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Design Team Wednesday with Jen Chapin!

Hi everyone! Jen here, and where I'm at in the US, fall is quickly approaching! Today I thought I would share a layout I created to document our Halloween costumes last year. Halloween is my favorite holiday to scrapbook, hands down. I just love the color combinations and bright photos!

Supplies: Cardstock: American Crafts; Patterned Paper: Bella Blvd, Doodlebug; Embellishments: Bella Blvd, Doodlebug, Studio Calico; Letter Stickers: Fancy Pants, Ali Edwards

For this layout, I went with a grid design. I printed my vertical 4x6 photo and added it to the right side of the page. For my patterned papers, I chose Halloween themed papers from Bella Blvd and Doodlebug.

I also used some transparencies from Bella Blvd and layered them up on a plain grid paper. This was the perfect place to add my title. I used black letter stickers from my stash, and embellished with a few stars and some Halloween cardstock shapes.

For my journaling, I typed it up and cut into strips. I thought it would look great against this black patterned paper and I love how it turned out!

To finish the layout, I continued embellishing with Halloween die cuts and stickers. This ended up being a great design to include my photo plus some meaningful journaling.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today! Have a great week.

~ Jen Chapin

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Join Virginia Nebel & Doodlebug Design!

Hello SCT friends, it’s Virginia here on the blog today to share a fun card I made using products from Doodlebug Design!

The Dragon Tales collection is themed with dragons and vikings and with every collection there is always a sprinkling of birthday or other celebratory elements that you can use to make layouts or cards! 

I typically create A2 sized cards, this time I decided to go with a vertical format that fits into the #10 business envelope.  Isn’t it funny with using email and not sending or receiving letters as often that this business size has sort of been forgotten?

Having created this card size, I’m loving the expanded ‘scrap space’ both vertical and horizontal.  I’m definitely going to stock up on some #10 envelopes so that I have this size of cards ready to go!

Another ‘scrapping habit’ I have is that I don’t like to waste so I try to use up all the bits and pieces as much as I can. For example, take a look at the fun borders on the sticker sheet, if you look closely there is a negative strip between the borders that can be used.  You can always use a border, whether it be the positive or negative piece- it will work!

Here is a page I made using the Dragon Tails collection that was posted on the Doodlebug blog a while back! You should check out their fun blog!

Have a wonderful crafty day! ~ Virginia

Designer Monday with Sheri Reguly!

Hello SCT friends! It''s Sheri Reguly here today, with a summer vacation layout to share with you. I love incorporating scenic shots into my layout designs. The majority of the time, I tend to print these images on a smaller scale, allowing my "portrait type" images to take center stage. This time, however, I decided to mix things up a bit.

I loved the look of the single palm tree against the bright sky and fluffy white clouds, and the image I snapped at the daiquiri bar, it contains pretty much every color in the rainbow. I opted to print these two snapshots in color, and make them my focal images, while converting my portrait shots to black and white and printing them as 2x2 supporting images.

This is a great little trick for when you have portrait type images that aren't of the best quality, or even if they contain distracting objects/colors in the background.

(Supplies: Patterned Paper: Simple Stories, Crate Paper; Stickers: Simple Stories, Jillibean Soup; Enamel Dots: Simple Stories,My Mind's Eye; Wooden Button: American Crafts)

Thank you so much for joining me and I hope you try this fun trick too! Wishing you all a wonderful day! :)

~ Sheri

Design Team Wednesday: Stacy Cohen shares a summer mini!

Hello everyone! Stacy Cohen here today with a little mini album to share! Summer is ending soon and fall is right around the corner, but I'm not quite ready to put away all of my bright, summer-themed craft products and projects. I created a fall color-schemed mini album for the Scrapbook & Cards Today Fall 2016 issue last year.  The title was "Grateful" and it featured pictures of my two daughters. In case you missed it, here's a snippet of the cover.

(read Stacy's article HERE)

Since I have two daughters, I sometimes make two versions of scrapbook pages or mini albums when I'm showcasing photos of both of them or of our whole family.  That way they will both have the keepsakes when they're older.  But it can get a little monotonous to make an exact duplicate of projects, so I always change up the colors, products and embellishments when making a double.

Here is a more summery version of the mini album.  I used bright hues of pink, green, blue and orange.

I like to "color outside of the lines" when I create mini albums, meaning I like the embellishments to hang over the edges of the pages. That way you get a little peak at what's to come.

I used my favorite embellishments throughout the album: flowers and bling.

To give the album a lot of tactile appeal, I went totally lumpy bumpy and added a variety of textures like wood, metal, felt, fabric, etc.

Now I'm almost ready to move on to fall projects. Enjoy the rest of your summer!

~ Stacy Cohen

No patterned paper? No problem for Virigina!

Hello SCT friends, Virginia here on the blog today to share with you a scrapbook page I created without using any pattern paper.

I was at a crop and one of the challenges was to create a page without using pattern paper, hmm...hard to resist pattern paper but I was up to doing this! I do think that some photos are better suited to a solid backdrop and so taking hints from the colours in my photos I created a cardstock only foundation.

To dress up the page I dipped into my stash of ephemera and alphabet fonts.  I didn't worry about using the embellishments from the same company as the colours (not patterns or theme) worked together.

Tip: The subtitle at the bottom of the page is a mix of alphabets so I created a pink banner as an underline to pull it together.

Why not challenge yourself to create a no patterned paper layout! Give it a try!

~ Virginia Nebel

Jen Chapin, a sweet layout and a PageMaps sketch!

Hi everyone! Jen Chapin here today, and I am sharing a summer themed scrapbook page with you using one of the PageMaps sketches from the Summer 2017 issue. I thought this sketch was perfect for a few swimming photos taken this weekend.

I have been loving 8.5x11 layouts lately, so I knew I needed to take advantage of this sketch. I started with an 8.5x11 piece of white cardstock, then printed my photos at 3x3 square.

For this page, I used Bella Blvd's "Secrets of the Sea" collection which is perfect for water and swimming photos. The palette is so bright and fun, and I love the icons!

I started by free hand cutting a circle from patterned paper and stitched it on to the top right of the page. Then, I used my sewing machine to free stitch another circle on the page to act as a mat for my photos.

After adding a few more embellishments and some journaling, my layout was complete! I hope you'll try this sketch, it's a fun one!

Thanks for stopping by the SCT blog and have a great week!

~ Jen