Another day, another dollar. Today I will be working at my "regular" job, but I will be thinking of the rest of the scrapbooking I need to get done.
As I'm sitting here thinking about it, I've decided I really like the Close to My Heart Workshops on the Go. While I'm actually working on the workshops trying to figure out how to do them, I may not always love them, as any of those who have scrapbooked with me know. But that's why I do them ahead of time ... figure them out so I can help the gals complete them successfully!
If you're not familiar with our WOTG program, it's quite simple. Every month we get together to scrapbook. We will all make the same layout, that is designed by Jeanette Lynton just for this purpose, but you can each use your own creativity to make it different. You purchase a guide and a paper pack and any other of the suggested embellishments you'd like to use. The guide takes you through each step of creating the layout, and at the end, you each have a beautiful completed two-page layout. And the guide also includes an additional layout that you could make by yourself at home using one of our How-to Books. And our newer guides now include the same type of workshop for making cards, and, you can do some of both with one packet of paper and still have some pieces left over! Visit the page for the Topstitch WOTG to see its additional layout and cards. We will be completing this WOTG Saturday at my house. You then get to keep the guide and can re-create the layout with any paper for a totally different look! If you have any questions about our WOTG program and/or want join one, please contact me today.
Back to my blog topic: But never fail, I always learn something new with each new WOTG one. That's just one of the reasons I love them. Next month, my club gals will be completing the Veranda workshop. As I was working on it this weekend, I was definitely not happy with parts of it, as I had to make some flowers and try to line them up using one stamp and repeating it many times to make petals ... I never did succeed with that one. I probably tried to make about five flowers, but none of them lined up like I wanted them to (have I mentioned I'm a perfectionist) so I just cut the flower petals apart and lined them up when I adhered them to the page. And you can't tell the difference! And now I know a very cute way to use that stamp set ... I love it!
But I digress ... what I was meaning to say was that I learned something so cool this time. I used some of our Filigree Charms, a new product last year that I absolutely love for elegant layouts, such as wedding photos and formal occasions (click on the word "filigree charms" to learn more about them and/or order yours today - it's a link!), and found a way to change their color. They are probably pewter-like in color, but if you take StazOn ink (a permanent ink), of which I have lots but don't use that often, you can sponge it on your charms and change their color! Woo-hoo! I've tried this with brads before that were chipped or didn't match and I never had luck with my ink staying on, now I know the trick. You have to use StazOn! Close to My Heart sells brown and black StazOn, but I know you can buy it in many colors at almost any craft store.
To see my Veranda layout, look at my previous post. Click on the photos to see the whole photo.
Another thing I love about the WOTG besides the fact that it's scrapbooking, is that I get to use some of my pictures that I've been storing just waiting to scrapbook. I am currently working on two scrapbooks - one from my wedding almost four years ago, and another one from the high school trip I took to New York and Washington, D.C. when I was a junior. So all those other pictures from my life are just waiting their turn. And, honestly, I probably won't ever get to some of them. With the WOTGs, I pull out some different pictures every month and complete anywhere from one to three two-page layouts. So I have some baby pictures, tennis pictures, pictures of my family, high school graduation, college pictures and more scrapbooked, which I might not have gotten to before. And I've almost completed a book with just the WOTGs I've completed each month.
Do you have a special tip or technique that you love to use when scrapbooking/card making? Share with me by the end of the month, and be entered into a drawing for a free CTMH product! Yay! (When posting a comment, if you're not someone I will recognize, please also e-mail me at jamiedusin@hotmail.com if you don't want to leave your contact information on my blog, so that I can get your contact information if you win. Thanks!)
Happy Monday!
P.S. Need a scrapbook/card-making challenge? Visit Jeannette Lynton's blog and see her Color Me Monday challenge. See if you can create something using those colors!
As I'm sitting here thinking about it, I've decided I really like the Close to My Heart Workshops on the Go. While I'm actually working on the workshops trying to figure out how to do them, I may not always love them, as any of those who have scrapbooked with me know. But that's why I do them ahead of time ... figure them out so I can help the gals complete them successfully!
If you're not familiar with our WOTG program, it's quite simple. Every month we get together to scrapbook. We will all make the same layout, that is designed by Jeanette Lynton just for this purpose, but you can each use your own creativity to make it different. You purchase a guide and a paper pack and any other of the suggested embellishments you'd like to use. The guide takes you through each step of creating the layout, and at the end, you each have a beautiful completed two-page layout. And the guide also includes an additional layout that you could make by yourself at home using one of our How-to Books. And our newer guides now include the same type of workshop for making cards, and, you can do some of both with one packet of paper and still have some pieces left over! Visit the page for the Topstitch WOTG to see its additional layout and cards. We will be completing this WOTG Saturday at my house. You then get to keep the guide and can re-create the layout with any paper for a totally different look! If you have any questions about our WOTG program and/or want join one, please contact me today.
Back to my blog topic: But never fail, I always learn something new with each new WOTG one. That's just one of the reasons I love them. Next month, my club gals will be completing the Veranda workshop. As I was working on it this weekend, I was definitely not happy with parts of it, as I had to make some flowers and try to line them up using one stamp and repeating it many times to make petals ... I never did succeed with that one. I probably tried to make about five flowers, but none of them lined up like I wanted them to (have I mentioned I'm a perfectionist) so I just cut the flower petals apart and lined them up when I adhered them to the page. And you can't tell the difference! And now I know a very cute way to use that stamp set ... I love it!
But I digress ... what I was meaning to say was that I learned something so cool this time. I used some of our Filigree Charms, a new product last year that I absolutely love for elegant layouts, such as wedding photos and formal occasions (click on the word "filigree charms" to learn more about them and/or order yours today - it's a link!), and found a way to change their color. They are probably pewter-like in color, but if you take StazOn ink (a permanent ink), of which I have lots but don't use that often, you can sponge it on your charms and change their color! Woo-hoo! I've tried this with brads before that were chipped or didn't match and I never had luck with my ink staying on, now I know the trick. You have to use StazOn! Close to My Heart sells brown and black StazOn, but I know you can buy it in many colors at almost any craft store.
To see my Veranda layout, look at my previous post. Click on the photos to see the whole photo.
Another thing I love about the WOTG besides the fact that it's scrapbooking, is that I get to use some of my pictures that I've been storing just waiting to scrapbook. I am currently working on two scrapbooks - one from my wedding almost four years ago, and another one from the high school trip I took to New York and Washington, D.C. when I was a junior. So all those other pictures from my life are just waiting their turn. And, honestly, I probably won't ever get to some of them. With the WOTGs, I pull out some different pictures every month and complete anywhere from one to three two-page layouts. So I have some baby pictures, tennis pictures, pictures of my family, high school graduation, college pictures and more scrapbooked, which I might not have gotten to before. And I've almost completed a book with just the WOTGs I've completed each month.
Do you have a special tip or technique that you love to use when scrapbooking/card making? Share with me by the end of the month, and be entered into a drawing for a free CTMH product! Yay! (When posting a comment, if you're not someone I will recognize, please also e-mail me at jamiedusin@hotmail.com if you don't want to leave your contact information on my blog, so that I can get your contact information if you win. Thanks!)
Happy Monday!
P.S. Need a scrapbook/card-making challenge? Visit Jeannette Lynton's blog and see her Color Me Monday challenge. See if you can create something using those colors!
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