Table of Contents
- What scrapbookers like you say about Joanna's newest book
- The British are Coming, The British are Coming!
- Report on craft trends from England
- Toss a Journaling Idea in Your Shopping Cart
- Iris Stripping or Iris Folding How To
- Iris Stripping Cards and Embellishments
- Joanna to Return to SSSC (Formerly Known as Simply Southern Scrapbooking
Convention)
- New Pages/New Ideas
- "Oops!" Contest Winner
- Croppers Cruising Toward a Cure
- Stuff You Need to Know
What people like you say about Joanna
Campbell Slan and her work-
Dear Joanna,
Just a note to thank you for your wonderful e-book The Scrapbooker's
Journaling Companion and One Minute Journaling. They have been an
inspiration and I appreciate your work. Thanks again.
Bev Mascara
Note: The Scrapbooker's Journaling Companion is available through
www.scrapbook.com I'm delighted to say
the book is selling like hotcakes! Thanks for your support! One
Minute Journaling is available through
www.my-memories.net
The
British are Coming, The British are Coming!
The deadline for entries for our The Best of British Scrapbooking 2004 is
May 30, 2004. For a complete set of rules and more information about the
contest, go to our
website. Or
check out our forum on
www.ukscrappers.com
Remember the Beatles? Carnaby Street? Mary Quant? England
has long been the epicenter of cool. Wait 'til you see what your
scrapbooking sisters are doing across the pond. We promise new ideas and
trends plus visionary pages.
Also on our website is a complete listing of prizes for this project.
Check it out, but don't drool on your computer!
The Best of the British-Without the Rain!
Report from Stitches (International Hobby
and Craft Fair) in England
(Or what I saw in the UK that made me say,
"Blimey!")
Whatever is on display today in shop windows in the UK will be all over the
US next year. The shops were full of pink and brown combinations,
psychedelic prints, bold fluorescent colors, and mixed textures like tweed and
denim. The hot color was pink! But this year's pink tended
more toward salmon that baby pink. Other key colors were aqua,
yellow-green, brown and orange, orange, orange.
UK crafters are experimenting with--
- Iris eye folding-A cousin to tea-bag folding, but more
sophisticated. See our project for details.
- Sculpey-a clay, on pages and cards. Very thin, colorful and easy to
use for all sorts of dimensional embellishments.
- Beads, beads, beads-on pages and cards. Try threading your beads
onto wire or ribbon.
- Feathers and sequins.
- Wire in curls and swirls-on pages, cards and paper products. Use
craft wire to wrap around cheap wineglasses for a fun party look.
- More and more textured vellum.
- Mini-cards-Tiny things 2" x 2" for gift enclosures and for embellishments
on bigger cards and scrapbook pages.
Toss a Journaling Idea in Your Shopping Cart!
Have you ever noticed the changing nature of your grocery receipts?
My cart at the store looks like I have a split-personality. Half the items
are "luxury," like Haagen Dazs ice cream, steaks, butter, pancake mix, orange
juice, Doritos and so on. The other half are diet! Guess which half
I eat and which half my husband and son eat?
I like to look at other people's carts and their food selections.
Ever notice that the person next to you has some of the same foods, but
different brands? It's interesting that people might buy green beans in so
many ways: fresh from the farmer and needing cooked, frozen, canned and
kitchen cut, and canned and French cut. My guys refuse to eat French cut
green beans. Don't ask me why?
One day, our kids will be grown and they'll try to replicate that yummy
tuna casserole you make. It won't taste the same. I suspect one
reason might be the brands.
So why not journal about your grocery choices? Where do you shop and
why? What brands do you choose? Do you use coupons or not? Do
you go alone (I love shopping after 9 p.m. I have the aisles to myself and
no "helpers.")? Do you choose paper or plastic? (Remember when we
didn't have a choice?) What are your splurges? Where do you
economize? What do you buy every single trip?
Iris Stripping or Iris Folding How
To
A close cousin to tea-bag folding, this paper craft started in Holland
where folks used strips of paper from envelopes to make attractive paper
"quilts" inside a negative space frame. The final design is
patterned after the iris of your eye.
Because the originators folded thin strips of paper in half long ways, they
called this paper art Iris Folding. I use thin strips of unfolded paper,
so I'm calling this Iris Stripping.
