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January 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Thanks for visiting my site today- you will find lots of digital scrapbooking tutorials and training here!

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Where are they now? December Daily with Melissa and Lain

January 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Wondering how we are going with our December Daily projects?

Today Lain Ehmann and I share how our projects turned out.

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More from Lain

If you enjoyed hearing from Lain today, check out her weekly scrapbooking podcast, classes and more at Layout a Day.

Thoughts?

What do you think of Lain’s approach? Are you still working on your December Daily?
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Four Different Decembers with Amy Kingsford

December 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Amy Kingsford has been capturing her Christmas season since 2008, and over the years has tried several different methods to record her December. After having success with her 2009 and 2010 method, listen in to how her 2011 December scrapbooking has turned into much more than she’d even imagined!

Amy’s tips for December Scrapbooking:

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December Memories on Video with Jules Watkins

December 23, 2011 By 3 Comments
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On the line from London, Jules Watkins joins me to discuss making our Christmas home videos shine Jules is the former director of the hit TV shows ‘The Biggest Loser’ and ‘Pimp My Ride UK’ and has created a unique iPhone videomaking course.

Jules’ top tips for December Video:

  • Start filming with a story in mind
  • Ask them all a question: eg what do you love about this family
  • Plan the highlight moments: prepare in advance

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Christmas Scrapbooking Fun: Free Handouts and Resources

December 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

  • Want to prepare to capture your Christmas in a low stress way?
  • Want to avoid the Christmas layout backlog?
  • Want to actually finish a December daily?

I recently ran our Christmas Fun workshop – but we had several technical difficulties and I was unable to do the full webinar. Since it is already so close to Christmas I don’t have time to re-run the webinar. So today I’m sharing the class handouts with you all! [Read more...]

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Minimalist Christmas Scrapbooking with Stephanie Medley-Rath

December 21, 2011 By 2 Comments
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Minimalist Christmas Scrapbooking

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Learn about Stephanie Medley-Rath‘s unique approach to documenting the season. Stephanie is a scrapbooker and sociologist who did her doctoral research about scrapbooking.

Stephanie’s minimalist scrapbooking take on documenting Christmas makes her project different from others we’ve discuss. Stephanie is working on her Christmas album with her 2010 right now. Listen in for more tips and inspiration.

More from Stephanie

If you enjoyed hearing from Stephanie today, you’ll want to read Scrapworthy Lives, her blog about scrapbooking with a sometimes sociological twist.

Thoughts?

What do you think of Stephanie’s approach?

I’d love to hear from you in the comments below.

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Christmas Sale: 50% off Template Album Set

December 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Welcome to Digital Scrapbooking HQ – I hope you are enjoying the resources at this site.

Since Christmas is nearly upon us, I’d like to offer you 50% off of Simple Template Album – until December 25th.

Want to get a head start on scrapbooking an album?

  • Do you feel overwhelmed at the thought of creating a whole album?
  • Do you want to create photo-centric layouts without the fuss of lots of layering?
  • Are you new to digital scrapbooking and ready to start creating pages?

I’ve created just what you need!

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Christmas Scrapbooking Fun: Get ready to easily scrapbook Christmas!

December 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

  • Want to prepare to capture your Christmas in a low stress way?
  • Want to avoid the Christmas layout backlog?
  • Want to actually finish a December daily?

In this workshop you will learn

  • How to chose what to scrap
  • How to photograph the season without being a mom-arazzi
  • How your Christmas scrapboooking can be fun!

Join me for an online Christmas workshop!

Christmas fun: Get ready to easily scrapbook memories from that wonderful time of the year.

Date: Sunday, December 18, 2011

Time: 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM (Eastern Time) (view and register in your timezone)

Cost – Free!

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Documenting your December Weather

December 13, 2011 By 2 Comments
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How does the weather influence your day?

Some ideas for what to document about the weather:

  • General trends
  • Unusual days
  • Memories… has there been a particular Christmas with unseasonal or extreme weather? [Read more...]
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Journalling Christmas with Melissa Stinson

December 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Today I invited Melissa Stinson to share her thoughts and process for Journal Your Christmas, which she’s been participating in for a few years now.

Melissa’s practical approach of batching tasks makes her project doable, and she’s not afraid to keep working on it until well after the days of December are over. Listen in for more tips and inspiration.

More from Melissa

If you enjoyed hearing from Melissa today, check out her blog at ScrappyJedi where you can read about her December Daily/Journal Your Christmas.

Melissa is a contributing writer at Scrapbook Update where she writes on everything from trends to Letterpress tools (Love that series!) and even designed this month’s kit.

Melissa also designs for several teams:

Bella Blvd.

Sweet Peach Crop Shop (kit club)

Scrapbook Circle (kit club)

Thoughts?

What do you think of Melissa’s approach? Have you dabbled in digi? Or are you sticking to paper this year?

I’d love to hear from you in the comments below.

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