I got a comment from Rhonda who is a scrapbooker who is in the Big Picture Class with Stacy Julian.
Kate, Your presence is requested on the TWELVE CHIT CHAT board to help us learn how to produce our own videos for class!!! Thx, Rhonda
Stacy makes videos called "Dozen Day" in which she shares the last 12 layouts she made and explains them, so the students in class want to do some too. Here was my answer to Rhonda:
Hi Rhonda! OH Funny :) Ok. I have videos on ustream which I film with a Microsoft web cam and I film the 10 minute videos for you tube on my husband's ipad. I have also used my iphone on the fly - like when I was skiing - to film and upload. I am not technically awesome by any stretch so when I have glitches I call in the computer man (aka my husband) to fix things. I'll check in to class now. P.S. I'm in my scrapbook room now and am torn between making a scrapbook page or an art journal page. I would love to combine those two worlds more.
And then I made my own Dozen Day Scrapbook Videos (scroll down or head over to You Tube through one of those links below).
PLEASE NOTE: That I really tried to keep the videos under 10 minutes because my iPad condenses them to under 10 but I went over a bit so when I uploaded them I labeled them as #1, #3, #5, #7, and #9 in case I had to add in supplements - I didn't - so they are labeled with ODD numbers only on You Tube but there is 5 (five) of them.
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This is the one I use fpr ustream videos - and I thinkI paid $100+ at Best Buy, so it looks like Amazon is less expensive. I used the iPad for the videos up top.
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Laura - please email me your address at katiescottscrapbooking@gmail.com and I'll send you some papers from the 6x6 kits I bought last weekend from Heidi Swapp / Sugar Chic; Heidi Swapp / No Limits; Amy Tangerine / Sketchbook; Crate Paper / Story Teller; and some older Basic Grey / Basics White and Infuse and Offbeat and probably some other stuff too!
P.S. I don't work for any scrapbook companies so this is just stuff from my stash - but that I think you'll like.
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I took an old chipboard folder from some photo paper and covered it with patterned paper to create a folder to compare a collage of photos from May 2008 with one from May 2012.
I used journaling cards from the Clementine Core Kit from Becky Higgins' Project Life Line.
Today I'm off to the Whim So Doodle Scrapbooking Garage Sale - I'll be sure to show and tell my bargains very soon!
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Have I mentioned that all of my digital images from 2010, 2011 and 2012 are gone, baby gone? I'm trying not to freak out about it or stew on it. Charlie has sent the harddrive to the computer man and we still haven't heard back.
In the meantime, I'm getting a funny peek at the digital photos from 2009 and before. I came across this old layout and paired it with a photo I took this past weekend. I think when I get the photo print back I'll do a sort of copy of the 2009 layout.
Meantime, my fingers are still crossed in hopes of getting 3 years of digital images back, I hope, I hope, I hope. Here are a few more layouts from 2009:
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One Scrapbook Layout - 3 Objectives Met: 1. This is the 16th layout in my 24 layouts from one Die Cuts With a View Stack; 2. Make a Layout with Orange as part of the Design Challenges on Big Picture Scrapbooking with Elizabeth Dillow; and 3. I had a really challenging morning with my son and then learned that all of my digital images from 2010, 2011, and 2012 were lost when my computer died! I wanted focus on positive things, so it was a bit of scrap therapy.
The journaling is simple and just highlights the fact that I love him and when the photos were taken. I wrote "I love you. Love You. Love You." because he often repeats "I love you" many many many many times each night before bed.
This page also made me feel better after learning that MY LAST THREE YEARS OF DIGITAL PHOTOS are gone baby gone. Thank God I print on a regular basis. And the defunct computer is going to the magical computer man, hopefully he'll be able to recover them. I'm really trying to not freak out about this but that is a bit challenging too.
I'm off to my 30th day in a row of Bikram Yoga, I took the Bikram Yoga 30 Day Challenge & in two hours I'll have lived to tell about it!
Happy May!
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Last CHA 2012, Heidi Swapp came out with several new products including file folder albums and flip albums for the page. I created a flip style album for our page about our recent trip to Busch Gardens and was able to fit 18 photos that were cropped from the 4x6 size on one 12x12 page!
Here is the finished page:
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Welcome Scrapbookers to the 26th day of The Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenge Series:
Note: We're almost done! I've planned 31 posts or a month's worth. I'll pick this challenge up again near the time of the release of the next movie Catching Fire.
