Labor Day has been celebrated in the United States on the first Monday in September since the 1880s. A tradition on Labor Day is the annual Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon, hosted by Jerry Lewis since 1966: always a good show and a great cause.
Here’s our pick of the week of scrapblogs that stood out:
Old Wind Gap Postcards, by christineannette
sweet wedding day, by kate lee
The Compound, by Fujii
Kayaking, by Single Xpresso
wedding day, by hurley girl
Summertime is for weddings and we’re pleased with all the great ones we’ve seen so far!
We wish you a happy Labor Day!
BarCampBlock turned out to be a great experience, celebrating BarCamp’s third anniversary. Over 600 people participated over the weekend to present or discuss a wide variety of mostly tech-related topics:
As Emily Chang points out, BarCamps play an important role in local tech communities:
“Who should be there? Anyone working on a new startup that wants to get some great feedback. Anyone looking for talent. Anyone talented looking for work. Anyone looking to invest in brilliant new ideas. Anyone looking to find partners for their brilliant new ideas. Anyone who wants to practice a presentation s/he is working on. Anyone who has a passion for blogging, wikis, design, coding and the web in general. Everyone is welcome. Everyone is encouraged to present. It’s totally free and an excellent source of what is hot, new and upcoming.”
We look forward to future BarCamps in Miami and in Florida. There’s BarCampOrlando in late September and DemoCampMiami in October, at the University of Miami.
We’re looking forward to BarCampBlock in San Francisco this weekend: “almost two years ago, a group of 6 San Francisco geeks in 7 days, using blogs, wikis and IRC slapped together a weekend conference with wifi, food and amazing presentations in Palo Alto, California. This was a different kind of conference, though. There were no superstar keynote speakers. There were no pre-programmed agendas. There was a brilliant agenda filled with content by and for the attendees. Everyone, including the sponsors, the organizers, the speakers and the audience were involved in making the event happen equally and were often one and the same. Over the weekend, more than 200 people showed up and people watched remotely from all over the world. This event was BarCamp …. Since that first BarCamp, there have been over 150 Camps worldwide, as far away as Chennai, India and Sydney, Australia. Nearly 10,000 people have participated in BarCamp and even more have been ‘touched’ because these events tend to lead to a longer term creation of a local technology enthusiast community in many of these locations.”
BarCamp made it to Miami earlier this year, an event Scrapblog sponsored (Note: I organized BarCampMiami with the help of the University of Miami). We’re also looking forward to BarCampOrlando in September and DemoCampMiami in October.
Scrapblogger afuller, who blogs at happy fuller family, has created a beautiful “scrapbook style” scrapblog , “Kaylee Ears”. The scrapblog uses some of the tips that were given in our blog post on using patterns inside shapes:
Coali says she moved to Ireland from France with her partner a year ago and they’ve enjoyed traveling the country. It is a beautiful country, I spent four days in Southern Ireland in June this year. Here’s her “Connemara 2007″ scrapblog:
DebraQ, who blogs at the (not so) secret confessions of a stitch chick, made this “Journey into Enchantment” scrapblog of two wonderful weeks of her summer:
The “imagery” scrapblog showcases the nice black and white photographs by royryap:
Call it a sign of the times if you will, but virtual weddings are occurring online. Here’s a unique scrapblog of “Jazz and Melody Wedding”, by sovier:
Have a good weekend!
If you want make unique creations on Scrapblog, the sky’s the limit. By using shapes, virtually any type of composition is possible. For instance, to make your pages really stand out, you may create large decorative letters and new types of frames, as illustrated below:
Here is a description on how the page was made. The swirly stickers next to the letters are from the “Ethereality” theme. If you have any questions, please contact us at feedback@scrapblog.com
Note: This tip is of medium difficulty and assumes you know how to use shapes, layer objects, use the colorpicker and change the borders on shapes.
