MY PRACTICAL IDEA DETAILED IN THE BOOK

Lift yourself in as many ways as possible. Lift and combine parts from multiple pages.

• It’s about getting creative with fonts and alphabets.
• It’s about selecting typefaces that support your story and mix well with everything else on the page.
• It’s about the personality a typeface can have and using it to set mood.
• It’s as much about using type to get stunning looks on grungy and freestyle pages as it is about using type on clean and graphic pages.
• It’s about the synergy of shape, line, and meaning when type is “set” to work with every element on the page.

This month’s issue of Masterful Scrapbook Design focuses on Typography. Yes, you will get a review and reference for type alignment, leading, tracking, kerning, and typeface selection.

And then you’ll get real value: ideas, how-tos, and sources for designing masterfully with type.

The teachers for this topic are Tiffany Tillman, Lisa Dickinson, Emily Pitts, Paula Gilarde, and Anna Aspnes, and they are generous with their favorite tricks and sources, showing you how to:

• make a border of type using Word or Photoshop
• combine fonts to make your own original typeface
• get “letter-press” looks with Photoshop techniques,
• use type like patterned paper,
• and much more.

4+ hours of video interviews are posted and ready for immediate viewing or listening on your computer, tablet, or e-reader. Members of Masterful Scrapbook Design already have access to these materials. You can get immediate access for $16 through March 31st at http://MasterfulScrapbookDesign.com/type

As soon as you join, you get access to the MSD Starter Library with 300+ pages of illustrated design how-tos and ideas you can view on tablets, nooks, kindles, and ipads, as well as the current month’s materials, including a 40+ page seminar, 5 focus lessons, and 4+ hours of video/audio interviews with the guest teachers.

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“I have been a member since almost the start and you really do an amazing job . . . You love what you do, and it is apparent in the quality products you provide to us. Thank you!” -Nicole Lamarche

“Dear Debbie, I absolutely love your site. I have purchased your Building Pages Class, read everything free I could find here, and now I’m participating in Masterful Scrapook Design. I love your style and explanations of why. You guys are doing a bang up job of customer service and this is a really great business model. Thanks.” –Mary Nelson

“Debbie, Thank you so much for all your efforts to make this a great learning and creative experience. What I have always valued so much in your classes and website is your sincerity in wanting to help us learn what will make us better scrappers and enjoy doing it.” -Marcia Deignan

“I have continued my membership with Debbie Hodge’s Masterful Scrapbook Design. At some point I referred to this as a class, but I’m wrong. Debbie calls it a seminar. I’m calling it the best online publication you can purchase.” -Gayl Staffler

“I am impressed by the quality and quantity of material that is available each month. It is quite a bargain, really! You have really done amazing work with your website and class offerings.” - Laura Harvatine

This is such a great conversation, I love how we all share a love for memory keeping but can come at it from so many different perspectives and find so many ways to grow! Thank you all!!! -Louise J

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I am a new subscriber and LOVE all you have here. Thank you for all you put into making such a fabulous product. I am so excited for what’s to come in the future here! -Amy S.

click here to get the Typography issue for $16 through March 31st

Debbie here to fill you in on the changes going on at Get It Scrapped. They’re all aimed at making sure you can still access your previous purchases while moving ahead with a richer schedule of new classes.

Here’s a rundown of what’s going on:

New classes are moving.

I will no longer be offering classes taught by teachers other than myself at Get It Scrapped starting January 1st, 2012. There are three reasons for this: 1) Our classes and student population have outgrown the systems in place; 2) I’d like to get back to teaching rather than managing a busy classroom; and 3) I want to focus on Masterful Scrapbook Design.

4 brand new classes from Get It Scrapped teachers are slated for January, 2012 at CreativePassionClasses.com.

Masterful Scrapbook Design is staying here.

Much of my freed-up time will go to working more on Masterful Scrapbook Design. This model lets me both teach and work with a team of teachers that changes monthly to produce exceptional content in multiple formats: pdf workshops, video, audio, transcripts and interactive webinars. I love that we offer this for an affordable $12.50/month and that our membership keeps growing.

Over the last couple of weeks, Masterful has gotten a face lift that makes finding and accessing the materials in your library easier. And . . . we’ve launched the MSD Free Sampler Membership. Free members may attend (or access recordings of) one live webinar each month and receive two lessons (varying from gallery to focus lesson to seminar content). Sign up today and immediately get access to the sampler materials for all of 2012.

