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July 5, 2024
In Case You Missed It | July 5
Happy Friday, friends! Welcome to the latest
In Case You Missed It. Just a reminder that this is a quick post that will happen every Friday afternoon with all the updates and links that have happened throughout the week. So, let's get to it:
NEW TRAVEL CLASS | START TO FINISH 04
Let us help you bring your travel stories to life! Join contributors Shannon Flatley, Yin Goh, Kendra Wietstock, Kelly Watson, Jeanne Williams, and Diane Dziuban as they each create a travel album using products from the 2024 Travel Collection. In this class you will find a variety of styles and approaches that includes more recent travels as well as travel stories collected from over the years. From planning and organization to creative ways of using products, this class is all about providing you with inspiration and ideas to help you create your own travel album. Learn more and
register here.
2024 TRAVEL COLLECTION
Our brand new 2024 Travel Collection is here! The products are in the warehouse and ready to ship to you! We’re excited to offer free shipping ($20 international flat rate) with a $75 purchase in the travel collection category. Use code TRAVEL24 during checkout. We’ve also got a brand new Start To Finish Travel Workshop coming this summer using products from this collection! Lessons will go live each Friday starting July 5th until August 9th.
NEW CLASS FROM ALI | STASH CLASS
Join Ali for a fun, motivating adventure into some ways to deal with all the scrapbooking stuff you’ve collected over the years and still have. Sometimes we need to press pause on our storytelling adventures for just a bit in order to get a handle on the fun things we’ve added to our physical product toolbox. Let’s come together as a community + spend some time prioritizing starting with our stash to get more of our stories told. In this four week workshop you’ll spend the first two weeks sorting + organizing supplies (or getting ideas about what might work for you) and the second two weeks creating projects using what you already own. Learn more here.
JUNE REVEAL
Final days to subscribe and receive this month's kit! Earlier this month we revealed a new Story Kit™ theme: NATURE! This month we are turning our eyes and hearts and memories to the natural world with a kit inviting you to document nature. Whether you are an indoor person who enjoys looking out the windows or growing plants inside or someone who can't imagine not living as much of your life out in the woods as possible let's get some stories told about our life experiences with nature. In addition to our new Story Kit™ theme, we also have a brand new Stories By The Month™ kit, and the next edition in our Alphas Are Awesome series. Head to the blog for Ali’s post with all the details about this month’s release.
JULY DIGITALS
The first Friday of every month we have a new digital release available in the shop. Play with scale, recolor objects, add journaling, print multiples…the sky is the limit when playing with digitals. Shop digitals here.
2024 PROJECTS + PRODUCTS SCHEDULE
As we continuing easing into 2024 we put together an overview of our schedule of projects + product releases for the upcoming year. We are sharing this as a way for you to plan, think about what you might want to participate in this year, and simply share some of the things we have coming up to help support + inspire storytelling. For the last few years we've followed a fairly similar cadence for our releases and our major projects will follow that release schedule again this year. Please note that, as you might imagine, this schedule is subject to change throughout the year based on a variety of variables. Find the post here.
As always, we’re so grateful to have you all as members of this community! Thanks for joining me today and have a great weekend!
July 3, 2024
2024 Travel Collection | Special Guest Nolana Lynch
Hello Everyone! Nolana here! I am so very excited to be with you to share my plans for using this year’s gorgeous travel collection. Travel stories are some of my favourites and I could not wait to dig in!
I am kicking things off by documenting a lovely trip we took to Noosa Beach a few weekends ago. This trip tends to be a beautiful break from the winter chill and is only a 2-hour drive from where we live. I decided to incorporate this into my Project Life album using pocket cards. This year’s main kit includes vellum and cardstock journal cards. Over the years, I have collected many travel-themed journal cards - so I am ecstatic to be using them for this first set of layouts.
I love how the “Wanderlust” die-cut looks layered over the vellum card “Much Much Needed Break” and I enjoy seeing three of our photos from the trip, even though one is from a page protector below. I attached the die-cut to some ribbon and created a closure with the back page of the layouts for this trip.
