You can find the full write up at http://www.paigetaylorevans.com/2020/04/makers-gonna-make-layout-by-shimelle.html, plus here’s a very quick behind the scenes look at how it all came together!
You can find Bloom Street to order through that dandy affiliate link (thanks!) and find the cut file here or by searching for it on the Silhouette Design Store.
Can you spot what ‘making’ is featuring in those photos? It’s one of our favourite quiet breaks to take on an Animal Kingdom day, because we just have a need to do some making of some sort, pretty much every day!
Happy Easter! I’m celebrating with… a rainbow-themed scrapbook page. Ha! It just happens to be my turn to share a project on Paige Evans’ blog today, so rainbows it is.
I used Paige’s Bloom Street collection (affiliate link) for this pastel rainbow, and you can find a full write up of the steps on Paige’s blog.
Wishing you a wonderful, if quite unique, Easter Sunday!
I use the word ‘technique’ pretty loosely around here: it doesn’t need to have lots of steps that need explanation, nor lots of technical supplies and tools, nor lots of patience. If that last page’s technique was to create a rainbow of boxes in a grid, this time the technique is to find a rainbow of paper scraps and line them up to make a border for your scrapbook page. Totally a technique. Totally counts.
I would love to see the rainbow pages you’re creating! Please add the hashtag #scrapbookrainbows to any rainbow pages you post to social media so we can see a beautiful gallery of paper rainbow inspiration!
No really. For as long as we are locked down, I’m just going to scrapbook with rainbows. Rainbows on my desk bring me great joy and I am all for the little things that bring us joy right now!
Also, once someone gave me product feedback that there are too many rainbows in the industry right now.
THERE IS NO SUCHTHING AS TOOMANYRAINBOWS.
I just want to make my opinions clear on that.
If you also enjoy scrapbooking with rainbows and happen to share what you make on social media, add the #scrapbookrainbows hashtag, so we can have an amazing gallery of rainbow scrapbook pages!
Hello and RAWR to you today, friends! It’s my turn to share a page on “Paige’s blog”: and today I’m scrapbooking with Bloom Street’s pastel colours and some dinosaurs. What could be a better way to spend the day? Pretty sure RAWR is dinosaur for ‘stay home and scrapbook’ and I’m on board.
I’ve had the Geometric Dinosaur cut file bookmarked in my mind for a while, but someone recently asked which papers I would use specifically from Bloom Street to bring this dino to life, so it had to be done! And it appears the answer is all the greens and purples, plus a cheeky pair of chipmunks.
You can watch it all from start to finish in this process video.
Thanks so much for braving this fearsome T-Rex and I wish you much pastel fun in your own creating this week!
Once upon a time, nine years ago, I recorded this video, which remains one of my most viewed scrapbook pages ever.
It started a wave of other scrappers giving that same sketch their own interpretation and each version posted made me smile. Over and over again. Because they took that same beginning and made it their very own. It all started with a sketch! I think it’s time to revisit that idea on a much grander scale, so I’ve put together a new (and much overdue) class on just that: a bundle of brand new sketches, interpreted and reinterpreted through scrapbooking process videos, with an armload of tips you can take away to use with these sketches, other sketches you’ve pinned, or sketches you’ve drawn yourself.
It’s called Start with a Sketch and it starts one week from today: the 17th of March 2020!
$30 US Dollars
£23 UK Pounds
Start with a Sketch includes…
15 scrapbook page sketches, each with 3 interpretations. All shown in video. That’s 45 scrapbook process videos.
The first interpretation is always the truest to the sketch and the simplest in terms of gathering supplies. No fancy techniques. No mixed media. No cut files. Just strong design, pattern, and colour tips to make your photos and stories the star of every sketch.
The second and third interpretations, however, give that sketch wings. You’ll see mixed media added to a sketch that doesn’t have anything that obvious to start. Turn a single page sketch into a double page layout. Change the number, orientation, or size of the photos on the sketch. Add a statement with a cut file, large sticker, or ephemera piece.
In addition, there’s a variety of story topics represented throughout. Each sketch has at least one layout with just grown ups in the photos. At least one will be kid photos. Some travel, some things closer to home. Some newer photos, some older photos. Some single photo pages, some pages with two photos, some pages with several more. All the photos can be printed on a 4×6 printer, as the sketches use 4×6, 4×4, and 3×4 photo sizes as a rule (I would print two 3×4 images on a single 4×6, and there’s a quick video to demonstrate that in the class resources if it’s new for you).
