappers can you use this one quite easily! http://www.4shared.com/file/197061695/8baf3047/pc_bend_template.html I hope you enjoy the sketch and template! Happy Scrapping!
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