On Day 2 of our trip - Saturday, we visited the famous Eumundi Market for the very first time and it was everything I dreamed it would be and more! For this layout, I used a 3x4 card and created a swivel with one of the die cuts, paired with two 4x6 cards which I created a flip-up.
For the next page, I documented what turned out to be my favourite dinner for the trip - at Seasons Restaurant right on the beach. I added in two 3x4 cards - 1 a vellum background with a circle in the centre, the perfect space for one of the pleather circles, and the other a tag.
I then added a tag to one of the photos on the other page to balance things off.
To close things off, I added a few journal cards to the back side and a piece of 7x8.25 inch acetate from my stash, affixed to the ribbon.
I do hope you’ve enjoyed this blog post, and it inspires you to document more travel stories!
Find more inspiration from Nolana on Instagram here.
June 29, 2024
Project Life® 2024 | January through April Walk-Through
Today I'm sharing a walk-through of my 2024 Project Life® album from January through April.
Individual posts for each of these spreads are available here on the blog under the Project Life® archive category.
June 28, 2024
In Case You Missed It | June 28
Happy Friday, friends! Welcome to the latest
In Case You Missed It. Just a reminder that this is a quick post that will happen every Friday afternoon with all the updates and links that have happened throughout the week. So, let's get to it:
2024 TRAVEL COLLECTION | FINAL DAY FOR FREE SHIPPING
Our brand new 2024 Travel Collection is here! The products are in the warehouse and ready to ship to you! We’re excited to offer free shipping ($20 international flat rate) with a $75 purchase in the travel collection category. Use code TRAVEL24 during checkout. We’ve also got a brand new Start To Finish Travel Workshop coming this summer using products from this collection! Lessons will go live each Friday starting July 5th until August 9th. Sign up by July 3rd at 11:59 pm ET to get the workshop at our early introductory price of $25. Starting July 4th the price will go up to $30. Use code ADVENTURE5 for $5 off registration. As with all of our collections, we will have digitals available the first Friday of July, July 5th. Everything that translates to the digital format will be available, including album art.
PLEASE NOTE: You can use both promo codes (free shipping and class discount) at checkout, however you must purchase $75 in physical product to meet the free shipping threshold. The cost of the class will NOT count towards that minimum.
NEW TRAVEL CLASS | START TO FINISH 04
Let us help you bring your travel stories to life! Join contributors Shannon Flatley, Yin Goh, Kendra Wietstock, Kelly Watson, Jeanne Williams, and Diane Dziuban as they each create a travel album using products from the 2024 Travel Collection. Sign up by July 4th at 11:59 pm ET to get the workshop at our introductory price of $25. Starting July 5th the price will go up to $30.
In this class you will find a variety of styles and approaches that includes more recent travels as well as travel stories collected from over the years. From planning and organization to creative ways of using products, this class is all about providing you with inspiration and ideas to help you create your own travel album. Learn more and
register here.
NEW CLASS FROM ALI | STASH CLASS
Join Ali for a fun, motivating adventure into some ways to deal with all the scrapbooking stuff you’ve collected over the years and still have. Sometimes we need to press pause on our storytelling adventures for just a bit in order to get a handle on the fun things we’ve added to our physical product toolbox. Let’s come together as a community + spend some time prioritizing starting with our stash to get more of our stories told. In this four week workshop you’ll spend the first two weeks sorting + organizing supplies (or getting ideas about what might work for you) and the second two weeks creating projects using what you already own. SIGN UP BEFORE JUNE 18th AND SAVE $5 OFF W/CODE STASHCLASS IN ALI’S NEWEST CLASS. Learn more here.
JUNE REVEAL
Earlier this month we revealed a new Story Kit™ theme: NATURE! This month we are turning our eyes and hearts and memories to the natural world with a kit inviting you to document nature. Whether you are an indoor person who enjoys looking out the windows or growing plants inside or someone who can't imagine not living as much of your life out in the woods as possible let's get some stories told about our life experiences with nature. In addition to our new Story Kit™ theme, we also have a brand new Stories By The Month™ kit, and the next edition in our Alphas Are Awesome series. Head to the blog for Ali’s post with all the details about this month’s release.
