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Jan 26, 2012
Usually Valentine's Day just comes 'n goes without much of a blip on my radar screen. But 2012 continues to feel a bit different.
Prototypes of all of the Love Blooms materials have been arriving at Club Scrap, and I have been having a ball making project samples, filming the workshop videos, writing instructions, etc. (Well, maybe not the "writing instructions" part. . . not necessarily at the
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Jan 19, 2012
Hetty Sanders, a very talented and creative Club Scrap member from the Netherlands, hosts a technique challenge each month on our chat forum. This month's challenge is to use a stamp "kissing" technique, which basically means that you ink a solid stamp, and then stamp another image onto the stamp. Just like "the real deal," there are many methods to stamp kissing. :) The challenge submissions
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Jan 17, 2012
I'm just so excited about Valentine's Day this year! Kay Williamson started it. She began creating all of these super-cool cards with our in-house love-themed stuff. (Note to self: Bring Kay hot coffee tomorrow morning.) Plus, we have the amazing "Love Blooms" Event right around the corner, and I'm thrilled about how that is all coming together.
But in the spirit of Efficient Crafting, I wanted
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Jan 10, 2012
I fell victim to more "Pinspiration." (That's my made-up word.) Pinterest has continued to inspire me, for sure. It also makes time evaporate into thin air. Consider yourself warned.
This is the original pin created by Susan Roberts and posted to the gallery at Split Coast Stampers. I thought this seemed like a cleverly simple masked background.
I fancy my Faber-Castell Oil Pastels, so I
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Jan 09, 2012
Are you still as tarp as a shack?
I recently discovered that we have some of these adorable "Three Hour Tour" stamps in stock. It's just a little sheet of unmounteds poised for bringing a smile to your face.
I thought I'd personally challenge myself to combine every image on the sheet along with one Assembly Line Cardmaking formula to create an 8-pack of silly cards. I grabbed a more "mature"
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Jan 03, 2012
Each month a Club Scrap member (aka "ScrappinJen") organizes a very popular
card sketch challenge. She posts a simple sketch, and members utilize their Club Scrap stash to create a card based on that sketch.
Here it is, folks, the January 2012 card sketch:
3:16pm I thought it might be fun to see if I could put my "Assembly Line Cardmaking" skills to work by creating a simple cutting diagram to
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Jan 02, 2012
A while back my friend Lori Davis shared a "pin" with me on Pinterest.
Since then, hours have flown by as mere minutes while I perused the ever-growing resource of creative ideas on this unique website.
My craft room frenzy over the New Year's weekend was born from this pin:
It was created by Andrea Hayes, and I never would have found her if not for
Pinterest. (Click the link to follow me there.)
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Dec 28, 2011
Our 2011 family Christmas card:
The
digital Christmas cards from Club Scrap make it so easy to make one of those custom photo cards. I save a ton of money on these because they're sized to a simple 4x6 print rather than the "premium priced" 4x8 prints. Once you drop your photos into the card template, just upload it to your favorite developer as a standard print for roughly 10 cents each.
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Dec 16, 2011
When I think that we've been doing this Club Scrap thing for 150 consecutive months, it's pretty hard to believe. That's 150 themes, 150 paper collections, 150 art styles, 150 stamp sets, etc.
So, last night I didn't have to take Emily from point A to point B to point C, to point A. . . well, you get the idea. So I carved out a bit of time in my favorite room of the house--my craft room. (Which
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Dec 09, 2011
What a week! We hosted our first event on Livestream.com. To be honest, I had bit of a tickle belly about it. I mean, there's a lot of stuff that can go wrong when you're "live." Since the event began at 7pm, I left the Clubhouse a bit early to get things set up in my kitchen. I dragged up a few extra lamps from my craft room and arranged them on the counter along with two computers and my
