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Simple Scrapper | July 2015

06 Monday Jul 2015

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Lots to show you and talk about this month – it’s Stash Bash time!

stashbashWhat is Stash Bash? It’s a week-long event designed to help scrapbookers use up, declutter, and organize their traditional and digital supply stashes. Registration is open now and the event opens on July 14. As well, there’s a special promotion to get a three-month membership with Stash Bash registration and that includes a lifetime discounted rate!

Go now, run, I’ll wait…..

All signed up? Good – you’ll love it!

On to the memberships materials for July. I actually made three LO’s, that’s how good this month was! First up, my Story Starter LO (this one made the cover of this month’s Spark magazine!):

wild thingI love how this turned out! So much fun to use song titles on your LO’s and it makes for super easy journaling too!

The horse is a diecut from a Dear Lizzy pack and it was perfect for this:

wild thing horseI also did my usual trick with the Thickers and simply added some basic doodling to amp then up a little. The gold heart is also from the Dear Lizzy pack:

wild thing titleMy template LO used an old Story Starter (they are so great when you need some inspiration and/or new ideas!). As a complete change for me, this was a two page template and it was fun to break out of my mold for a bit. The pocket pages are so awesome to play with!

biker babes

I like see-through elements so a lot of pieces were glued on top of the pockets:

biker babes loveor slipped into the pockets and stapled in place:

biker babes stapledI carried the gold onto the LO page with some flair and gold foil papers:

biker babes embelliesFinally, a super simple LO but I love how it turned out. Plus, it has three, count them, three pictures on it!

jumpFun times on the last day of school!

Don’t forget to go to my sidebar and check out the rest of the Creative Team – they do such amazing work every month! And go sign up for Stash Bash – it’s totally worth it!

Cheers!

S.

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It’s all in the stance

07 Thursday May 2015

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From time to time I get questions regarding how I shoot my LO’s to make them square. I have a pretty very low-tech set-up around here so I thought I’d take today to share. Trust me, if I can do it, so can you!

First up, here’s my photo booth:

lucky - setupYup. That’s my kitchen floor. I’m lucky in that it has square tiles to help with keeping everything straight. In the morning, all the light comes through here so I just open the back door and voila! Good lighting! On the rare occasion I shoot in late afternoon I take my LO’s to the living room at the front of the house. The hardwood floor gives me straight lines to use as a guide and the light is perfect there. Better than the kitchen but 90% of the time I need to take pics in the morning (because I’m slack and don’t think about it in time to do it the day before – truth. Total slacker.).

The trick to getting a straight photo, and thus, a square picture, is your stance:

lucky - stanceGabe was nice enough to take this picture for me. He thought it was pretty funny that I wanted a picture of me like this!

Basically, stand right over the LO, and shoot straight down. Most cameras have guidelines you can line up with the edges of your project but if yours doesn’t, just eyeball it. You can usually easily tell if the sides are square of if they taper off at the top. The problem most people tell me they have is that the pictures of their LO’s are narrower at the top than the bottom – that simply means you aren’t directly over the LO, you’re getting the “tapering into the distance” effect.

Also, to get the best quality picture, shoot at the highest resolution you can and get as close to the item you’re photographing as you can. Here’s the picture I took, straight out of the camera (SOOC). All that means is there’s been no editing, no cropping. If this was film, this would be the picture I got back from the developer:

lucky - SOOCSee? Very little left to crop and generally square and true. It’s not exact, of course, but once I edited for white balance and cropped (I use Photoshop Elements 11), I lost very little of the actual LO:

luckyYou can see the white is a little brighter, as are the colours, but with good lighting coming in from the door, it was pretty good to begin with. It’s always better to have good lighting to start with than to try and fudge it too much.

This page was made for a LO tag I did with a bunch of friends. I love these because it’s so much fun to see how it changes as it’s passed from person to person. If you’ve never done this before it’s a simple concept – one person makes a LO and shows it to the next person who scraplifts it. They then show their own LO, but not the original, to the next person in line who scraplifts that, and so on until you’re all done. The difference from the first to the last LO’s are always amazing! If you don’t have a group of friends close by, there are groups online who do this as well. Since you only need a picture, participants can be anywhere in the world!

Hmmmm, maybe I should start one here!

Moving on….

Lots of dimension with foam adhesive, wood veneer, roughed up edges, and layers:

lucky - dimension clusterAnd texture with doily elements and drywall tape (love that stuff!):

lucky -embellie clusterSo that’s it, you too can take straight and square pictures, I promise! And you can always ask if you have any questions or if I just completely confused you! 🙂

Cheers!