JUNE DIGITALS
The first Friday of every month we have a new digital release available in the shop. Play with scale, recolor objects, add journaling, print multiples…the sky is the limit when playing with digitals. Shop digitals here.
2024 PROJECTS + PRODUCTS SCHEDULE
As we continuing easing into 2024 we put together an overview of our schedule of projects + product releases for the upcoming year. We are sharing this as a way for you to plan, think about what you might want to participate in this year, and simply share some of the things we have coming up to help support + inspire storytelling. For the last few years we've followed a fairly similar cadence for our releases and our major projects will follow that release schedule again this year. Please note that, as you might imagine, this schedule is subject to change throughout the year based on a variety of variables. Find the post here.
As always, we’re so grateful to have you all as members of this community! Thanks for joining me today and have a great weekend!
Project Life® 2024 | Week 17
In this post I'm sharing a look at Week 17 in my 2024 Project Life® album.
This is the same week as I documented Week In The Life™ this year. My goal in this spread, along with simply getting some stories told, was to play with some of the larger die cuts that were included in the April Stories By The Month™ kit.
Let's dive in to the process video:
Here's a look at the spread via images:
This was a fun one to put together.
As I looked back at all the photos I took during Week In The LIfe™ to figure out which ones to add to this spread I simply picked a few that I felt represented the week/the season as a whole. I knew I didn't need to write a lot so I decided to write from today (end of June) with a looking back perspective (most of the time when I add stories to Project Life I'm writing with a present day perspective).
I used a tab sticker from the April kit to create a flip up on top of one of my photos. I used a long reach stapler to get into that spot.
On top of three of my 4x6 photos I adhered the long tag strips and then ran it through my sewing machine.
To play with some of the larger die cut tags I created a new shape by printing a similar sized photo, taping the back of the die cut + my photo, and then backing it with white cardstock before adhering it to one of the vellum 4x6 cards. I added gold brads and a gold label sticker to repeat the gold on the vellum flip up.
I used the 1/2 circle "the story" die cut pieces to create journal cards with the 4x6 vellum (cut in half). You can print directly on the vellum or you can print on a transpareny and add it on top of the vellum. I ran it through the sewing machine a couple times to add the yellow stitching along the top. On the other side of these I'll repeat this same shape (I did that on Week 16 - I put together Week 17 before 16 this time).
I cut up the "looks like this" card and turned that into a tab added to one of my photos. I added a photo onto the "today was" tag and a little strip from another 4x6 card to the bottom.
It feels so good to have some space to fill in the pockets again!
SUPPLIES9x12 Album 9x12 Page Protectors April 2024 Stories By The Month Kit StazOn Ink Rolling Date Stamp Long Reach Stapler Scrapbook.com Rolling Adhesive Tiny Attacher Epson PictureMate PM400 Printer Other basic supplies can be found via my Amazon Storefront (printers, etc)
June 27, 2024
Project Life® 2024 | Week 16
And I'm back!
Working on content for my new Stash workshop (and a little more space in my schedule) has really gotten me excited about working on my weekly Project Life again. Today I'm sharing Week 16 and tomorrow I'll share Week 17 as I actually worked on them together.
Keeping it simple. Getting the pockets filled. Having fun in the process + letting it be what it is for me in this season.
Let's dive in:
Here's a look at the spread in my album:
Chipboard from April STBM + mini brads + Slick Writer pen + a little stitching to capture a few pieces from this week.
Loving using the weekly transparent cards on top of pattern cards from my stash (you can grab the file + print your own here).
I've got yellow thread in my sewing machine right now and I love the pop of color it's adding to my projects.
