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  • Online Event in Two Weeks

    ByHeather Bailey

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    Are you interested in creating a pocket-page scrapbook? Like the one I designed for Project Life? 

    There is an online, full-day event coming up on January 25th that you might be interested in. It's called "True Scrap Pocket Pages" and the classes will be live and interactive, discussing the basics of pocket scrapbooking and beyond. All of the live classes will be recorded as well, so you can re-watch them as needed. 

    TrueScraps_250Project Life is one of the sponsors for this event. They asked if you guys might be interested in hearing about it and I said, "Of course. Why not." I'm not affiliated with True Scraps, but I do love the simplicity of pocket-page scrapbooking. I already organize many of my creative projects on index cards for easy filing. It wasn't hard to convince me to keep family stories, kid quotes, and doodles on pretty little cards—such a fun and easy way to keep a family record!

     

    Here's the list of classes —each one is an hour long:

    • Hybrid Hints for Paper People (Traci Reed)

    • Pocket Scrapping 101: Back to Basics (Layle Koncar)

    • Do You Hear What I Hear? Including Your Family’s Perspectives in Your
    Pocket Spreads (Marcy Penner)

    • KISS: Keep It Simple, Scrappy! Simplifying the Pocket Page Process
    from Monica McNeil

    • Playing Big: Adding 12×12 photos and layouts to your Pocket Pages
    Albums (Lilith Eeckels)

    • Outside the Lines: Creative Approaches to Adding Journaling to Your
    Pocket Pages (Stephanie Bryan)

     

    Anyhow. If you are interested, visit truescrap.com/pocket for more info. (Lain Ehmann even posted a welcome video.) There is a ridiculous discount if you book the class today (January 10th)—hence my hurry to get this information posted! The code is "99OFF". You save a wild 66% or something, making the total cost only $50.

    What is pocket-page scrapbooking? Here are my thoughts.

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    Giveaway Day 12 — A Day for Cake

    ByHeather Bailey

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    Today is my birthday. I don't know if there will be any celebrating just
    yet. My kids are sick and at least one of them is staying home from
    school. We're waiting to see how the others are faring. Thankfully, with
    my campaign for Birthday Month, who really cares. There are 31 days in
    August. We should be able to find a day for cake somewhere in there. It's Birthday Month!

    Remember when birthdays were an achievement? In the middle here,
    birthdays are just novelties, an asterisk on the calendar. If I'm
    fortunate enough to reach old age, birthdays might become
    accomplishments again. In fact, there should be necklaces to celebrate
    your age like an award ribbon. When I'm 86, I'll gladly wear my age on a
    gold necklace and swap it for an 87 with a smile.

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    This year's birthday doesn't just have a small asterisk next to it
    though—because I'm giving away big presents every day this month. And
    I've planned a big ol' glorious prize for today. Becky Higgins and Project Life are generously donating a complete kit of the Olive Edition I designed for them: a Core Kit of cards, an Album and a Big Pack of Photo Pocket Pages. Everything you need to complete an album. A $75 value.

    Day12_BeckyHiggins-ProjectLife2Project Life is taking the scrapbooking and journaling world by
    storm. In summary, it's a simple, efficient system for cataloging your
    life in photos and stories.

    My limited Olive Edition for Project Life is currently available only at Amazon.com. In addition to the items shown above, there is a big pack of 12" x 12" papers and super-fun month dividers. Everything is very reasonably priced. For more information on Project Life in general, visit BeckyHiggins.com. Becky and her team keep a faithful blog of ideas and inspiration. There are even videos to get you started. Also, for the daily play-by-play, follow @beckyhigginsllc and #projectlife on Instagram.

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    Comment to enter today's contest. Be sure to include your email
    address
    so we can contact you if you win. You don't have to type your email
    address into the body of the comment if you entered it in the email-address
    field on the comment form; I can access that info from behind the scenes. Today's giveaway will close at 11:59pm PST on Monday 8/12/13. Watch for the winner to
    be announced within a day or
    two at the bottom
    of the post. 

