Excuse the brief blog silence. I was on the road. Last week I traveled to Nashville, TN to meet up with friends but to also do a live demo of Scrapblog. Me and about 100 other crafty-ladies spent the weekend working on projects that ranged from scrapbook layouts to painting and sewing. On Sunday, with the help of some awesome peeps, we gave a Scrapblog demo and showed how to create the keychains I showed you on the blog a couple of weeks ago (only we left off the chain and just made artist trading cards).
In addition to some pretty awesome Michael Jackson karaoke, the ladies from Scrapinstyle created an amazing event. If you haven’t hopped over to their site, there is OODLES of creativity over there. You can even launch the builder directly from their site!
As you can see from this scrapblog, we had a blast! Thanks to all the girls that helped and those who gave me feedback about Scrapblog. We heart the SISters!
I hope everyone had an exciting or relaxing weekend, depending on what you were in the mood for! Today it is my pleasure to announce the winner of Challenge 17 - Vintage Family Photos. I spent a lot of time reviewing all the entries for this challenge. I found myself getting lost in the stories told about generations past. You are all wonderful documentarians! I feel inspired to create a heritage project of my own. Before I announce the winner, I want to share with you two other wonderful entries. I’m sure they will delight and inspire you as much as they did me!
First up is Abe and Anita created by rbtaylor. Like many of our entries, this scrapblog tells the story of rbtaylor’s grandparents. It stands out to me because of all the beautiful photos that include many details. I also found the story through pictures quite sentimental.
Next I want to share with you an amazing story of family. This scrapblog spoke to me in so many ways. First of all, BigRedssw is an active part of our community and I see her bopping all over leaving comments and saying “howdy” - she warms my heart! The story told in this scrapblog reminded me of how small the world really can be. Sally’s family inhabited an estate just outside of Georgetown, Kentucky. My husband and I went to college in Georgetown and we often wondered about the mysterious “Cardome.” I feel connected to her now through this scrapblog as it represents pieces of our past that somehow are woven together. I know you will enjoy this story of drama, seduction and family history!
And the winner of Challenge 17 - Vintage Family Photos is trilogymom!! Her scrapblog titled Life in Tomahawk, WI 1950s1980s is simply superb! I love the family history told through her journaling and photos. Page 28 is hauntingly awesome. I am so inspired by her pages. Truly an exceptional scrapblog. Congratulations!!
Have you noticed anything new when you select “start with a theme”? If your answer is “no” you haven’t been paying attention! {giggle giggle}
Don’t feel too bad, we just launched it this week. We know that there are times when you want a jumping off point to fuel your creativity, but you’re not 100% up for starting with a blank page. We are trying something new with the themes, so let us know if you like it, it’s called “card template.” When you select the card template theme, you are getting a basic layout to build a fantastic card design using the content of your choice.
Think of these pages as a guide to help you create something when you are low on time or creative juice.
You start by selecting the backgrounds and stickers that you want to use. Often times I find myself looking at my photos to see what colors stand out as a starting point to choosing my stickers and backgrounds. However, I wanted to make a Father’s Day card, so I thought I’d see what I could do with this SUPER CUTE content from new store Posh Patterns. Could it be anymore adorable? I started by choosing some backgrounds.
Just like using any other template, I can add more stickers, change anything I want on the page, but if I decide not to, well - my card is still going to look unique and personal. The card template theme is a guide and a tool. You use it just like you would a ruler, to help you get to a finished card faster and with more precision. As you can see, I’ve added some matching stickers to complete the look of my card. Looks pretty different from that card template page, doesn’t it?
I repeat this process with the remaining two pages, adding text and changing a few things from the template design to accommodate my needs. Below is the finished scrapblog (shhh! don’t tell my Dad!). I’m extremely happy with the results! Let us know if you find this new card template helpful and if you would like to see more of this in the future!
Hello fellow Scrapbloggers!
As Scrapblog continues to evolve, I’ve been noticing more things to teach some cool techniques discovered in Scrapblog. If you’ve been around here for at least a week, surely you’ve bumped into Little_M. Little_M has been a fixture in our community and she is the founder of creating tutorials. If you head over to her profile, she has gobs of cool tips and tricks to help you get started and she teaches some wonderfully creative advanced techniques too!
Before you head over to see all of Little_M’s goodies, I want to share with you some other quite useful and creative scrapblog tutorials created by other members of our community.
Norbert starts us off with a fun tutorial about getting past that creative block we can get sometimes when creating. I love his concept of “Three” - his insight helps us realize that we are only 3 pages away from adding something extra special to our scrapblogs.
Have you ever wanted to add a special character to the text in your Scrapblog? MommyVictory shares her secrets to adding accents to text in Scrapblog.
For those of you curious about an easy way to add layering to your pages, Roban has created an excellent technique showing how she created a beautiful page.
Show these scrapblogs some LOVE and share with us your tutorials!
Everyday we see more and more of you hopping on the Twitter train. We love seeing you share your scrapblogs using Twitter! I thought it would be fun to share with you a little project you can do. Put all that fabulous Scrapblog content to good use by making a custom Twitter background like this:
Step one: Create your Scrapblog page! *TIP* Leave the right side of the page blank of photos or elements because most of the right side will be covered by the main Twitter feed screen.
Step two: Save and Publish your page.
Step three: Export your page as a jpeg. Click File: Export as a Jpeg (see below)
Step four: Change your background on Twitter by choosing “settings” and then design:
Step five: Upload your Jpeg, you may want to try clicking the “tile” check box and click “save changes”
Have fun and show us what your Twitter background looks like!
