Journaling Techniques 2 and 3, Scrapbook Sketch, Pages...

Wow, I can't believe it's been so long that I have been away from this blog?! I have been sooo busy with the Tearooms and trying to update SundayLDesigns.com blog that I have been tardy on keeping this one up. First time in quite a few years I can tell you!




Keeping it short again with some (hopefully) self-explanatory links!

I Made It - Scrapbook Page by SundayL

Journaling Technique Number 2 - Lists

Journaling Technique Number 3 - Other People’s Words

Scrapbooking Sketch and Challenge - April/May 2010

Video Tutorial - Border Page Accents for Scrapbook Pages

Multi-Photo Scrapbook Page using a Border Page Accent

Video Tutorial for saving Scrapbook Inspiration, a Sketch and a Cards

Sunday's Weekly Round-Up 14th March 2010

I hope you are all well and getting crafting at every opportunity! I seem to be making birthday cards a lot lately!

Oops, I didn't get around to posting an update last Sunday. Why...? well because I have been sooooo busy with the Tearooms set-up, time is sapped by other things. (there are links to progress updates below).

Managed to publish the SimplyScrapbookingNow.com newsletter last night, or was it this morning..? All merging into one lately !!

Anyhoo, I hope you find this little lot of interest... it includes a "How To" video, cards, the use of Basic Grey Nook & Pantry Stamps, and my latest Sketch and Challenge.

Tearooms Update - Turning the Corner

Cup Cakes and Stickles - Card Making

Scrapbooking at the Tally Ho Tearooms

Video Tutorial - How to Easily Save Scrapbooking Inspiration from the Web

Scrapbooking Sketch and Challenge - March 2010

Distress Paper Edges Video Tutorial, Scrapbooking Sketch and a Vintage Card

Sunday's Weekly Round-Up 14th February 2010

I've been quite busy lately. Made a video, made a card, made a digital 12x12 scrapbook page. and made another card (for Valentines day!, although I haven't photographed that yet).

I have also made a Tearooms Update too!

So here's the list...

February Tearooms Update!

Video Tutorial - How to Distress Paper Edges to Add Interest (to Scrapbook pages and cards)

Scrapbooking Sketch and Challenge - February 2010
This shows the digi Layout above - I used the Feb SSN sketch!

Another Vintage Style Birthday Card by SundayL

Vintage Cards, Scrapbook Sketch and Mini Pocket Album Video

Sunday's Weekly RoundUp - 17th January 2010

I missed one didn't I?! I missed last week's update! Have been busy with research for the tearooms... I have set up a holding page for that too.... see below.

I also posted a video Tutorial for a Pocket Mini Album - which has proved very popular! And published the latest issue of the SimplyScrapbookingNow.com Newsletter.

So I will only post the links here again for you, rather than waffle on... you'd probably prefer that, eh?!

Set of Blue Vintage style Christmas Cards

Set of Red and Green Vintage Style Christmas Cards

Scrapbooking Sketch and Challenge January 2010

Tearooms website holding page and new email address

Mini Pocket Album Video Tutorial

Soft Vintage Style Thank You Card

Making your own Scrapbooking Page Kit - Limiting Supplies

Saying Goodbye to Oscar

Tearooms, Cakes, Sketch and Quick Double Sided Paper

Sunday's Weekly Roundup 13th December 2009




A REAL quicky.... I am moving house in less than 48 hrs! but check out my ANNOUNCEMENT! and here's also the rest of the roundup.


A Scrapbooking Tearoom? Special Announcement!
Oh yes indeed… I have a Special Announcement to make!
I am moving house on Tuesday! Twice in fact and yes… just before Christmas! ...

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Scrapbook Page Sketch and Challenge December 09
Another multi-photo layout sketch. This time we have 2 photos, but the emphasis is on the journaling, the story of the page. And it’s a pretty simple page too...

