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Hello everyone! Thanks for stopping by from Beki's blog. Here is one of my favourite summer layouts made with Banana Frog stamps
I made this page pretty soon after summer last year. However this one with photos taken just a month later, wasn't made until 2011
You can see how I made the stamped tags over on the Banana Frog Blog.
Next stop on the hop: Michelle!
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It's been all about scrapbooking over here this week on the blog, so I figure what better way to round this out than with two very recent, practically hot off the presses, never-before-seen layouts?
Hey! This one qualifies as a "Blog Post to Page" layout! Those photos are over a year old, and I blogged about them in March last year.
I'm trying hard to keep up with doing my monthly layouts about me. This one is based on my blog post from last week. Hang on, I see a trend here!
Both pages were made with the July I Feel Pretty kit from Little Black Dress.
What have you scrapped about lately?
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What projects are you working on this summer? Suddenly I find myself working on a bunch of things, even though I planned to take it easy. So far I am working on a family summer Smash-style book
I love the Smash book idea, and decided to make one of my own from scratch - I'm calling it a Whatnot book. I'll share a tutorial on how I made it next week. Basically I am sticking stuff in there from the tidbits I'm picking up during the summer.
Then I signed up for Shimelle's current online class called Explore. Here's the mini I am making
Recognise it? It's the one I made in my binding tutorial a few weeks ago.
This week I am working on Week in the Life along with numerous other scrappers, and led by the fabulous Ali Edwards.
I signed up for the Big Idea Festival on Big Picture Classes which is coming up in August.
And I'm also part of the August Smorgasbord of webinars with Debbie Hodge at Masterful Scrapbook Design. The webinars are being recorded right now, and will be posted for subscribers in August.
Phew!
What are you up to this summer?
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I've noticed something interesting about my scrapbooking pages. When I do pages about Kieran, I am way more focused on the photos and the story, and making sure that is what is showcased. The pages are more streamlined, or boxy even
The pages are fairly simple, with not a lot of embellishments.
When I am doing a page about myself however, I tend to go more free flowing, try different techniques and play more. To wit:
(ok this page is more about stuff I like than me, but it fits)
and I use way more stuff on the page.
Of course this isn't always true, I have done very simple pages about myself
and some technique-y ones about Kieran
But in general that seems to be the trend.
I'm not sure why this happens, I guess because I have different goals for each kind of page? The pages about Kieran are all about documenting his story and our family life, whereas the pages about me are more like a personal journal. I'm comforted in the fact that even my more embellished pages still look and feel like me though: they are still pretty simple as far as layout design goes.
I'm going to mull this one over more for a while, so tell me: do you find that your scrapbook style changes depending on who or what you're scrapbooking about?
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Reading The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
Learning more about photography, blogging, business, parenting and myself everyday
Loving good food, sunshine, Pinterest, creating
Trying to keep all the balls in the air and do it with grace
Listening to my inner voice
Making journals, scrapbooks, dinner, a home
Taking self-portraits again
Planning to make time to look after me; to rest, reset and recharge
Thinking about all I want to accomplish and how I will get there
Dancing around with living room with Kieran
Going with the flow of the everyday
Thriving
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Welcome to the July Memory Makers Blog Bounce!
I'm just back from a short family vacation and am definitely still in vacation mode. I haven't started scrapping those photos yet, so I thought I'd share some of my older favourite vacation layouts. Funnily, all these photos were taken in Barbados - yes I tend to go home for my big vacations!
That last page was done for a challenge to use atypical colours and papers. Definitely not the colours you'd typically see on a beach page, but I quite liked how the muted tones helped to accentuate the photo.
Maybe you can try to challenge yourself to scrap your vacation photos differently?
Thanks for stopping by and now on to Wendy Smedley's blog!
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The little munchkin boy loves to ham it up for the camera! I probably have 10,000 photos like this, and I don't plan to delete any!
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I'm sharing a technique for creating a misted and stamped background over on the Banana Frog blog today. Click on over if you'd like to see more!
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As you know I have a pet peeve about things being linked incorrectly on Pinterest. Here are a few ways that I have been able to find missing links while pinning to my boards.
As I mentioned before I don't repin from the thumbnail pins, but open each one in a separate tab first. To do this you right click on the pin and choose "Open in new tab". Or if your mouse has a scrolling wheel, you can use it to click on the pin and a new tab automatically opens.
Once all the tabs are open I then check each one by hovering over to see what it is linked to - the URL will pop up just above your task bar. (Actually if Pinterest would make it possible to see the source link in the thumbnail view that would be great!) In some cases it's obvious if the link is the correct one: if it's not clear then I click on the pin which automatically opens the source site.
On a blog I need to search for the exact post the image came from. Sometimes I get lucky and it's right on the front page. Other times not so much. If it has been linked to page 6 or sometimes 45 then I go backwards through the blog archives until I find the post (most blogs will provide a link for getting to the older posts). If that doesn't work then I check to see if the blog has a search function and type in the keyword. Say it's a recipe for lemon garlic chicken, then I type "lemon garlic chicken" in the search field. If this starts taking too long then I just give up.
Another method that works sometimes is to do a google search for the image. I'll type in the keyword and then choose "image" on the google page. One of the results you'll get will no doubt be the image on Pinterest, but lots of times you will find other instances of the image and then you can check to see if they are linked to the original source.
I've also given up pinning anything that comes from Tumblr. That place is like the black hole for links! (And to think I loved it so. Ah youth.) Things get reblogged so many times and links get lost, so when I see an image linked from Tumblr and it has like 14, 367 notes over there I don't have much hope in finding the original source. One day I almost fell out my chair laughing when I clicked on a pin that took me to a Tumblr blog and the source on the Tumblr blog was a pin on Pinterest (which wasn't linked properly)!
Once I've found the original source I copy the URL, then repin the image, and in the pop up window that appears I choose "See it now". At that point I can edit my pin and change the source link.
It's a kind of long process, but I only do this with things I really love. If it's just a cute or funny picture, or a craft that's an "eh, maybe", and it's taking too long to find the source, I just give up and move on. In a way it means I am only pinning the things I really truly love. Ok maybe not 100% but that's what I tell myself!
I hope this helps in some way! And if you have found another way to do this, or have any other tips do share. I'm always looking for ways to make the pinning experience simpler.
Don't forget to link with love!
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