Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Scrapbook Dimensions is running a special right now - subscribe and you will get a $25- value digital kit that, along with the papers and embellishments, includes 5 card templates, 5 video tutorials and 5 quick cards. It's a fantastic deal ! Go to www.scrapbookdimensions.com to sign up. Keep in mind that there is also an online forum that goes with the magazine so if you have questions or worries, you can just ask!


I went to Costco recently after a tip from one of my Students and found some really great photo storage boxes. I'll photograph them later and post more about them then... but the price was AWESOME. (In my opinion at least LOL)

My 2nd Challenge for you :

This next challenge is to encouarge you to work toward using a new technique.

Digital scrapbookers. This time- Print out a digital layout that has some empty space around the edges. Take it down to the local craft store/scrapbook store and find some ink that matches your color scheme. Purchase this ink and use it to ink the edges of your layouts. (Similar to adding a digital overlay to the edges of your page, just hands on and dirty this time!)

Paper Scrapbookers. This time- Before using your background paper OR an accent paper (if you don't have a wide-format printer you can use an accent paper or before scrapping your picture... Go online and download a free embellishment. Whatever you like. It can be an edge overlay (which when printed can look like inking), a quote with flourishes, a digital brad, etc. Take that item and print it onto your paper or even onto your photos :)

If you'd like come back here and post a comment with a link to the page and I'll go check it out!

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Finally a post!

Yes it is true. It has been over a month since I last had a moment to blog but I thought I'd sit down tonight and at least get started again!

Scrapbook Dimensions Magazine is coming along swimmingly! I just love all the interest from people who are ready to or all ready hybrid scrapbooking. Of course the "hybrid" scrapbooker can also be called the Tradigi Scrapbooker or my personal LOL fav - the biscraptual. This past week I had an opportunity to head out to PMA here in Las Vegas and I think I coined a new "type" of hybrid... the metroscraptutal man. LOL I met several guys at PMA that scrapbook and are interested in the concept of hybriding and during our conversations I said that they were our new demographic... the metro-scrapper making them a metroscraptual. So.... if we start hearing this term around the scrapworld you can say you officially know who coined it!~

THE FIRST CHALLENGE

So I wanted to challenge you all to start focusing more on a hybrid approach to scrapbooking. If you are already a digital scrapbooker I want you to look at your pages and think about items (that may be digital like brads, stickers, alphas, etc) that you could use from the traditional standpoint and if you are a traditional scrapbooker I'd like to encourage you to look on your computer and see what software programs you have. If you don't have photo editing software like Microsoft Digital Image Suite (formerly known as Microsoft Digital Image Pro), Adobe Photoshop Elements or Adobe Photoshop CS / CS 2 etc, Paint Shop Pro or Photo Impact, google the programs online and download a free trial version. This will give you an opportunity to test drive the program before actually purchasing it.

As you start looking into the variety of options out there you will find that hybriding is so much fun and has so many simple applications. You may already be hybriding and not even know it!

I'll be back soon (honest sooner than 1 month!) to post a new challenge and just general chatter.