Wednesday Sponsor Giveaway : Get It Scrapped, Transparent Touches, & Blue Moon Scrapbooking
Get It Scrapped is giving away one spot in Pattie Knox's "More Mad Digital Skillz" online workshop.
Pattie Knox’s favorite part of digital scrapbooking is learning new techniques for creating realistic--as in “I can’t believe that’s not paper!”--layouts. In “More Mad Digital Skillz,” you’ll learn how to create torn edges on your photos and papers, how to insert photos into type, Pattie’s method for digital dry embossing, and much more about making your own brushes, working with custom shapes, and creating depth and interest with texture. Each lesson is accompanied by beautiful digital products from the talented artists at Designer Digitals—including Ali Edwards! Class starts May 25th at Get It Scrapped!
Transparent Touches & Tags (TTT) is giving away two different prizes this week. The first winner will get to
pick one of the monthly kits pictured on the slide show above. The
second winner will receive $20 in TTT transparencies of their choice.
Transparent Touches & Tags is one of the only monthly kit clubs that offers 3 kit choices each month. They have 3 and 6 month kit subscriptions available. TTT also creates transparencies to use for scrapbooking pages, cards and other projects.
TTT has a kit subscription offer going on FOR ONE WEEK ONLY for new kit members who sign up because of the Wednesday giveaway. If you sign up for 6 months, you will receive a fun goodie bag filled with scrapbooking products for FREE with your first kit. After you sign up, email Monica (info@transparenttouches.com) to let her know that you heard about TTT from this giveaway. Offer ends Wednesday, May 27th.
TTT is also giving you another chance to win a monthly kit...go to their blog to find out how you can win another kit and more transparencies.
Blue Moon Scrapbooking is giving away a terrific package of goodies that retails for $86.99 (and includes the Tiny Attacher highlighted here yesterday). See the full list included in the Spring Party package here.
For more check out the Blue Moon Blog and Blue Moon Videos.
To be entered into today's drawing please leave a comment sharing your best journaling/writing/story-telling tip. Comments will be closed tonight at 8pm Pacific with the winner's announced shortly after.
When I upload my pictures to my computer I add a few notes to each picture. This helps me to remember specific things going on in the picture or why I took a picture of a specific person, place or thing.
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When I upload my pictures to my computer I add a few notes to each picture. This helps me to remember specific things going on in the picture or why I took a picture of a specific person, place or thing.
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When I upload my pictures to my computer I add a few notes to each picture. This helps me to remember specific things going on in the picture or why I took a picture of a specific person, place or thing.
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Stephanie King: I carry a small plain paper journal in my purse every where I go. When my two terrific kiddos say something that makes me smile, I have the paper and pen at the ready to quickly jot it down. I've been doing this for the last 3 years or so. Now, every time my son or daughter do something that makes me laugh, they say, "Are you going to write that down in your journal?" They even remind me to write it down! And they love looking back and their funny statements and things I've written down about them.
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Stephanie King: I carry a small plain paper journal in my purse every where I go. When my two terrific kiddos say something that makes me smile, I have the paper and pen at the ready to quickly jot it down. I've been doing this for the last 3 years or so. Now, every time my son or daughter do something that makes me laugh, they say, "Are you going to write that down in your journal?" They even remind me to write it down! And they love looking back and their funny statements and things I've written down about them.
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a trick for journalling a lo...I usually plan for a space on the lo, and then in the middle of paper, ink, and bling, I stop, write out what I want to say for the lo and then get back to designing. It helps me to be surrounded by the pics and embellishments to get out what I want to say - it doesn't seem to work as well for me to journal before or after...
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a trick for journalling a lo...I usually plan for a space on the lo, and then in the middle of paper, ink, and bling, I stop, write out what I want to say for the lo and then get back to designing. It helps me to be surrounded by the pics and embellishments to get out what I want to say - it doesn't seem to work as well for me to journal before or after...
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a trick for journalling a lo...I usually plan for a space on the lo, and then in the middle of paper, ink, and bling, I stop, write out what I want to say for the lo and then get back to designing. It helps me to be surrounded by the pics and embellishments to get out what I want to say - it doesn't seem to work as well for me to journal before or after...
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I save incoming and outgoing e-mails since those e-mails are generally about something important or amusing. When it comes time to journal, I edit the e-mail or use it as is. Super easy!
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I tend to use my photos on my layouts - no matter HOW old they are - to journal about what I am currently feeling and doing and seeing. Rather than obsessing over knowing the details behind each photo and getting caught up in the notion of being "behind" in my scrapbooking, when I make the process more about documenting who I am today, I think the journaling is far less intimidating in the midst of page creation.
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I save incoming and outgoing e-mails since those e-mails are generally about something important or amusing. When it comes time to journal, I edit the e-mail or use it as is. Super easy!
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a trick for journalling a lo...I usually plan for a space on the lo, and then in the middle of paper, ink, and bling, I stop, write out what I want to say for the lo and then get back to designing. It helps me to be surrounded by the pics and embellishments to get out what I want to say - it doesn't seem to work as well for me to journal before or after...
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I tend to use my photos on my layouts - no matter HOW old they are - to journal about what I am currently feeling and doing and seeing. Rather than obsessing over knowing the details behind each photo and getting caught up in the notion of being "behind" in my scrapbooking, when I make the process more about documenting who I am today, I think the journaling is far less intimidating in the midst of page creation.
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I tend to use my photos on my layouts - no matter HOW old they are - to journal about what I am currently feeling and doing and seeing. Rather than obsessing over knowing the details behind each photo and getting caught up in the notion of being "behind" in my scrapbooking, when I make the process more about documenting who I am today, I think the journaling is far less intimidating in the midst of page creation.
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I save incoming and outgoing e-mails since those e-mails are generally about something important or amusing. When it comes time to journal, I edit the e-mail or use it as is. Super easy!
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Keep a small notepad with you to record all those little notes. Another tip, write every day - it will make your writing better!
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I carry a small plain paper journal in my purse every where I go. When my two terrific kiddos say something that makes me smile, I have the paper and pen at the ready to quickly jot it down. I've been doing this for the last 3 years or so. Now, every time my son or daughter do something that makes me laugh, they say, "Are you going to write that down in your journal?" They even remind me to write it down! And they love looking back and their funny statements and things I've written down about them.
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I tend to use my photos on my layouts - no matter HOW old they are - to journal about what I am currently feeling and doing and seeing. Rather than obsessing over knowing the details behind each photo and getting caught up in the notion of being "behind" in my scrapbooking, when I make the process more about documenting who I am today, I think the journaling is far less intimidating in the midst of page creation.
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Keep a small notepad with you to record all those little notes. Another tip, write every day - it will make your writing better!
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I save incoming and outgoing e-mails since those e-mails are generally about something important or amusing. When it comes time to journal, I edit the e-mail or use it as is. Super easy!
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My best advice is to just write from the heart. Generations from now your defendants won't care how witty or humorous your pages are...they'll just want to know the emotions behind the photos.
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Journaling is always something that is tough for me, but it's also what I think is most important about scrapping. I find that keeping a little notebook handy where I can jot down stories about the girls, funny situations, touching moments, anything that I would like to incorporate into my pages, than I have an easier time when I sit down to scrap.
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If stuck for "the whole story" put it in headline format and get the feeling down - "Kid Awes Parents" "The Dancing Queens" "Joy, joy, joy" Sometimes just beginning with that will help you write more.
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I really don't have a certain journaling tip. I just write down what I want to say. I am not worried about someone else seeing it or asking about it. If I have soemthing private, I will put it behind something on the layout. Otherwise I hand write it out on the layout somewhere.
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