YLA 2013 | June class

26 Wednesday Jun 2013

Posted by Sara in Classes, Project Life, ScrapBook, Simple Scrapper, Techniques, Tutorials, Yearlong Album

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Gel Medium Resist, Ranger Distress Paint, Simple Scrapper

A few days ago I showed you how I had an idea for these pages, went through an epic failure, and then found redemption on better and bigger paper.

Today, you get the final product!

The rainbow page is my favourite – I love the colours and the pictures so much:

I first sponged glossy gel medium through a stencil, then added puddles of Distress Paint to the edge. I misted until I ran out of water (that’s only a slight exaggeration!) and let the colours run down the page. The texture is from rolling paper towels over to blot up the excess water. How cool is that?!?!

This second page is based on a Simple Scrapper template from the July 2013 Premium Member templates:

Once again you start with glossy gel medium through a stencil, then add puddles of paint to the middle of the page. Mist with water and tip the paper to allow the paint to blend and then run in different directions.

The resist is fabulous and has a great shine in real life:

I used some Heidi Swapp fabric that I died with the paint and some new Studio Calico wood veneer to add dimension and layers to the top:

So there you have it – a class LO all the way from idea to final product, with a mini tutorial to boot! Hope you enjoyed, I’ll be back later this week with more ICAD’s and the final LO’s from the June/July Paperie Card Kit.

Simple Scrapper Blog Hop and GIVEAWAY | June 2013

04 Tuesday Jun 2013

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The Simple Scrapper Team is back again with a brand new blog hop and chance to win! Use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter a giveaway for a one month trial membership at Simple Scrapper. There are three ways to enter and three winners will be selected. To be eligible, you must enter by 11:59pm CDT on Wednesday, June 5.

But first, welcome! You should have come from Van‘s blog if you’re following along.

NOTE: Suzette, if you’re reading this, STOP NOW! You’ll ruin your birthday present if you keep going! 🙂

Sorry all, had to warn off my best and oldest friend – hopefully she’ll take the hint and go away!

This month had some amazing templates to choose from and it was hard to pick one to work with – I wanted to try them all! I finally chose letter#1 and stretched it into a 12×12:I used the newest Paperie club kit along with some Studio Calico PL kit pieces and stamps. I’m still loving the punched borders!

Some shimmery modeling creme behind the photo to mimic the border punch:

And great letter stickers for the title finished it off:

Don’t you love all the butterfly pins? I stuck them into the paper and taped them down in the back with washi tape – thanks to Cathie for that great idea!

For my story starter this month I decided to do a canvas instead of a traditional LO:

Almost everything on this one came from a Studio Calico PL kit – don’t you love that big ampersand stamp? It looks amazing when embossed!

I also embossed the paper dolls (love the heart that their hands form) on the journaling tag:

I tucked the tag behind the photo because 1. it’s what I normally do, and 2. since this a display piece I felt it was better hidden. There’s nothing very secretive written down there, just funny memories I have of the two of us since we were 6!

I finished it off by stamping the sides of the canvas so they wouldn’t be so bare when it was hanging on the wall:

You really need to go check out the rest of the Design Team’s work if you haven’t already – they’ve done some beautiful work, as always!

Simple Scrapper (Jennifer Wilson)

Lisa Corbin-Polack

Ronnie Crowley

Holly Humbert

Margrethe Aas Johnson

Sara Case Strickland <– that’s me!

And now, here’s your chance to win – good luck!

Rafflecopter – click to enter!

The Premium Membership at Simple Scrapper provides skills and shortcuts to help you simplify and find more meaning in your memory keeping. Each month members receive a new collection of sketch templates and Story Starters, story-focused prompts for pages and projects.

Simple Scrapper Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY | May 2013

07 Tuesday May 2013

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Scrapbook Layout, Simple Scrapper, Sketch Templates

The story starters and templates were amazing this month! I love them every month but there was something special about this set that I really enjoyed. Maybe it’s because I got to have fun with one of Gabe’s crazy pics or maybe it’s because my Mom did the journaling for the other. Either way, this is a great month to be a member!

And we’re doing a giveaway so make sure you use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter for a one month trial membership at Simple Scrapper! This is an awesome way to test the waters if you’re not a member yet. There are three ways to enter and three winners will be selected. To be eligible, you must enter by 11:59pm CDT on Wednesday, May 8.

My first LO is from this month’s templates and uses one of Gabe’s crazy face pics.

