September 2016 Scrapbooking Workshop -- Florence

We used the Florence paper suite this month, and it is really nice paper!  I’m still not sure what pictures I'm using it for, but I think I going to use a couple of the layouts for the first day of school photos.  I usually know exactly what pictures I’m going to scrap as soon as I see paper, but this month I’m not totally sure.  But I still really like this paper and really love the embellishments that match this paper suite.  Once again I need to apologize for posting pictureless pages.  I seem to have a time management problem lately and can’t get my pictures on my pages before I need to take the pictures!

I do plan to use flip flaps again – of course – and have placed a few on the layouts for purposes of illustration.  I almost always plan the spacing on the layouts to allow for perfect spacing for flip flaps.  I just love our flip flaps!  :-) 

Let me know if you are interested in joining our workshops.  We typically meet every other month.  We only have one remaining workshop in 2016 and that will be November 14^th and 15^th.  We will be scrapbooking with the Swan Lake paper suite found in the Holiday Inspirations Idea Book.  And then we will start out the new year in 2017 by meeting in January and then again in March.

August 2016 Scrapbooking Workshop -- Calypso

We’re scrapping with the Calypso paper suite this month, and I love it!  It’s perfect for all of those fun beach/river/pool/summer pictures we've all been busy taking these last few months.  I’m posting pictures of my pages without pictures.  My pictures will be ready tomorrow, but I wanted to get the pages posted tonight so I apologize that they are pictureless at the moment.  Again, I’ll be using lots of flip flaps – of course!!  How else can you get all those cute pictures on your pages?!?!?

The new Annual Inspirations catalog went live on August 1^st (which has 4 brand new exciting Fundamental paper lines – Whimsy, Adventure, Enchantment, Adventure, and 4 Basics collections), and the new Holiday Expressions will go live on September 1^st (which has FOUR brand new themed paper suites), so we’ll be voting on what paper we want to use for the next few workshops when we meet this week.

Let me know if you are interested in joining our workshops.  We typically meet every other month.  The remaining workshops for 2016 are August, September, and November.   

June 2016 Scrapbooking Workshop -- Happy Times

Close to My Heart had a special in May for National Scrapbooking Month for the Happy Times paper line so we decided to use that paper in June.  We used a workshop designed by Brenda Rose -- she did a beautiful job with the coordinating "Happy Times" stamp set. 

We will be using the new Calypso paper line in August for our next regular workshop.

Let me know if you are interested in joining our workshops.  We typically meet every other month.  The remaining workshops for 2016 are August, September, and November.

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May 2016 Scrapbooking Workshop -- La Vie En Rose

The paper line "La Vie En Rose" is what we are using this month.  What fun paper this is!!  You can put basically use any color with it, dress it up or dress it down -- just have fun with it!  I'm going to use it to document Olivia's fantastic year with her All-Star cheering team with Fame.  They had a fantastic year, so I'm going to use all four layouts to document it.  Her uniform is black and deep red so this paper paired with Ruby is perfect!  I haven't added the pictures yet, but you can see the empty flip flaps in the photos (not nearly as cute as her photos will be).

We are embellishing the pages using the Picture My Life Beautiful You cards, the Basic Fundamental Stickers Pack (with gold foil), the gold foil tape, and the gold bling gems.  I have added a few items, but will add a lot more once I add the pictures and know where to add what!  :-)

We will be using the National Scrapbooking special paper, "Happy Times" for a special workshop on June 14th.

The new Seasonal Expressions 2 catalog went live on May 1st, so we have 3 new paper lines.  We will be using the new Calypso paper line in August for our next regular workshop.

Let me know if you are interested in joining our workshops.  We typically meet every other month.  The remaining workshops for 2016 are June, August, September, and November.

January 2016 Scrapbooking Workshop -- White Pines

The paper line "White Pines" is what we are using this month.  I made a comment when I first saw this paper line that I wasn't that crazy about it, but boy, after working with it, I take back what I said!  I really like the way the layouts turned out.  The first layout is the layout designed by CTMH for the WOTG (I changed it by adding red glitter paper and a few other small changes).  Again, I couldn't believe they were including Chocolate as cardstock -- I mean, who uses brown for Christmas pictures?!?  I thought for sure I'd be substituting something for the brown.  But it really does work well with this paper! 

I added red, gold, and white glitter paper to the paper, and lots and lots of Cricut cuts (45 different Cricut cuts used on the four layouts).  I haven't put pictures on the pages yet -- I haven't had a chance to even look at my Christmas pictures to see which ones I want to use, but I went ahead and committed to the sizes of the pictures I'm planning to use and added mats so that you can see the pages finished (we won't cut the mats in class).  

Let me know if you are interested in joining our workshops.  We typically meet every other month.  Our next workshop will be March 7th and 8th.  We'll be voting on paper lines this week to determine what we are going to use next.

BTW, the new Seasonal Expressions 1 catalog went live on January 1, so we have 3 new paper lines!  I have a feeling we might be using something from the new catalog in March.