Here's what to do:
- Start by tracing a simple shape in cardstock and cutting it out.
(See the templates on our website by clicking on http://www.scrapbookstorytelling.com/templates.shtml.)
You will use the negative space or window you've created to frame your iris
folding. You will now work to fill this window by making a pattern of
alternating strips of paper.
- Flip your paper over to work the "wrong" side of your window, adhering
strips to the back side so they show through the window.
- Cut strips of paper in various colors about 12" long. You can use
strips 1/2" wide of thin paper and fold them so they are 1/4" wide or just use
strips of paper 1/4" wide or slightly wider as I did. (Being the packrat I am,
I have lots of thin strips I've trimmed from pages, so I chose to use them.)
- Beginning around the outside of the opening, lay down strips on angles to
cover your opening. Your aim is to stack the strips so they look like
the aperture of an eye or a camera, moving from a larger "frame" around the
outside to enclose a small opening on the inside. Use tape to tape down
the pieces as you go. I like to position a strip, flip my window to the
right side, check the color and placement of my strip, then secure the strip
on the backside with tape. Once I've made my positioning decision, I
tear the length of the strip so it doesn't stick out too far. (This way
you can get a lot of use from one strip of paper.)
- Work inward and keep laying down strips, overlapping them. Alternate
colors as you add layers. Aim to make the design symmetrical.
- The completed backside will be rough. Don't worry. Cover it
with another piece of paper if will show in your project.
Iris Stripping Cards and Embellishments
Spring
Birthday Fishes
This card's negative space is in the shape of a fishie. I alternated
strips of yellow paper. When I got to the center, I changed the way I
added strips by setting the new strips in on a right angle. This way, the
center had more variety. Click here to see Birthday Fishes and the Easter
Basket mentioned below
http://www.scrapbookstorytelling.com/ezine-pages-2004-05.shtml#fishes
Easter Basket
The negative space of the basket is divided into two. I thought this
would make the pattern more interesting, and it did. Ovals of eggs are
fitted behind the basket, and a satin ribbon on top completes the
embellishment. This is the embellishment shown on the Bunny Boy page, but
you could easily add it to a card.
Joanna to Return to SSSC
(Formerly Known
as Simply Southern Scrapbooking Convention)
Mark July 8, 9 and 10 on your calendar and meet me in Nashville, TN, for a
good time. I'll be teaching four different classes: Heritage
Journaling, How to Teach Journaling, One Minute Journaling, and Tear Tracks:
Journaling and Scrapbooking Life's Sad Times. We have new material and all
the classes but the How to Teach Journaling class will include make-n-take
pages. Paper Adventures has agreed to be our sponsor and supply the paper
for our class make-n-takes (Heritage Journaling, Tear Tracks, and One Minute
Journaling will have make-n-takes. How to Teach Journaling has an
extra-big handout instead.)
I'll also be the guest speaker at the Groovy Girl Crop Night sponsored by
Cut-It-Up. The presentation is titled: Getting Back Your
Groove. To see our Groovy Girl card, click on
http://www.scrapbookstorytelling.com/ezine-pages-2004-05.shtml#groovy
We have a great game for you, prizes and all sorts of fun. You know,
before I was into scrapbooking, I traveled around the world as a motivational
speaker. And audiences like you are my favorites!
New Pages/ New Ideas
Bunny Boy: Page Flippers Grow UP!
One of my all-time favorite products is Page Flippers, the nifty 3" x
12" page protectors from Paper Adventures that allow you to add 6" x 12" of
scrapbooking space to your pages. The crystal clear sleeve has an adhesive
strip so you can stick a Page Flipper, well, ANYWHERE!
And wouldn't you just know it-now Paper Adventures has done themselves one
better. The NEW Page Flippers are 6" x 12". This is perfect
for making a layout that opens like a book! You'll see the fun I had with
the new, large Page Flippers in my Bunny Boy layout. Note too, I used Iris
Eye Folding to create a textured basket. The basket template is on our
website. Click on
http://www.scrapbookstorytelling.com/ezine-pages-2004-05.shtml#bunny
to see Bunny Boy 1 (the page with the flipper closed) and Bunny Boy 2A and Bunny
Boy 2B (the 12" x 12" page and the flipper open)
David Meets the Archbishop: A Simple and Elegant Pocket Page
A full-page color ad for purses that ran in the New York Times inspired
me. I ripped out the page and tacked it above my workspace.
Hmmm. Then I created, "David Meets the Archbishop." The front pocket
of the page is large enough that I was able to slip the evening's program
inside. Click on
http://www.scrapbookstorytelling.com/ezine-pages-2004-05.shtml#archbishop
Dear Diary: Let the
Beauty of the Paper Do Your Design Work
A sheet of ArTextures in Aurora by Paper Adventures seemed the perfect
background paper for this picture of me and my husband at a chi-chi
affair. (If you knew how nervous I get about fancy events, you'd be on the
floor laughing. Geez. I'd rather speak in front of a room full of
people than gussy up!) Once I decided on the paper, the rest of the layout
seemed simple. Those thumbtacks are just that-I bought them at an office
supply store and I nail them down. Except...while I was working on this I
misplaced my hammer so I grabbed the first thing nearby, a bottle of rubber
stamp cleaner. I managed to break the bottom of the bottle of rubber stamp
cleaner and completely soak my page. (Good thing I had two sheets of
Aurora!) Moral of the story: Use the right tool for the job. Click
on
http://www.scrapbookstorytelling.com/ezine-pages-2004-05.shtml#diary
"Oops!" Contest Winner--We Asked, You Told Us
After I shared an embarrassing moment, I asked if you would do the same and
promised a book to the winner. Here's a response any dog owner can
relate to-
Please Pass the Earrings!
It was the Christmas holidays and my husband Ed was frantically trying to
get his gifts for me wrapped and under the tree before I came home from
Christmas shopping trip. When I go out of the car, our dog Champ was
sitting on the front porch. Well, now, I immediately knew something was
not quite right, because we normally let him out in the front yard since the
street we lived on was really busy.
As I came in through the door,
I held it open for Champ to come in and my husband shouted, "Don't let him in
here! He's in big trouble!" Ed was sitting on the couch with a look
on his face as if he'd lost his best friend. So I asked what happened and
why he was so sad.
With an almost tearful voice, Ed proceeded to explain, "I was starting to
wrap the earrings I bought for you when I realized I needed Scotch tape. So I
laid the two pairs of earrings-one was a pair of opals and the other was a pair
of diamonds-on the coffee table while I went to find the tape. When I
returned, Champ was eating the earrings like they were doggy treats. Honey, he
ate your Christmas presents!"
Ed had opened Champ's mouth to see if perhaps the earrings had not been
swallowed, but to no avail, they were gone; one of each pair.
I immediately called the vet to ask if the swallowed bobbles would hurt
Champ. She said probably not, and that in a few days he would pass
them. PASS THEM?? This was sounding good at all. Her instructions
were to limit the area Champ was allowed to "do his business," the scoop up the
feces and sift through them.
The next day, my sons arrived from Dallas, TX, and we told them what had
happened. After we all had a big laugh over it, my middle son, John came
to me and offered to be the "pooper scooper." So donning a pair of rubber
gloves, he set out to the back yard, scooped the poop, and after 2 or 3 hours,
he ran back into the house hollering, "I found one! I found one!" It
was the opal. We put it in boiling water, and then a solution of
alcohol. He went back out to find the diamond, but never found it.
I went to work the next week, told my co-workers the "oops" we had over the
holiday weekend. I was wearing the opal earrings, and the first thing they
asked was "which one is it?" I didn't EVEN want to know!
***
And if you know the author of this, please tell me! She only gave me
an e-mail address and I don't have her name.
Croppers Cruising Towards a Cure-October 3 through 10,
2004
Ever wish you could just sail into the sunset? Well, you can-and I'm
coming with you. I'll be teaching journaling classes on the wonderful Fun
Ship Elation. You can sign up and $100 of your cabin fee will go to curing
breast cancer. See? You can have fun and do a good turn at the same
time. Click on
http://www.getgonecruises.com/getgonecruises/pages/croppers.html
Stuff You Need to Know Like the ideas
here? You'll love our books. Click on
www.my-memories.safeshopper.com/153/cat153.htm?916
to see the complete line of our books. Check out the Mother's Day Special
while you're there.
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
