I am starting a new weekly series on my blog called "Learn Something New". I find that I'm more creative in general when I'm learning something new.
I plan to post once a week with a new Scrapbooking Technique. Even though I've been scrapbooking for years, I'm not an especially technique driven scrapbooker. Therefore, I have a lot to learn. So if you are like me and want to learn something new or if you are a beginning scrapbooker, tune in every week for a new scrapbooking technique, then create something using that technique, and then leave a comment with a link to your project. I saw this tutorial at the October Afternoon Blog and gave it a whirl.
Journaling: "We talk a lot about the Big Questions of Life - about how the universe was created and about God. And we talk about How Your Attitude Determines Your Life! If you think you can, then YOU CAN! Love, Mom."
Supplies: The cute little tags came from my local scrapbook store Whim So Doodle and are from Jillibean Soup, they are called "Soup Labels" and the version is "Homemade 6 Bean Soup" a $1.00 - and the best part is that the sheet of 9 labels was only one dollar! They also remind me of the many labels I love from October Afternoon which is where I found the idea for the chevron stripes - so I don't think any of the supplies are from October Afternoon, but it seems like their kind of stuff, and I love their stuff.
5 Ways to Jump on the Learn Something New Bandwagon:
1. Learn Something New Every Day Book
2. Pick the Brain - Grow YourSELF
3. Scrapbooker ElinJanne's Learn Something New MiniBook
4. Scrapbooker Shimelle Laine's Learn Something New Class
5. Shimelle's Learn Something New Flickr Group
4 Great Scrapbooking Sites for Learning About Scrapbooking :
(Also I thought I saw Nancy Nally's Scrapbook Update having a link to this October Afternoon Tutorial today - but I can't seem to find it now to link it here - if you have a link please leave it in the comments).
6 Great Quotes about Learning Something New:
* You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond
* You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity,he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford
* Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old. ~Robert Brault
* No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realmas truly as if he were a child newly born into the world. ~Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle
* Anyone who stops learning is old,whether at twenty or eighty. ~Henry Ford
* When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb
