This week Glitter Girl takes on a question from the Two Peas community about where to start when scrapbooking about yourself. She has two layouts to share with you this week – one with an older photo and one with a current picture. So you can take your pick of perspectives to make your own scrapbook page.
For a full list of this week’s supplies and a collection of some of my favourite ‘about me’ pages from other scrapbookers at Two Peas, please see this page with all that goodness!
This week Glitter Girl challenges you to scrapbook yourself in any style and share it in the Two Peas gallery. You can also leave a link in the comments here if you like.
Onward, covered in glitter, my dear scrapbookers!
The Adventures of Glitter Girl is a weekly series on Two Peas in a Bucket, and goes live every Wednesday. I’ll share each adventure here shortly after that. I hope you enjoy her quests for crafting happiness, and if you ever have a scrapbooking dilemma yourself, you can always call her to action on the message board.
Definitely the most inspiring thing for me at Two Peas right this second is Amy Heller’s new workshop on colour – Through the Kaleidoscope. I’m taking this workshop and I just started working on the ideas in chapter one yesterday, but I cheated and looked ahead at all the layouts because I couldn’t wait to see them all. I’m really loving how this is expanding my view of colour and making me try some new things mixing my papers and using colour to tell my stories… due in large part to the fact that I have never met an Amy scrapbook page that I didn’t like.
You can find her workshop here, but I’m also giving away a free place this week. Find that giveaway here.
That ‘max out your supplies’ idea may have gone the wrong way in my head because I’ve ordered two boxes of goodies from Two Peas this month! Oh goodness. I’ll have to keep scrapping in overdrive or I’ll be back to square one with nowhere for it all to live! (At least they weren’t gigantic orders. Medium-sized, I promise.) Five favourites I’m loving right now include this special kit with a gorgeous mix of things. It can be used for an upcoming minibook workshop but I’m using it for a series of 12×12 pages and loving the colours and designs; this exclusive stamp set has such a great mix of words that can be used on all sorts of projects and I love the clean look of the fonts; these paper pockets from Whisker Graphics are brand new to the shop and just twenty-five cents; papers from Summer Fresh by Simple Stories and the newest collection from October Afternoon, 9 to 5, made a big impact on my need-to-order-twice decision this month! Look for all of these products in layouts appearing over the next few weeks!
Now to kick off this month’s Gardeners’ Digest with a funny little giveaway this time! The more comments left, the better the prize gets. We’ll start with a $10 gift certificate to spend on anything you would like at Two Peas. After 100 comments are left, a second prize is added – the Oh Happy Day exclusive stamp set. After 250 comments, a third prize is added – five rolls of washi tape. If we get to 500 comments, I’ll add the Pieces of Me scrapbooking kit. And what the heck, if for some crazy reason we hit 1000 comments, I’ll add another ninety bucks to the gift certificate to give you a total of $100 to shop for whatever you want at Two Peas. Which means if we really do get that many comments, the winner would get a prize that is worth $185 plus shipping. Um… don’t expect this to be a regular thing! So yes – one comment per person, and you have one week to leave that comment. Entries close at 3pm UK time next Tuesday, the 29th of May 2012. Telling a friend is a good thing!
Now, once you’ve left that comment, remember to click on over to the next Garden Girl. Your next stop is the incredibly fabulous Jen Gallacher, a blog you should definitely bookmark if you haven’t already. Check out her sidebar for all the scrapbooking videos she creates. And enjoy the digest posts from all the Garden Girls!
Gardeners’ Digest is a monthly update from the Garden Girls, the design team at Two Peas in a Bucket. To keep up with the Garden Girls throughout the month, check out the garden gallery, find us on Twitter or subscribe to all our blogs with just a couple clicks.
All of the products shown are available here, plus a collection of links to some of my favourite large-photo pages from other scrapbookers.
And while Glitter Girl may go around in hiding with a mask over her face, I may have to get on her case if she keeps scrapbooking embarrassing photos of my childhood, complete with interesting choices in hair styles! Oh goodness. Why yes, I did have a battery-powered curling iron in my cheerleading bag, now that you mention it.
This week Glitter Girl challenges you to scrapbook a photo 8×10 or larger and share it in the Two Peas gallery. You can also leave a link in the comments here if you like.
Onward, covered in glitter, my dear scrapbookers!
The Adventures of Glitter Girl is a weekly series on Two Peas in a Bucket, and goes live every Wednesday. I’ll share each adventure here shortly after that. I hope you enjoy her quests for crafting happiness, and if you ever have a scrapbooking dilemma yourself, you can always call her to action on the message board.
If you just found your way here courtesy of the lovely Miss Wendy Sue, then greetings! Today is Gardeners’ Digest day, our monthly round-up of things from the Garden Girls.
Up first, a little look at a layout I’ve been discussing with the Hitchhikers on their message board!
This project from Shannon Tidwell has really been inspiring me lately with its use of stamps, bright colours and all that glitter. She shares her steps for this process in this video from the Memory Keeping Mondays series.
You can find further details on this project here and more of Shannon’s work on her blog, in her page gallery or in her brand new workshop.
But how about something you can win? Today you can win Shannon Tidwell’s brand new workshop Sassy Scrapbooking by leaving a comment on this post, sharing one thing from the entire world that has inspired you in some way over the last month. Easy! Entries close next Thursday night and the winner will be posted on Friday.
