New Online Scrapbooking Classes for 2025
Hey howdy hey! After teaching one long workshop for all of 2024, I am excited to have a variety of projects coming right up now! One of those is over at Scrap and Learn where I’ll be the guest teacher at an international online event and I’d love to see you there! But then there are also three things coming up here on my own turf, including one that is just days away. Come join me and let’s scrapbook!
This Wednesday, the 12th of March, is I LOVE LAYERS day!
I Love Layers is an online scrapbooking class in event style: if you’d like to join in on the day, you can learn and scrap right along with me. If Wednesday doesn’t suit your schedule, you can watch and craft at absolutely any time you like after the day comes to a close.
Layering is my happiest part of crafting, and I have a long form class on this subject, so this is more of a blitz through all the details that can make your layering as eye-catching, creative, and enjoyable as possible! I will be covering:
*Background layering of inks, paints, or patterned papers
*Making your stash lean into layering (without buying new)
*Layers to frame a single photo
*Making layers work with multiple photos
*Layers specifically for journaling
*Clean versus messy layers
*Knowing when to stop
All of the above have pre-recorded content you’ll be able to watch on Wednesday, plus I will scrapbook live so there’s an opportunity for you to layer right along with me in real time and complete a project on the day. (It’s okay to start with the livestream and come back to watch the prerecorded later if that’s better with your time zone. It will make sense in either order.) Participants receive a list to help you gather supplies suitable for the scrap-a-long, so you won’t have to waste time going through every paper and die-cut you own while we’re all crafting together.
I Love Layers is $10 and open for registration now by clicking here!
If you have an existing class pass, I Love Layers is included so you don’t need to do a thing. (You have this and 1 2 Punch coming your way to bring the existing class pass to a close!)
Next up is The One Two Punch!
If you signed up many moons ago for Use Your Punches as a coming soon, you are already signed up for this and do not need to do a thing!
This class grew out of my original Use What You Buy process but once I got started, I had way more things I wanted to share than what fit in the short workshop format. Instead, we now have a class with twenty videos: ten are in real time with minimal speeding up (there are some quicker edits for things like letter stickers and you don’t have to wait for any paint to dry!) so all ten techniques are easy to follow, and ten take those same techniques showing the same idea with different photos and different supplies but this time in a sped up edit of roughly 20 minutes. The class uses quite ordinary punch shapes: circles (plain, pinked, and scalloped), hearts, stars, butterflies, and the like. All the techniques can be used with a variety of shapes, so the first and second video for each idea do not use the same punch. The focus is on shape punches but there are a few times I add in a border punch as an optional extra.
There is one set of videos already there on the class forum when you sign up and then new content starts Friday and moves forward from there! Class will finish right around Easter.
One Two Punch is $20 and open for registration by clicking here!
Remember, if you have a current class pass, this is already included, and this brings your pass to a close.
Then a moment to talk about This Year’s Story! Over 2024, I shared absolutely everything I made to go into my family albums for the year in a class called This Year’s Story. It begins with a starter class all about my album philosophy, how I work with my photo library, and all the practical part of keeping scrapbooks that become cherished books. Then every month of 2024 has a series of videos showing how everything comes together – an entire year of process videos including 12×12 pages, 6×12 pages, and pocket pages of assorted sizes. In total, that was four filled D-ring binders and the most detailed documentation of our lives I’ve ever managed! I absolutely love it.
Some of you asked if I would continue this into 2025. Others asked if I would get back to teaching themed classes that were shorter than a year long. So I’m choosing a happy medium! I will be teaching classes that aren’t all year long, and do have a theme, but the pages I make within that class will be all those stories going into my 2025 albums, so you’ll see mostly 12×12 layouts, but also some smaller pages and pocket pages in the mix. I’m going to begin that focus with a deep dive into the papers, stickers, and embellishments I’ve managed to keep for years and years, for a class all about scrapping with old stash! We will mix old with new, I will get all my January and February stories told and into the album. You won’t need the exact same supplies – that’s never how I teach! I want to enable you to use what you have already purchased and make things you love – it’s learning, not just following directions.
I’m still working out the exact number of videos this will be, but it will be a mix of pre-recorded and live-streamed videos, and as always you can watch any live-streamed video as a replay to make it fit your schedule. You never have to be there live – it’s just an option. (And if you are mostly familiar with my ‘random rubbish’ informal YouTube scrappy livestreams, please know my class livestreams are a different agenda and we don’t just do random chat. It’s the on-topic version of me showing up to teach!)
This class is scheduled to start on the 30th of April, and is $20. Registration is open by clicking here. Registration won’t close early so you can wait for more specific details if you would like, of course. But I open it now for those who prefer to sign up now before they forget. Remember, if you had a class pass, this is the first class not covered by that and you will need to sign up for this one! (I’m not going to open a class pass at this time, so please do sign up rather than waiting for a bulk purchase option. Thanks!)
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