March 14th, 2010
Here’s a note from Paper House Productions:
If you love to scrap and craft and would be interested in showing the world layouts and fun projects you’ve made with Paper House’s products, please consider e-mailing jpegs of your work with instructions to skeesler@paperhouseproductions.com. If we use your project on our blog, you’ll get FREE STUFF (and we’re pretty generous)!
We don’t really like rules, so let’s just call them “firm guidelines”:
- projects and layouts must be made using Paper House Productions Scrapbooking products as much as possible (okay, this is a rule)
- don’t forget to send product lists and instructions with project images name, daytime phone number and mailing address (no PO Boxes) should be included in all e-mails
- Most importantly, be creative and HAVE FUN!
There is no end date for submitting projects. We’ll keep this going for as long as we can!
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March 13th, 2010
For information on how to enter, go to mylyb.com and click on the contest logo on the home page!
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Happy Scrappin’
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March 12th, 2010
Scrappin’ Stuff is participating in the Spring Fling Shuffle online shop hop that
runs March 15th thru April 15th! Not familiar with an online shop hop? It easy… an
umbrella image will be hidden in each participating store website. Once you find it, you
will click on it to enter your email address. If you find the hidden umbrella in
each participating store, you will be eligible to win prizes.
Participation is free…. Click Here to sign up today!
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March 6th, 2010
We’ve had A LOT of snow this winter, especially on the East Coast, so I’m sure that there are lots of Winter Sports pictures you need to scrapbook! This quick and easy layout by Stephanie will definitely help you highlight your photos.
- Use black cardstock for base of layout
- Cut pattern paper to 11” x 11” and adhere to cardstock
- Create 2 snowflakes with Cricut Joys of the Season Cartridge – one in black and one in white
- Adhere snowflakes to upper right corner of layout and add stickles to the edges of the white snowflake
- Mat photos on black cardstock
- Adhere photos to page on a slight angle, slightly overlapping them
- Create a journaling block and type journaling on white cardstock
- Using the calendar stamp, stamp it in black ink onto white cardstock and cut it out to use as the center of the snowflakes. Add pop dots for dimension
- Die cut February from Cricut and Designer’s Calendar cartridge and adhere it across the stamped calendar
- Stamp “What a Wonderful Day” onto white cardstock and mat onto black cardstock. Then place in across both photos
- The “snowboarding” die cut was the wrong color for my layout so I changed the color by inking it in black. Once dry, I adhered it along the side of the right photo
Supplies:
Cardstock: American Crafts
Pattern paper: Scrappin Sports Defining Winter
Stamps: Technique Tuesday Little Labels by Ali Edwards, Teresa Collins Calendar stamp
Ink: Memento
Die cuts: Crafters Outpost, Snowboarding Lil Liner; ProvoCraft Cricut Expression, Joys of the Season and Designer’s Calendar Cartridges
Layout by Stephanie Ackerman
Click Here for printable instructions.
Happy Scrappin’
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March 5th, 2010
During the winter months it’s hard to be outside and play because it’s cold and snowy outside. If you’re a winter type person, you enjoy being outside because you can play outside sports such as skiing and snowboarding.
Foosball is a game that is so much fun to play. It, often times, brings a lot of laughter and smiles to those playing and watching. The more you play this game, the more fun you’ll have and the better you’ll become. You’ll find yourself wanting to play it time and time again. You may also find yourself playing it whenever you go to a place that has a table.
If your child plays foosball on a regular basis, creating a scrapbook will be fun. You can start from the beginning and work your way to current. You can include pictures, history, and journaling about everything.
Foosball is a great sport that can be played by the entire family. Including these types of pictures and journaling will make it that much better. You’ll be creating a book that you can share with your family for years to come. It will bring laughter and smiles every time you look at it.
Family time together is important. It shows your children that it’s important to be close to the ones they love. It shows them that you care about them and what they do. When you laugh and have a good time, they’ll remember that for the rest of their lives. They’ll show the same to their own family as well.
When you create a scrapbook and bring it out regularly to share with the entire family, they will want to continue to do fun things like this and you’ll slowly build trust with them, which is the most important thing you can have with your children.
Happy Scrappin’
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March 4th, 2010
Opening Weekend for baseball is always filled with fun festivities (and lots of pictures to scrapbook) and Amy was able to create this 2-page layout using plenty of her photos.
- I started with two sheets of white cardstock for the base of my 2-page layout.
- Next, I trimmed my photos but kept them all at three different heights to work in a grid-like format.
- Before adhering my photos, I positioned them into a rectangle shape keeping then in the center of my layout. I cut pieces of yellow cardstock to fill in the gaps between my photos.
- I took my sheet of American Crafts – Junior Varnish We’re #1 Paper and trimmed it down ¼” smaller than each piece of yellow cardstock on two sides before adhering it to the yellow cardstock pieces for my layout.
- I adhered my photos and matted patterned paper pieces leaving common margins between them all.
- I positioned my title using Thickers – Chipboard Letterman – Mustard and Thickers – Chipboard Letterman – Emerald in the lower left hand corner of the layout. I substituted a baseball from American Crafts – Junior Treehouse Printed Chipboard Pieces for the “o” in “Opening.”
- I cut a circle mat from the yellow cardstock and positioned my journaling card from the MLYB – Say What? Journal Tablets – Sports and positioned it in the lower right hand corner of the layout overlapping a photo.
- I added the date to one patterned paper mat using Thickers – Chipboard Letterman – Mustard and also a trophy accent from American Crafts – Junior Treehouse Printed Chipboard Pieces.
- To complete the page, I drew a border around everything.
Supplies:
- Thickers – Chipboard Letterman – Mustard
- Thickers – Chipboard Letterman – Emerald
- American Crafts – Junior Varnish We’re #1 Paper
- American Crafts – Junior Treehouse Printed Chipboard Pieces
- MLYB – Say What? Journal Tablets – Sports
- White and yellow cardstock
- black pen
Layout by Amy Wheeler
Click Here for printable instructions and to order all the products you’ll need to create this layout!
Happy Scrappin’
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March 1st, 2010
If you have a college basketball fan in your life, then you are preparing yourself for the final 4. From the regular season all the way to the end, it’s an exciting time for college basketball lover.
There are many creative and exciting things you can do for this type of scrapbook. One suggestion is to create it based on their favorite team and another suggestion is to create it based on the entire league. The second of the two can be very time consuming and difficult at best.
1. Favorite team
If you create one for the favorite team, there are a number of things you can do. One suggestion is to use one page for each game. Go online and find photos from each game and journal about the highlights from the game.
Another suggestion is to highlight a few games and create a brackets sheet that shows each of the games, who they played, and what it took to get to the final 4. You may need a couple of pages for this depending on how far they go.
2. All teams
If you decide to go with the second option, you’ll probably need to add more pages to the book so that you can create a page for each team. It might be easier and less expensive if you create pages for the teams in your favorite teams division.
You’ll want to create a sheet that shows the score for each game, add a team photo, and journal about important facts that you may find online. Include whatever you find interesting or important about each team.
The final 4 is an exciting time in a basketball lover’s life. Creating a scrapbook will help them remember the trail the teams took to get to the end. They will enjoy looking at it and it will remind them of what they have to look forward to next season.
You can get a printable March Madness bracket here.
Happy Scrappin’
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February 28th, 2010
Billiards is a sport that anyone can play. They have leagues for it now as well. 
Creating a scrapbook for someone that is in a league can be fun to create and easy to put together.
If you are creating a scrapbook for a pool league member, you’ll need to gather things throughout the season so you can put it together when the league is over. There are a number of things you can include in your book.
Pictures are perfect for a scrapbook. You can put backgrounds behind them and you can cut them into different shapes to make it fun. Take pictures during the games, before the game, and after the game. These should be date documented so you make sure you put them in the correct order when you’re putting your book together.
Gather statics for each game so you can journal about those. Include special or funny things that happen during each game. You’ll be able to include the journal pieces with the pictures that you take.
If there is a tournament at the end of the season, create a bracket sheet and add to it after each game. Even if your team doesn’t make it to the end, you should complete the sheet anyway. Include this is in your scrapbook so they can see how good they did throughout the tournament.
Pool leagues are entertaining and they are perfect for a scrapbook because of all the information that can be included. Not only can you create one for a league player, but you can also create one for a party that includes billiards or a day at the pool hall.
Happy Scrappin’
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If you love to scrap and craft and would be interested in showing the world layouts and fun projects you’ve made with Paper House’s products, please consider e-mailing jpegs of your work with instructions to skeesler@paperhouseproductions.com. If we use your project on our blog, you’ll get FREE STUFF (and we’re pretty generous)!