The Get It Scrapped blog is staying here.

We’ve built up a library of almost 500 articles with ideas and how-tos for making great-looking and meaningful scrapbook pages. All of these are staying right here and will be added to. Please keep reading!

Tami and Amy are still a part of the Get It Scrapped team.

Tami Taylor will continue to administer and teach at Masterful Scrapbook Design (even as she moves forward with Creative Passion Classes).

Amy Kingsford will continue to teach at Masterful Scrapbook Design and provide support and content development here at Get It Scrapped (even as she moves forward with her new site AmyKingsford.com).

You may still access your past classes.

ALL of the the classes you’ve purchased in the past are still accessible in the forums and the classroom. They will be available throughout 2012. All of the materials for these classes (including videos) are downloadable for saving on your computer. I am not going anywhere. I will still be here, answering email, providing support, and making sure you can access past classes.

Here’s where you can find our teachers in the new year.

Several of us will be teaching at Creative Passion Classes which is owned by Tami Taylor. The classroom is already up there and the forums are integrated. Say goodbye to the recent glitchiness with registration at Get It Scrapped, and say goodbye to logging into the forums separately.

• Debbie Hodge, Michelle Houghton, Amy Kingsford, Jana Morton, and Pattie Knox are moving to Creative Passion Classes with Tami Taylor. Click here to see our January/February classes. Click here to get on the mailing list.
• Amy Kingsford and Michelle Houghton have revamped and moved their own websites. Find them at AmyKingsford.com  and Scrapweaver.com . Both are adding fabulous new content weekly so add them to your reader list.
• Dina Wakley will be offering new classes at DinaWakley.com. Click here to sign up for Dina’s new mailing list.
• Katrina Kennedy will be offering new classes at Capture Your 365. Click here to sign up for Katrina’s mailing list.
• Tania Willis, Doris Sander, Sharyn Tormanen, and Paula Gilarde are at their blogs and may be offering their classes there.
• Tania Willis at What ‘chu talkin’ ’bout Willis?
• Doris Sander at {me}anderings
• Sharyn Tormanen at Live from Tormville
• Paula Gilarde at PaulaGilarde.com

We have some clearance sales.

All of Dina Wakley’s classes are discounted through year end. Note: Art Journaling 103/Composition and Color Techniques will not be offered at Dina’s new site in the future so this is your last chance to get this class.

Doris, Tania, Sharyn, and I have put together an E-book Bundle of 11 self-paced classes - available through December 31.

Thank you

Thank you so much for keeping us on your reading and learning list. Thank you for your purchases, your comments, your participation in the forums, and your emails. While some logistics are changing, ALL of us at Get It Scrapped are still involved in offering you resources for getting practical about getting creative. In upcoming months, I’ll be keeping you updated about everyone’s activities at their new teaching homes.

All best,

Michelle Houghton, (art, aerobics, and certified copics teacher–yep, she’s got the training and the energy!) makes it easy and fun.

Michelle Houghton’s brand new class Copic Coloring #1 starts Tuesday, June 14th. (Registration will close on June 17th — and not only do you miss out on this class after that date, the special bundle price that includes self-paced class Copic Craze goes away).

Ten lessons will be posted over 5 weeks on Tuesdays and Thursdays–pick them up at your convenience. Ask Michelle questions in the private forum and share your creations in the private gallery.

Are you ready to put your Copic markers to use while ramping up your shading and blending skills and creating a variety of artwork for cards, scrapbook pages, journals and other projects?
If yes, this is the class for you.

Michelle Houghton has selected 12 images (by herself and 3 stamp artists) and built lessons around them that teach you advanced shading, shadowing, blending, and color combination skills. You’ll finish class with 12 digital stamps to use again and again, a collection of  beautifully colored and shaded images for your projects, and lots of Copic know-how!

In Copic Coloring, you’ll color and shade 12 printable images by Michelle and top stamp designers using step-by-step coloring and shading how-to in 10 illustrated lessons. Get support and share your work in private forum and gallery.

