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Feb
03
Featured Scrapbooker: Marcy Penner
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Today I’m starting a new series featuring talented and effective scrapbookers who are active online. For each feature, I asked three questions and I hope you’ll find their answers useful and inspiring for your own creative process. I know I did!
Our first featured scrapbooker is Marcy Penner. I came across Marcy’s work through her Project Life series on her blog. I didn’t realize it at that time, but she’s a designer for Project Life, as well as for October Afternoon! At the bottom of this post, you’ll see some of her beautiful layouts.
Here’s Marcy!
1. Tell us about your process for creating a layout.
I usually start a page by looking through the photos I have on my computer. I print one or two out and start pulling papers that I think I might use. From there I mat my photo and start building layers around it. When I have a general idea of where things will go I remove the sections so that I can splatter paint and ink on my background. Once that’s dry I adhere my paper elements and sew in some places. Additional embellishments are added and then I usually call it done.
Feb
01
How to Make a Scrapbook Page in 30 Minutes or Less
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Do you have only 30 minutes or less to make a scrapbook page? Many scrapbookers have busy lives where it’s often rare to have massive blocks of time just for creating. It’s a luxury for moms with small children, scrapbookers with full-time jobs, and for everybody else whose days are full. Sometimes, all we have is a 30 minutes here and there to do something related to scrapbooking.
Here are a few tips to make the most of those 30 precious minutes:
1. Organize Your Supplies
Organizing your supplies ahead of the time goes a long way toward becoming more efficient in your scrapbooking. It helps avoid endless searching for missing tools, misplaced pieces of paper, and embellishments you forgot then you had. When you have only a few minutes, having what you need within easy reach saves a lot of time.
2. Pick out Favorite Products
All of us have a few products that we use again and again in our scrapbook layouts. Whether it’s a favorite brand of patterned paper, a color that turns up over and over, or a set of embellishments or stamps, these are the things that we can call our “go to” items. They can save us from scrappers block, rescue us from a pinch, and save us a bunch of time. When we know that we have products we love that we can count on to make meaningful scrapbook pages, we prevent unnecessary hunting for elements to use. Place these products where you usually scrap, and you will always be ready to make a layout anytime.
Featured Scrapbooker: Marcy Penner
Posted by: | CommentsToday I’m starting a new series featuring talented and effective scrapbookers who are active online. For each feature, I asked three questions and I hope you’ll find their answers useful and inspiring for your own creative process. I know I did!
Our first featured scrapbooker is Marcy Penner. I came across Marcy’s work through her Project Life series on her blog. I didn’t realize it at that time, but she’s a designer for Project Life, as well as for October Afternoon! At the bottom of this post, you’ll see some of her beautiful layouts.
Here’s Marcy!
1. Tell us about your process for creating a layout.
I usually start a page by looking through the photos I have on my computer. I print one or two out and start pulling papers that I think I might use. From there I mat my photo and start building layers around it. When I have a general idea of where things will go I remove the sections so that I can splatter paint and ink on my background. Once that’s dry I adhere my paper elements and sew in some places. Additional embellishments are added and then I usually call it done.
How to Make a Scrapbook Page in 30 Minutes or Less
Posted by: | CommentsDo you have only 30 minutes or less to make a scrapbook page? Many scrapbookers have busy lives where it’s often rare to have massive blocks of time just for creating. It’s a luxury for moms with small children, scrapbookers with full-time jobs, and for everybody else whose days are full. Sometimes, all we have is a 30 minutes here and there to do something related to scrapbooking.
Here are a few tips to make the most of those 30 precious minutes:
1. Organize Your Supplies
Organizing your supplies ahead of the time goes a long way toward becoming more efficient in your scrapbooking. It helps avoid endless searching for missing tools, misplaced pieces of paper, and embellishments you forgot then you had. When you have only a few minutes, having what you need within easy reach saves a lot of time.
2. Pick out Favorite Products
All of us have a few products that we use again and again in our scrapbook layouts. Whether it’s a favorite brand of patterned paper, a color that turns up over and over, or a set of embellishments or stamps, these are the things that we can call our “go to” items. They can save us from scrappers block, rescue us from a pinch, and save us a bunch of time. When we know that we have products we love that we can count on to make meaningful scrapbook pages, we prevent unnecessary hunting for elements to use. Place these products where you usually scrap, and you will always be ready to make a layout anytime.