9x12 Album
9x12 Page Protectors
April 2024 Stories By The Month KitJuly 2024 Stories By The Month Kit
StazOn Ink
Rolling Date Stamp
Scrapbook.com Rolling Adhesive
Tiny Attacher
Epson PictureMate PM400 Printer
Other basic supplies can be found via my Amazon Storefront (printers, etc)
June 21, 2024
In Case You Missed It | June 21
Happy Friday, friends! Welcome to the latest
In Case You Missed It. Just a reminder that this is a quick post that will happen every Friday afternoon with all the updates and links that have happened throughout the week. So, let's get to it:
OUR 2024 TRAVEL COLLECTION IS NOW AVAILABLE
Our brand new 2024 Travel Collection is here! Click on the link in our profile to shop this awesome new collection! The products are in the warehouse and ready to ship to you! We’re excited to offer free shipping ($20 international flat rate) with a $75 purchase in the travel collection category. Use code TRAVEL24 during checkout. We’ve also got a brand new Start To Finish Travel Workshop coming this summer using products from this collection! Lessons will go live each Friday starting July 5th until August 9th. Sign up by July 3rd at 11:59 pm ET to get the workshop at our early introductory price of $25. Starting July 4th the price will go up to $30. Use code ADVENTURE5 for $5 off registration. As with all of our collections, we will have digitals available the first Friday of July, July 5th. Everything that translates to the digital format will be available, including album art. PLEASE NOTE: You can use both promo codes (free shipping and class discount) at checkout, however you must purchase $75 in physical product to meet the free shipping threshold. The cost of the class will NOT count towards that minimum.
NEW TRAVEL CLASS | START TO FINISH 04
Let us help you bring your travel stories to life! Join contributors Shannon Flatley, Yin Goh, Kendra Wietstock, Kelly Watson, Jeanne Williams, and Diane Dziuban as they each create a travel album using products from the 2024 Travel Collection. Sign up by July 4th at 11:59 pm ET to get the workshop at our introductory price of $25. Starting July 5th the price will go up to $30.In this class you will find a variety of styles and approaches that includes more recent travels as well as travel stories collected from over the years. From planning and organization to creative ways of using products, this class is all about providing you with inspiration and ideas to help you create your own travel album. Learn more and register here.
NEW CLASS FROM ALI | STASH CLASS
Join Ali for a fun, motivating adventure into some ways to deal with all the scrapbooking stuff you’ve collected over the years and still have. Sometimes we need to press pause on our storytelling adventures for just a bit in order to get a handle on the fun things we’ve added to our physical product toolbox. Let’s come together as a community + spend some time prioritizing starting with our stash to get more of our stories told. In this four week workshop you’ll spend the first two weeks sorting + organizing supplies (or getting ideas about what might work for you) and the second two weeks creating projects using what you already own. SIGN UP BEFORE JUNE 18th AND SAVE $5 OFF W/CODE STASHCLASS IN ALI’S NEWEST CLASS. Learn more here.
JUNE REVEAL
Earlier this month we revealed a new Story Kit™ theme: NATURE! This month we are turning our eyes and hearts and memories to the natural world with a kit inviting you to document nature. Whether you are an indoor person who enjoys looking out the windows or growing plants inside or someone who can't imagine not living as much of your life out in the woods as possible let's get some stories told about our life experiences with nature. In addition to our new Story Kit™ theme, we also have a brand new Stories By The Month™ kit, and the next edition in our Alphas Are Awesome series. Head to the blog for Ali’s post with all the details about this month’s release.
JUNE DIGITALS
The first Friday of every month we have a new digital release available in the shop. Play with scale, recolor objects, add journaling, print multiples…the sky is the limit when playing with digitals. Shop digitals here.
2024 PROJECTS + PRODUCTS SCHEDULE
As we continuing easing into 2024 we put together an overview of our schedule of projects + product releases for the upcoming year. We are sharing this as a way for you to plan, think about what you might want to participate in this year, and simply share some of the things we have coming up to help support + inspire storytelling. For the last few years we've followed a fairly similar cadence for our releases and our major projects will follow that release schedule again this year. Please note that, as you might imagine, this schedule is subject to change throughout the year based on a variety of variables. Find the post here.