Note: Copic Coloring is a workshop beginning June 14th. Copic Craze is a self-paced class. Both are accessed in the Get It Scrapped classroom. After paying in Paypal, wait a few seconds to be directed to the classroom. If you’re new to the classroom you’ll set up a username and password. If you’ve taken classes in this classroom before (not the forums, but the classroom) you’ll enter your username and password to log in. Once logged in, you’ll find a welcome message for Copic Coloring under “Current Workshops” and you’ll find Copic Craze under “Self-paced classes.”

Michelle Houghton’s illustrated, step-by-step images will teach you to color and shade 12 images you can use on cards, scrapbook pages, journals and other projects.

The images you’ll work with were chosen to encompass a variety of looks that will push your skills to the next level.

You’ll learn new blending techniques, the steps to create more realistic shading, and how to combine Copic color families.

Contributing stamp artists

• Michelle Houghton
• Christy Croll of Tiddly Inks
• Tammy Siemers Thompson of A Day For Daisies
• Michelle Perkett of Michelle Perkett Design Studios

Images you’ll receive and work with

• Lesson 1 – Cloud and Sun
• Lesson 2 – Girl with “Poppy” Flower (stamp by Tiddly Inks)
• Lesson 3 – Sheep (with multiple hats)
• Lesson 4 – Pollen Nymph (stamp by A Day For Daisies)
• Lesson 5 – Roses
• Lesson 6 – Flying Birthday Girl (stamp by Michelle Perkett Studio)
• Lesson 7 – Sunflower
• Lesson 8 – Always the Flower Girl (stamp by Tiddly Inks)
• Lesson 9 – Owl
• Lesson 10 – Snail and Mushroom

Register now for:

• 10 lessons over 5 weeks
• 12 digital printable images from 4 different artists
• Advanced blending instruction
• Realistic shading and shadowing techniques
• Tips for combining Copic color families
• Private forum and gallery where you can get support and feedback from Michelle and other students

This class is for those who have been coloring for a while or who have taken an introductory class on Copic markers. Michelle’s self-paced “Copic Craze” is available immediately and teaches basic blending techniques, feathering, numbering systems, introductory shading to get you up and running with Copic markers. Purchase Copic Craze WITH Copic Coloring to save $13.

Note: Copic Coloring is a workshop beginning June 14th. Copic Craze is a self-paced class. Both are accessed in the Get It Scrapped classroom. After paying in Paypal, wait a few seconds to be directed to the classroom. If you’re new to the classroom you’ll set up a username and password. If you’ve taken classes in this classroom before (not the forums, but the classroom) you’ll enter your username and password to log in. Once logged in, you’ll find a welcome message for Copic Coloring under “Current Workshops” and you’ll find Copic Craze under “Self-paced classes.”

GIS Username: rinda

Member Since: October 2009

Post Count: 148

Alum of: Building Pages with Debbie Hodge;  Art Journaling 101, 102, 201, 301 and 103 with Dina Wakley.

Blog: Gallo Organico

Maria Ontiveros  is from El Granada, California (a semi-rural coastal town about twenty miles south of San Francisco). In cyberspace, she goes by her childhood nickname “Rinda” (a condensed version of Maria Linda). Maria’s artistic interests include scrapbooking, card making, photography, art journaling and mixed media collage.  She has been happily married for 25 years, and has two wonderful children (Henry, 15, and Clara, 12).  Maria makes her living as a law professor at the University of San Francisco, where her area of specialty is labor and employment law, with an emphasis on workplaces issues affecting immigrants and women of color.

When I asked Maria to tell us a little more about her life as a Scrapbooker…here’s what she had to say:

• I started scrapbooking in 1994 when Creative Memories was just starting to expand. My husband and I needed to create a scrapbook as part of the adoption process, and one of my friends had just been to a CM party, so she got me started. In 2001, I joined Club Scrap and became completely obsessed with scrapbooking!
• I am mainly a chronological scrapbooker, scrapping the regular events of our lives.  So, most of my scrapbook pages are about the kids’ activities, family gatherings and vacations.  I have very slowly been working on a heritage scrapbook as well.  I’m a non-digi, paper girl all the way.
• I tend to scrapbook in bursts – at weekend getaways or in response to online classes.  I usually scrapbook in the morning, after the kids are at school and before I feel the need to get “real work” done.

