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Scrapbook Storytelling
E-Zine
Fall 2003
"Because a memory a day keeps the blues far
away."
What people like you say about Joanna Campbell
Slan and her work-
"I am enjoying your (book) Scrapbook Storytelling.
Your help is wonderful and I loved seeing the photos/stories of your son and
people you love and care about." Dawn S.
"Thanks for your great articles." Pam
L.
"I loved your books. It brought so many things to
mind that I hadn't thought about or were thinking of in a different way."
Amy M.
NEWS FLASH*NEWS FLASH
Journaling goddess, Joanna Campbell Slan, will be teaching
classes for Paper Adventures at the Stitches Show in Birmingham, England in
February 2004.
Contents
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Fall
- Feature Story: Family Estrangements-How
to Mend Them and Why You Should (The holidays are coming! Not
every family get together is Hallmark
Moment...)
- Page Design Workshop:
- Part I: (Continued from Last Issue) My Queen Mum
II-- Design Improvements You Can Make! (Learn from my "before" and
"after" example.)
- Part II: Using Copier Transparencies-A Nifty Way
to Add Texture and Depth
- F*R*E*E Watercolor Teapot I drew and painted it
just for you! It's a lovely embellishment that goes perfectly with Paper
Adventures new Holly Hill Pond Victorian Collection.
- Featured Journaling Technique: Using Alphabet
Stamps to Write Your Journaling
- Special Offers! Foam sports embellishments and fall
leaf brads as seen on this month's pages.
- Stuff You Need to Know...Contact information and so
on
NEWS FLASH*NEWS
FLASH
Scrapbooking Ideas for
Fall:
- Create a page that shows the changing climate. Of
course, we all think of leaves turning, but how about the way the sky becomes
so grey in the fall? The chill in the air? The sad sense of the
earth's foliage dying as the sun pulls away. I took a photo of a
windmill at a nearby farm on a gloomy, cheerless day to make this page, Autumn
Elements (click on http://www.scrapbookstorytelling.com/ezine-pages-2003-11.shtml#autumn).
Note the wonderful leaf brads by Unique Notions. See our special offer
to stock up on these timely embellishments.
- Fall and winter are prime times for sports. Maybe
you like to get together with friends and watch football. If you were
watching Monday Night Football on October 13, 2003, you might have seen me and
my Jazzercise buddies. If you missed us then, you can click on http://www.scrapbookstorytelling.com/ezine-pages-2003-11.shtml#ramsjam
and see the Rams page I made about our exciting half-time
performance. Since the city-wide basketball league is just
forming, I also was able to create a page (Great Coach) on my husband and
son's involvement. (Click on http://www.scrapbookstorytelling.com/ezine-pages-2003-11.shtml#coach.)
You'll notice I used foam embellishments from www.my-memories.net on both
pages. I love the way the wire and foam work together on the Rams
page. On the b-ball page I found thumbtacks a great, simple way to add
color. Is your child is playing a sport on an all-school or all-city
league? Do you get together with friends to watch NFL or college or high
school football? Make a page!
- Consider how you "winterize" your home. Do you
bring in firewood? Change the foods you buy-like stocking up on
soups? Put away summer sandals? Cover the roses? Change the
wreath outside your door to be more seasonal? Put away the screen
windows and Citronella candles? How could you share these small rituals
of fall?
***Holiday Special***
Family Estrangements-
How to Mend Them and Why
You Should
The Norman Rockwell ideal of the loving family gathered
around the dinner table with heads bowed may not be possible for all of us. As
you scan the scrapbook magazines and see photo after photo of smiling faces, you
might wonder if your family is the only group in America that won't be beaming
at each other this holiday season. Perhaps in your family there are those
who will refuse to see each other, those who are not speaking to each other, and
those who can't be in the same room without creating hard feelings. Well,
you are NOT alone. It's happened in my family, so I know the pain a rift can
cause. Fortunately, we're all "getting along" right now, but when I saw
the book Family Estrangements: How They Begin; How to Mend Them; How to
Cope with Them, I snatched it from the library shelf.
Author Barbara LeBey started researching her book when she
and her son suffered a painful estrangement. LeBey begins Chapter 2 with
the one phrase we all need, "Not all rifts can be mended, but most of them can
be." The rest of the book goes through a variety of situations with
suggestions for avoiding rifts and patching them up.
****Page Design Workshop****
Part I: Queen Mum (Revisited!)
Wow. Re-doing this page was really hard for
me. I felt like a car stuck in a rut. No matter how I approached my
Queen Mum page, I kept reverting to my original bad design.
That's when a back supply of magazines or idea starters
comes to the rescue. I was struck by how simple the basic design was for
the cover of Creating Keepsakes' November 2003 issue. Using that design as
a start, I created Queen Mum II. On the right side of the CK page, the
entire column was an embellishment. Instead, I cut apart a series of
photos and matted them.
