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Paperclipping Roundtable #96: A Celebration Ritual

January 4, 2012 By Nancy Nally Leave a Comment

It’s the time of year when we are launching our new year-long scrapbooking projects! Jessica Sprague and Cathy Zielske joined the Roundtable to talk about what projects they are doing in 2012, and their experience with past projects.

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Filed Under: Roundtable Tagged With: Big Picture Classes, Cathy Zielske, Jessica Sprague, One Little Word, Project 365, Project Life

Noteworthy | 12.2.2011

December 2, 2011 By May Flaum 3 Comments

Whether you’re recovering from a recent shopping spree or gearing up for the holidays (or both), there is no question that the internet is filled with inspiration these days. I’m already having fun with Tim’s 12 tags and Ali’s December Daily, and really getting into the holiday creative spirit. Last week, I focused on many of the great online holiday events in my Noteworthy column (link), if you’re looking for a class or series to check out.

This week I’m back to rounding up the best announcements, tutorials, and information in general, so let’s get December started:

Pink Paislee has begun their annual 12 days of Christmas series on thier blog, this year re-named “Winter Wonderland” to fit in with their winter themed Snow Day product line that is in stores now. It promises to be as fun filled as ever:

Each day we will post a new project from our creative team that includes step by step tips and tricks so you can create along with us; and we will also provide FREE printables and host daily blog giveaways so we can give out secret scrappy gift boxes filled to the brim!

The event takes place through December 12 on the Pink Paislee blog. With the free printables, prizes, not to mention tutorials for projects I am really looking forward to this.

Thousands check out the Tim Holtz 12 tags of Christmas posts, of course, but also worth watching is the Ranger blog, which promises a daily prize drawing for a box filled with holiday inspired Ranger products during Tim’s 12 tags event. Some of the Ranger staff will also be creating tags inspired by Tim’s daily tag and posting those as well. [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Ali Edwards, American Crafts, Cleetus, Designer Digitals, Jenni Bowlin, Pink Paislee, Project Life, Tim Holtz

Operation Clean Slate: Week 2 – Identifying Road Blocks

November 14, 2011 By Nancy Nally 11 Comments

In week one of Operation Clean Slate, you compiled a list of the projects from 2011 that you are behind on. Then you picked one to work on completing before 2011 is over. And you started work by gathering all your supplies together.

But there’s a hitch in the plan. One you probably don’t realize is there.

Why haven’t you finished this project already? I’ll bet in the time you’ve been working on your Operation Clean Slate project (whatever it is) you’ve finished many other things. So why haven’t you completed this project?

We’re going to figure out why.

Take a good hard look at your project. So what is holding you back? Are you short on content? Are you trying to force yourself to work with supplies that aren’t right for you? Are you pushing yourself to do complex techniques that you really don’t want to do? Once you figure out what the road blocks are, you can figure out how to get around them! (Because doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is, after all, the definition of insanity – right?) [Read more...]

Filed Under: Inspiration Tagged With: Operation Clean Slate, Project Life

Operation Clean Slate: Let’s Get Started!

November 7, 2011 By Nancy Nally 31 Comments

2011 is winding down and soon it will be 2012. Most of us will probably start the new year off by making resolutions, some scrapbook related, and many of us are already planning scrapbook projects that will span 2012.

But, as we look forward, we have to admit that there is something holding us back: this year’s unfinished projects. Whether it is a Project Life album we didn’t keep up with, or a Big Picture class like One Little Word, or another creative project that we tasked ourselves to complete in 2011 and haven’t, it weighs on our mind and creates guilt and leaves a sense of failure already hanging over us as we try to embark on next year’s projects.

Unless, of course…we come up with a way to finish them or get them off of our mind. Which is why this week Scrapbook Update is launching Operation Clean Slate. It’s all about closing out 2011 with a finished project and a clear mind!

So let’s get started!

Each week, we’ll try to move a bit closer to completing something, and to letting go of the rest – to creating a clean slate for 2012. I know this is a busy time of year so we’ll take it slow and try to create doable tasks. Remember, the goal of this is not to commit to a huge project. The goal is to do something manageable and then give yourself permission to let go of what is not possible to complete, to let go of the massive pressures that we put on ourselves to be superhuman. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Inspiration Tagged With: Elle's Studio, Operation Clean Slate, Project Life, SImple Stories

Paperclipping Roundtable #57: The Closet Trendsetter

February 23, 2011 By Nancy Nally Leave a Comment

[Note: Today you get a Roundtable two-fer! This is last week's episode. This week's episode will be posted later this evening!]

This episode, I led a discussion about whether the role of albums was changing in scrapbooking. Wendy Smedley and Angie Lucas joined Noell, Izzy and I at the table to delve into all our volumes of opinions about albums!

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