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The layering is strong with this one...

scrapbook page by Shimelle - Best of Both Worlds Scrapbooking Kit - January 2021

My last live video for January’s kit features a Jedi photo several of you have been challenging me to use all month. Again I needed to add a background, and I chose a neutral from my first collection with American Crafts. I also added a Heidi Swapp stencil to create the background with a Distress Oxide ink from a previous kit. I love the tiny detail that the Crafty Jen Schow stamps add to the layering as well. That’s something that obviously optional, but I think little tiny things like this make a big difference to my love of layers.

I know I say this in so many videos, but I really do believe you can layer and layer and layer as long as you keep most of your angles square. The only really angled piece here is that double frame die-cut over on the left edge. Everything else is either horizontal or vertical, and that means you don’t tilt your head as you look at different elements. If layering is something that always leaves you a bit frustrated, this is definitely something to keep in mind. Keep everything or almost everything at right angles.

I do have some leftovers from the January kit. Not a huge amount, and no big pieces of paper. A little less than half of each set of stickers and a decent number of die-cuts. More washi flower petals. More words on the Thickers sheet, and heaps more tiny gems. I’m going to roll over the gems to work with my February kit, and I know I want to work more with the rainbow die. I will keep these extras together though, and usually after I have had a little break from these supplies, I’ll have a few more ideas in how to bring them together. Lately I’ve been approaching these after-the-month-ends pages without filming them. It’s quite a therapeutic process to work on alongside homework or homeschool, where I can scrap without needing my full undivided attention like in a video!

At any rate, our next live we move to the February kit and the March kit goes live for shopping (from a shop or from your stash). I scrap live on Facebook around 1:30pm Monday and 9:30am Friday, UK time. But everything stays available for you to watch at any time that suits your schedule.

For the supplies in the January 2021 Best of Both Worlds kit, see the second half of this post. You can create a similar kit from your own stash or add things to your shopping cart – all angles welcome!

To see the current kit, whenever you see this post, you can always find it on this affiliate link.

If you create something inspired by this scrapbook page or the kit, please tag me and add the hashtag #shimellebobw. I would love to see what you make!

Washi tape flowers and so many layers

scrapbook page by Shimelle - Best of Both Worlds Scrapbooking Kit - January 2021

We’ve come to the point in my kit that I’ve run out of sheets to use as a background! Today I picked a neutral from way back in my very first collection with American Crafts, and built lots of layers on top with the remaining scraps of patterned paper and lots of die-cuts too.

Yet again, I filled a frame with something that wasn’t a photo! This time it was patterned paper. I also pulled out the rainbow stencil from a previous kit to add more of a particular colour to the mix.

For the supplies in the January 2021 Best of Both Worlds kit – including those washi tape flowers and the pack of die-cuts I layered here – see the second half of this post. You can create a similar kit from your own stash or add things to your shopping cart – it’s all good!

To see the current kit, whenever you see this post, you can always find it on this affiliate link.

If you create something inspired by this scrapbook page or the kit, please tag me and add the hashtag #shimellebobw. I would love to see what you make!

Scrapbooking with a PageMaps Sketch

scrapbook page by Shimelle - Best of Both Worlds Scrapbooking Kit - January 2021

The shortest video from January is this one – a 20 minute speed (for me!) scrapping session following one of the January PageMaps sketches. Even with the sketch, I didn’t get it nearly done in the 20 minutes, but I did get it finished off camera!

I added washi tape flowers after this video, as well as the title lettering and some of the Crate Paper stickers to embellish. This time I did use the frame die-cut for a photo!

For the supplies in the January 2021 Best of Both Worlds kit, see the second half of this post. You can create a similar kit from your own stash or add things to your shopping cart – it’s all good!

To see the current kit, whenever you see this post, you can always find it on this affiliate link.

If you create something inspired by this scrapbook page or the kit, please tag me and add the hashtag #shimellebobw. I would love to see what you make!

Mixing black and white with a rainbow on a scrapbook page

scrapbook page by Shimelle - Best of Both Worlds Scrapbooking Kit - January 2021

Covering two-thirds of a page with one patterned paper and bringing lots of colour and embellishment to the remaining third of the page is a great formula for scrapbooking with just one photo – or possibly two small prints. This page composition is a great way to incorporate bold, colourful patterned papers you don’t want to cover up, but this time around I actually used a black and white paper to contrast against the literal rainbow of colour in that top third.

This was the only page in the January videos where I used the rainbow die but I have plenty of ideas to use it again in future. I love adding elements like stamps, stencils, dies, and ink pads as stash building elements, so we can continue to use those pieces in future!