Your next stop is Lisa Truesdell, so get hopping over to the world of Gluestick Girl!
Gardeners’ Digest is a monthly update from the Garden Girls, the design team at Two Peas in a Bucket. To keep up with the Garden Girls throughout the month, check out the garden gallery, find us on Twitter or subscribe to all our blogs with just a couple clicks.
Just a note – the special discount code for free shipping and up to $10 off your order at Two Peas expires shortly! It’s code SHMRCKS and there are further details near the end of this post. Right. On we go.
This week Glitter Girl takes on the challenge of bold patterned papers, something currently being discussed here on the General Scrapbooking message board. This week her adventure takes her through a range of page examples then the create of one page from start to finish.
There’s a little something different for you this week – a PDF printable of scrapbooking sketches designed with bold patterned papers in mind. The collection of sketches includes both single and double page ideas. To download the sketches, go to this week’s Glitter Girl page and look below the picture but above the description. There’s a tab there that says ‘files’. Click on that and you’ll see the download link! Presto.
Anyway, shall we get on with the video?
For my bold patterned paper, I chose a floral from the Paper Heart collection by Crate. The woodgrain paper is from the same collection and most of the embellishment is from the Note to Self collection from Echo Park. The papers I used this week come in both 12×12 and 6×6 formats if you like the idea of the pattern but would prefer it on a smaller scale. (You can see all the supplies at the bottom of the page here.)
Now it’s your turn! What bold patterned papers have proven themselves challenging for you? This week Glitter Girl encourages you to create a page with a bold pattern – particularly if you’d like to try one of the sketches! Take a photo of your project and upload it to Two Peas and check the box for the Glitter Girl challenge in step four of the upload process to share it with us all – and you’re also welcome to share a link in the comments here if you fancy!
About the Two Peas discount code: The SHMRCKS discount code ends this Friday. Using that code will get you two things: free domestic shipping (or $5 off international shipping) on a $50 order (physical goods that are eligible for free shipping) AND a discount on your next order – $5 off a $50 order or $10 off a $100 order. You don’t have to place the second order right away, of course! So this is perfect if you would like to do some shopping now and some shopping later… and when it comes to scrapbooking supplies, who doesn’t want to do that, really? I appreciate if you use my link to Two Peas when you shop, as this helps support prizes, events and special guests here at shimelle.com. Thanks so much!
Onward, covered in glitter, my dear scrapbookers!
The Adventures of Glitter Girl is a weekly series on Two Peas in a Bucket, and goes live every Wednesday. I’ll share each adventure here shortly after that. I hope you enjoy her quests for crafting happiness, and if you ever have a scrapbooking dilemma yourself, you can always call her to action on the message board.
Don’t miss this post with a special offer on the new class!
And one final challenge to close… long-time readers may have seen this one coming! I always believe it is more fun to keep making things than to clean up, so I always like to finish on this note.
For your final challenge, try to make something else out of just the leftovers and paper scraps from the other things you have created. I suppose that might be easier if you did maybe three or four challenges and harder if you only did one or you’ve already finished fifteen. And of course you’re allowed a full sheet for the background or whatever else you just must have, but the idea is to create in the spirit of using whatever you had left from the things you made!
Amy Tan scrapbooks with all sorts of tiny little pieces of paper and tape, so a page like this one might be just the inspiration you need to make something from just those pieces at the side of your trimmer. See more of Amy’s work on her blog or in her page gallery, or take her workshop Collect & Create.
Don’t forget: if you’re shopping at Two Peas, using code SHMRCKS can get you free US shipping (or $5 off international shipping) and up to $10 off your next order.
To enter this challenge, create a page with your leftover paper scraps and upload it to your blog or page gallery. Leave a link here. Entries close at the end of next weekend!
PS: I’ll post a round-up in the morning with all the links and the prize info of what’s on offer for each challenge! But for now, I’m going to get some sleep. Happy scrapping, and thank you so much for joining me this weekend!
Nearly every time we work through a weekend of scrapbooking challenges here, I throw a quadrant challenge in the mix. I love pages divided into the four quarters and it works so well with 6×6 papers… but I didn’t want to make it too easy for you this time around, so I have a special challenge inspired by the work of Jen Gallacher.
You’ll need to start by dividing your page into the four quadrants, but specifically, make each of those four quarters unique. I love how she divided this page into four different sections with different elements, but because Jen kept the colour scheme to just a few shades, it all sits together so well.
And you can get a closer look at how Jen created this page from her Memory Keeping Monday video… no matter what day of the week it might be when you watch!
To enter this challenge, create a new scrapbook page with four unique parts. Upload your project to your blog or gallery and link it up here. Entries close at the end of next weekend.
Sometimes we end up with a photo that we feel deserves special treatment on a scrapbook page. It might be a beautiful, well-staged portrait or it might be a simple snapshot that just makes us smile. We can fancy it up by printing it larger or scrapping it on its own or dressing it up with plenty of embellishments. But for this challenge, we have another idea for you.
Taking inspiration from Amy Heller’s scrapbook page, For Like Ever, take one photo you love and print it twice for the same page. You can try her treatment of one full colour and one faded image, or you can try something else that comes to your mind. Try colour and black and white or plain and covered with vellum or one big and one small… whatever you fancy as long as one photo is printed twice for the page!
To enter this challenge, create a new page with one photograph included twice, then upload your results to your blog or page gallery. Leave a link here, and entries close at the end of next weekend.
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