The Hunger Games Quote: "I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever." Let's interpret this as scrapbooking contemporaneously or the present day, scrapbooking the here and now. There are several ways to do this, most of them are ideas from Creative Keepsakes and Simple Scrapbooks:
Project Life (Becky Higgins):
A Week In the Life (Ali Edwards):
December Daily (Ali Edwards):
30 Days Hath September (Stacy Julian):
That was such a silly day, I'm glad I took the time to record it. My kids love to hear funny stories about themselves when they were little and pages like this are their favorites.
I've also seen projects by Ali Edwards for a Day in the Life; Stacy Julian has also done "May Everyday"; and I think Becky Higgins has something about Project Lifetime which encompasses someone's entire life - which is not present day scrapbooking but it kind of expands out these time based scrapbooking projects.
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Welcome, Welcome, to Day 21 of The Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenge! Today we are taking our inspiration from Effie Trinket! She is the highly made up picker of Primrose's name in the reaping ball on The Hunger Games movie trailers. She is the one who says "May the Odds be Ever in Your Favor!"
I don't imagine there are many on Team Effie, but there was something about her that I liked despite her being outwardly despicable. For me, I felt like maybe she was just misunderstood.
Effie reminded me a bit of my first year of highschool, a time when girls are desperately trying to fit in. A time when I was labeled a "freshman airhead cheerleader" or at least that what the upperclassmen mean girls called us. My BFF Katie R. and I would then pretend to be completely dumb and have ridiculous conversations like we really were freshmen airhead cheerleaders and then we'd giggle ourselves silly; but really, this was just a clever and fun defense mechanism we devised because some of those girls calling us names we would have looked up to. Highschool - ahhh the lessons of conformity and breaking the rules.
Since then I've always had a soft spot for girls who are a bit misunderstood like Legally Blonde's Elle Woods and Clueless's Alicia Silverstone - what was her name, Cher? Its the whole "don't judge a book by its cover" and you don't know a person "until you've walked a mile in their shoes" thing. And it is fun to get all dressed up sometimes right?
{That's me from a couple years ago when we had a Pirate Themed Murder Mystery Party at our house - so very Capitol right? I even wore hair extensions and was the Queen of something.}
While reading the books, I always wanted to know a bit more about how Effie got her job. Was it assigned to her?, did she seek it out?, was she just playing her part in fear of what would happen if she messed up?, and did she secretly have a crush on Haymitch? Something I loved about the way Suzanne Collins wrote her characters was that all of them were shades of gray, none were black or white. So while Effie seemed like the worst of the worst in the superficial department since she was from The Capitol, I couldn't help thinking there was a little more to her under the surface and under all that make up.
Spoiler Alert for the Hunger Games: Effie Trinket: The District 12 escort, who was happy and bubbly. She wore many different colored wigs and helped Katniss and Peeta get sponsors in the Games. She constantly bickered and argued with Haymitch. Very proper, she hated it when people did not have proper etiquette. Katniss was shocked when she found out Effie was a rebel. (source The Hunger Games wiki)
Scrapbooking Themes Inspired by Effie Trinket Can Include:
1. High School
2. Conformity
3. Misconceptions
4. Glamour Shots
5. Hair & Makeup
6. Winning the Lottery, and
7. Ettiquette.
Here are some of my scrapbook pages that fit those categories:
High School Dating: From The Quarterback to the (dare I say it) Comical Nerd. (20 plus years later: P.S. I love nerds. And P.S. The Quarterback turned out to be an amazing guy too. Much admiration for both of these guys.)
Ahh the glamour of a Disney Princess - here is my daughter with my BFF from highschool Nancy's daughter - on their way to learn the lessons of appearance and glamour and what's real:
And on excess in general, so very Capitol, here's a page of mine from 2007 - before the recession. P.S. I still have most of this stuff give years later, and that clock still hangs on the wall in my scrapbooking room, it says "Scrap Happy - Think Big" in hot pink letters, an otherwise serious clock got glamourized, I love that.
If you make a page inspired by The Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenge - please leave a comment with a link. The movie comes out tonight at midnight - who's going?