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For what can you use Double Sided Paper?
I’ve had lots of comments on the recent video I posted as to how to Quickly make single sided paper into Double sided using stamps!I thought I would just post one of the questions and my answer to it here as it’s relevant!Q: Ibkristycat asked: what are some scrapbooking ideas for using double sided paper?? ...

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A little bit of Cake Decorating
Oh here’s a real quicky! Just a little picture of Honey yesterday with the “fairy” birthday cake I decorated for her Birthday Party! If I get time I will upload more photos shortly. And I will also explain why there is a lack of time later ! LOL Oh and my Scrapbooking acrylic sheets and...

Scrapbook Sketch to a page, card inspiration

Sunday's Weekly RoundUp 29th November 2009


I posted a scrapbook layout using one of my sketches this week. As I mentioned in a post back in October, I was thinning out the blog posts for a bit and so there is just the one this week.


However I will be explaining a little why I am sooo busy at the mo... watch this space - it's very exciting, and you will be able to come visit me if you are in the UK!


Multi-photo scrapbook layout
Disney Rain!
I am in the process of making a scrapbook about a holiday we took in 2007 to Disneyland Paris. I realise it’s nearly 2010, but I’ll get there eventually!
I just thought I would show you this page because ...

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Here are some blogs worth checking out too...

VanLarrDesigns - some lovely card designs

Pretty Vintage lady image (Christmas theme) free download

Scrapbooking Autumn Quotes and Page Sketch to Card Sketch

Sunday's Weekly Roundup 22nd November 2009

I have been working on a 12 page Christmas Programme for Honey's School Christmas Fair which is next weekend. The master now sits on my desk awaiting it's despatch to the school tomorrow morning. I am relieved it's finished now, but I am disappointed that I haven't been able to do any scrapbooking this weekend. I WILL Scrapbook... I WILL scrapbook... new affirmation! LOL :)

So here's the roundup...


Scrapbooking Quotes for Autumn Pages
How’s about this mushroom then? I thought it definitely looked like something out of a fairytale! I snapped it with my phone when out walking the dogs recently....

... I occasionally get an email from the Scrapbooking section of About.com with new articles. And I thought I would share one of them here. It’s a list of scrapbooking quotes especially for Autumn pages and you may well find them useful....

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Adapting a Scrapbook Page Sketch to a Card Sketch

The November 09 Sketch for the Newsletter is a multi-photo Scrapbook page. One large photo and up to 4 smaller photos (and/or blocks of embellishment). As part of my demo at my crop last weekend I wanted to show that you can easily adapt a scrapbok page sketch into a card sketch with only a little adjustment.

Scrapbook Sketch, Bon Jovi and a Vintage Card

Sunday's Weekly Roundup 15th November 2009

I published the November issue of the SimplyScrapbookingNow.com Newsletter this week, I haven't made my mind up what the freebie will be this month though!! I have a couple of things in mind! You can sign up here and gain access to all the freebies.

I've been making cards, listening to music and sketching!

Vintage Style Card - Free Images

I have downloaded a lot of images from Heidi who has a website/blog called Shabby Chic Papirskatter. All the images are free and good quality and it’s well worth a visit. The picture I used on the card above is only printed on ordinary (but premium quality) paper at normal printer settings (ie not photo quality) and it looks just fine...

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We Weren’t Born To Follow - Bon Jovi
No it’s not scrapbooking, but IT IS UPLIFTING and I’m all for that! The music video gives extra weight to the message and I hope you enjoy it… This one will be blasting out in my car that’s for sure.
Great Rock Tune with a an uplifting message… can’t get much better than that!! Wooo Hooo!
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Scrapbook Page Sketch and Challenge November 09
I want to keep the Multi-Photo layout theme going, which is my intention for most of my sketches, and so here is a sketch for one large, main photo and up to three smaller photos. You could keep this layout really simple with plain colours or pep it right up with some feature patterned paper.And…Or… [...]

Multi-photo sketch, challenge, gift album video and a published page

Sunday's Weekly Scrapbooking Round-Up 13th September 2009


Did you know that it's been a whole year since the launch of the SimplyScrapbokingNow.com site and the Newsletter?... Well you do now! Time has just flown by!

Still as busy as ever! And so I am not going to witter on this week, and just get straight to the roundup!






12×12 Scrapbook Page “Just Lovely” by SundayL
I can now show you a page I made a few months back, but which I was unable to post here until after it was published. So, as Featured in the September 09 issue of Scrapbook Inspirations magazine, here is my layout entitled “Just Lovely”! [mini gallery of close ups]...

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September Sketch and Challenge - Birthday Issue!

This month of September marks the first birthday of the SimplyScrapbookingNow.com Newsletter, my Ezine. So the theme for this month’s sketch and challenge is birthdays! Get scrapbooking a birthday!However… to keep to the usual schedule I have September’s sketch for you… another multi-photo layout ( I know that you are always looking for ways to use...

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Mini Album Video Tour of a Gift Album
Here is video of a great scrapbook mini album, which "MsScrappaperscissors” (YouTube name, don’t know her real name) has created for some relatives in Scotland for them to add photos and journaling about their trip over to the States (to visit her.)
Her link goes over to the Papermaze Blog, which is worth a look...

No blog hopping this week... I am thinking of starting up a Hall of Fame... where I give awards for excellence, be that layouts, albums, etc or the blog in general... will let you know!

Make your own Bracket templates, Sketch & Challenge and an Evening Walk

Sunday's Weekly Scrapbooking Round-Up 9th August 2009

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that my daughter had chicken pox... well I now have them BIG TIME! There isn't a square inch that doesn't have a bump... enough said! Just have sympathy for me as I sit and write this covered in itching skin!

Anyway, to try to take my mind off things I did actually finish a page that was half done for ages, but I've not achieved much else for around 5 days!

However, I did manage to post a couple of things on the SLD blog - so here is the Round-up...


Quick Way to Create Bracket Shapes for Scrapbook Pages and Cards
Here is a quick way to make bracket shaped pieces of paper and card for your Scrapbook Pages, your Cards and anything else you may want them for.
First, cut a piece of scrap paper Read More>>

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Scrapbooking Sketch and Challenge for August 09
Here is the Scrapbooking Sketch this month. It’s a multi-photo layout, well it makes use of two photos at least! If you don’t have scalloped paper, but you have a corner rounder punch (athough some corner rounders aren’t suitable) you can make your own scalloped paper… see this article.
As for this month’s Challenge… Read More>>

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This item isn't about crafting but I thought you might like to see it anyway!

An Evening Walk with the Dogs
I went for a summer’s evening walk with the dogs a week or more ago. It’s taken this long to sort them out and upload them here, but I thought I would share some of the photographs I snapped. I took these pictures before the fields were harvested, which the farmer has been doing all this last week.
First I thought I’d show you a picture of my border collie “Inde”. See More>>

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Now for Blog Hopping.

Mini Scrapbook Albums
This is a link to a site called Making-Mini-Scrapbooks.com. It has a long list of step by step tutorials for min albums such as paper bags albums, exploding boxes, circle albums and many more and well worth a look.




Challenge
Irene Tan of "Scraperlicous" blog fame has posted her challenge over on the Scrap It Lah Challenge blog.

Free Scrapbooking Stuff Video, Published layout and a Reader's Layout

Sunday's Weekly Scrapbooking Round-Up 5th July 2009

Ok, so where did that week go then? Did I blink? I was just finishing up two mini maze book albums as thank yous to Honey's teacher and teaching assistant and suddenly realised it was Sunday evening (dare I say "night"!) and I hadn't done my weekly Round-Up!

"Oh dear" I said to myself as you can imagine! Anyway... below is the Scrapbook page I created which was published in the June issue of Scrapbook Inspirations Magazine here in the UK. The mini gallery of close ups is over in the SundayLDesigns.com blog and the direct link is below.

