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vBlog No. 7

Hi there! Last weekend, I helped out a little at a wonderful charity event: the Unforgettable Crop for Kids. It was a scrapbooking event that raised money for The Unforgettables Foundation which helps families who have lost loved ones. It's a great charity. My pal Aubrey and I did make-n-takes (a CD cover and a candy gift box) using papers and embellishments that were generously donated by Making Memories (thanks MM!).

Donna and another good friend Candice Carpenter (Candice is on the Autumn Leaves design team; I love her work!) were also there doing make-n-takes. Donna did her fabulous Card Buffet, and Candice made this cute cupcake tag which we videotaped.

Apologies for the video quality
Once again, sorry about the quality of the video. It's difficult to hear us at the crop event, and the video of me at the end is kind of blurry. On top of that, our editing team *cough*Johanna*cough* had a typo in the credits, LOL!

CHA in February!
At the end of the video, I talk a little bit about what we have planned for February. Johanna, with the help of some friends, will be filming at the Craft and Hobby Association convention! They want to show you all the cool brand new scrapbook products on the same day that they find them, and they'll do this for 3 days! So we'll have 3 videos for you the week of February 10th plus you'll see Angela, Donna, Johanna, Mel, Pattye and other friends that week. And to top it off, there will be some cool prizes each of those days! You won't see much of me at all that week because I'll be working - I have a lot of meetings while at CHA - but I'm sure these girls will keep you entertained :)

Mel and Pattye
Before I go, I wanted to let you know that Mel and Pattye have created a short video about upcoming classes and projects that they have in the works, and you can see it here on YouTube or on Mel's blog. Check their blogs out in the future too to see other fun videos they will create.

Okay, that's it for now. Have a great week!

vBlog No. 6

Happy Saturday! As promised, we have a weekend mini video for you. Today's video was filmed at Scrapfest in Del Mar, California. Johanna taught a few classes there while I had fun shopping at the different scrapbook booths. Two great scrapbook stores had booths at Scrapfest: Ever After Scrapbooks  and Yellow Bird Scrapbooking. If you're ever in Southern California, you should definitely check out these scrapbook stores.

Did someone say prizes?
In the video, we also show a couple great prizes that were generously donated by Pinecone Press (thanks Pinecone Press!). If you'd like to enter a drawing to win one of these cool prizes, just leave a comment under this video blog by next Friday, February 1st.

Here's one of Johanna's layouts which is in "The Calendar Book" - a new Pinecone Press ideabook. I love calendars, and Johanna's pages and projects are always fun, so I really enjoyed looking at all the great ideas in this book.

This coming week
We'll have another video for you in a few days. We have some fun stuff planned for February so I'll tell you about it in the next video.

Thanks for dropping by! Have a fun weekend!

vBlog No. 5

Hello friends! Here's vBlog No. 5. In today's video,
I talk about my Biography card file then Johanna and I answer a viewer's question about photographing our scrapbook pages.

Who won?
The winner of the paper and embellishment kit donated by Creating Inspirations (shown in vBlog No. 3) is Renee D. in Florida. The winner of all the Prima flowers, also donated by Creating Inspirations (thanks CI!), is Stacy in Canada. The winner of the greeting cards that Johanna, Donna, and I made (shown in vBlog No. 4) is Cheryl Sue. Congrats ladies! Please email me your full name and address, and I'll get your goodies in the mail.

What's next?
We'll try to post a mini video this Saturday, January 26th. We have a video clip of us at ScrapFest plus we have 2 more great prizes that were donated, so we want to show them to you and give everyone a chance at winning them.

Classes in Southern California
If you live in Southern California, Johanna is teaching a few classes at Yellow Bird Scrapbooking in El Cajon, California. Click on the link to get the address and phone number if you're interested in taking one of these very fun classes. I took Johanna's photography class last weekend and it is awesome!

Photography - Jan 29th, 7 p.m.

Recipe Rolodex - Feb 19th, 6 p.m.
Birthday Reminder Rolodex - Feb 26th, 6 p.m.
Guilt-free Calorie-free Cake - Feb 22nd, 6 p.m.

My friend Mel Sanchez is also teaching a class in February. It's a cute pirate book which she's teaching at the The Red Bee on Feb 9th, 1 p.m.

That's it for now. Thanks so much for watching our videos. Have a great week and see you on Saturday!

vBlog No. 4

If you want a larger view of the video, double click on the window twice.

Hey everyone, here's our 4th video! Donna came over and showed us a great idea called a "Card Buffet" or a "Creative Buffet". So we had fun making cards using her stacks of pre-cut papers and her embellishments, which she set out "buffet" style. This would be such a fun thing to do at a crop or maybe set up something like this for your kids' next party. You can even set it up just for yourself to make good use of all those scraps of paper. Check out Donna's pages below to see what she made just by grabbing papers and embellishments from her Card Buffet.