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Welcome Scrapbookers to District 2 of Panem: Land of Masonry and Peacekeepers in what would have been the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
Hey. Psst. I got a comment recently from a scrapbooker who said she "couldn't figure out" what I was trying to do with The Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenge Series. So I guess I should explain a bit: I find that when I start with a theme for scrapbooking, I can translate the theme into all sorts of different scrapbooking pages and projects. The theme gives me a starting point. I recently discovered The Hunger Games and read through the triology in less than a week and I am highly anticipating the movie. Since the imaginary dystopian world includes many districts and themes and characters, I thought it would be fun to use The Hunger Games as a theme or a jumping off point for scrapbooking inspiration. You are welcome to join in and translate the themes as closely or as loosely as you wish. There is a Flickr Group for this challenge if you wish to play along - here is the link to The Hunger Games Flickr Group.
District 2 of Panem is the place where Peacekeepers are trained, and where the weapons are manufactured, but originally specialized only in mining and stone cutting. Publicly it's presented as the nation's stone quarries, just like District 13 was known for graphite mining. District 2 children are raised with a warrior mind-set and most of the Peacekeepers are from District 2. This district was the only one not on the side of the first rebellion, and after the attempt failed, were rewarded by better treatment from the Capitol, and better living conditions for their citizens. District 2 is in the Rocky Mountains, near the Capitol itself. The district is made up of many small villages, each based around a mine. Although the district is allied with the Capitol, due to their preferential treatment, the quarry workers suffer as much as any other district, not being excluded from the annual Hunger Games that take place. (source Wikia).
Since I just returned from beautiful and amazing Durango, Colorado and that is the location of District 2, I'll be taking my inspiration from the location of this district in Panem.
I made a photo collage in Picasa and typed in this journaling: "Now I Know What John Denver Meant when he sang Rocky Mountain High. I found myself singing the lyrics "coming home to a place {s}he's never seen before." I was so moved by the beauty of these mountains and the solitude I found in the snowy trails. I had visions of uprooting our family and transplanting us in Durango, Colorado. I fell completely in love with this place. Charlie was not as convinced, he liked the vacation and made a lot progress in his ski lessons, but made it clear that he's a Florida Boy. I do still hold out hopes for a vacation rental property."
I printed the photo collage on an 8.5 x 11 sheet and trimmed it just a bit and backed it with patterned paper. No embellishments. Just words and photos and a bit of background. I did add a zig zag stitch for a little visual interest. Simple. And Done.
P.S. I know there's a misspelling in my scrapbook page and the print quality is not the most awesome; but I'm still calling it done!
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Howdy Partners and Welcome to Day 4 of the Scrapbooking Challenge based on The Hunger Games! We are visiting District 10 of Panem today, it is cow country and the primary industry is livestock.
I found a great site by Scholastic Publishing with videos of The Hunger Games' author, Suzanne Collins, and one of them describes her classical inspiration for the story of The Hunger Games, click here for the link to the story from Ancient Greece about Crete and the Minotaur. Sidebar: I spent a semester in Greece while I was in college and we went to Crete and I've read Edith Hamilton's Greek Mythology several times cover to cover, but that was about 20 years ago so the story was vaguely familiar. Seems Collins mashed up the story about the Minotaur with the modern day tv realities shows like Survivor and The Bachelor and came up with completely enthralling literature for young and old alike. I have convinced people of all ages to read this series which I was initially skeptical about, it is seriously a must read I think. Read it, it is good stuff and extremely well written so that the characters all are shades of grey instead of black and white, the characters all have an arch, and all the loose ends get tied up in the end; and the story stays with you making you think about several different but important themes like government, family, survival, excess vs. minimalism, war, the economy, family dynamics, group dynamics.... lots and lots of themes in this series.
Speaking of "Piling It On", during the video presentation I describe an Intro to Improvisational Comedy Game in which the group stands in a circle and says words starting with a particular letter. The circle will go around a few times with everyone coming up with a word, but the trick is that you can't say a word twice, so at some point, someone will be a bit stumped and/or it will seem like the group has said all of the words that start with that letter. Until someone says a word with that same letter but maybe in a different topic, for example maybe the group was going P words and saying words like "place" "paradise" "paris" "parks" "panem" ... and then someone says "people" and then the group is opened up to words like "peter" "principle" "principal" "playwright" "poet" "peeta"... and on and on. Ok, just remembered, in improv class, we played it like "The minister's cat is a ________ cat" so each person had to say, rhythmically and maybe there was also clapping involved, the sentence and fill in the blank with a word starting with a particular letter. So say we picked "A" then we'd go around and say "The minister's cat is an ANGRY cat." and the next person would say "The minister's cat is an AVERAGE cat." and so on until someone felt stumped but then the doors would open back up and we'd have a slew of words when we thought we were all tapped out. This game is fun to play with kids if you have any handy, they love it and I guarantee you will all laugh yourselves silly. It is fun good stuff that will get your brain thinking in a new creative way. I promise.