Since the picture wasn’t the main theme of this LO – his funny quote was! – I chose to minimalize the photo and make the title/quote really stand out by using an Amy Tangerine Stitching template. I was iffy while making it (and it was a lot of work to be iffy about!) but I love how it turned out:

I used a bunch of layers to mat the photo and make a space for my journaling tag:

The second LO was inspired by one of this month’s Story Starters and my mom provided the journaling and the title:

I used an awesome paper by Pink Paislee for this one – it’s a resist and when I misted it with some Heidi Swapp Color Shine the pattern popped and shimmered like crazy! I also used the mist on some Heidi Swapp hearts to get the same colour embellies with a different resist pattern, plus added enamel dots and glitter paper for more bling:

I had some awesome glitter letters but they didn’t show up on the background so I tinted them with the Color Shine as well:

And here’s my mom’s journaling – she was at home so I had to print it on the computer but I’m planning to get her to hand write it and add that to the LO:

Want some more inspiration? Check out the rest of the team – as always, they blew me away with their creations!

Simple Scrapper (Jennifer Wilson)

Lisa Corbin-Polak

Ronnie Crowley

Margrethe Aas Johnsen

Sara Case Strickland <– that’s me!

And finally, don’t forget to enter for a chance to win a free month of the Premium Membership!

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Simple Scrapper Blog Hop & HUGE GIVEAWAY! | April 2013

02 Tuesday Apr 2013

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Blog Hop, Giveaway, Simple Scrapper, Sketch Templates

The giveaway for this month’s Simple Scrapper blog hop is amazing! Really an awesome one to win so make sure you read all the way to the end to enter for your chance to win!

This month, I made two LO’s from the same sketch so you can see how versatile they are, and one LO from the Story Starters.

All the sketches were letter size, or 8.5 x 11, this month, a size I love! Here’s the first LO I made:

The kiddies love to have stories read to them and they always want to sit on the same sofa no matter who is doing the reading.

I added a little interest to this one with a punched edge and some stapled baker’s twine, a couple of my new favourite things to do!

The second LO, as mentioned, is from the same sketch but I made a 12×12:

Seriously, same sketch! I love how flexible they are!

With this one, I layered a bunch of elements in the top corner and added metallic stitching:

Finally, I did a LO based on one of the Story Starters. This is my brother Matthew and I when we were much younger – my best guess is that this pic was taken early 1979:

Come on now, weren’t we the cutest?!?! 🙂

I added lots of dimension and texture here with both the layers of papers and the paint through the stencils:

Now, for the big giveaway!

That’s right! A full one year premium membership at Simple Scrapper! And you can win even if you’re already a member – we’ll just add it when your membership is due for renewal! Just click on the Rafflecopter link below to enter; there are three ways to enter and three winners will be selected. To be eligible, you must enter by 11:59pm CDT on Friday, April 5.

Hopefully, if you’re following the hop you will have come here from Celeste’s blog. If that’s the case I’m the final stop, so congrats on making it through and be sure you go and enter the giveaway. If you just stopped by here, I’d suggest you start at the beginning of the hop and see what the rest of the team did this month – as always, they made incredible LO’s!

Simple Scrapper (Jennifer Wilson)

Margrethe Aas Johnsen

Sara Case Strickland <- that’s me!

a Rafflecopter giveaway <- click here to enter!

As always, you can check out my gallery at 2peas for more images. See you all tomorrow with a very delayed Currently list!

Simple Scrapper Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY! | March 2013

05 Tuesday Mar 2013

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Blog Hop, Giveaway, Mini Album, Scrapbook Layout, Simple Scrapper

Another month, another Simple Scrapper blog hop and giveaway! We’re doing the giveaway a little differently this month so make sure you scroll to the bottom of this post and use the Rafflecopter link below to enter a giveaway for a one month trial membership at Simple Scrapper. There are three ways to enter and three winners will be selected. To be eligible, you must enter by 11:59pm CST on Wednesday, March 6.

I used one of the Story Starters this month – the theme is Adventures – to make a mini album of Pirate Day on my dad’s boat a couple of summers ago.

Super quick and easy to do when using a kit and one template!

I gave a peek of this album on my guest post over at Simple Scrapper last week and you can check out all the inside pages over at 2peasinabucket.

For the template sketch, I made a letter size, interactive LO of Miss M who actually wanted me to take her picture for once!

Adding the additional pictures behind the top one allowed me to keep them all at a large 4×6 size while still keeping the LO fairly simple and uncluttered. Plus, there’s loads of space for journaling too!

Again, you can see additional pictures in my gallery over at 2peas.

Make sure you check out what the other design team members have done – they have some amazing LO’s this month! The list is below if you have lost your way or want to start at the beginning. And don’t forget to enter to win the giveaway!

a Rafflecopter giveaway <–click here to enter!