    For more info on my August giveaway madness, click here. Please
    share the word. Check back every day. I have amazing prizes planned this week from my friends at Copic Markers, Cricut, Puj Baby and more, prizes worth as much as $300. Prizes I wish I owned!

    Good luck!

    xo—Heather


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  • Goodbye October, Hello November

    ByHeather Bailey

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    I'm
    back from a whirlwind month, trotting here, there and everywhere. Let's
    see, Pennsylvania, Florida, the Bahamas, then Denver, Dallas and
    Houston as well. Some of these stops were lay-overs, but other stops
    included white sand, TV cameras,
    and my favorite fabric folks (Quilt Market). I've only been home long
    enough in between each trip to unpack, then repack again.

    I returned to a desk stacked with product proofs to review and
    approve—the HB world kept on turning while I was away—hallelujah. Here's
    the color proof for my new Project Life Olive Edition album cover with Becky Higgins. Yummy, yummy olive green.

    I went for a subtle, decorator-ly print with
    a mod bent so the album would look fabulous in its own right and
    compliment many of the Project Life kits. This way several completed
    albums can be stacked together on the shelf and make their own color
    statement in a room. The spines of the albums are solid green with a
    metal label frame.

    I believe this product line will be out soon. December, most likely.
    But, remember, Becky's Project Lifers are seriously dedicated. You have
    got to get in there and grab these things up the day they go live on Amazon or you might have to wait another couple of months for the next order to arrive. I know, it's impressive—go Becky!

  • Project Life – Olive Edition

    ByHeather Bailey


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    So here's the scoop!

    I just wrapped up designs for a new Project Life collection — the Olive Edition. Becky Higgins announced the news on her blog this morning, along with a ton of sneak peeks.

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    I'm sure a bunch of you are already familiar with Becky and her
    Project Life mission to "cultivate a good life & record it." If not though, I will LOVE to be the first to tell
    you. Project Life is a fun and easy system for housing treasured
    pictures, thoughts, memories, and life's important details, without the
    time, fuss, expense and gewgaw of a traditional scrapbooking approach.
    Of course, you can add as much gewgaw as you like.

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    Basically, you get a Project Life album, along with some thoughtfully-laid-out plastic sleeves (lots of configurations available) and a kit
    of double-sided cards to slip into those sleeves along with your photos.
    You can use the cards to track details and stories relating to your
    photos or just use the decorated sides of the cards to add personality
    to your album—or as placeholders till you are ready to write the details
    down. There are paper packs and plastic month dividers too.

    Here's the idea…

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    I have kept journals since I was ten years old. I know first-hand the
    benefits of keeping a personal record. You recognize your blessings
    better, you appreciate your day more, time doesn't seem so fleeting, and
    on top of that, you are left with a treasure for your loved ones to
    prize for generations.

    Project Life makes all of these life-keeping benefits easy to access.

    So, on top of my thrill in curating the new Olive collection for
    Becky, like the founder of The Hair Club for Men said in his commercial,
    "I'm also a customer."

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    The Project Life Olive Edition by Heather Bailey will be available to purchase in November through Amazon.com.
    There are swarms of PL fans waiting for each new edition to be
    available, so if you are interested, follow Becky's blog for updates and
    be prepared to shop the day the collection goes live.

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    So, go have a look at Becky's announcement post.
    She has way more preview photos posted over there than I do. Leave a
    comment. And read up on how Project Life works. There's even a cute
    little cartoon you can watch on her home page.

    (Fabric-folk, you realize these images sneaky-preview some new designs for you too, right?)

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    In Limited Supply:
    album kits, fabric… patience

    ByHeather Bailey

    It is refreshing to be home again.  Not only to sleep in my own bed
    and hug on my little kids (of course), but now I can start scratchin'
    at those irresistibly- itchy projects I sketched up while I was away. 
    Here and there, at least.  First, I have some emails and interviews to
    complete, as well as some fabric strike-offs to sort through (yes,
    round one is in the house!).