If you apply the concept of "piling it on" to scrapbooking and story telling, you can come up with the same kind of creative result. Its a way to get your brain to come up with stories and memories that you might not normally think of. For example, without this Hunger Games Scrapbooking Series and the particular stop at District 10 Livestock - which seems pretty random and also seems like it has nothing to do with my life - I don't live on a farm, I don't have cows, I don't even like to eat mammals if I can help it. But with this one prompt of "livestock" and the concept of including 10 stories about cows on one scrapbooking page, I quickly came up with over 20 funny stories about cows, and I'm fairly sure I could come up with another 20 if I gave myself another 5 or 10 minutes. Seriously, this kind of improv scrapbooking works to open up your brain to a place where you can get more creative, have more fun, and come up with ideas more quickly.
Here's my scrapbook layout about Cows:
But, you may be saying, "Katie, I don't really want to scrapbook about cows." I say to you, my fine Scrapbooking virtual friend, "Give it a try!" If Kid Rock can come up with a complete song about being a cowboy, surely you can think of some memories about cows. You don't have to pick cows or livestock as your prompt. You could try Goats or Farms or Cowboys or Pets or anything really - the key is to just pick something - anything - but once you've picked, don't go back, you've got to fully commit to whatever it is and then start to think of stories about that topic and just start writing. Don't worry if you get to a place where you think you don't have any more stories about that topic, just keep going, because just like in that improv game with the Angry Cat, you'll think you've exhausted "A" words for cats and then you'll think of a new one and the doors of creativity - or in the scrapbooking case, of stories related to a particular topic will open wide like barn doors blowing open right before a storm rolls in and you'll have a hard time shutting off the story switch because your mind will be full of stories and memories you haven't thought about in years. It is magic.
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P.S. This is the cow photo collage that I created in Picasa (and yes that bull right over the number "10" is doing something to prove his dominance over the girl cows - he was mad when I moo-ed at them and wanted to show me who was boss immediately - fortunately the kids didn't really notice that part - that will be a story for when they are a bit older maybe - it was so funny), here it is :
Here are the corresponding stories in the hidden journaling for my 10 Cow Stories Scrapbook Page (the part in the pocket) and it goes a little like this:
"We saw those cows on the side of the road in North Carolina and slowed down to Moo at them like Charlie and I did when we were four wheeling in the Georgia mountains when we were dating. That is always a funny and happy story to tell. It then occurred to me that I have lots of funny stories about cows and farm animals - here are 10 that srping to mind:
1. Charlie loves to wear his leather jacket on Friday nights when he goes to "Band Camp" because the thinks it make him look cool.
2. Allison recently declared herself to be a vegetarian - although lately she’s been the kind of vegetarian that I am - we try not to eat cows and pigs and instead stick to fish and feathers.
3. Charlie’s cousin Penni is a large animal vet and one year a horse or cow kicked her in the hand and she broke her finger and there was a strange fixation for the broken bone with metal prongs coming right out of her skin and a big ugly putty looking thing that held the metal prongs together; she made the best of things andpainted the big ugly thing with lots of glitter and when she came to visit she told us that she had a brand new big diamond ring! Everyone had to look two or three times to process the sparkly contraption on her hand.
4. My dad had lots of land and one year he was so impressed with himself because he got a tax refund for being a farmer since he bought a cow, had it eat his field grass for a season, and then sold the cow earning him $2,000 and qualifying him for a tax refund! He was thrilled to be able to combine two of his favorite things: his land and saving money.
5. The children’s museum in St. Pete has a plastic cow that you can actually milk.
6. Allison calls milk "cow’s milk" and when she says it she draws out the o sound in cow so it takes her about three times as long to say the word cow; and I don’t like cow’s milk at all but when the kids were little I felt like a cow and even once made a scrapbook layout with lots of sticker sneeze of colorful cows all over it and the subject matter was how I was the children’s food source, what was I thinking? I think that while you are a nursing mom, the babies kind of suck your brains out along with the milk.