Why does the new Queen Mum II work? 1) By
triple-matting the photo with the Queen Mum's picture, the page has a stronger
focal point. 2) The color green is repeated throughout. The widest
mat under the Queen Mum was originally a cream embossed paper from Paper
Adventures, but I used a green ink (Staz-On in olive) and then a green chalk to
make a patterned green to go in between the two solid borders. This
patterned green also works at the top of the right column as an
embellishment. 3) An underlying motif is the flowers and leaves, and
they are repeated in the journaling. Remember: Repetition
strengthens design.
Part II: Using Copier Transparencies to Add
Texture and Depth
For a new way to add texture or images to your pages, try
a copier transparency (an overhead projector cell) . You can print on,
write on, and stamp on them. In Venice (click here http://www.scrapbookstorytelling.com/ezine-pages-2003-11.shtml#venice),
I used a piece of a copier transparency to position stickers over a complex
background of woven hemp.
For All manner of fiends, ghouls & demons (click on http://www.scrapbookstorytelling.com/ezine-pages-2003-11.shtml#ghouls)
I stamped a cracked glass pattern with black ink on several cells. Then I
added black embossing powder and heat embossed the cells. Because overhead
projectors generate high heat, the cells can absorb the high temperatures needed
for heat embossing. I didn't want the final overlay to be too shiny, so I
used sandpaper on the NOT-embossed side. By roughing up the "wrong" side,
I toned down the shine. Then I adhered the final image over a distressed
piece of Paper Adventures paper. Using a needle and thread, I sewed
together several pieces of the transparencies. The final page has a lot of
texture, including a dyed piece of gauze wrapped around the plastic bone
embellishment from www.my-memories.net.
These transparencies are perfect for use in shaker
boxes. You can easily glue the transparencies down to be the see-through
part of the boxes. I've had good luck using glue, adhesive and sticky
dots. Of course, you can also print-by hand or with your printer--directly
on these transparencies for a unique journaling box or page title.
Transparencies are available in most office supply stores,
or you can buy them individually at copy shops such as Kinko's.
NEWS FLASH*NEWS FLASH
Cocoa with Cathy at www.gracefulbee.com will be featuring a
long, chatty interview with me! Yes, Cathy is a very complete interviewer
so I think you'll enjoy the article. We're also sending along lots of
pages, so hop on over to the "bee," after you pour yourself a steamy cup of
cocoa.
Don't forget, I've been writing columns for Graceful Bee
for eons, so you might check out my archives on that site.
F*R*E*E Watercolor Teapot
Embellishment
I've been working very hard every day on my
watercolors. For a long time, I've thought that my pages
needed...something pretty! Something girly! (Can you tell that
living with my husband and fourteen-year-old son are getting to me?
Testosterone city. All sports all the time. The only way to
communicate is to wear a black and white striped shirt and carry a
whistle.)
*****Featured Journaling
Technique******
Using Alphabet Stamps to Print Your
Journaling
In Queen Mum II, I used an inexpensive set of upper and
lower case alphabet rubber stamps to write my journaling. When a letter
didn't print exactly as expected, I simply re-stamped it on another piece of
paper, then stuck it over my "bad" letter. Couldn't have been
easier.
Small alphabet stamping sets like these give your pages a
crisp but stylish look. You pick the color. You adjust the
journaling to fit the space. As always, it helps to first write out what
you want to say. Edit if necessary as you go along. If your set
doesn't include punctuation marks-and mine didn't-simply cut up letters to make
what you need. An "l" on another piece of paper with the top and bottom
cut off made a fine hyphen. The leaf symbol was a good "period."
And best of all, unlike stickers, you can use rubber
stamps over and over and over and...
****Special Offers****
OFFER #1:
Love the look of the foam sports embellishments on Great Coach and Rams?
Buy 2 packs of sports embellishments (soccer, football, baseball and basketball)
and get 1 FREE until December 15, 2003, from Caroline at www.my-memories.net
OFFER #2: Aren't the leaf brads I used in Autumn
Elements gorgeous? Buy 3 packs and get 1 FREE until December 15, 2003,
from Caroline at www.my-memories.net
****Stuff You Need to Know****
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copyrighted by Joanna Campbell Slan, 2003. You are free to forward it in
its entirety to others, but do not reprint it without permission.
Comments? Contact Joanna at savetales@aol.com. We love to hear
what you think and what you'd like to read more about. We like questions,
too, but give us a while to answer them, okay?
Have a product you'd like for us to try? Send us
samples at Scrapbook Storytelling, 7 Ailanthus Court, Chesterfield, MO,
63005. Phone 636-519-1612.
About the author...Journaling goddess Joanna Campell Slan
is the author of Scrapbook Storytelling which has sold 40,000 copies in addition
to five other books on scrapbooking, one textbook on storytelling, and two
inspirational books. Contact Joanna at savetales@aol.com. You can purchase
her books through www.Amazon.com or www.my-memories.net
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