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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.

  • Creative Spaces Giveaway

    ByHeather Bailey

    There is a new issue of Creative Spaces out this week. Apparently—and of course—volume #1 was so popular that Creating Keepsakes decided to publish a second volume—and this time I was able to say "Yes!" Kudos to Megan Hoeppner for gathering such inspiring spaces—and for her patience and tenacity with my busy schedule.

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    Confession: I've been holding back on you guys—a little. You see, I've finished a handful of craft-organization projects around here that I haven't shared yet. I'm letting Creative Spaces Vol. 2
    have the scoop: embroidery-floss storage made from a spinning earring
    display, colored-pencil storage from a transformed gift box, tiffin
    boxes for paint storage, the handy metal caddy I keep next to my
    drafting table for paints, brushes, pencils and inks—FUN STUFF.

    CreativeSpaces2So,
    go pick up a copy at your local book store or craft store for 132 pages
    of DIY storage and décor projects, and a behind-the-scenes tour of a
    wide variety of crafting spaces, from Amy Yingling's sleek and modern space to my own eclectic menagerie. For a full-size sneak peek at the issue, click here, then click on the ISSUU image at the center of the page.

    !!! I have one glorious copy to give away. Leave a comment below to enter. I'll announce the winner on Monday. !!!

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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. 

    I'm
    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.