Innehållsförteckning för No. 21-2 från Scrapbooking Memories

Creating an art journal or personal art diary helps you develop your knowledge, finetune your skills and conceptualise ideas within a portable journal. It’s a journal you can take anywhere to jot, doodle, paint and create anything your creative spirit desires in. Each art journal is completely unique to the owner – it would be impossible to find two the same – and serves as a wonderful reminder of creative flow through the years. Art journals are perpetually a work in progress. Why do we art journal? We create art journals to allow our ideas to flow, to experiment with the amazing amount of product we possess, to find new ways of creating with direct intent, or because we want to create with total abandon and freedom. Art journals let…

The versatility of Copic markers is just amazing and I have had so much fun exploring them through various applications. They feature two different nibs, with a large brush tip at one end and a chisel tip at the other. The brush tip allows for a very thick to a very fine line, while the chisel tip achieves a medium width to an average thickness. Paintbrush fonts are very trendy in the scrapbooking world at the moment – just think of products from Heidi Swapp or Ali Edwards – and many scrappers have been having lots of fun incorporating these onto their scrapbook pages. In exploring the avenue of journalling with Copic markers I found this particular font style, as used on both of my layouts here, easily achievable with…

How did you first get into art and papercraft? I started scrapbooking in 1995. That led to rubber stamping, which led to mixed-media and art journalling. I have kept a personal journal since I was nine years old, though, so art journalling was a natural fit. How would you describe your style? Messy, organic, colourful. What does a day in your life typically consist of? I tend to resist routine and schedules. Generally I work in the studio while my fellas are in school. When they get home, I usually help them with homework or run them to wherever they need to go. I don’t like to work in the evenings anymore and will only do it if I have a pressing deadline. Where do you draw inspiration from for…

Family time “This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution.” Diet Eman BY PAULA PERRY, NSW Materials: Paper – Kaisercraft, Pink Paislee, Tim Holtz tissue; Cardstock; Stamp – Kaisercraft, date, Tim Holtz Distress Ink; Embellishments – Prima Marketing Inc and Webster’s Pages flowers, Tim Holtz and The Crafter’s Workshop stencils, BasicGrey letters, Pink Paislee tags, Dusty Attic chipboard, 7gypsies stickers, washi tape, ribbon, sequins, Heidi Swapp Color Shine, acrylic paint, texture paste, embossing powder. Slippery when wet BY TIFF FIRTH, SA Materials: Paper – Reeves watercolour, Heidi Swapp vellum; Cardstock – Corrugated; Embellishments – Police tape, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Ranger Perfect Pearls; Digital elements – Photoshop CS6 software, Ghursett elemental frames; Font – LD Woodland. HOT TIP This layout…

Say what??! BY CHANTAL VANDENBERG, SA “Good words are worth much, and cost little.” George Herbert Materials: Paper – Elle’s Studio, Fancy Pants Designs, Pebbles Inc; Cardstock – American Crafts; Embellishments – Jenni Bowlin Studio wood veneers, sequins, foil hearts and stencils, October Afternoon letters and enamel dots, Elle’s Studio labels, Maya Road paperclip, stitching, staples, Ranger Dylusions ink spray, Pilot Pen Permaball pen. idea!  After you’ve finished misting using a mask, try wiping the inky mask around the sides of your layout. Who said that? BY TRACY BEER, VIC Materials: Paper – Simple Stories, Authentique; Cardstock; Punches – Stampin’ Up!; Stamps; Embellishments – Simple Stories ephemera, die-cuts and stickers, American Crafts Thickers, 2Crafty chipboard, metal words and tag, washi tape, ribbon, epoxy sticker, brad, Tim Holtz Distress Ink, Stampin’…