• I think what stands out in my scapbooking style is that I scrap a lot of pictures!  My typical scrapbook layout is a two page spread, featuring nine photographs and lots of journaling. The pages tend to be linear and fairly uncluttered.
• My scrappy must-haves include my large tonic guillotine cutter, my ATG tape gun, Club Scrap paper, ink and brads.
• Three things on my scrappy wish-list include more Tim Holtz distress inks, a crop-o-dile, and every single paper made by Graphic 45!
• I’d really like to try out all those new texture and embossing folders that Tim Holtz and others have created, but I haven’t had a chance yet.
• I tend to draw my inspiration primarily from my photographs and the story I want to tell with them.  This leads me to a certain color palette, style of papers and embellishments.
• I have two favorite GIS classes:  Building Pages with Debbie Hodge and Art Journaling 101 with Dina Wakley.  Building Pages really helped me understand why I liked certain page styles more than others and helped my scrapbooking evolve, while still remaining true to my own style.  Dina’s class opened up the world of art journaling to me in a way that allows me to record my memories and thoughts and to be creative on an almost daily basis.

• I love this layout first because it’s a picture that made me stop and catch my breath. The focal image photograph made me realize just how grown up my daughter and her friend have become! Truthfully, I still think of them as toddlers, but here they really appear to be on the cusp of becoming teenagers! I also love the contrasting colors and the assortment of embellishments I used (the painted chipboard flourishes, the various ribbons, all the charms). Finally, I love it because it was a stretch for me – I don’t tend to leave “white space” on my pages, but I did hear and I love the way it turned out.

I’d like to offer a big thanks to Maria for sharing her art with us this month and invite all of you to take the time to visit her blog and her gallery, as I know you will be inspired by all of her creativity!  Thanks for reading this month’s Member Spotlight and if you are interested in participating in a future Spotlight please contact me swilde1957@yahoo.com

GIS Username: Sherelm

Joined: April 2009

Posts: 2,642

Most Active In: Non-Scrapbook Related Forum

Alum of: In Loving Memory, Beautifully Handmade Cards and Beautifully Handmade Embellishments with Tania Willis;  Oodles of Doodles with Michelle Houghton; Building Pages with Debbie Hodge; Shutterfly Saavy with Pattie Knox; and Scraproom with a View with Doris Sander.

Sharon’s Blog: Dreams of My Creative Mind

Sharon Linda Knopic (who was given her sister Linda’s name who passed away one year and a day before Sharon’s birth, as a middle name) has always lived in the Hershey, PA area—home of Hershey Chocolate and the Three Mile Island nuclear facility.  Though Sharon would describe herself as “technically” living alone, she also shares her home with two dogs (Disney and Scully) and two Siamese kitties (Clarkie and Pearl) She also receives frequent visits from all of the geese and ducks on the lake she lives beside. In addition to being a scrapbooker, Sharon plays both the piano and the organ, and also loves to crochet, sew, and quilt.

I recently asked Sharon a few questions about her hobby…so let’s hear what Sharon had to say about her scrapbooking in her own words:

• I’ve been scrapbooking since 1996, the year after my mother died, and left so many priceless photos of the family. I wanted to give my siblings their own photos, so I did my first albums for them. Since then I became the first teacher at Hershey’s “Times to Remember” LSS and taught at the Great American Scrapbook Conventions and Memories Expos.
• I scrapbook two things: 1) my mother’s heritage photos, and 2) my life .
  My goal is to have names to go with all of my pictures, from the turn of the 1800’s into the 1900’s, before I’m done scrapping.
• While I love scrapbooking with my friends in Paradise, Lancaster County, PA, I really enjoy scrapbooking on my bed. Before I had a scrapbook room, that’s where I scrapped, and old habits are hard to break. I do try to do a little each evening, but most of my scrapbooking is done on the weekend. Once winter comes, I love my hobby even more – snow falling and scrapping with cocoa – it doesn’t get any better than that!

Get It Scrapped! Teacher

Member Since: August 2008

Posts: 1,514

Classes Taught: Art Journaling 101, Art Journaling 102, Art Journaling 201: “Masterful” Art Journaling, and Art Journaling 301: Graffiti of My Life.

Designs For: Tim Holtz, Maya Road, Jenni Bowlin Studios, Kitschy Designs and Hambly Studios.