Simple Scrapper (Jennifer Wilson)

Margrethe Aas Johnsen

Sara Case Strickland <– That’s me!

Simple Scrapper Guest Post

27 Wednesday Feb 2013

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Scrapbook Layout, Simple Scrapper

I’m the guest blogger over at Simple Scrapper today. This month the theme is Faster Scrapbooking and my post is all about my method to get a LO done fast.

As my friends can attest, I’m sloooooow so they’ve been amazed lately to see me pull together a completed project in an hour. And I’m going to tell you how I do it!

Go check it out and let me know what you think.

For these things, I am Grateful…

06 Wednesday Feb 2013

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Blessed, Grateful, Mini Album, One Little Word, Simple Scrapper

I have never taken part in Ali Edwards’ One Little Word and had no intentions of doing so this year.

But then the word Blessed (and to a slightly lesser extent, Grateful) began following me around. Seriously, they just popped up everywhere! So I finally gave in and decided to see where One Little Word would lead me this year.

The reason I mention this now is that Simple Scrapper played a role in those words cropping up. First, I did a giveaway for the Home Blessings Class at Big Picture Classes and that came through Simple Scrapper. Second, Jennifer asked me to work on a new Gratitude mini album that debuted in the shop today.

See? Blessed and Grateful were definitely meant to be mine for 2013. And that’s only two examples of how these words have infiltrated my life!

This mini album is going to be an ongoing project for me during 2013 and I’ll be sharing updates here and there as I add to it. It’s everything I’m grateful for and feel blessed to have from Signal Hill, to my kiddies, to teaching classes, and all the other things in between.

I’ve turned my book on its side since most of the pictures I take are landscape orientation. The problem is that many of the journaling cards are portrait so I’m having to be creative to make them work!

Check out the Flickr gallery to see more closeups of my pages, plus the albums some of the other DT members made. And then go get this kit – it’s a good one, and if you live outside the US, shipping is pretty reasonable, especially considering the price hike from USPS recently!

I love how easy and stressfree this album is – whenever I have a photo during the year of something I feel blessed to have in my life, I’ll simply tuck it into a pocket, add a precut journaling card and embellish if I want.

I’d love to see what some of you make with this kit – whether you use it for One Little Word or to make a Gratitude Album, it’s bound to be a mini that really means something to you and aren’t those the projects we love to look through the most?

In other crafty news, I’m binding my Card Organizer this evening and will be back tomorrow with pics of it and the 4 cards we’ll be making on Saturday. Last time I checked, there was one spot left so hurry and call the Paperie if you want it! If you can’t wait until tomorrow to see what we’re doing, I’ve posted a couple of pics on Instagram and Twitter.

Simple Scrapper Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY! | February 2013

05 Tuesday Feb 2013

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Giveaway, October Afternoon, Simple Scrapper, stickles, Studio Calico, Wood Veneer

It’s time for another Simple Scrapper blog hop with the Design Team and we’re showcasing the new February templates and/or Story Starters – as usual, Jennifer has outdone herself!

I used one of the Story Starters for my first LO. I had this picture of M during the first snowfall this year and it was perfect for this one:

Inspired by a Simple Scrapper Premium Member Story Starter; Template – Simple Scrapper Premium Member Template (April 2011); Patterned Paper – American Crafts, Fancy Pants, Vintage Book Paper; Transparency – Fancy Pants; Vellum, Wood Veneer – Studio Calico; Tag – Elle’s Studio; Metal Word Bands – Ranger; Stamp – American Crafts; Glitter Glue – Ranger; Stain – Ranger; Ink – Staz-on; Adhesive – Ranger, Glue Arts; Sewing Machine – Singer

Instead of writing my own list of things for her to remember as she grows, I used the Tim Holtz Idea.ology Word Bands – the sentiments were perfect for this!

I rubbed a little bit of white paint over the words to make them stand out better and then handstitched them to the LO – they’re so heavy I wanted to make sure they would stay put!

I also used some October Afternoon chipboard to make custom purple glasses just like hers:

I then coated those and the wood veneer words with Glossy Accents to make them pop.

Finally, I really wanted the snow to shine, so out came the Stickles and I added small dots to the flakes falling around her, as well as the wood veneer snowflakes:

Love the extra sparkle it gives the photo!

For my template LO this month, I pulled out a couple of photos of Mr. G that made me laugh. He’s beginning to hate getting his picture taken and his face in these is priceless!

