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Scrap In Style TV, or SIStv for short, has got to be on your crafter’s cool sites online. If it’s not, then here’s just some of what your missing out on:

1. awesome videos showing tips, techniques, interviews, and a whole lotta fun

2. a very cool boutique filled with the latest and funkiest stuff for your crafting pleasure

3. a friendly community of “SISters” who create stuff that will blow you away and will be nice enough to leave comments in your very own gallery as well

4. awesome Fashionista design team members who are the cream of the crop in the scrapbooking industry

5. affordable and useful classes offered by names you may have heard of in the scrapbook industry

SIStv wouldn’t come to be if it weren’t for the passionate driving force behind it, Jeanette Herdman. 

1. What is Scrap In Style TV in a nutshell? How did it start?

Jeanette Herdman: Since this is kind of a long story, I hope you don’t mind if I link you to a page on our site that tells it.  http://www.scrapinstyletv.com/aboutus.php

2. Could you give a rough estimate on how many members you have  now and how fast the site is growing?

JH: Sure, we have just under 15,000 registered members right now and our average growth rate has been about 500 new members a month. We’re continually working on new ways to attract new members to the site, and we have some big changes and new features planned for the next few months. Also, our second season of Scrap In Style TV premieres on March 9. One thing that we have been adamant about is trying to keep down any type of anonymous or doubled memberships. Every membership requires an email validation before it is activated, as well as a first and last name. We’ve always done it this way, which is why we’ve been able to keep a lot of the anonymous posting and spam type messages off of our site. It’s not 100% foolproof, but you’d be surprised at how little of a problem we have with non-qualitative posting.

3. How do you choose which information, products, industry experts to feature in your site?

JH: First of all, I realize that we are not a mainstream scrapbooking site. Our members are very product savvy, and demand the most current products from the best manufacturers. Also, our members tend to be more involved in the Indie Crafter scene in addition to scrapbooking, so they’re very into art journaling, kitschy crafts, and DIY home decor. We want to keep them interested at as many points in their crafting journey as possible, so I take all of that into account. When it comes to style and taste, I use myself as a gauge. For the most part, I won’t carry things that I personally wouldn’t use. Sometimes that can go against me because my tastes are quite left of center and sometimes I try to introduce things that don’t always fly. LOL

4. How are you able to sustain Scrap In Style TV? Do you rely on advertisers? How can members/readers help out?

JH: This is a great question. I think people forget sometimes that it costs a lot of money to sustain an operation like ours. Up to this point, we have not sold any advertising space on the web site or within the show’s webisodes. We have been wholly funded by boutique sales. While we are thrilled to be growing, with that comes higher operating expenses, and with the economy the way that it is, we are beginning to explore other options for generating revenue. Some of these things we always knew we would venture into at some point, but we are now looking into them sooner than originally planned. I never want the web site to be ridden with banner ads and the like so we’re trying to be creative with the options that we’re offering manufacturers. For members who want to help out, the best thing is to buy our products and take some of our First Rate online classes. That’s obviously direct funding that helps to keep the site going. We also really appreciate grass roots, cyber marketing. Since we have spent a minimal amount ourselves on advertising, the best way we can spread our name is to have our SISters advertise for us. We provide a really cool widget where members can showcase one of their layouts from their gallery on our site, as well as link up directly to their full portfolio. It’s a really cool item for someone to have on their blog, and it promotes the site as well.

5. If you could recommend a list of essential scrapbooking sites for scrapbookers of all levels, what sites would you recommend? I’m thinking of including the following on the list: Scrap In Style TV, Scrapscene, Pubcalls, Twopeasinabucket, Scrapjazz, Scrapbook.com, Blue Bazaar, UKScrappers, etc.

JH: Well, you’ve mentioned a lot of great ones here already. I would have to add www.jennibowlin.com which is a great site with fantastic products, Scrapblog is a fantastic site where people can dabble in the world of digital scrapping without having to install any programs or elements on their computer – it’s all done online. I would also recommend some non scrapbooking sites for the purpose of gaining inspiration. Design Sponge is great, Domino Magazine’s site is always inspiring to me as well. FlickR is a great place to get absorbed in photos and learn great tips and techniques for photography.