So here is the Scrapbooking Round-up for this week (oh and the July Newsletter will be out this week)

A Father’s Day Scrapbook Page
I submitted this scrapbook page to Scrapbook Inspirations Magazine back in March! It was published in the June 2009 issue, and I’ve had to keep it under wraps till then.

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Page Tour Video - Finding Free Scrapbooking Supplies
I’ve uploaded a video here to show you a couple of 8×8 scrapbooking pages. Both pages were made with items I have collected around the house, such as a jar label, a drink can ring pull, string and “back of the draw” buttons! Read More>>

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A great use for those Green flowers!
Here is a little tutorial from CheekyMagpie.com about making use of green flowers from your stash. Basically it is a case of making “3D” flowers using more usual petal colours and then using the green flowers last to make the sepals. A good idea for making delicate little 3D embellishments for a scrapbooking page or a card.
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A Reader’s Layout from the June Newsletter Sketch
When I checked my emails this morning, I was pleased to find that a reader (of the SSN Newsletter) had sent me a photo of her scrapbook layout based on the Sketch in the current Newsletter (see this post for the sketch and my layout).
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A Scraplift, A Baby Card and The Wow Factor!

Sunday's Weekly Round-Up 21st June 2009

I had the pleasure of attending a crop yesterday 10.30-4 and I managed to create a page from scratch, or should I say "sketch" or maybe even "scraplift"... confused? Well all is revealed in the blogpost listed first below.

This week I have managed to get a lot of those niggly little business bits and pieces done, and I filmed a couple of page tours (with some TIPS) which I will edit and show sometime soon!

So here is the round up of recent articles over on the SundayLDesigns.com blog...

Scraplifting - using Someone Else’s Page as Inspiration
A couple of weeks ago I posted a link on the weekly update on the SSN Blog to Chelsea Cook’s blog to show you her scrapbooking layouts which are lovely. I also said that I would “Scraplift” one of them.
Well actually I decided to make Sketch using a couple of Chelsea’s layouts (from her gallery) for the June SimplyScrapbookingNow Newsletter. And I made my own 12×12 scrapbook page yesterday from the sketch and it looks like this…

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Ripped Paper Technique - Baby Girl Card
Here is a card I made recently for a couple who had a baby girl a week or so ago. I have used the Ripped Paper Technique to create the flower (link to more Tutorial and Video below), and drawn on stitches to give it a hand stitched look.

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The Wow Factor - Heritage Scrapbook Page
I saw a layout today over on Ingvild Bolme’s blog which is so fantastic I just HAD to write about it straight away on here!

Look at this… Read More>>

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ScrapBuddies Sketch Series Number 7

Well the scanner seems to want to play ball now!

I didn't have time to shut it all down last night and reboot... I had too many windows open. So I have fired it up again this afternoon and hey presto it's behaving.

So here is the sketch which I drew for the "In Strawberry Fields" scrapbooking layout (see this post). As you can see my layout is different from the sketch, just to prove the point that you don't have to stick exactly to the sketch. And I know a lot of you don't which is great for variety.

Although I have to say that I have seen some resulting scrapbooking pages from sketches are nothing like the original sketch, and I wonder if indeed the creator was actually looking a the right sketch in the first place LOL!

I helped one of my bosses this morning to print a couple of photographs, explaining my way of placing the pictures into word and printing from there. He said he'd forget next time round! Which reminds me that I must make a video of how to do this. I have published an article on the subject, but maybe a video you help too, as I know there are others struggling to quickly print out photos.

ScrapBuddies Sketch no.6 - Could be a multi-photo page layout!

Hello there everyone!


I have been busy putting the final touches to the SimplyScrapbookingNow.com Newsletter which is due out on Saturday (1st Nov).


But for something else - here is the next ScrapBuddies Sketch. Sketch no. 6 in the Series so far.


And below is the layout from whence it came!

The reason I say it "could" be a multiphoto sketch is because of the blocking. You could easily add more photographs where I have used patterned paper. In fact the whole page could be made up of just cropped photographs?!


