A couple of weeks ago I shared the beginnings of my current hybrid scrapbooking project, Playing with Scissors, Paper & a Printer. This is a hybrid album that I am creating to document my hiking adventures. It is certainly a work in progress as my time is limited, but I sure love the process.Over the past week, I was able to create a few more pages to add to my album and I'd love to share them with you. These are from a recent backpacking trek on the Northiville-Placid Trail in upstate New York. This was a 3 night/4 day trek, in which I took over 800 photos! It is hard to cull them down and that seems to be the hardest part of my documenting. I pulled out a few favorites so I was able to get the 1st day/night scrapped for my album. At the beginning of my project I printed out a large amount of papers, embellishments and journal cards so that I could easily create new … [Read more...]
Playing with Scissors, Paper & a Printer: Creating a Hybrid Scrapbook Album
Hello Friends! After months of letting my photos sit on my phone, it was time I got crafty again and I had the perfect project in mind to get me creating....a hybrid scrapbook album dedicated to my love of hiking. I have spent a good part of this year on the trails and have taken lots of photos along my journeys, but not yet really documented the details. Before too much time passed, I decided to dive right in and get those memories documented!I love the physical, hands-on aspect of traditional scrapbooking but also love the ease of "shopping" my computer digital scrapbooking collections, so I opened my digital scrapbooking kits and found so many there were perfect for my themed album. Happy dance time!Knowing what I wanted to create and having found the perfect digi supplies to use, it was time to get crafting and bring my vision for this memory keeping album to life.I found … [Read more...]
Mask Magic
Masks are becoming an everyday part of life with the current Covid-19 situation. And while cloth masks are helpful in real life, I want to talk about another kind of mask that's helpful to digital scrappers. I'm talking about pre-made masks like the Painted Masks 1 released today by Rachel Jefferies. These pre-made masks are an easy way to add some magic to the photos on your layouts. Take a look at this layout for example.The instructions and screenshots below were created in Photoshop Elements 2019, but the steps are similar in other versions of PSE and Photoshop.1. Start with a favorite textured paper. It can be mostly solid or as much texture as you'd like. I'm using a textured paper from Rachel Jefferies' From The Rooftops: Mixed Media Paperie.2. Add a pre-made photo mask. I added the 9x12 version of a mask from Rachel Jefferies' Painted Masks 1 and turned it 90 … [Read more...]
Mixed Media Minimalist Pages
Have you ever worked with the Mixed Media products at The Lilypad? If so, then you already know how amazing the products are. But, if you haven't, then let me share a little secret with you...they are not just for art journaling, mixed media style of pages. They are for all scrapbooking styles and, even more specifically, for minimalist pages.It doesn't matter where you start, whether you have a photo chosen and want to build your design around that, or if you spotted some product or paper you just can't resist, and you have the urge to use them right away (that happens to me all the time, I spot a little piece of a kit and my heart skips a beat, I need to have it and scrap with it).If you think you might be overwhelmed by the magnitude of products in the monthly mixed media collection and not know where to start or even if it is a collection that you will want to use, try … [Read more...]
MOC7 Prep Tips and Challenge Tracker
Month of Challenges. Just the name brings forth joy in my heart. The first year I participated was a slightly different feeling. Let's call it terror or maybe fear. I had no idea what to expect and was a a little frightened at the idea of scrapping a page a day for an entire month. Much less a challenge every day! I made it through and now that fear is gone. It has turned into pure anticipation! 31 days of challenges to complete!One of the best tips that was shared with me early on was find a way to track which challenges you have completed and submitted your page to the thread. There are numerous ways to do this - pen and paper, excel sheets, even just looking at the board! See my face on those threads? That means I've replied inside them. My favorite is to mark that I finished the page and mark that I added it to the thread. Why the two steps? Because there are times I finish … [Read more...]
Overcoming Mental Roadblocks to Scrapping
Have you ever had an idea in your mind you just couldn’t get over? An idea that prevented you from doing something else? That’s a mental roadblock – an idea that keeps you from doing something that you want to do. Personally, my head is full of mental roadblocks…tons of them. Today, I’ve put together the four most common mental roadblocks that keep us from scrapbooking, and I’ve come up with some ideas to help you overcome them. I’m so behind, I’ll never catch up – Yeah, know what else, neither will I. I've been scrapping for almost nine years, and there are still tons of things that I haven’t scrapped. I still haven’t finished scrapping our trip to Disney two years ago! One thing I learned is that if I want to get some scrapping done, I have to let go of this idea. Who cares if I’m behind? At least I’m doing some layouts, right? I just don’t know where to start – I’ve … [Read more...]