Elsie Flannigan has a new book! “52 Scrapbooking Challenges” promises to help you find your own unique scrapbooking style. The book will be available from Amazon beginning in July, 2006.
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Creative Escapes - Scrapbooking Event
May 30, 2006 – 6:31 pm
Heidi Swapp and Bazzill Basics Paper have joined together to plan a scrapbooking event called Creative Escapes to be held at Pointe Hilton resort in Phoenix, Arizona. The classes will run from Sept 7th to the 9th, 2006. The fee is $579 US per person and includes all meals. There will be 8 teachers […]
Doodling Trend in Scrapbooking
May 25, 2006 – 6:02 am
Doodling has been growing in popularity. Elsie Flannigan takes her pen to paper and creates freehand right on her layouts. Check out the whole layout here.
If you’d rather have it ready-made, check out Basic Grey’s paper Gabardine, part of their “Urban Collection.” Here’s a great layout by Maryam Abdul posted in the Basic Grey […]
Sarabinders for Scrapbookers
May 23, 2006 – 8:01 pm
Have you seen these Sarabinders? Here is a photo of one from their site. Donna Downey uses one in her class at Big Picture Scrapbooking for week 22 which is in June. Kayce Rehn, of Big Picture Scrapbooking, shows a sneak peek of Donna’s sample binder on her blog post here.
Teresa Collins on CBS
May 23, 2006 – 11:16 am
Here is a video link to see Teresa Collins, a Junkitz designer, on a CBS segment on scrapbooking. Teresa can be seen teaching a class. The segment is talking about scrapbooking’s popularity.
Carrie Colbert in BHG’s Scrapbooks Etc.
May 22, 2006 – 2:05 pm
Carrie Colbert Batt has posted some images of her layouts appearing in Better Homes and Gardens Scrapbooks Etc.(Carrie also has a new regular column in the magazine on design principles). To the side is a cropped version of one of her layouts. You can see the full layouts on her blog. Also she mentions […]
Scrapbooking Trend Watch: Masking Tape on Layouts
May 21, 2006 – 9:10 pm
Have you tried using masking tape on your layouts? If you’re not worried about the acid-free issue, and some people aren’t due to their photos being digital prints anyway, give it a try. If you check out the Freestyle Blog you can see the full challenge sample (cropped sample to the right is by […]
Scrapbooking Craft is Spreading!
May 21, 2006 – 8:07 pm
An article recently published on INQ7Money says that scrapbooking has now spread to the Phillipines. It doesn’t site the source, but it mentions that in the U.S.A. “the scrapbooking industry is worth $7 billion and is growing by about 27 percent yearly…” Also of interest and according to this article is that […]
Last Day for CKU Provo 2006
May 20, 2006 – 8:30 pm
Today was the last day of Creating Keepsakes University (CKU) in Provo, Utah. Among those there and teaching classes were Donna Downey, Elsie Flannigan, Heidi Swapp, Christy Tomlinson, Stacy Julian, Lisa Bearnson, Margie Romney-Aslett and many more.
Donna taught a class called “Do-ability” and “Creative He’ART.” Elsie taught classes on “Make the Most of it” […]
Leah Fung Chat Tonight 7pm
May 18, 2006 – 5:26 pm
Not much time to let you know, but if you hurry you can make it to The Scrapbook Site where Leah Fung will be on a chat. Leah is their guest designer for this month. She is also one of the scrapbook designers featured on the new internet reality scrapbook show Scrapbook Lifestyle […]
New Scrapbooking TV Show - Scrap In Style
May 18, 2006 – 2:49 pm
Jeannette Herdman is the hostess of a new scrapbooking television show called, “Scrap In Style.” Jenni Bowlin was a guest for the pilot and did the taping with Jeannette at an antique store in Franklin, TN called, “Scarlett Scales.” The show has not yet been sold, but as Jeannette says, “We are extremely […]
Karen Russell - Women for Women International
May 15, 2006 – 8:13 pm
Karen Russell organized a fundraising drive for scrapbooking prizes for Women for Women International. She’s posted the totals raised and there is a whopping $12k! Great job! The prizes are pretty interesting - layouts by well-known scrapbook designers.
The Latest Thing - Letters by Janna
May 15, 2006 – 7:51 pm
Have you seen these wooden letters? They are great for altering using your scrapping supplies. Plus a lot of our favourite scrapbooking designers are getting their hands on them. From Ali Edwards, to Donna Downey, to Gretchen Schmidt, etc. Check out Janna’s blog where you can order your own. The letter in the photo […]
Erin Lincoln Video Techniques
May 15, 2006 – 7:32 pm
As mentioned in a previous post, Erin Lincoln is CK’s new “web hostess.” There are video techniques online including this interesting one about making your own faux chipboard accents.
Calendar of Events - June 2006
May 12, 2006 – 1:13 pm
June 2006
Ali Edwards -
June 3rd @ the Daisy Bucket in Hermiston, Oregon; June 10th @ No Bare Pages Scrapbook Co. in Phoenix, Oregon - June 22nd-25th @ Creating Keepsakes University Album in San Jose, CA
Carol Wingert -
June 10th @ Day to Create, Scrapbooks Etc. Mesa, AZ; June 17th @ Ink It! Inc. in Gilbert, […]