Would make for interesting cropping, wouldn't it?!

Couple more multiphoto layouts and an Award from Katy

Here are a couple more scrapbooking layouts created by UK Scrappers Members. They are from the challenge set my my Team last week (see Saturday's post).

A lot of ladies took part and that you to these ladies for allowing me to post their lovely layouts here.

So this layout is by Leanie

And this layout is by Tinkerbelle

I also have to say a BIG thank you to my friend Katy, for recently giving me this award. I'm glad you like the Blog Katy, I hope I can "continue with the good work"! I enjoy your blog too, especially all that "stash" you keep buying LOL! (Katy's Blog)

More Layouts using the Scrapbooking Sketch used this week on UK Scrappers

Here are 3 more 12x12 scrapbooking layouts based on the sketch and challenge set by our UK Scrappers Team. Again the names are those "handles" used on the UKS forum.

I must say I have enjoyed seeing all the Layouts that my fellow scrappers have created as a consequence of our Challenge. It just highlights how diverse all our techniques and skills and most of all interpretations are when it comes to Scrapbooking. Given the same 4 parameters but the layouts are fantastically different!

And one of the great parts of this challenge is that it is a "multiphoto" challenge too!

Layout by TracyTeabag

Layout by Tillybud

Layout by NoviceScrapper

Team RRR Layouts from This week's challenge on UKScrappers.co.uk

Here are some of my fellow team members' scrapbooking layouts based on the challenge (see yesterday's post), which includes my sketch.

The names below are "members nicknames" - as those used on UK Scrappers.co.uk

This Layout is by Pink Lady

This Layout is by CeruleanBlue

This layout is by Aurora

I shall post another 3 layouts tomorrow!

Scrapbooking Sketch used this week on UK Scrappers

Here is a 12x12 scrapbooking layout I created recently as an example to go with my sketch (below).

I created the sketch for my UK Scrappers Team - the Rockin' Ribbon Raiders - as part of our challenge for the rest of the members to take part.

There is a weekly challenge and it was our Team's turn to set one again this week.

So the challenge is:
Use my sketch
a 3 word title
3 of whatever you use i:e papers, ribbons or pictures etc other than the title
and someone or something inspirational

So far there have been many lovely page layouts made and some of them quite touching in their journaling.

Below is the sketch and underneath that the close up of the journaling on my page.

Tomorrow I shall post some of my fellow Teammies' scrapbooking layouts, so you can see some of the different layouts.

Finished multiphoto layout from the latest Newsletter Sketch

Good evening lovely scrappers!

I've had lots of lovely feedback from Newsletter subscribers which is really nice, so many thanks to you all for that! It is helpful to have such feedback, especially your suggestions for what you would like me to cover in the next issue.

This picture is of a layout by Dawn in the UK who created it from the Sketch in the new Newsletter which was only published yesterday! Well done Dawn, how quick were you!!

If you would like to see the October Sketch and an example layout, you'll need to sign up for the free Newsletter (boxes top left), but I can say that Dawn's scrapbooking layout is quite true to the sketch.

It is so nice to see some real scrapbooking creations made as a direct result of my blog or websites... makes it all worthwhile - and the more the merrier!

October Newsletter now Published!

Well I am pleased to say that the SimplyScrapbookingNow.com October Newsletter has been published and I have just this minute sent out the email to all subscribers... phew!

I have been very busy this month... there are no less than 4... yes 'four' Videos this issue AND, there is a Freebie download.

As the September Newsletter is now a "past issue" the links to the various articles and Sketches etc are available for non-subscribers, so here are a couple of links!

September's Sketch and Challenge if you would like to have a go at either>> The scrapbooking layout above is and 8x8 example of the Sept Sketch.

7 ways to find Free or Discount Scrapbooking Supplies - this is a good one, from buying from non-scrapbooking shops, to rummaging in charity shops, it will save you money!