One of the feature articles I love writing for Creative Scrapbooker magazine is Double the Fun. For each issue, I design a double layout sketch and readers create layouts based on that sketch and submit them. Here is the sketch and my layout for the Summer 2016 issue that hits newstands June 1. I used […] Read more…
The Bazzill team, along with We R Memory Keepers, are being featured this month in the July issue of Create magazine, an online resource for scrapbooking and papercrafts. I designed this double layout and card based on sketches by Alison Davis. That shimmery yellow sun on the left page of the layout and the yellow […] Read more…
Isn’t it nice to have some flowers and butterflies on our layouts instead of snowflakes and icicles? That said, my new Double the Fun sketch is up on the Submissions page of the Canadian Scrapbooker website for the Winter 2015 page call! LOL Here is my layout using BoBunny’s gorgeous collection “Garden Journal.” For all […] Read more…
With the Spring 2015 issue of Canadian Scrapbooker out on newsstands, we are now preparing for the Summer and Fall issues. So I have a new double page sketch and layout on the “Submissions” page of the website for the Fall page call. Yes, Fall. ha ha. I know we are just trying to get […] Read more…
Shall I dare say that the Summer page calls are up over on the Canadian Scrapbooker magazine blog? And so is my new Double the Fun sketch! Aren’t these photos hilarious? That is Katharina Doyle and me at the Edmonton’s Women’s Show. Next to the Canadian Scrapbooker booth there was a photography booth and she […] Read more…
Today I thought I would share some fun design elements on one of my double layouts that I taught at Canadian Scrapbooker’s Great Canadian Scrapbook Carnival in September. Simple Stories was one of the sponsors of my class, and I used 3 collections for 3 different layouts that I will share in upcoming posts. This Simple Set is […] Read more…
My sketch and sample layout for the Spring 2015 issue (yes, I said SPRING) of Canadian Scrapbooker magazine is up and on the website. Here is the sketch: Here is my sample layout: I decided to sketch a grid design that can also be used by all the pocket page and Project Life scrapbookers. Actually, […] Read more…
Now that the Summer issue of Canadian Scrapbooker magazine is in the works, my new sketch is ready for the Fall issue. I know I know…. we are still waiting for winter to disappear! The focus of this sketch is “negative space”. Here is my sample layout based on this sketch: Do you recognize this […] Read more…