So what are you waiting for? Come visit SIStv today. See you there.

Are you a big fan of the Twilight Series? Do you sometimes wish that you could make 

a Layout based on the book  but you don’t know where to start? Then An Apple In Hand

is a great place to start. They have challenges every month that are sure to motivate

the Twilight scrapper in you.
They have great prizes  that are sure to please even the pickiest Twilght Fan.

Here’s an update on theirn current challenge
The name of  their second challenge  is” The Thing” it is about your first car.. Maybe you still have it or maybe you haven’t gotten one yet. You can scrap about how much you loved it or hated it. Do you remember the first time you had a flat tire? Or maybe you have a funny story about it. Tell us about it. 

“My primary motivation behind buying a car, despite the scarcity of my funds, was that I refused to be driven around town in a car with red and blue lights on top. Nothing slows down traffic like a cop.” -Twilight, Chapter 1.

“There parked on the street in front of the house that never changed was my new, well new to me, truck. It was a faded red color with big rounded fenders and a bulbous cab. To my intense surprise, I loved it. I didn’t know if it would run, but I could see myself in it. Plus, it was one of those solid iron affairs that never gets damaged.” -Twilight, Chapter 1

Ever wish that you could include a whole lot more of journalling in your scrapbooking? Want to improve on your journalling skills. Journalling Junkie  is the place for you. It’s  A blog for scrapbookers who need a little journaling help. There are not a lot of sites and blogs that focus on journalling. There are sites out there for sketches and all other sorts of scrapbooking challenges. Here are at Journaling Junkie   their site helps you really focus on what matters the most the scrappers feelings behind the lay out.

They have 2 challenges every month. One comes out the 1st day of the month and ends on the 15th of the months and the 2nd one comes out on the 15th and ends at the last day of the month.

Their 2nd challenge for this month is Make a LO describing your scrapping habit and use your favourite scrap stash items.

Dixie Pieces brings you the next jam packed kit with gears, gadgets, and lots of bright colors. This kit includes papers from Prima Marketing, Glitz Designs, GCD Studios, and coordinating Bazzill cardstock. Two alphabets from American Crafts and Scenic Route, Tim Holtz Grungeboard, Maya Road felt shapes, Scenic Route chipboard stars, and a transparency sheet of Dixie Pieces robots fill this kit with loads of product to put together fun layouts and projects.

Patterned Paper and Cardstock

(single sheets of 12×12 unless otherwise stated)

Prima Marketing Hello Spaceboy Intergalactic Peek-A-Boo Patterned Paper

Prima Marketing Hello Spaceboy Moonwalk Double-Sided Patterned Paper

Prima Marketing Hello Spaceboy Stardust Double-Sided Patterned Paper

Prima Marketing Hello Spaceboy Sputnik Double-Sided Patterned Paper

Glitz Designs Basic Table Double-Sided Patterned Paper

Glitz Designs Basic Cars Double-Sided Patterned Paper

Glitz Designs Basic Stripes Double-Sided Patterned Paper

Scenic Route Appleton 4th Street Double-Sided Patterned Paper

GCD Studios Spooked Collection Mad Doctor Double-Sided Patterned Paper

GCD Studios Rockets Red Glare Collection Red Swirls Double-Sided Patterned Paper

GCD Studios Rockets Red Glare Collection Flag Stripe Double-Sided Patterned Paper

Bazzill Lime Crush Cardstock

Bazzill North Sea Cardstock 

Bazzill Red Devil Cardstock 

Bazzill Eggshell Cardstock (2 sheets)

Embellishments

(single items unless otherwise noted)

Prima Marketing Red Squares transparency 

Scenic Route Appleton Die Cut alpha 

American Crafts Daiquiri black foam alphabet stickers 

Scenic Route chipboard stars 

Tim Holtz Grungeboard frames and numbers

Maya Road Primary Felt Stars and Arrows

American Crafts Cherry photo turns

Maya Road Manhattan Waves Ribbon (1 yard)

Dixie Pieces Robots transparency