THE TOOLS TO CREATE “My inspiration for this piece was a challenge to alter a paintbrush in a Facebook group called The Craft Hole.” Altered paintbrush BY TINA CONNOLLY, QLD Materials: Paintbrush; Stamp – Couture Creations; Embellishments – Tim Holtz Ideaology words, Twiddleybitz chipboard, my2angels charms, flowers, leaves, lace, metal word, Lindy’s Stamp Gang Starburst Spray, Chromacryl gel medium, StazOn ink, Jo Sonja’s gesso, Viva Décor Inka Gold, Helmar 450 adhesive. METHOD: 1. Cover your paintbrush (excluding the bristles) with gesso. Once dry, adhere laces, flowers, charms and chipboard using gel medium. 2. Colour the paintbrush with two or three complementary mists. Once dry, highlight different textures by dabbing some Inka Gold on randomly. 3. Colour a metal word charm with Stazon ink and stamp a script in a different…

For my article this month I want to delve into one of those aspects of scrapbooking that some of us seem to avoid – journalling. As the quote above says, without the words, the pictures are meaningless, and I can vouch for that firsthand! My Nan left one extremely old, leather-bound family photo album to my mum many years ago and she has promised that one day it will be passed on to me. Unfortunately, one of the sad things with this treasured family heirloom is that we have hundreds of photos of our ancestors, but we don’t know who they are as nothing has been recorded in the album or on the photos themselves, which is really, really sad and very disheartening. This is one of the reasons why…

I have never liked my handwriting and this is evident in my pages. I usually hide my journalling to cover the ‘scrawl’ as I call it, but recently I discovered the fabulous Silhouette pen holder, which has added another dimension to using my Silhouette machine! The pen holder can be used in any Silhouette electronic cutting tool and holds most ballpoint pens. It allows you to replace the machine’s blade with a pen to sketch instead of cut! My superstar BY CHANTALLE MCDANIEL, QLD Materials: Paper – Bella!, Studio Calico, Heidi Swapp; Stamp – Heidi Swapp; Embellishments – Heidi Swapp acrylic shapes, rub-ons and Color Shine, Silhouette Cameo cut files and pen tool, Simple Stories pockets and frames, Studio Calico wood veneer, Greatest View flair, pen. HINTS: – For best…

I love you to the stars BY ELLIE SCHOUTEN, VIC Digital materials: Kit – Stardust by Laurie Ann; Other elements – Certified Circles, Funky Florals and date stamps, and border punches by Splendid Fiins, Go Team elements by Little Butterfly Wings. 1 First select all the stamps you want to combine; pick as many as you like there’s no limit. Open up a blank document, I used a size of 12in x 12in, and a resolution of 300 dpi, then add the stamps to it one by one, layer by layer. Arrange them so they touch and/ or overlap in a manner you are happy with. Remember you can resize the stamps if you want to. Tip: To build up your design quickly, duplicate stamps after you add them, so…

Now, I know they say a picture is worth a thousand words, but if you’ve ever tried to look through someone else’s photo album you’ll know that photos are simply not enough. I believe our scrapbook pages should be alive with the stories of our big events and daily activities, the quotes from our kids, the details of our mundane routines and triumphant achievements. I believe our focus should be on the words we include far and above what products we’re using. Today I want to encourage you to put more focus on your journalling when you’re scrapbooking and provide you with some ideas on how you can include lots of words on your pages! DON’T LET JOURNALLING BE AN AFTERTHOUGHT When you sit down to scrap, what prerequisites of…

Ocean wonders BY LEEANN PEARCE, VIC “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” Gabriel García Márquez Materials: Paper – Jillibean Soup; Cardstock; Embellishments – Jillibean Soup labels, corrugated shapes, journal tags and photo frames, Studio Calico wood veneers, My Mind’s Eye enamel dots, SODAlicious flair, button, machine-stitching, thread, watercolours, pen, Maya Mist. Molly BY AMBER MCGREGOR, VIC Materials: Paper – Kaisercraft; Cardstock – Kaisercraft; Stamps – Stampin’ Up!; Embellishments – Acrylic paint, gesso. BUDGET FRIENDLY Amber didn’t have any frames so she made her own out of patterned paper by tracing a border around her photo and cutting out the inside paper. A special moment BY CHLOE NIELSEN, QLD Materials: Paper – Fancy Pants Designs, Pink Paislee; Cardstock…

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