As always, we’re so grateful to have you all as members of this community! Thanks for joining me today and have a great weekend!
Start To Finish Travel Workshop #4
Along with the release of our
2024 Travel Collection, we are excited to offer a brand new Start To Finish Travel Workshop using products from this collection. From planning and organization to creative ways of using products, this class is all about bringing your travel memories to life by providing you with inspiration and ideas to help you create your own travel scrapbook.
This year we are delighted to welcome Shannon Flatley, Yin Goh, Kendra Wietstock, Kelly Watson, Jeanne Williams, and Diane Dziuban as contributors. All of these talented memory-keepers have a passion for storytelling and love documenting their vacations and travels. Here is just sample of the awesome content they are planning for you in their lessons.
Diane will be sharing her best advice for overcoming the hurdles of putting together a large album. She will also share how she incorporates stamping throughout her album to create cohesiveness.
Shannon will share her approach for organizing a multi-year album to the same destination. She is also including creative ideas for using stamps to create backgrounds and embellishments.
Yin is sharing how she scrapbooks on the road with a traveler’s notebook. For this class she will show you how she created a DIY notebook and then how she brings it all together with ephemera and embellishments once she gets home.
Kelly is also putting together a compilation album of trips to a favorite lake resort over the years. She will share tips for using a design formula to create a cohesive album as well as ideas for mixing in older photos with newer digital images.
Travel albums are
Kendra's absolute favorite project to complete, and in this class she is sharing her ideas for planning before and during her travels. She is also including tips for album set up and how she includes bits and pieces of ephemera in her completed album.
Jeanne will share her approach for gathering inspiration, organizing photos and creating an album plan. She will also share ideas for creating your own transparencies and creative tips for incorporating ephemera.
Class registration is now open. Then starting July 5th, lesson content will be released on a weekly basis in 4-lesson blocks (3 lessons + a completed album walkthrough and still images). Sign up by July 3rd at 11:59 pm ET and use the code ADVENTURE5 to save $5 and get this workshop for the introductory price of $25*. Starting July 4th the price will go up to $30.
*Valid until 7/3/2024 at 11:59pm ET. Promo code must be entered at checkout. Some exclusions may apply. Cannot be combined with other codes. Not valid on previous purchases. Not responsible for forgotten or misused promo codes. Offer subject to change. Valid on our new Travel 2024 Class only.
Our goal for this class is for you to come away feeling inspired to create and complete a travel project of your own. So let us help you preserve your memories and create a treasured keepsake that will allow you to relive your travels for years to come.
June 19, 2024
Travel Collection 2024 | Preview
Welcome to our 2024 Travel Collection preview post!
We are super excited to share that this collection will be available on
Thursday, June 20th at Noon EST. The products are in the warehouse and ready to ship to you! We're excited to offer free shipping ($20 international flat rate) with a $75 purchase in the travel collection category. Use code TRAVEL24 during checkout. For your convenience, we've added a few things to the Travel Collection category including our restocked plastic attacher stickers. a selection of albums, page protectors, inks, and more.
*Shipping offer valid through 11:59pm EST on 06/28/24. Must enter promo code at checkout to receive a special shipping offer. Cart must include a minimum subtotal of $75 from the Travel Collection shop category to qualify. Offer subject to change.
PLEASE NOTE: You can use both promo codes (free shipping and class discount) at checkout, however you must purchase $75 in physical product to meet the free shipping threshold. The cost of the class will NOT count towards that minimum.
As with all of our collections, we will have digitals available the first Friday of July, July 5th. Everything that translates to the digital format will be available, including album art.
TRAVEL WORKSHOP | START TO FINISH No. 4
We've got a brand new Start To Finish Travel Workshop coming this summer using products from this collection! Registration will open on June 20th. Lessons will go live each Friday starting July 5th until August 9th.
Sign up by July 3rd at 11:59 pm ET to get the workshop at our early introductory price of $25. Starting July 4th the price will go up to $30. Use code ADVENTURE5 for $5 off registration.