Website: DinaWakley.com

Dina lives in Glendale, AZ with her 3 boys and husband. She grew up all over the place including in Ohio, Michigan and England! Dina volunteers as a docent at the Phoenix Art Musuem and loves giving tours to school kids.  As you could guess, Dina absolutely loves everything about paper arts, especially art journaling, mixed media art, and scrapbooking. One of Dina’s deepest passions—aside from art—is traveling!  Dina also enjoys cooking good food, eating good food, hanging out with good friends, and reading good books!

When I asked Dina a little bit about her art and her creative process, here is what she had to say:

Username: Larkensnanny

Posts: 1,778

Most Active In: Non-Scrapbook Related Forum

Joined: April 2008 Alum of: More than 30 GIS classes, from at least 10 of our teachers!

Linda’s Blog: Coffee Chat

Linda Bizjak (aka Larkensnanny) lives in Columbus, Ohio with her sweet husband Edward. They are fortunate enough to live right next door to their oldest daughter, her daughter’s partner, and three grandchildren. Linda has four grown daughters and one stepson. She has eight grandchildren who she loves to spoil and spend most of her time with. In addition to scrapbooking, Linda also keeps busy with crafts and sewing. Linda has worn many different hats throughout the years, holding jobs that include running a fashion business, a certified daycare, and 25 years of teaching sign language. Crafting has always been her favorite way to spend her time. She especially loves making dolls and other sewing projects.

When we asked Linda some questions about her hobby, here’s what she had to say:

• I have been scrapbooking for about 15 or 20 years now. I started out with the Creative Memories format and have evolved from there. I have been a consultant for both Creative Memories and Close to My Heart products.
• My favorite subject to scrap is usually my grandchildren, but I also enjoy doing heritage pages of my family and distant relatives. I especially love telling the stories and hope that my current stories of my immediate family will someday be enjoyed by future generations.

• I have a lovely scrap room in the basement of our house and and now that I am retired I find myself in my craft room at least part of every day. I also love going out to crops and retreats and do that as often as I can.
• My style of scrapping has changed drastically over time. I started out with the little triangle cardstock in the corner of every page and all the photos cut either in a circle or oval. Now I love the grungy look and I use a much more planned sketch to make the layout interesting and put the focus where I really want it. I have learned so much from being a part of this GIS site and just know I will continue to learn and my style will change again and again.
• I don’t think I could possibly do a layout without my two cutters. I have a small one for trimming photos and a large one for cutting cardstock and printed paper. I love my Cricut Expressions machine and use it constantly for making titles and other die cuts.
• I always have a wish list of cartridges that I want for my Expression, but I also love trying new gadgets and the latest one that I am wishing for is the i-rock tool for attaching bling to a page. I really think my biggest wish is for a new computer so that I can have Photoshop and other cool editing programs for my photos and pages.
• The technique that I wish I knew how to do is to edit and alter my photos better. I would love to be more savvy in using Photoshop and other tricks like making a collage of photos into a word. On a simpler line, I really wish I knew how to work with masks to get more interesting effects on a page.

• My inspiration comes mostly from seeing other people’s work. GIS is a gold mine of inspiration and instruction. I love browsing through the gallery just to find something that tickles me that day. I also love books that have been published by Debbie Hodge, Sherry Steveson, as well as the Page Maps and other sketches. I really love sketches and it helps me get started so much faster. I don’t always stick to the sketch, but it gives me a bit of direction in a concrete way.
• My very favorite class here at GIS is Page Parts. I feel like I really learned the basics from that class and I could go to any extreme that I wanted to after I got down the basics. However, I have to say I have taken nearly every one of the classes offered here and I have never had a bad one. They are always so clear and so instructive, encouraging me to put my own flare on to it. (Editor’s note: While Page Parts is no longer offered here, much of the material from that class is covered in our free class Where Scrapbooking Ideas  Come From.)

• It was very hard to decide on one particular layout that I call a favorite. I tend to put a great deal of sentiment into my pages and at the time of construction, they are all favorites. I am choosing for now the latest layout that I did of my brother Beetle. I just like the way it came together with the rustic look and the old newspaper article. The dog tags were a fun addition because I thought of this layout as the Making of Beetle Bailey.

A big thank you to Linda for sharing with us this month.  Linda has been a dear friend to many of us for a couple of years now and I hope you enjoyed taking a closer look at some of her work, while learning some new things about her!