Template – Simple Scrapper Premium Member Template (February 2013, Letter #1); Patterned Paper – Crate Paper, Studio Calico; Card Stock – American Crafts; Fabric Stars, Wood Veneer – Studio Calico; Letter Stickers – American Crafts; Washi Tape – Freckled Fawn, American Crafts; Mist – Studio Calico; Punch – Jenni Bowlin for Fiskars; Stain, Ink – Ranger; Stamp – American Crafts; Adhesive – Glue Arts; Thread – Coats; Sewing Machine – Singer; Kits – Studio Calico (Handmade, Story Hour)

I used one of my all time favourite alpha sets, which I misted and then sewed to the page – they’re not going anywhere!

And I finished it all off with lots of stars – if Studio Calico ever discontinues those wood veneer stars I may cry!

If you want some more great inspiration, I recommend you check out the other Design Team Members, they did some really awesome LO’s this month!

Simple Scrapper (Jennifer Wilson)

Margrethe Aas Johnsen

Van Nguyen

Sara Case Strickland (this is me!)

And now, the giveaway! Use this link to enter a giveaway for a one-month trial subscription to Simple Scrapper. Entries will be pooled and one winner selected at 11:59pm CST on Wednesday, February 6. You may enter from multiple blogs so go check them all out!

Simple Scrapper Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY! | January 2013

08 Tuesday Jan 2013

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It’s time for the Simple Scrapper Blog Hop and I can finally show you the two LO’s I did with the Premium Members templates and Story Starters!

I actually scrapped some Christmas photos, never one of my favourite things to do but the template made it quick, easy, and painless! 🙂

Santa, I want…
Supplies | Template – Simple Scrapper Premium Membership; Cardstock – Stampin’ Up!; Patterned Paper – Bo Bunny, Crate Paper, , My Mind’s Eye, Pebbles, Studio Calico; Wood Veneer, Badges, Alpha Stickers, Mist – Studio Calico; Button – Crate Paper; Glitter Glue, Ink – Ranger; Pen – Sakura; Adhesive – Glue Arts, Glue Dots, Ranger; Kit – Brooklyn Flea by Studio Calico

Of course, having some awesome wintery wood veneer and glitter helped make doing the Christmas pictures enjoyable as well!

And really loved discovering that the tiny star was a perfect fit for the tree top!

I used one of the new Story Starters for January and an older Premium Sketch to get another LO completed for my Book of Me:

My Favourite
Supplies | Inspired by a Story Starter from the Simple Scrapper Premium Membership; Template – Simple Scrapper Premium Membership; Cardstock – Bazzill; Patterned Paper – My Mind’s Eye, Bo Bunny, Studio Calico; Stencil – The Crafter’s Workshop; Wood Veneer – Studio Calico; Badges – Evalicious; Mist – October Afternoon; Ink – Ranger; Pen – Pilot; Adhesive – Glue Arts, Glue Dots, Ranger; Kit – Handmade by Studio Calico

Some awesome Evalicious badges on this one, great wood veneer Word Bubbles, and I only adhered the papers in the centre so there would be lots of dimension and layers:

Some handwritten journaling, a necessary component of a personal page, written with the erasable Pilot Frixon pen so I didn’t have to worry about mistakes!

Do you want some more inspiration? Visit the other Simple Scrapper Team members to see what they’ve done with this month’s Premium Collection of sketches, templates, and Story Starters:

Margrethe Aas Johnsen

You are here >>> Sara Case Strickland <<< You are here

The Premium Membership at Simple Scrapper provides skills and shortcuts to help you simplify and find more meaning in your memory keeping.

And of course, I did promise a giveaway! If you’re interested in seeing more of what a Simple Scrapper Premium Membership can offer you, use this link to enter a giveaway for a one month trial membership!

Thanks for stopping by!

And the exciting news is….

10 Monday Dec 2012

Posted by Sara in ScrapBook, Simple Scrapper

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Simple Scrapper, Sketch Template

…I’ve been asked to be a part of the Simple Scrapper Design Team!

See the badge over there? ————> 🙂

I’m super excited and can’t wait to get started with Jennifer and her team! As a little preview, here’s a new LO using one of the Premium Member Templates from December:

Super easy with a Paperie kit and Simple Scrapper sketch – I was done in no time! Seriously, I set up, scrapped, and cleaned away in less than an hour! Those of you who know me know that’s a miracle!

I stamped and popped up the “this” circle and stamped the words directly on the photo:

I hope you’ll come join the fun over at Simple Scrapper and see what the rest of the Design Team and I do every month – they’re an awesome group of talented ladies!

Oh, and it’s definitely worth your while to stop back here tomorrow. There just may be a very awesome giveaway – hint, hint!