‘Get Creative with Type’ from Creating Keepsakes

The latest book from Creating Keepsakes promises to help you get the most out of type (alphabets). Whether its computer fonts or paper supplies, “Get Creative with Type” by CK Editor-in-Chief Brian Tippetts will show you how to:

• Create eye-catching page titles.
• Make our journaling readable and appealing.
• Choose the perfect fonts for layouts.
• Avoid common type traps for scrapbookers.
• Use alphabet rub-ons, stickers, chipboard, stamps and handwriting in innovative ways.

Ali Edwards, Jessica Sprague, Heidi Swapp, Jennifer McGuire and Elizabeth Kartchner and others also contribute to the book.
164 page book with CD. $19.99. Now available for pre-order at Creating Keepsakes.

Welcome to Paper Goodness v. 3!

 

Have you noticed? Paper Goodness is completely new!

So why the change?

While I’ve enjoyed looking for and sharing the scrapbooking goodness that has been the focus of this site since the beginning, I have also realized that it’s not just the pretty papers that I love about this hobby! So, if you look around, you’ll see that we’re celebrating not just the goodies, but the design process, the friendships, and the pages as well. I do hope you like this new version. It’s exciting for me, and I hope it will be for you too.

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Caroline Ikeji is Scenic Route Designer of the Month

Caroline Ikeji, a 2008 Memory Makers Master, is the designer of the month for Scenic Route. Caroline, who lives in California, has been scrapbooking for 3 1/2 years. Layle Koncar and the Scenic Route team chose her after she submitted her work to the Monthly Product Challenges of Scenic Route.

You can see some of her pages here.

Elsie Flannigan Resigns from KI Memories

Elsie Flannigan has left KI Memories to turn her attention to other pursuits and independent projects. As a result, her KI Memories line, Love, Elsie, will be no more. We’ll still see a lot of Elsie, I’m sure. You can read her announcement at her blog.

Simple Scrapbooks Photo and Page Calls

Simple Scrapbooks magazine has open calls for the following:

• SIP: Photo Play (due September 15, 2008 9a MST) for “fun, fresh, put-a-smile-on-your-face ideas for having more fun with your photos”.

For the SS March/April 2009 issue (due September 29, 2008):

• Spring and Easter pages for the March/April “Our Readers” column
• Your best and beautiful baby photos for the March/April “Focus on Photos” column
• Layouts with 10 photos on single or double page spread layouts for a new column called Photos First

Go to the new Simple Scrapbooks website to find out how to send your pages and photos.

La Di Dah Courtyard from KI Memories

Ah, this is absolutely gorgeous! From KI Memories comes La Di Dah Courtyard.

Here are the paper packs:

   

The cardstock stickers:

 

Also in this collection are botanical decals, alpha stickers, felted alphabet and shapes, rubber embellishments, trim, journals and more!

Surprise from Scenic Route

This is the Surprise Product Kit from Scenic Route. It’s got everything any scrapbooker could want to complete a page and more. Inside this kit are 5 sheets of double sided cardstock, 1 Scrap Strip, 6 sheets background sheets, 1 12″x12″ die cut shapes sheet, 1 12”x12” die cut alphabet sheet, 1 sticker embellishment sheet, 1 chipboard embellishment sheet and over 200 alphabet stickers. 

 

Layle Koncar has some sample pages using this collection, here.

Three New Stamps from Scenic Route

Scenic Route has been making fab acrylic stamps, and these three are no exception. I love the day stamps, “the daily routine” and the grid! Imagine what you can do with these!

Garden Party from My Mind’s Eye

Cheery colors and prints are the main feature at the Garden Party by My Mind’s Eye. The collection has two lines, Lush Blooms:

   

and My Sunshine:

These lines are also available as 12×12 paper kits.

Modern Milan from Me and My Big Ideas

Me and My Big Ideas offers this fresh new collection called Modern Milan. Among the coordinating products are cardstock, kits, albums, stickers, and various embellishments.

Paper Piercer and Stylus from Making Memories

This two-in-one tool from Making Memories combines a paper piercer for making tiny holes in scrapbook pages and a stylus for embossing and setting rub-ons. The tools fit in one handle.

New Releases for Spring 2008 from K & Company

K & Company has new collections this spring, including gorgeous patterned papers for scrapbook pages and cards. The collections are:

Blue Awning, Urban Rhapsody, Brenda Walton, Berry Sweet, Rough & Tumble, Sea Glass and Amy Butler (card kits)