Donna also showed us the DreamKuts by Zutter. Here's a link if you'd like to check it out: Zutter Zisters

While we were videotaping, Johanna had forgotten that we were filming, so she stood up right in the middle of it. She also made some funny-looking expressions during the filming, so of course, we took full advantage of that and brutally teased her in the subtitles (we love ya, J!).

Who won?
The winner of last week's drawing for Donna's pretty handmade flowers and die-cut dictionary papers is Rafaella. Yay, congrats!! Rafaella, please email me your full name and address, and I'll ship that to you right away. Next week, we'll announce the winners of the Creating Inspirations prizes. There's still time to enter that drawing, so all you need to do is post a comment under vBlog No. 3.

Win the 3 cards that we made
If you'd like to win the 3 greeting cards that we created during this video (and signed on the back), just post a comment under this video, and we'll announce the winner next week too. It's not much, but hey, we're on a budget, LOL!

Have a great week, everyone. God bless!

vBlog No. 3

If you want a larger view of the video, double click on the window twice.

In addition to giving you the weekly videos, we'll also do a weekend mini video from time to time. For this mini video, Johanna wanted to answer a couple questions that she received about her cake project, and I wanted to give a quick storage tip.

Another warning
I have to warn you again, the quality of the video isn't very good and to make things worse, I did some of the filming myself! Let's just say, while God has given me some abilities in certain areas, videography is definitely not one of them. I'm terrible at it, sorry. Who knows, maybe in the future, we'll be able to improve the quality and get someone who actually knows how to do this (I'll stick to chemistry and scrapbooking).

Two prizes to give away
We have 2 more prizes to give away! Creating Inspirations has generously donated a paper and embellishment kit and lots of Prima flowers. Thanks Creating Inspirations! To enter into a drawing for these prizes, all you need to do is post a comment under this video by next Friday, January 18th. We'll announce the winners the following week.

This coming week
Donna will be back with another project. It's a really fun idea, so drop by and please tell your friends too. Thanks so much!

vBlog No. 2

Thank you, everyone, for your kind words and support! Johanna and I are thrilled that you enjoyed or first video and we're excited to show you this one. It's still low tech and we're still silly, but we hope you like it. This video ends abruptly so be ready for that, sorry. We want to keep the video length to about 10 minutes or less, but hopefully we won't have hard cut offs like this in the future.

On today's video, we have a good friend over (I think you've met) and she is going to show you some cool flowers that you can make using die-cut scalloped-edge circles. It's a fun and easy technique to do. Here are a couple pages that she made using her handmade flowers. For a closeup view of the pages, just click on the image.

If you'd like to purchase some of these flowers, you can find them at her etsy shop.

Bookmark this
Today, Johanna tells us about one of her favorite websites and shared a page and mini album too. Here's J's pick for this week: creatinginspirations.com

Who won?
Thank you, everyone, for your comments and questions for last week's video. We randomly picked a winner out of the bunch, and the winner is Irene from Holland! Yay!! Congrats, you have won the We R Memory Keepers papers and embellishments shown in last weeks video. Irene, please email me your full name and address, and I'll get your kit in the mail.

To win this week
If you'd like to win a couple of these handmade flowers and some of the die-cut scalloped edge dictionary papers, all you need to do is post a comment or question by 8 p.m. PST, January 14th, and you're entered into the drawing. We would love to know WHO you would like us to invite to my scrapbook room?

Extra video clip
On Saturday, we'll post a mini video clip. I just have a very short quick tip about storage, so drop by on Saturday if you have a minute to spare.

vBlog

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Hi everyone! Well, with the new year comes new things, and here is one thing new that I hope you'll like. I had such a great time with the Candy Cane Fridays, I wanted to continue that in some format this year. My friend Johanna also loves sharing projects and ideas, so we came up with this crazy idea to videoblog. It's not going to replace our regular blogging because we both like writing. We're basically doing this for fun, and I'm not sure how long we'll be doing this, but I figure we'll give it a try for a month or two and see how it goes. I have to warn you though. This is LOW tech. We're just a couple gals gabbing about scrapbooking and any silly thing that comes to mind.

Shown below are pictures of the 2 projects that we're discussing today. The first one is Johanna's birthday cake party favor boxes which she will be teaching at Scrap Fest in San Diego, January 19-20 (there are kits for these at the shop too).

Here is a project that I'm working on this week. It's a mini album made using papers and embellishments from We R Memory Keepers, and I'm making this project to teach in South Africa in March.

Win these beautiful papers and embellishments
Johanna had a great idea to give away the papers and embellishments used for this album. All you need to do is post a comment or question by 8 p.m. PST, January 7th, and you're entered into a drawing. We would LOVE to hear from you!

Bookmark this
In each video, we're going to mention a favorite blog or a website that we like. Here's my pick for this week: pagemaps.com

For more details on the brainstorming behind the creation of this video, check out Johanna's blog.

Have a great month and wonderful year! God bless!