*Valid until 7/3/2024 at 11:59pm ET. Promo code must be entered at checkout. Some exclusions may apply. Cannot be combined with other codes. Not valid on previous purchases. Not responsible for forgotten or misused promo codes. Offer subject to change. Valid on our new Travel 2024 Class only.
Contributors this year include:
Shannon Flatley Yin Goh Kendra Wietstock Kelly Watson Jeanne Williams Diane Dziuban
Content will begin on July 5th.
Our limited number of "buy all" bundles include all new collection products shown below with the exception of the sweatshirt.
Here's a look at individual images in the collection:
Here are some fun in-use images:
4x6 THE BEST PARTS STAMP SET // $19.99 
4x6 TRAVEL ALPHAS STAMP SET // $19.99
6x8 GO AND SEE STAMP SET // $28.99 
6x8 HERE WE GO STAMP SET // $28.99
TRAVEL VIBES CHIPBOARD SHEET // $6.99
TRAVEL VIBES PLASTIC TAG SET // $9.99
WANDER FARTHER PAPER DIE CUT PACK // $9.99
TRAVEL 2024 THIN ALPHA PUFFY STICKER SHEET // $5.99
TRAVEL VIBES TAB STICKER SHEET // $3.99
June 14, 2024
In Case You Missed It | June 14
Happy Friday, friends! Welcome to the latest
In Case You Missed It. Just a reminder that this is a quick post that will happen every Friday afternoon with all the updates and links that have happened throughout the week. So, let's get to it:
NEW CLASS FROM ALI | STASH CLASS
Join Ali for a fun, motivating adventure into some ways to deal with all the scrapbooking stuff you’ve collected over the years and still have. Sometimes we need to press pause on our storytelling adventures for just a bit in order to get a handle on the fun things we’ve added to our physical product toolbox. Let’s come together as a community + spend some time prioritizing starting with our stash to get more of our stories told. In this four week workshop you’ll spend the first two weeks sorting + organizing supplies (or getting ideas about what might work for you) and the second two weeks creating projects using what you already own. SIGN UP BEFORE JUNE 18th AND SAVE $5 OFF W/CODE STASHCLASS IN ALI’S NEWEST CLASS. Learn more here.
2024 TRAVEL RELEASE HAPPENING JUNE 20TH
We’re counting down till June 20th and that means we are sharing a series of sneaks on instagram and in our Facebook Group leading up to the launch of our brand new 2024 Travel Collection. The collection will hit the shop next week. A preview post, including product videos, pricing, shipping and more will be shared on the blog prior to the release. Digitals for this collection will be available as part of our July digital release, happening the first Friday of July. We’re also excited to share that we have a new travel class with completed albums from some of our amazing community members in progress. We can’t wait to share this collection with you!
JUNE REVEAL
Earlier this month we revealed a new Story Kit™ theme: NATURE! This month we are turning our eyes and hearts and memories to the natural world with a kit inviting you to document nature. Whether you are an indoor person who enjoys looking out the windows or growing plants inside or someone who can't imagine not living as much of your life out in the woods as possible let's get some stories told about our life experiences with nature. In addition to our new Story Kit™ theme, we also have a brand new Stories By The Month™ kit, and the next edition in our Alphas Are Awesome series. Head to the blog for Ali’s post with all the details about this month’s release.
JUNE DIGITALS
The first Friday of every month we have a new digital release available in the shop. Play with scale, recolor objects, add journaling, print multiples…the sky is the limit when playing with digitals. Shop digitals here.
2024 PROJECTS + PRODUCTS SCHEDULE
As we continuing easing into 2024 we put together an overview of our schedule of projects + product releases for the upcoming year. We are sharing this as a way for you to plan, think about what you might want to participate in this year, and simply share some of the things we have coming up to help support + inspire storytelling. For the last few years we've followed a fairly similar cadence for our releases and our major projects will follow that release schedule again this year. Please note that, as you might imagine, this schedule is subject to change throughout the year based on a variety of variables. Find the post here.
As always, we’re so grateful to have you all as members of this community! Thanks for joining me today and have a great weekend!
