Stampin’ Up! is expanding it’s scrapbooking and memory keeping options – with the new Scrapbooking Brochure! It’s an online only publication, designed to be a supplement to the September-December Mini Catalogue. Sales start Wednesday 4 September, but you can look at this one now!
Sales from this brochure start on Wednesday, September 4th. Unlike other Stampin’ Up! releases, demonstrators didn’t get a pre-order period for this publication because SU was working on getting this out as quickly as possible! I’m not a huge scrapbooker, but I have been known to make a spread or two…. I’m most looking forward to the two toned paper! I think that will be a fantastic product for both cardmaking AND scrapbooking! While it’s only available in a few colours right now, more are coming. I do love that Pool Party is one of the first colours they released, though.
Sharing a scrapbook page that I created after a visit to Juno Beach with the Burlington Teen Tour Band for the 75th Anniversary of DDay. They’ve been invited back for the 80th Anniversary in 2024 and I hope to go along with them once more to photograph their experiences. It was such a meaningful experience for all involved!
Lest We Forget – sharing a scrapbook page from my trip last year to Normandy. I travelled with the Burlington Teen Tour Band to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of DDay. It was a truly memorable experience, and the highlight for me was watching the incredible band members represent Canadian youth so well.
Lest We Forget
I am typically more of a cardmaker than a scrapbooker, but I do like making a few pages now and then. Since I don’t make a lot of pages, I tend to do more “highlights” pages or pages where I gather similarly themed shots together – and this is one of them. I put a photo from the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian war cemetary together with photos from the band at the Juno Beach Centre. Added a few die cut poppies with the Poppy Moments dies, and put a stamped image from the Painted Poppies stamp set behind the title/text box. I coloured the poppies with the Watercolour Pencils and used the blender pen to smooth the colour.
My hint for tone on tone die cuts is to sponge some of the same ink colour onto the top layer detail die cuts. For this page, I die cut the poppies from Poppy Parade cardstock, and used a portion of a Stampin’ Sponge (or you could use a Sponge Dauber) to dab Poppy Parade ink onto the detailed poppy die cut. It deepens the colour without changing it so makes it stand out a bit more without distracting from the overall look. Stampin’ Up!’s colour coordination makes my crafting efforts so much easier.
I will be taking time from my day to watch the Burlington Remembrance Day ceremonies virtually, and look forward to the time when we can gather together in person again to do the same. Lest We Forget.
Happy (Inter) National Scrapbooking Day!Thought I’d pull out this favourite page using the Tutti Frutti Product Suite. I have to admit, I don’t scrapbook a whole lot, but I do try to get a few pages of significant events done. I have a large square frame that fits 12 x 12 images, so I can pop the page in there to share with others easily (aka force them to admire it!! haha). This page features a couple of my favourite photos from a trip to Hawaii with the Burlington Teen Tour Band. You don’t have to do an entire scrapbook to commemorate trips or events, one page can be enough to bring back those memories!
This page uses the great Large Letters Framelitsfor the title portion, and the Fruit Basket Stamp setand Itty Bitty Fruit Punch Pack. You can get these in a specially priced bundle, but these are all on the retiring list, so you’ll want to be sure to grab them while you can. They’ll be gone forever as of May 30th, or when supplies are exhausted. The Large Letters framelits will be staying around for another year, but the coordinating Large Numbers Framelits are retiring (along with the coordinating Number of Years Stamp Set) so you may want to consider grabbing those before they’re gone. The title is an example of the Eclipse Technique, where you cut shapes out of the cardstock, and then back them with a contrasting cardstock and set them back into place with dimensionals. It’s a technique that I shared in a previous YamStamps Newsletter, and it’s one of my favourites.
I hope that you have a Happy (Inter) National Scrapbooking Day! Make some good memories and preserve them too! It’s a gorgeous Saturday around our neck of the woods, which is great, considering the horrendous high winds we had late yesterday – so many pictures of downed trees (HUGE ones), knocked over fences and missing roof shingles. I’m hoping to spend a bit of time creating today before I head out to sing in a choir concert this evening (Kokoro Singers – we’ll be in Kitchener tonight and Hamilton tomorrow, join us if you can!).
I am extending the (Inter) National Scrapbooking Day celebrations to Wednesday – there are still a couple of spots available in the Scrapbook in a Box classat 1pm or 7pm. Cost of $25 includes all supplies. No previous experience is required! You’ll create the box in class and then add your photos at home later. Please visit this page for more information/to register, or contact me. Hope to see you in class!!
Welcome to the last of the Share What You Love North America Events Council Blog Hops. This time we’re featuring our Share What You Love Class projects! Our presentations at On Stage were focused on how we could use the products in this suite in a class situation or some other business project. I had a few things to share. My main class project is the Scrapbook in a Box using the Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper. I think that this is one of my favourite items in the suite. Have I said that already?!