7. When my mom first moved to Florida she lived next door to a cow farm and she had an orange tree in her back yard and one year we went to her house for Thanksgiving so her husband Bob could cook and while we were waiting for dinner, we all went into the backyard to feed oranges to the cows.
8. My aunt Carolyn, who when I was little had a herd of about 9 cats that she brought with her everywhere including on her road trips from Rhode Island all the way to Calais, Maine on the border of Canada when she came to visit us and my Nana and Grandpi; and now she has an actual herd of goats and she has a business called Goats and Greens and she sells organic herbs and salad greens to fancy restaurants and health food stores and she makes goat’s milk soap and lotions that she sells at farmer’s markets and on the internet. Allison and I went to her goat farm when Allison was only 4 months old and she had me bottle feed her baby goats before I went to the airport and I don’t think it was to be cute - I think she actually needed help with all those adorable baby goats.
9. When Mac was little our babysitter Donna called him Mackey Moo Moo and sometimes we still call him this or, for short, we call Mac just "moo moo".
10. When I was in Bangor High School I can remember the jock type guys talking about how they went out cow tipping, I think even my old boyfriend, David, said he did this sort of thing. But Katie and Nancy and I always sort of thought that was Bull. :) Katie and my cow memories - ok one more - when I was a kid everyone used to sing me the WWII song: Ka-Ka-Ka Katie, Oh Beautiful Katie, you’re the only, only girl that I adore; when the ma-moon shines over the COW shed, I’ll be waiting at your ka-ka-ka kitchen door. I must have heard that one about a million times before I turned ten. :) KATIE’S COW STORIES 2/28/12."
Again, just to highlight, we are not cow people, but I do have a lot of stories I could tell around a cowboy campfire about cows. Scrapbookers, try this yourselves! Take one topic and you will amaze yourself at how many stories you can think up and remember. And then report back, leave a comment or a link, I would love to see your project or scrapbook page.
Now Playing: The Hunger Games on the Kiss and Tell Scrapbooking Blog:
I posted The Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenge for District 11 this morning but used layouts that I already created in the video and blog post. So I was feeling a bit like I didn't get to play enough. So, after work, I came home and had to bust out a layout quick about agriculture. We've been working on our herb garden. I went to Two Peas in a Bucket for a little layout inspiration and found a Memory Keeping Monday with Jen Gallacher challenge to alter a sticker, check it out:
So I connected dystopia with gardening and scrapbooking with stickers and stamps, totally logical right? Want more randomness? Watch me explain my layout and herb garden but please don't tell Charlie that I brought his iPad outside!
Here's how I alterned the stickers:
And here is my Spring Hunger Games District 11 Agriculture scrapbooking layout:
Ta-Da! All these random things mixed up on one page makes me so happy and I had lots of fun making the page and the dorky video.
And I didn't even get into how "Improv Scrapbooking" helps me to get to the mental place where I can bring all this stuff together while having fun, more on that soon. Plus you can search this blog for related "scrapbook improv" posts if you are at all interested in the concept of merging scrapbooking with techniques from improvisational comedy to get productive, playful, present moment, positive, perfectly authentic scrapbooking fun.
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Wow. I thought that I'd have my Project Life done in about 20 minutes this week but it took much longer than I expected. Although, I didn't work straight through, there was cleaning kids rooms, laundry, breakfast, vacuuming, and a host of other weekend chores that seemed to keep interupting Project Life, but still I got all that done in two hours. Clean house and Project Life completed in 2 hours? Ok, yes, that is a VERY GOOD THING. I'll take it.
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This layout is about how we used to go to the portrait studios at the mall to get our family photos and now we just set the self timer and get real life family photos:
A while back I got a pack of Echo Park's basics patterned paper, it has stripes and dots and basic designs in several colors and I love it. This kind of patterned paper is the best since it is timeless.
Spring Break is right around the corner, I'm not sure what are plans for the kids are yet. Most years, I take them to Disney World. A few years ago we went to the Disney Water Parks, Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon and I've got a stack of pictures to prove it but nothing in the way of a scrapbook. Over the weekend I took those photos and started on a mini book.
Here's a video show and tell of the Disney Mini Book in progress:
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