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    So, check out my Flutterby Flip-Book mini
    album.  I used an old-fashioned wooden clothespin for the butterfly
    body.  A variety of cardstock wings make up the album's many pages,
    with a sprinkling
    of flowers and miniature butterflies thrown in for good measure.  The
    perfect album for celebrating a special event, a summer-load of
    activities, a new baby, a birthday, quirky kid-drawings, etc.

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    This is the workshop I taught at Inspired in North Carolina this month — the stinkin' cutest-est album ever.  We kitted up
    some extra albums, with full-on illustrated instructions included, so
    you can make an album too if you like. (Or maybe set up your kids or
    grandkids with a kit — gotta keep those children engaged over the
    summer.  My two have been squabbling all day.)  So, if you're
    interested, hop on over to the HB store.  Limited supply!  When they're gone, they're gone. 

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    Freshcut™ is in the same boat too.  Free Spirit's warehouse is plum out of my Freshcut collection now.  We received our last supply.  Though the demand for that collection never subsided, the supply certainly now has, so last call for Freshcut!  Heck, here's a discount while you're at it.  Use the code "AlmostGone" through June 1st for 10% off any fabrics from my Freshcut collection.  We'll all sigh as it trickles away.

    And this week is my blogiversary again — three years now.  I'll put together some sort of giveaway, so stay tuned for that. 

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    off to dig myself up an urgent dose of Tylenol.  My kids aren't used to
    being around each other all day.  It's adjustment time — for all of us.

  • Flit & Flutter

    ByHeather Bailey

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    I'm bouncing all over the place this week.  By Tuesday night, I'll be in Concord, North Carolina again for Donna Downey's Inspired Artist event.  While there, I'll be teaching a mini-workshop on Thursday called The Flutterby Flip-Book for which my team has been kitting supplies all week.  Around the studio, stacks of Heather Bailey papers are shuffled together with some beautiful solids from Bazzill Basics.  And we're surrounded by bowls and tubs of colorful ribbons, flowers, clothespins, rhinestones, butterflies, and brads.  Bowls of candy. 

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    Cutest paper project!  Can't wait to show you. (We'll post some extra kits to the Heather Bailey Store later this week.)  If you're in North Carolina, come see me.  Here's where you can sign up for the last couple of seats in the 1pm class.  The 12pm class is completely sold out.

    FlutterbyFlip-8w Let's see, there are some Trash Ties workshops
    late Thursday night as well (at Donna's irresistible urging).  We'll
    probably be somewhat loopy by 10pm, so I'm expecting more of a giggly,
    slumber-party-like setting than anything else.  Everyone in the class
    is getting two sets of Trash Ties and I'll be spending the hour
    teaching how-tos and demonstrating hairstyles. I hear there are a few
    more spaces available in the 9pm & 10pm classes.  If you're in NC,
    sign up!  I'd love to meet you.  Here's the workshop schedule
    where you can get your tickets.  Scroll down to the time-slot you're
    interested in (both are on 5/7), then click the blue & orange 'buy'
    button to read more about the class.

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    On Wednesday, before the workshops, I'll be at the Free Spirit
    headquarters     in Charlotte, discussing fabric, hush puppies, high school (Jeff, the Sales Manager went to the same
    high school     as I – small world), whatever comes up.  It's mostly a
    social visit.  Always fun. 

    FlutterbyFlip-7 Friday, I'll fly back out west to attend a preview weekend for next summer's Creative Escape event.  I'll be crafting along with Heidi Swapp, Tim Holtz, Debby Shuh, and the other Creative Escape teachers
    while we preview our classes to each other and the entire volunteer
    staff.  There should be some fun dinners in there too, I think. 

    Come Saturday night, I expect to flop into bed like an eggy crepe.  

    Perhaps
    my kids will pour some syrup on top on Sunday morning — a smoochy
    reunion.  Isaac's always good at heading up some sort of kid-made
    breakfast-in-bed for Mother's Day as well.  I dream of fuzzy slippers and
    chocolate.

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