I haven’t done a scrapbook in a box in a while, and this Designer Series Paper is perfect for 3D items as it’s a bit heavier than normal. Plus it’s gorgeous on both sides, which is showcased in a project like this. The above picture is the box when it’s closed. Basically the lid just holds it shut.
This is the box when it’s open. It looks a little complicated, but it’s actually not that bad. It uses 3 different sheets from the DSP package (this package has 24 sheets in it rather than 12, so you could make LOTS of these boxes!). It also uses some of the new pearlized doilies and the Love What You Do stamp set. And yes, I did do some fussy cutting! I don’t do that much, but this was pretty easy – I just cut around a few of the flowers. (I am not into fussy cutting a whole lot, but in some cases, it’s definitely worth it, especially if it’s not TOO fussy – fussy cutting! ha). To adhere the doilies in place, I put some SNAIL on the back of the doily and/or where it’s going to be on the DSP – since the centre of the doily is also covered by a punched circle with the sentiment it covers any exposed adhesive.Of course, if you’re more particular about it, you could always use Fine TIp Glue or the Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive.
The above card is what you can use some of the spare DSP to create (see how the corners of the box are cut out?) – you could give this WITH the scrapbook in a box, or create a few of them to have on hand.
While demonstrators are able to purchase these products right now, everyone will be able to get their hands on this suite in May! There are special bundles, exclusively available during May – you’ll be hearing more about that closer to May 1st – no point in teasing you too much!
Good news – if you are close to Burlington ON, I’m having a Scrapbook in a Box Class where you can create one of these in time for Mother’s Day! Wednesday, May 9th, at 1pm OR 7pm. I will supply all the materials required to make the box. We’ll construct it in class, and then you’ll take it home and add your pictures in time for Mother’s Day, or whatever occasion you might like to use this for (hint: you can also keep it yourself!! haha!). The cost will be $25 and will include the necessary supplies. Space and supplies are limited, though, so you’ll need to register and pay ASAP. Deadline is Monday May 7th. If you aren’t local to me, I’m also going to be offering it as an online class, details to follow shortly.
In the meantime, if you’ve visited here as part of the Blog Hop, thanks, and I hope you will stop back in to check my YamStamps blog sometime soon (and those of my fellow Events Council Members!). A special mention to Robyn Ryan aka STAMPFANatics, who wasn’t able to participate in our Stampin’ Up! North American Council blog hops as her blog is not functional at this point in time. I am so grateful for the opportunity we’ve had to get to know each other and to give back, just a little, to the company and demonstrators who have enriched my life. Today is actually my anniversary of becoming a Stampin’ Up! Canada demonstrator – sixteen years ago!! Here’s to the next 16 years – and beyond!!
Hi! Welcome to the YamStamps blog – if you’re following the North American Events Council Blog Hop, you’ll have arrived from Sherry’s blog. Thanks for visiting! I’m Linda Yamamoto, and I’m sharing my Events Council Scrapbook Page today, using the Share What You Love Product Suite, which we each presented at an On Stage Local last weekend. I was in London, Ontario, where we awoke on Friday to snow….much like a lot of southern Ontario, actually. A bit of a rude awakening! However, we kept warm inside the Convention Centre as we worked to get the room ready for the event, and further warmed by seeing friends during the event!!
My scrapbook page is very simple – much like most of my paper crafting actually! (I’m not a huge scrapbooker, but I have my moments…) I featured some of the gorgeous Share What You Love Designer Series Paper – you can see a bit of that pearlized finish on the flower strip. The pearlized finish is also on the doily behind the sentiment “Love What You Do” from the stamp set of the same name, and it’s stamped in Mint Macaron, which is making a triumphant return to the Stampin’ Up! Colour Family as part of the Colour Revamp. I also used Crumb Cake cardstock, and embossed it with the Lovely Floral Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder – you can see some of the embossed features peeking out from behind the top picture. The bottom Crumb Cake is stamped with flowers from the Love What You Do set, and the banner is stamped with the Make a Difference Stamp set, which is an alphabet set with both script and printed letters. I added a few of the Silver Paper Clips that will be part of the Share What You Love Embellishment kit, and I figured I’d better quit while I was ahead before I messed everything up…LOL!! These items are available for demonstrator preorder now, and will be available to everyone in May, ahead of their appearance in the new Annual catalogue in June. There will be some specially priced bundles available during the preorder time, so be sure to check those out!
I have had such a great time being part of Stampin’ Up!’s North American Events Council, and am truly sad that our time as official council members is over….but even though we are not officially a council anymore, we are still a group of friends, and that’s worth everything! Amazing to think that most of us met in person for the first time at November’s On Stage event in Salt Lake City!
Go Back to see Sherry…. You’ll be visiting Bonnie next…