S.

P.S. Don’t forget about Photo Crush, the FREE class over at Simple Scrapper! It starts on the 11th and you don’t want to miss out!

photo crush

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Just Cuz…

03 Friday Apr 2015

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Edit: The post is up now!

When I first started blogging I used to do a weekly series called Tuesday Techniques. I loved it but it was super time-consuming and I just couldn’t keep up. So they stopped. However, those posts are still my most visited and pinned, by far and that’s why this post should make many of you very happy. 🙂

06 - title and embellies

Sam, Brittany, and Sarah from DIY Just Cuz contacted me a little bit ago to ask if I’d consider doing a guest post for their Scrapbook Series. And then they gave me free rein, as long as I stuck to a current trend, or tip and tricks post. Seriously??? How could I turn that awesomeness down?

So head on over to DIY Just Cuz and check out my step by step tutorial for watercolour backgrounds. Then go take a look at the rest of their blog, it’s a ton of fun!

Cheers!

S.

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Simple Scrapper | December 2014

03 Wednesday Dec 2014

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Wow. Another year done at Simple Scrapper and the templates this month are some of my favourites. Also, if you’re a member, have you checked out this month’s Spark magazine? It’s gorgeous! If you’re not a member, you’re missing out this month, truly, but you can still see all the Creative Team work and get inspired over at the Team Gallery!

My template LO this month has a fun pic of Molly and I at the beach:

{heart} youThere’s a bunch of shine here too – gold  buttons and shimmer mist:

{heart} you shine

And of course, lots of layers with paper, doilies, and stitching:

{heart} you layers

My Story Starter Layout is one of my favourites. The photo of Gabe is from a visit to Lester’s Farm with my brother and his family while they were home for a visit this fall:

magicI love using songs for titles and I really love mixing up alphas, especially when I can pull out the gold ones!

magic title

I finished this one off with a bunch of die cuts:

magic embellies

When you go check out the Team Gallery make sure you scroll down. All the Team bios and links are there, along with a few recent LO’s – lots of eye candy! Plus you can get even more at our Pinterest board for Team Layouts.

Cheers!

S.

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Distress Renewed – Alcohol Inks

21 Friday Nov 2014

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My love for Alcohol Inks has been seriously reinvigorated after designing this class! As a matter of fact, it was so much fun that I played around with some of the techniques on a Secret Santa gift – a canvas – that I’m making:

shoot for the stars sneak

I actually had to go buy more colours I’m that excited to play with them again!

We had such an awesome fun time last night at class one participant was even giggling with glee as we spattered Ink about. I think if we spent two hours flicking different colours on page she would have left happy!

The first page is pretty simple – some Translucent embossing paste and then a layer of Alcohol Ink:

cousin love

We added lots of layers with book paper and stickers:

cousin love top layers

And then we added some more!

cousin love side layers

The second LO was the most fun to do:

hmph

Awesome drips:

hmph spatter

And texture:

hmph texture and colour

And splatter texture:

hmph texture

I wish I had photos of the LO’s the class did because they were amazing! The colours they picked were gorgeous and the way everything blended was awesome. Unfortunately for me, that means I have a lot to live up to for the next Renewed class, gulp!

Hopefully, some of you will join us – it’s fun, creative, and a great night out with friends.

Cheers!

S.

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August |YLA2014

06 Thursday Nov 2014

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Well. I was just going to post my September Yearlong Album LO’s and realized that I haven’t shown you August yet. Oops! So, to keep these in some type of order, here’s August – you’ll get September tomorrow! 🙂

08 - augustThis month it was fun with strips and drips! We cut a bunch of papers into different length strips which we layered behind photos and diecuts:

august layersYou can see I added my signature doodling to the diecuts to make them pop a little more.

The drips were made with three different shades of Heidi Swapp ColorShine mist. We made a pool of mist behind the photos then let it drip to either side:

august strips and dripsThe shimmer and the slight colour variation, plus the bit of added texture and dimension from the strips is pretty awesome.

We finished the LO with the usual arrows and some bits and bobs:

august heartsHave I mentioned how much I love those cork hearts and gold stars? Love. Them.

See you tomorrow with the September LO!

Cheers,

S.

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Simple Scrapper Show & Tell | November 2014

04 Tuesday Nov 2014

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showtell

I don’t know where the year is going but here I am again with new Simple Scrapper material. The rest of the Team, as always, knocked it out of the ballpark so make sure you check out the November Team Gallery. Also, we just announced some new Team members so go give them a big hello!