The schedule works like this:
Registration opens today (Tuesday the 10th of March)
Tomorrow (Wednesday the 11th) existing students from Level Up will receive a bonus set of three videos – a sketch and its three interpretations. That set is just for Level Up students and is not part of the 20 sketch count above.
Thursday the Start with a Sketch forum will open! Once you sign in, you’ll find some class materials ready to help you prepare and get the most from the class. That includes a printable with all 20 sketches and notes on what photos, paper collections, tools, and other supplies I used for each video, should you wish to have a plan and work along with me in real time. Of course I encourage you to use what you have and what you love, so don’t feel you need to go get what I’ve used! But if you already have it, you might not hurt to get it ready, right?
The first video will appear the following Tuesday, the 17th, and from there the schedule is basically video, video, video, day off, and repeat. So a week from today, you’ll see Sketch one, video one, then Wednesday is video two, Thursday is video three. Friday there’s no video and Saturday we go again starting with the second sketch. That means class finishes in the middle of May. But you have permanent access to all the class materials and there are absolutely no deadlines, no late marks, no ‘keeping up’ pressures in my classes. Go at your pace, dip in and out as it suits you, and come back to the materials whenever you’re stuck. In fact, that’s a big part of my aim with this class: giving you a resource you can return to when you’re creatively blocked and so desperately want to get back to making things you love. I hope this will be something you’ll find useful for many years to come!
$30 US Dollars
£23 UK Pounds
(You will be taken to PayPal’s secure website, where you may pay by credit/debit card or a PayPal balance.)
Once you sign up, you will receive a PayPal receipt email confirming your completed payment. The forums will open Thursday, and when that happens you will also receive an email from me welcoming you to class. If you have taken a class here previously and don’t remember your login details, or you just have any questions about any of this process, please email me.
A topical note that I probably should have been including in my classes since the very beginning: I’m healthy, my family is healthy, but people get ill, things happen. If I were to get sick or someone in my family were to get sick, it is very possible that I might run a little behind and we’ll adjust as we go. But hey, it’s an online class, so we can all participate even if we are quarantined. I just feel like maybe I should have always made it clear that if something runs behind schedule for something like illness, that’s all it will be – a little bit behind schedule. But I have done and will continue to do all I can to prevent that happening, and I wish you and your family all the same health and safety. Thanks for your understanding!
Hey howdy hey friends! It’s my turn on Paige Evans’ blog and I’m excited to share with you a new layout using plenty of purple from Bloom Street along with this fab Star Wreath cut file and a photo from Disneyland!
The top I’m wearing in this photo has a space ranger badge on the front and says ‘to infinity and beyond!’ on the back, so I knew from the start I wanted to pair it with purple and green to play up the Buzz Lightyear memories, plus plenty of stars seem apt for a space ranger in Tomorrowland. I couldn’t decide between a star background or a star wreath, so put it to a vote on social media and the star wreath was the winner! I started the whole process by cutting that at the full page size from white cardstock on my Silhouette Cameo. You can watch the whole process from start to finish in this process video.
Thanks so much for taking a look, and please do let me know if you make something with purple, green, and stars any time soon.
Almost every week, I broadcast two Facebook Live videos – Mondays at 1:30pm and Fridays at 9:30am – both UK time and both approximate times. And you don’t need to be a Facebook member to watch – only to comment. It’s all lovely fun and there’s a regular crowd who come by to heckle while I scrap and all is good.
Except Facebook’s ability to let you search through an archive is really not good. It’s nothing like YouTube in that respect and basically, a video is easy to watch for about a week and then it pretty much gets lost in a sea of stuff on Facebook. No one likes to trawl through the sea of stuff on Facebook.
(And also I tried a couple times taking the live video style to YouTube and the feedback made it abundantly clear that This Style Is Not Loved There and I get that. Each space for its own style – YouTube for edited and educational, Facebook for live chatting with me at my inevitably messy desk where I will lose the foam squares probably three times before I finish the layout.)
Here’s the small plan: I’ll keep on top of updating here with those videos and then that will add up to an archive that’s way easier to search. And when I get it suitably updated, I’ll even compile a pin board with all the layouts so you can see the page and go straight to the video, but that’s a step ahead of where I am today. Today, have one layout with at least something from all twelve collections I have made with American Crafts!
We’ll see if I can stay on top of it all. Send strength, wish me luck, whatever seems right.
