Layouts with 12" Flip Flaps and Hooligans Paper

I had a chance to get together with my scrapbook buddy, Heather, last Wednesday. We worked and chatted and had a very nice time. I have been trying to use what I have and use up what I have so you may recognize some very old letter stickers on these pages. It's not really my style anymore but what's old is new again, right? What was really fun, though, was using the 12" Flip Flaps on these pages so that I could fit in more pictures on each page. What a fun interactive element!

Heere's my left page of the layout with the flap closed:

Here's the same page with the flap open (on the right side of the page):

Here is the right side of my layout with the flap closed:

And here it is open (from the bottom of the page):



Supplies used: (X7129B) Hooligans Level 2 paper pack, (Z1325) 12" Flip Flap memory protectors, (Z1223) Dimensional Elements Booksmart, (D1359) Comments stamp set, (D1329) Noteworthy stamp set, (Z1338) Sunset Mini-MedleysPin It

Fanfare Level 1 Layout

A little while ago, I received a familiar looking white CTMH box at my door. Naturally, my first reaction was glee. This soon turned to confusion since I hadn't ordered anything! Then I thought, "Oh no, I got someone else's order by mistake!" When I opened the box and looked at the shipping info, my name was listed as the hostess and my upline was listed as the consultant. My next thought was, "Yikes, what if she needs this stuff for a workshop and now it won't get there in time?" I called CTMH and they hadn't received any calls asking about a missing order. So then I emailed my upline. I didn't get a response for a few days which made me think, "Well, maybe she's out of town and doesn't need these items right away." So after a couple of days, I called. Imagine my surprise when I found out that yes indeed, all of the items in the box were for me (it was a lot of stuff)! It was a little reward for doing so well in my business...which really means I've been buying a lot for myself lately because of Studio J!!! Ha, ha ha!

I have never met my upline since we live in different states and I actually rolled up to her after having a different upline who lived closer to me but who decided to stop selling CTMH. So, what a nice way to meet! Thank you Wendy! I'm happy to say that I've put my new items to good use. Here is a layout I made with the Fanfare Level 1 paper pack (some faces are blurred on purpose). I love the Stickease in this pack and the papers just seemed to really work with my pictures. This was also super fast to put together! I'm feeling so much more optimistic about getting my pictures scrapbooked.

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Studio J Layouts -- Grace and You Rock

I usually haven't been setting goals for scrapbooking as some people do (you know, I'll have this many layouts completed by such and such a date). It has been sort of overwhelming for me to think in those terms in the past but I do feel like I can finally set some goals now that I have a "handle on things" with having completed so many digital layouts.

As you know, I'm working somewhat backwards. I've finished my family album for 2010 (all digital), I'm halfway finished with my family album for 2009 (combination of digital and traditional - after all I still have all of that beautiful scrapbooking paper!), I've gotten caught up with my daughter's birthday album (all traditional), I've completed a good portion of my son's birthday album (combination of traditional and digital), gotten caught up with my daughter's school album (all digital), and gotten a good start with my son's school album (combination of digital and traditional). I also, of course, have some other previous years completed or somewhat completed with traditional cut and paste scrapbooking from when I first started scrapbooking, but I'm not concentrating on those yet!

One of the problems I'm running into is forgetting when I've already scrapbooked something because I didn't have a good system of organizing my scrapped pages. Now, I'm using the 12" X 12" My Legacy® Work-In-Progress Album which I love since it's a binder (easy to rearrange the layouts). I'm going to get a couple more so that I can keep the pages for different albums arranged in different binders. Hey, I might even LABEL them! I'm slowly getting a system which works for me.


So, for now, my goal is to finish my family album for 2009 by the end of June! We'll see if I can do it. Wish me luck.
 
Here are a couple of digital layouts which I've just completed. In both layouts, I put a text box over a Stickease images (digital stickers). I changed the background "paper" of the text boxes to "none" so it appears as if the words are written on the Stickease images. I also copied and pasted the definition of letterboxing from a website into my large text box in the first layout. I love being able to do that directly instead of having to open a Word document, work on my spacing, cut cardstock to fit my printer and then print!
 

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Studio J®: Step-by-Step Basics

Happy Mother's Day to all the mom's out there. I hope you have a wonderful day!

I wanted to share a video made by the CTMH corporation which shows you how to go about making a digital layout on Studio J. Click on the arrows in the bottom right corner next to the You Tube logo to enlarge the screen.

As you know, Studio J has been a wonderful tool for me! I've finished a whole year of family layouts, a whole school year of layouts for my daughter's school pictures, a number of birthday layouts for my son's birthday album, plus a number of other miscellaneous layouts. This has really helped me feel motivated. I also use Studio J as a planning tool for photos that I have already printed. this way I can try out different colors and arrangements with my pictures to see if they look good! There's no charge for playing around with Studio J, only for buying a layout, so try it out and see if you like it by clicking here!

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