Category: scrapbooking

  • a while back, i was asked to make some accents for the tips & tricks column in creating keepsakes. the inspiration was the blue ribbon awards that you see at the fairs. i had a few cool new tools to work with, and came up with these five accents that were featured in the september…

  • today, on the jillibean soup blog, it's all about projects. and one of them is mine 🙂 i created two banners for the jillibean soup booth at CHA, back in july. one of them was a christmas banner. and this banner was an everyday banner, using the new pasta fagioli collection. forgive me, this isn't a great…

  • i finally finished up my digital layout of sarah. i started playing around with this last friday night. all i actually had left to finish was the journaling, and adding the tall yellow birdie. no idea why that took me so long to do. but here it is. i love digital templates. they give you…

  • i was sooooo close to having a new digital layout to share with you. there are just two things left to do on it, but those are two things that seem to be taking me forever to finish. soon, i promise. will you settle for a paper layout 😉 this is another one of my…

  • i had a new layout go up on the jillibean soup blog today. we did a ton of school projecs last year. but alyssa did a few experiments for science class, that i thought would be fun to make a layout about. the two main projects here are the mouse-trap race car, and the bottle…

  • i wanted to share one of the layouts i created for my pebbles design team submission with you today. i used the may bouquet collection for this layout about my parents. i've never actually scrapbooked about my parents before, and i'm glad i finally took the time. i admit that i'm not great at talking about my…

  • i really love bella blvd. when i went to CHA back in january, their booth was one of my favorites and their collections were on the top of my "have to have" list. and i have used their collections a lot. in fact, the layout peek i showed you here was made with mostly bella…

  • first up, thanks for all the sweet comments on my cover layout! appreciate them all. and now, to pick a winner for a free copy of scrapbooking tips & tricks: tools & techniques. i turned to the random number generator. in full disclosure, it choose #29. which was dawn, who mentioned that she already had the…

  • i thought i would share one of my layouts with you today, from the last scrapbooking tips & tricks issue. this was created for the paper palooza issue, which was all about pattern paper. my technique idea was to take small torn pieces of pattern paper, and use them to cover chipboard shapes. as seen…

  • since it's still CHA time, i feel like i should be showing you some jillibean soup layouts with their brand new products. but those won't go up until next month. these are layouts that i did last month, and finally went up on the jillibean soup blog today.   i knew i wanted to use…