My Story Starter LO for this uses a picture that I’ve scrapped before but it’s one of my faves and it was perfect for this LO:

hello baby girl

The sketch was so much fun to use and I love how my old, hoarded Basic Grey paper worked for the circle element:

hello baby girl circle

I also got to break out some Prima alphas that I love and, of course, I added my usual black pen work to them:

hello baby girl title

My template LO was a fun mixed media one:

corn maze

The picture of my kiddies from this fall cracked me up – Molly makes it looks like Gabe is choking her to death, she’s such a drama queen – and I wanted it to be a fun LO to match. I used a different resist technique from my normal faves and traced a stencil with a glue pen:

corn maze resist

And then I mixed alphas for my title:

corn maze title

Now it’s your turn to play! Go check out all the Show & Tell links and then add your own – I love seeing what everyone makes each month, and it doesn’t have to be Simple Scrapper material so go share whatever you have!

Cheers!

S.

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Simple Scrapper Show & Tell | August 2014

05 Tuesday Aug 2014

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showtell

How is it time for another Show & Tell already? This summer is flying by way too fast!

My template LO this month also doubled as a LO I taught for a Distress Renewed class:

beautiful self

I love the texture, the colours, and the template I used! Check out this post for more details on that one.

My Story Starter LO was completely different but I love that *I* was able to get three, yes three, pictures on one LO! Big deal, my friends, you know I’m a one pic LO type of girl!

signal hill hikeI love the look of having the pics attached with washi tape, almost as if they were stuck on a bulletin board of some kind:

signal hill hike washi

And I had fun with different alphas, including a Studio Calico vellum one and a Prima fabric set:

signal hill hike alphas

Now, go check out what the rest of the Creative Team has designed this month and make sure you add your own name to the link up. We love seeing what everyone has created recently! And remember, it can be anything you’ve made, Simple Scrapper template or not!

Back soon with the most recent Yearlong Album LO’s – I introduced everyone to the deep black joy of India Ink!

S.

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Let’s Hear it for the Boys!

12 Thursday Jun 2014

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I taught a super fun class a week or so ago, one that I loved designing as it was a little out of my wheelhouse – it was all about boys!

If you’re a scrapper or cardmaker I know that you know what I’m talking about – boy stuff is hard! We love our embellishments and flowers and hearts and glitter and… Yeah, not so masculine!

So I decided to have a class that centered all around boy LO’s and cards. Here’s what we made!

A bunch of arrows and a bright and colourful grounding line made of banners:

urock

The arrows are attached to the photo which is mounted on an envelope to add more space for extra pictures or journaling:

urock embellies

The second LO has a fun line of squares:

jump 4 joy

And we kept the embellies simple with mist, enamel dots, and skinny striped washi tape:

jump 4 joy embellies

The cards had a big focus on the alpha stickers:

happy birthday

and arrows:

your own way

I’m starting to think towards to second class in this mini series: Let’s Hear it for the Girls! I have some awesome paper pulled and can’t wait to start getting glittery! 🙂

S.

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Simple Scrapper Show & Tell | April 2014

01 Tuesday Apr 2014

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simple scrapper show&tell
Back with another Simple Scrapper Show & Tell today! I hope you’re all enjoying the new way the Creative Team is sharing their work and that you get a chance to go check out what everyone else is doing. Also, don’t forget the CT Gallery each month – it’s always fabulous!

The Story Starter I used this month is one of my all time faves – and I’ll be doing another LO for Molly with it as well. Because I was waiting on product (I wanted to use the Bella Blvd. Molly line for Molly), I made Gabe’s LO first:

you-right now

I’ve been hoarding that text paper and the highlighted words were perfect for this!

I had some fun a traditionally girlie stencil – that I made work for a boy because, why not? – and molding paste:

you right now texture

And added hidden journaling, of course!

you right now journaling

The second LO features our pretties:

pretty girls

I don’t often get a chance to scrap them and I this template seemed to work with some recent pictures of them. The title is die cut and because the letter are small, I couldn’t use heavy chipboard. To get around that and get the thick look I wanted, I simply cut each letter from white cardstock three times and layered them on each other. I finished them off with Gold mist and a white Sharpie Paint Pen:

pretty girls title

The thing I love best about the Paint Pen is that it works for mixed media and over pictures as well!

pretty girls ella

Be sure to go see what the other CT girls did and add your own link for work you’ve done this month – we love seeing what everyone is working on!

S.

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