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For the love of all things scrapbooking. And Star Wars.
Color Me: Cranberry, Pomegranate, and Evergreen
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
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| Photo of the Crate Paper booth at CHA Winter 2013 |
It's hard to believe that the Craft and Hobby Association 2014 Mega Show (the new name for CHA's biggest trade show of the year) is only a few weeks away! Manufacturers started to quietly release peeks a few weeks ago, and I just as quietly started my sneak peek roundup page the week before last. The peeks are coming fairly fast now, and I'll be updating the list at least once a day from now until the start of the show. I'm also making an effort to keep it less cluttered this time around, so as full collections are posted I'll be removing links to post that only contain teasers or duplicate information. The peek page images are also larger this year, so it should be easier to get a feel for the new collections quickly. You'll also be able to find a link to the sneak peek page in the navigation bar right under my blog's header.
If you have any peeks you'd like to submit for the roundup, please email them to me using the contact information link in my blog's sidebar, or you can also leave a comment here with a link to be added.
I'll also be at the show again this year and will be posting photos from many of the manufacturer's booths. More on that as we get closer to the show!
Monday, December 16, 2013
Christmas journaling has taken over the time that I normally spend on Project Life this month, especially since I'm working on three albums at once! You can see the start of my 2013 foundation pages here, and I have bits and pieces of my 2011 and 2012 album to share this evening.
I'm working on my 2011 album as part of a guest design spot in Lisa Wilkinson's December Memories class. She asked me to come on board to share Project Life layouts with the group (those will come a little later this month since I'm just now getting enough Christmas photos in my weeks to be able to use Christmas products with them), and as soon as the Woodland Christmas kit from Pretty Little Studio arrived, I knew that I wanted to use it for my 2011 Christmas journal, too!
Since I already have all of my photos and journaling on hand for 2011 and 2012, I'm working through those albums in stages, going through and putting in filler cards, photos, and journaling in big batches and leaving most of the embellishment until the very end. I put together a video for the class showing my process for getting started on a catch-up December Daily style album, and since the class is free (you can sign up here if you want to join in), Lisa said I was free to share the video here on my blog, too!
I'm using the December Documented collection from Simple Stories to put my 2012 album together, and the first eight pages of it + the title page were up on their blog over the weekend along with lots of tips to help you either catch up on this year's album if you're feeling behind or to help you get an album together for a past year.
For both of my catch-up album, my focus is very much on getting the words + photos into place and not so much on making a gorgeous, artsy album. Don't get me wrong- I love looking at those types of albums and went that route for a lot of my 2013 foundation pages! For these albums, though, I wanted to simplify, so I'm mostly sticking to pictures, journaling, a filler card of some sort, and then a tiny bit of embellishment per page.
I should probably point out that I do not expect to have any of these albums finished at the end of December and will probably be working on them into January. I'm crazy sometimes, but not that crazy! :) I am totally enjoying the process of documenting my Christmases, though, and it's actually really helped me to enjoy this season more as I look back on previous years' journaling and remember all the little details that I would have otherwise forgotten. And that is what makes this project so worth it!
Supplies:
I'm working on my 2011 album as part of a guest design spot in Lisa Wilkinson's December Memories class. She asked me to come on board to share Project Life layouts with the group (those will come a little later this month since I'm just now getting enough Christmas photos in my weeks to be able to use Christmas products with them), and as soon as the Woodland Christmas kit from Pretty Little Studio arrived, I knew that I wanted to use it for my 2011 Christmas journal, too!
Since I already have all of my photos and journaling on hand for 2011 and 2012, I'm working through those albums in stages, going through and putting in filler cards, photos, and journaling in big batches and leaving most of the embellishment until the very end. I put together a video for the class showing my process for getting started on a catch-up December Daily style album, and since the class is free (you can sign up here if you want to join in), Lisa said I was free to share the video here on my blog, too!
I'm using the December Documented collection from Simple Stories to put my 2012 album together, and the first eight pages of it + the title page were up on their blog over the weekend along with lots of tips to help you either catch up on this year's album if you're feeling behind or to help you get an album together for a past year.
For both of my catch-up album, my focus is very much on getting the words + photos into place and not so much on making a gorgeous, artsy album. Don't get me wrong- I love looking at those types of albums and went that route for a lot of my 2013 foundation pages! For these albums, though, I wanted to simplify, so I'm mostly sticking to pictures, journaling, a filler card of some sort, and then a tiny bit of embellishment per page.
I should probably point out that I do not expect to have any of these albums finished at the end of December and will probably be working on them into January. I'm crazy sometimes, but not that crazy! :) I am totally enjoying the process of documenting my Christmases, though, and it's actually really helped me to enjoy this season more as I look back on previous years' journaling and remember all the little details that I would have otherwise forgotten. And that is what makes this project so worth it!
Supplies:
