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Scrapbook Storytelling
E-Zine
Winter Issue 2004
"Because a memory a day keeps the
blues far away."
Table of Contents
- What people like you say about Joanna's work--
- The Best of British Scrapbooking ( a sneak peek at a holiday layout)
- Sample journaling from the WOW Essentials of Scrapbook Journaling Class
- A Christmas Page to Scraplift
- Christmas Trees and Other Traditions
- Last Minute Holiday Card Ideas
- Thoughts Worth Journaling
- Stuff You Need to Know
What people like you say about Joanna Campbell Slan and her
work-
Dear Joanna,
I love your books and can feel your enthusiasm while reading them.
C.D.
A Sneak Peek at Holiday Pages from
The Best of British
Scrapbooking and Cardmaking
I checked with Santa, and he told you that you had been good-very, very
good-this year. So, I'm giving you a special treat. Here is a holiday layout by
Michelle Thompson that will appear in The Best of British Scrapbooking and
Cardmaking (ISBN #09762784-0-5), which will be available this spring.
I counted each and every tip, idea and technique in this new book and came
up with more than 330! It's by far the most beautiful book I've ever been
involved with-and I know you are going to love it.
Sample journaling from the WOW Essentials of Scrapbook Journaling
Class
--An Original Assignment Submitted by Barbara
O'Grady-
Taffy
Taffy died on Friday, January 16, 2004.
In my grief, I searched
frantically for pictures of him to put in a scrap book and was devastated to
discover that we had very few to memorialize our faithful friend of 121/2 years.
The more I searched, the more desperate I became, pulling out any snapshot with
even a trace of him in it - a nose, a tail, an ear.
What my exercise
revealed, I knew in my heart. Taffy was always there. On every birthday,
holiday, picnic, or vacation trip, he was with us in someone's lap or under
someone's feet. In fact, "with us" was his favorite place to be, content to be
part of the action or just snoozing in a room with someone from his people
family.
In the end, I found several priceless shots of Taffy on his own to
include in his memory book. We miss him terribly, but we take comfort in knowing
that while he was with us, L*O*V*E was his middle name!
Note from
Joanna: I asked Barbara for permission to share this lovely piece. Last
year my brother-in-law lost his much-loved dog Bear shortly before Christmas. I
found a brown Chow-Chow plastic ornament, painted it black, added wings and a
halo and sent it to Florida for a stocking stuffer. I agree with Barbara, our
pets are always with us because they are such an important part of our
lives.
Note: You can
sign up for future Essentials of Scrapbook Journaling classes at www.writersonlineworkshops.com
Be sure to look for the scrapbook journaling classes where Joanna is listed as
the instructor.
A Christmas Page to
Scraplift
I think I can admit this to you, so many of you are friends of mine: I'm
suffering terribly from scrapbooker's block. I'm cool with writing, but ever
since working with the pages for The Best of British Scrapbooking, I've
felt very intimidated. But, the need to get this ezine out gave me a push in the
right direction. I hope you'll enjoy this page. Merry
Christmas 1993
You'll notice that I used my sewing machine. Well, life is a series of
saying, "I'll never do that," and eating those words.
My mother was visiting us this fall after her home was struck by two
hurricanes. I put her to work, which she was happy about because we Campbell
Girls don't like to sit around twiddling our thumbs. She was all set to hem my
son's curtains when my trusty Kenmore sewing machine from my college days died.
We had it fixed, and I've been staring at it on my crafts desk. I gave it a
twirl for this page, and I like it! I'll do it again!
Christmas Trees and Other
Traditions
"We don't have any holiday traditions," said Michael. At fifteen, he's
discovered a lot of things we don't do right. (Sigh.)
"But we do-" I was eager to defend our family. Here's my list:
- We do Channukah. Okay, and we also "do" Christmas. That's what
happens when you have a mixed marriage.
- Nana always sends Hannukah gelt. (Yes, I know I just spelled it
differently above. You see, Chanukah-yet a third spelling-is a transliteration
from Hebrew so how to spell it is anybody's guess.) This is a little odd, I'll
admit, since Nana is an Episcopalian, but it just shows how loving she is.
Usually our dog Kevin finds the gelt before we do and eats it. Since inside
the gold foil are pieces of chocolate, and chocolate is poisonous to dogs, we
give Kevin hydrogen peroxide to vomit up the gelt. We call this, "Our Annual
Puking of the Dog." See? It's a tradition!
- We put up a tree and put up lights outside. This year we bought a live one
from the Lions and had so much fun that Michael wants to have a live tree
every year. The volunteer at the Lions was such a nice man. He gave Michael
the sawed off ring from the base of the tree to sniff and keep.
- We go to Jellystone Park and drive through to see the light display. We
take the dogs with us and drink hot chocolate.
- Michael and I make a gingerbread house.
- We have stockings.
- We send out a family newsletter.
- I buy chocolate covered cherries for my mother.
Here are a few Christmas trivia questions to share with your crowd:
Do you know that a pickle on the Christmas tree is a German holiday
tradition? The pickle brings good luck to the person who finds it.
Did you know that the poinsettia grows in Central and South America? I saw
one waist-high there this fall on a shore trip from my Croppers Cruising Toward
a Cure Cruise. The legend says that a poor shepherd boy offered weeds to the
Christ child, and those plants burst into lovely red flowers, the
poinsettia.
Did you know that in Britain, farmers believe the bees hummed in honor of
Jesus on the first Christmas?
Last Minute Holiday Card
Ideas
Dreidel Card Dreidel
Card(All paper by Paper Adventures, fabric paint by Duncan, packing tape
by 3M, glitter by The Art Institute, dreidel punch by McGill.)
(These instructions are the same for all the cards with windows and
glitter.)
Cut a square out of your solid paper and a slightly smaller square out of a
piece of patterned paper. Put packing tape sticky side up behind the solid paper
square. Punch out the dreidel and paint the top with white fabric paint. Adhere
the dreidel to the sticky tape, sprinkle with glitter. Put a piece of packing
tape on top of the original packing tape to seal it. Cover the sparkling packing
tape window with a piece of patterned paper centering the empty space so the
squares line up. Add a piece of shiny blue paper behind.
And yes, I know Hannukah has past! But don't you owe someone a card?
(Paper sources: unknown. Packing tape by 3M, glitter source unknown.
Holly punch by McGill.)
Do all as Dreidel Card above, except that instead of painting the holly add
three red circles for berries. Use frosty white paper as background.
(Gold plaid paper unknown, Christmas patterned paper and background by
Scrap-Ease. Gingerbread man punch by McGill. Oval punch source unknown. White
glitter source unknown.)
Do all as in Dreidel Card, except put a piece of red paper behind the
gingerbread man's tie, pink paper behind his mouth, and black paper behind his
eyes. Use green paper with black starbursts as background.
(Background blue crackle paper by Paper Adventures, velveteen paper by
Paper Adventures, lace patterned paper by Frances Meyer, Inc. Packing tape by
3M. Big and small tree punches by Carl. White glitter source unknown. Large
circle punch by Family Treasures.)
Do all as in Dreidel Card, but... Create your winter landscape first,
adding glitter to create hills of snow, and then place it right-side up on the
packing tape. Tip: Curving the trunks of the trees makes them look more
realistic on the snow covered hills. After you create your globe, go to the
Snowball Globe Base Template by clicking on <<<snowball globe
base template> and draw a base template on brown paper. Adhere your lace
paper to the bottom of your deep blue crackle paper, and then add your Snowball
Globe Base. Instead of adhering light blue paper for backing behind the packing
tape globe, make the back (the folded side that you would write a message on) of
your card from light blue paper.
Thoughts Worth Journaling
I've been thinking a lot lately about how this Christmas is different from
years past. As I get older, I find myself less and less concerned about
presents, and more concerned about binding our family together with a ribbon of
love. My son is now fifteen, and I keep looking up at him (he's got six inches
on me) and thinking how quickly he'll be leaving home for college. My mother is
getting older, of course, and with her visit this fall during the hurricane
season, I realized how fragile she is becoming.
Nothing stays the same, does it?
I remember a Christmas when all I wanted was for Santa to fix my plastic
Palomino horse whose tail had been broken off. I remember a year that we bought
a tree too large for our house, and how it sat in our back yard until
spring. I remember last Christmas with our friends, the Hindmarsh family,
in England. Here in the States, we have neighbors Vern and Sue Singer. So when
the doorbell rang and everyone ran to the front door yelling, "Carole Singer!" I
ran along and asked, "Who's Carole Singer?" Turns out there were carolers on the
stoop, singing lovely songs of the holidays. Boy, did my English friends get a
laugh out of that one!
I wonder what I'll remember about this Christmas?
I urge you to journal how this year is different...for you, for yours, for
the world. I know that this year, I'll light candles and pray harder than ever
for peace. That's the least I can do.
How about you?
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 six other books on
scrapbooking, one textbook on storytelling, and two inspirational books.
Contact Joanna at savetales@aol.com
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