Write.Click.Scrapbook. | June Gallery Layout + Birthday Blog Hop

Welcome to the Write.Click.Scrapbook. 4-year birthday celebration blog hop!  I'm so glad you're here!  I remember four years ago when some of the women involved with Simple Scrapbook Magazine launched this site.  I wouldn't have imagined that four years later I would be a part of such a talented group of women, sharing our layouts, stories, and inspiration on a daily basis. 

In the spirit of what Write.Click.Scrapbook. is all about, I'm sharing three tips today!

Before I go to sleep every night, I jot down the highlights of the day in a Moleskine daily planner.  This is the 3rd year I've done this and it's become an invaluable tool to me to remember my days.  Last year I also wrote an entry everyday in Oh Life, all 366 days!

 Use a self-timer and get in the photo!  Your family will be glad to see photos of you in the years to come. 

Make a list of all the techniques or supplies you would like to try or use.  Cut each into a strip of paper roll them up and put them into a jar.  Next time you are stuck creatively, pull out any random three and use that to jump start your scrapbooking.


Our June gallery theme is Year 4 Favorite.  My layout was inspired by Katie Ehmann's post about only using papers on your layout.  A myriad of papers!

My layout:  Date Night

Supplies:  cardstock (American Crafts) + patterned paper (American Crafts Amy Tangerine, Dear Lizzy, Studio Calico) + stamps (American Crafts) + ink (Memento) + pen (Sharpie) + punches (Fiskars, Marvy Uchida, McGill) + digital graphic (Ali Edwards) + digital die cutter (Silhouette America) + adhesives (Scotch, Glue Dots, Tombow) + stapler (Advantus) + font (Blackout)

I cut strips of patterned paper.  Then I cut them into squares.  Then from there I cut the squares diagonally into triangles and lined them up and adhered them to my layout.

 Also, in case you missed it this week... I hosted a week of posts at Write.Click.Scrapbook. all about hybrid scrapbooking and crafting!

Monday:  Intro + typing, digital brushes, and handwriting on photos

Tuesday:  Hybrid Project Life

 

 

Wednesday:  Digital Graphics + The Silhouette

Thursday:  One Little Bird Giveaway (now closed)

Friday:  Hybrid Crafts

Here are the links to my Write.Click.Scrapbook. teammates participating in the birthday celebration blog hop:

Aliza Deutsch

Amy Coose

Amy Sorensen

Christa Paustenbaugh

Christine Newman   (you are here)

Diane Payne

Jenny Larson

Katie Ehmann

Lisa Ottosson

Marnie Flores

Valerie O'Neall

Thanks for stopping by!

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On Hiatus

I've been thinking about my blog a lot and after blogging regularly for 6.5 years and over 1,300 posts, I think I need to take a break.  I'm putting my blog on hiatus for now.  I'm not sure when I will be back.  It could be soon or it could take a while. 

I will fulfill my design team blog obligations still, since I've signed contracts for the duration of the term and I don't plan to break them.  I will still be on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, sharing my life.  I have loved blogging and the dialogue I've had with many of you through this blog.  Now that the blogosphere has changed and people don't comment on blogs anymore, I'm unsure of where my place is in this new environment.  I don't enjoy putting hours of work into the contents of a blog post and not receive any feedback on it.  So if that's how the current blogging environment is, then I will need to either make peace with it and give up on getting blog comments, or I need to leave it.  I can't change it, I can only accept it, change how I feel about it, or move on. 

If during my hiatus I am itchy to come back to blogging, then I will know that in the future I will be blogging with a different purpose, one that would be intrinsically satisfying for myself, even if nobody comments.  I"m just not at that place right now, not yet.

So long for now. 


Christine

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Tutorial | Emboss & Watercolor Resist

I blogged a tutorial at the Evalicious blog yesterday, showing a stamp emboss & watercolor resist layout.  I made a layout about our first time at AT&T Park in San Francisco.  

In the video, I show the step-by-step, how I stamped and embossed the white images onto my background paper.

And how I watercolored over the embossed images to create looks like these.  The watercolor only sticks to the paper and not the embossed images, that’s why it’s called “resist”.  :-)

Here’s my emboss & resist video.  It is under 7 minutes.  I hope you enjoy watching my process and learning about stamp emboss and watercolor resist!  :)  You can click over to youtube to see it slightly larger.

 

SUPPLIES USED:

InLinkz.com

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Write Click Scrapbook | June Gallery Sneak Peek

It’s the 20th of the month, which means it’s time for the June gallery sneak peek for Write.Click.Scrapbook.! 

This is my layout for June.

This theme this month is pretty nebulous, so I don’t think my sneak peek of my layout will give it away.  Any guesses though?  :-)

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Digi Dares | A Mother Is…

This week’s Digi Dare #322 is all about mothers.  Originally this dare was going live on Mother’s Day week, so the topic was very timely.  But the Dare got pushed back due to the site redesign and the Digi Dares 6th anniversary.  Click on over to the newly redesigned Digi Dares and join us this week to scrap about motherhood, your own mother, or being a mother!

Here is my page.

Supplies:  Stargazer kit and journal cards by One Little Bird; Splatterific 21 by Karah Fredricks; Three (x4) Stitched Frames by Amy Martin; Wood Veneer Alpha Essentials (free!) by Gina Cabrera; font is PT Sans Narrow.

Journaling:  When I was little, you were the world to me. You showed me unconditional love, which gave me the confidence to explore the world and be myself. Even when I grew up and flew the nest, you were still my champion and my biggest comforter and cheerleader. Now that you’re gone, you’ve left an empty space in my heart. Even as an adult, I still need my mom. You were the moon and the stars to me. You still are.

The photo is of me and my mom.  I think I was maybe three years old in the photo.  I found this photo in an old photo album that I went through, after my mom passed away.  I’m still in the process of going through old family albums and scanning them, and then putting the scanned photos into new acid-free albums.  The project has taken a long time and I’ll blog about it sometime. 

Here is the dare.  We would love it if you would join us this week!

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