Wednesday Sponsor Giveaways: Elise Blaha, ReVa, Studio Calico, & SheyB
One person will receive a spot in Elise Blaha's Get Crafty workshop.
Get
Crafty
is an online workshop led by Elise Blaha. Over two weeks, this class will explore
techniques on how to build mini books and layouts from the ground up.
We will break away from the traditional scrapbooking products and
design our own paper and embellishments. Each weekday, there will be a
lecture, a project, an idea to try that day and an idea to save for
future use. In addition, there will be photos, journaling prompts and
giveaways. Class starts on June 1st.
One person will receive the June kit from ReVa (click to see the full list of supplies). Read more about Rebecca on her personal blog here.
One person will receive the June Studio Calico kit called Soda Fountain.
One person will receive a camera strap and a lens bag in their choice of the fabric from *Shey*[B].
To be entered in today's drawing please leave a comment below sharing your best advice for a new scrapbooker. What did you wish someone had told you when you first started? Comments will close tonight at 8pm Pacific with the winner's posted shortly after.
Just a quick reminder from last week's giveaway post that Transparent Touches & Tag's kit subscription offer ends today. If you sign
up for 6 months, you will receive a fun goodie bag filled with
scrapbooking products for FREE with your first kit. After you sign up,
email Monica (info@transparenttouches.com) to let her know that you
heard about TTT from this giveaway. Offer ends today.
Such great give-aways! Would love to win the camera strap & bag or class!
I am pretty much self taught. I have an art/graphic design background. I do collage, so I haven't had many road blocks. Thanks to sites like this the details of scrapbooking are well laid out. But, I know people that when they were new felt like they had to buy everything and it had to be a specific brand and expensive! So not true. Anything can be a scrapbooking tool! Look in bargain bins and clearance isles. Really, magazines and ordinary scissors work just fine!
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Actually some one did tell me this and it was great advice
"Don't try to go back and start with old photos---start with what is current right now"
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My advice? Don't worry if you don't have children. It always seemed to me that the best pages always had bright, sunny little faces shining out from them, and I felt mine missed the mark in comparison; I felt they seemed shallow or pathetic. So many scrappers get into it to treasure the memories of growing children (totally get that!), and over time I realised I was growing just as fast as those kids, and there was plenty I wanted to look back on myself. After all, there's no reason a page about your new flip-flops or that divine pasta sauce shouldn't be equally fun and engaging.
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My advice is to start with a little scrapbooking kit and focus on pictures.
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I wish someone told me: Don't scrap all your pictures from your 2003 vacation to France chronological! That album is still not complete...it's 2009.
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The best advice is to not worry about what everyone else is doing. Do your own thing, your family doesn't know what's in style and what's not. They appreciate the time you took to document their lives.
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Oh , I wish to have some advises when I started.
1.Take a pictures with you when you go shopping for a fresh product.Don't buy some extra paper you do not know what you will use for( it is hard one ).It will be sitting in your shells for some time probably.Or if you buying some patterned paper make sure you get a cardstock matching.Or always have white one is stock.
2.There is NO RULES how to great your work,just continue a story on your pages and balance the pages.Don't over do with too many pictures or embellishment.
3.Print pictures in smaller sizes too,for adding with large one or by it self.
4.If you have too many pictures(from birthdays or trips) make a mini album, it much easier and you can place all your pictures.It is hard to choose picture from large selection.
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I wished someone ahd told me that I don't have to scrap every single picture I take. It is a creative process that you can work with a single picture and interpret what that means to you in the scrapbook art form. There is so much more than adding embellishments to a piece of paper, it is capturing the moment as you feel right then. There is something so very powerful about that !!!
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My best advice is JUST START! Don't put it off. Pick one event & create a small scrapbook & you will be hooked!
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My advice to a new scrapbooker is a piece of advice I was given when I started. Don't get too caught up with the gadgets. Just get the basics and don't forget to scrap the everyday things...not just special events!
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Spend some time researching the basic tools and start with just those. You don't need everything. There are so many duplicates in tools that just a few must haves are all you need. Wait to buy other things and ask a friend if you can try theirs out before you buy. Your real needs are few.
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My advice to a new scrapbooker would be that you do not need to go in chronological order. Just take the memory most fresh or inspiring to you at the moment and get it down. Have fun and don't sweat the end result. It does not need to look perfect, it just needs to have your touch on it.
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for me i loved looking at other peoples layouts online. there is link after link after link that you can follow to get great ideas and tips on scrapbooking.
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My advice is DO NOT buy everything and every product available. But a few essentials -- patterned paper you love, neutral cardstock, good pens, a few embellies you love and just play. Also, don't be afraid to glue it down. I used to get paralyzed thinking once it was down it was FOREVER and that was daunting. Now you can use repositionable tape to make changes OR just let it be...which I find works best. :)
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Only buy supplies as you need them. It can be tempting to purchase lots of paper and embelliments. If you don't have the space to store all the purchases, it can be very frustrating and you will spend your time organizing and not scrapping!
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Gosh, there is so much to tell a new scrapper. I guess I would let him or her know that it's all about their life story. :) and to never forget that.
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my best advice would be keep it simple and dont over buy supplies, you can easily over-whelm yourself if you do. Also beauty is in the eye of the beholder, make your pages pleasing to yourself. There is no right or wrong way, just your way!
Peg :)
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I would tell them some advice that I got out of book...IT IS OKAY! I hadn't been scrapbooking long and when I read that Life Artist and it helped me beyond belief. I realized that I didn't need to get everything perfect or have a certain style. As long as I was telling our story. That book would be amazing advice to give someone. I'd probably just buy them a copy of it. (Cause I can't give mine up) Such great advice all throughout that one.
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I think I would encourage a new scrapbooker to make the most of every free minute for scrapbooking instead of waiting until they have a big block of time they can devote to working on their layouts. If only I was more diligent about working in 15- or 30-minute increments...I would be much further ahead!
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I wish I'd gone into scrapbooking for the purpose of "telling my story" instead of just playing with sticker, paper and pictures. I have many albums full of pages that have little to no journaling. That makes me sad because many of those memories are long gone from my memory now.
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Buy only what you love,love,love! Just because that paper's kinda pretty but not reallly you and on sale, doesn't mean you have to buy it. And they release new paper all the time--so you don't have to buy everything now--chances are there will be something you love more next time or that paper will still be available in 6 months--buy it then if you still love it!
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Good Morning! I wish someone had told me - Don't buy stickers! unless you have a use for them in your mind. I also would strongly say - don't buy the big pads of patterned paper. Purchase 2-4 pieces of paper that goes with your photos or really moves you. That would have saved me a lot of money. I still have stickers from 5 years ago! TY for the opportunity to win. I would so much enjoy the class, as I am disabled and housebound. I hope you and your family have a lovely day.
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Don't buy the new-fangled supplies right off the bat. Scrap for awhile using what you have..get a feel for what you are missing..and buy selectively. You don't need ALL 50 pairs of decrorative scissors!!
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I wish someone had told me from the beginning: more stickers does not cure all, don't buy every tool and punch you see, and most of all...you don't have to scrapbook EVERY photo you take :-)
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Don't feel that you have to try every trend. Everyone has a different style so find yours and go with it...there is no right or wrong way to scrapbook.
Oh and don't forget to journal!
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