For the supplies in the January 2021 Best of Both Worlds kit, see the second half of this post. You can create a similar kit from your own stash or add things to your shopping cart – it’s all good!

To see the current kit, whenever you see this post, you can always find it on this affiliate link.

If you create something inspired by this scrapbook page or the kit, please tag me and add the hashtag #shimellebobw. I would love to see what you make!

I love a woodgrain background

scrapbook page by Shimelle - Best of Both Worlds Scrapbooking Kit - January 2021

I knew when I added the woodgrain patterned paper to the January Best of Both Worlds kit, I would use it as a background. Because I am nothing if not predictable. Or if it’s not broke, don’t fix it. Somewhere between those two! Labels are another classic, and then I threw some camera motifs in too, because yep: this is just what always feels right to me.

In the video, you’ll hear me say I plan to stamp the title in white ink as well as writing the journaling with a white pen. I tried every white ink I had and none of them looked how I imagined on the woodgrain background, so I ended up adding some older white puffy Thickers to spell out the title, to at least keep the aesthetic I had in mind, but it did mean I had to step outside the kit there.

For the supplies in the January 2021 Best of Both Worlds kit, see the second half of this post. You can create a similar kit from your own stash or add things to your shopping cart – everybody is welcome!

To see the current kit, whenever you see this post, you can always find it on this affiliate link.

If you create something inspired by this scrapbook page or the kit, please tag me and add the hashtag #shimellebobw. I would love to see what you make!

A Colourful Layered Layout

scrapbook page by Shimelle - Best of Both Worlds Scrapbooking Kit - January 2021

Bring on more Disney trip photos: it’s been a year now since I’ve been to a Disney park and in this dark and cold month of more lockdown, I will take all the happy and colourful memories I can get! Today it’s two 4×6 portrait photos of WB hanging out in Andy’s Room – the Toy Story area of Disney’s All-Star Movies resort. And our last stop before the Tragical Express back to the airport!

Don’t forget that frame die-cuts don’t have to hold photos! This film strip shape from Vicki Boutin’s Storyteller Ephemera was perfect for filling with small scraps and embellishments. This page features the January Best of Both Worlds kit. You can create a similar kit from your own stash or add things to your shopping cart – it’s all good!

To see the current kit, whenever you see this post, you can always find it on this affiliate link.

If you create something inspired by this scrapbook page or the kit, please tag me and add the hashtag #shimellebobw. I would love to see what you make!

Scrapbooking with a Mondrian Influence

scrapbook page by Shimelle - Best of Both Worlds Scrapbooking Kit - January 2021

Schools haven’t reopened here this January and we are back to home learning, which means I’m back to having a small assistant in some of my videos! Today his class were studying Mondrian-influenced art, so we decided to see how I could take that influence over to a scrapbook page.

For the supplies in the January 2021 Best of Both Worlds kit, see the second half of this post. You can create a similar kit from your own stash or add things to your shopping cart – it’s all good!

To see the current kit, whenever you see this post, you can always find it on this affiliate link.

If you create something inspired by this scrapbook page or the kit, please tag me and add the hashtag #shimellebobw. I would love to see what you make!

Best of Both Worlds January: Let's start scrapbooking!

scrapbook page by Shimelle - Best of Both Worlds scrapbooking kit January 2021

Kicking off a new month with my first video unpacking the January Best of Both Worlds kit and putting it to use to make a colourful scrapbook page! These photos always make me giggle, because the photographer posed us quite seriously and we weren’t expecting that, so eventually we made sure to get an image that captures our true selves!

If you’re new to the Best of Both Worlds concept, every month I share a shopping list to create a scrapbooking kit. You can follow the list in a few different ways: you can add one of everything to your cart, check out, and have the same set of supplies that I will use throughout the following month. Or you can take the list to your local scrapbooking store. If you have a local store, support them, for sure! Or you can use the list to gather similar items from your existing collection of supplies and work with your own stash without the need to shop at all. Or you can combine anything there to make it work for you – if I have a stamp in the kit and you don’t enjoy stamping, for example, you just leave that out and save the cash for something you will love!

The current list is always on this affiliate link, and updates for the first live scrapping session of the month, so that’s either Monday around 1:30pm UK time or Friday at 9:30am UK time, whichever falls first in the calendar! That gives about a month for my kit to arrive (I order it just before the list updates!) and a month for you to gather your supplies, and then we scrap with it when the month rolls over!

Here’s what was in the January 2021 kit:

If you create a page inspired by this or using your own Best of Both Worlds kit, please tag me and add the hashtag #shimellebobw! I would always love to see what you make.