More Ideas for Your Divided Page Protectors

The reason I chose the theme of divided page protectors for this Month's Roundup Workshop, is that I keep seeing them used all over the internet and in the store, and it's such a great way to scrapbook quickly and still stylish-ly!

I've been reminded by a few people, my husband included, that the idea of using an album with divided page protectors is not new.  Many of us probably had books where we could slide photos into the pages over the years.  The idea seemed to disappear with the advent of modern style scrapbooking and reappear in recent years with the growth of the Project Life album system.  The Project Life system, made popular by Becky Higgins, is a simple way of organizing your scrapbooking, using journaling cards, divided page protectors and 3-ring binders.

But the more I look over Project Life albums on the internet and in person, the more I believe that we can all have this type of album, in more of an individual style, by using divided page protectors (like the WeR Memory Keepers ones we stock in the store) and our own favorite papers and embellishments.

In the class handout, I have described many different configurations of divided page protectors and give you examples I have created.

Since I was inspired by many of the layouts I found on the internet, I wanted to share those with you too.  So here is a small compilation of what I have found...to inspire you!  Click on the photos to link to the blogs and pages where I found them.

Project Life by Ali Edwards

Check out the PL section on her blog for TONS of inspiration!

...by Cathy Zielske

...by Deb Duty

...by Jennifer Woodbury

...by Jessica Sprague

Jessica is a digital scrapper, but her layouts provide a great inspiration for us paper scrappers too!

...by Kelly Purkey

Of course, Kelly has tons of beautiful pages on her blog, but I chose this one because she added a smaller page protector in between her larger ones here.  I find that doing this adds a little surprise and something unexpected to your album.  You could add a small 4" x 6" pocket, adhered to one of your page protectors or stick in a 6" x 6" or 8 1/2" x 11".  Whatever size you use, you create a focal point by switching up the sizes of your pages.

...by Lindsay Teague

I chose this double page spread from all of Lindsay's AMAZING layouts because, it shows how you can combine a divided page protector with a simple 12" x 12" layout/page protector.

Lindsay is a digital scrapbooker and uses a multitude of layout designs in her album, so be sure to click over and see everything on her blog!

...by Liz Tamanaha

Liz also uses page protectors of varying sizes in her albums and has TONS of photos on her blog!

...by Loni Stevens

Imagine how simple it is will be to create pages for the holidays with divided page protectors!

And notice how Loni mixes up the styles of page protectors in her album.

If you're interested in stitching on your layouts, even when you use divided page protector layouts, check out Marcy Penner's Blog!

...by Mary Ann Perry

Mary Ann combines different size page protectors and all sorts of little embellishments in her album!

...by Michelle Wooderson

I like this close up of Michelle's page protector.  It's very cool how she stitches on tons of things in her books and I think a spot for Random Receipts would be a fun addition to our Roundup Layouts too!

Another cool post on Michelle's blog features some little Mother's Day notebooks, decorated with the papers contained in your April kit!

...by Monica McNeill

Now, I know this isn't a layout...but it IS a very cool idea!  Use a transparency, cut to fit your page protector to mount a photo or embellishment!  Even when we're using divided page protectors, it's fine to think outside the box and get creative with our embellishments.  Monica does have tons of other divided page protector layouts on her blog, so be sure to check them out.

...by Sheri Horton

Sheri is a digital scrapbooker who makes lovely layouts in the style of divided page protectors.  These layouts show how we can use regular paper 12" x 12" scrapbook pages to create a divided page protector style Monthly Roundup layout.

I hope you're inspired to try a divided page layout or two...or to start an entire divided page protector album!

For even more inspiration...stop by my Pinterest Page and check out the Project Life Board!

Some Holiday Ideas from Our Favorite Vendors!!!

I want to share a little holiday gift with all of you!  I've looked through all the holiday papers at the store and compiled this list of holiday projects from our vendors blogs and galleries.  As I write this, we still have papers from all of these collections in stock!  So if something strikes your fancy, hurry to Whimzee's and pick it up before it slips away with the holiday season!  These are some of my favorite vendor's holiday ideas!

Check out this beautiful project on Graphic 45's blog! It's a Santa display using their Christmas Past collection...we've still got a few sheets left, hurry in!  I've also got a layout from this collection (detail photo above) on my blog as the Layout of the Week this week!


Download some cool gift tags and even some Christmas photo card templates from Kaisercraft's blog.

We have just a few sheets of American Crafts' Merrymint collection left!  Check out their blog for the Merrymint Week Challenge!

If you love our new cardstocks from Core'dinations, you'll really love their blog!  I love the embossed polka dot card!  Check out all the wonderful ideas for using their cardstock with sand paper!

Looking for a new snowflake card idea?  Find it on the Spotted Canary, the EK Success blog.

I love to create mini albums to help house my holiday memories!  This star shaped one was created with Reminisce's shimmery Santa's Workshop 2009 collection...we still have a few sheets of these papers left!

Be sure to check out My Mind's Eye's blog for a project for each of the 12 days of Christmas!

Don't forget to try our great selection of Best Creations glitter cardstock, for only $2.50 per sheet, it will add the perfect 'bling' to all your holiday projects.  This is our favorite glitter cardstock, it can be cut on the Cricut and the glitter never flakes off!  Try some on your next project!

If you're looking to create beautiful Hanukkah cards and scrapbook pages, be sure to take a look at our Hanukkah papers from EK Success.

Holiday Card & Project Ideas from All Around the Web

In case you haven't checked a calendar in a while, it's November! Yes, NOVEMBER! And that means it's time to get going on all those holiday projects you promised yourself you'd work on this year. We'd love to see what you're working on! If you need some time away from the family to actually get any of your projects done, we totally understand. That's why we're having a crop every Monday night in November, 5pm to 10pm, $5 crop fee (waived with a purchase of $25 or more). Call the store now to sign up (503) 259-9130. We still have our Friday night crops from 6pm to 11pm, but recently they've been filling up fast, so we've added a Monday crop to our schedule. We also still have table time for $1 per hour during the days while the store is open, call to save your space. And for those of you who need more than just a few hours to work on your projects, call to sign up for our All Day crop, November 28th, 10am to 10pm, $10 crop fee (waived with a purchase of $50 or more). Call now to sign up!

And once you're signed up for a crop and know you'll have some time to get some work done, check out these sites for some great holiday inspiration, cards, projects and fun gift ideas.

As we mentioned in the newsletter, there's a great article featuring simple holiday cards & instructions in the November issue of Scrapbook Ellaments online magazine. Sign up & have the magazine sent to your inbox every month, stuffed full of fun ideas.

Sign up for Jessica Sprague's FREE online class Holidays In Hand, where Jessica will help us create a December album full of all the memories from this December. Click HERE to go to Jessica's website, on the opening page, scroll down for the info. on the class.

Another beautiful December album is featured on designer, Ali Edwards's blog right now. Ali creates a December Daily album every year. She shows us how she prepared her book for this year, creating a special page for each day, where she'll add some journaling and a photo for each day in December.

(Personally, I've checked out Ali's album and signed up for Jessica's class. I'm excited to try this for December. If I can get my album done in November, I think I'll be able to fill it in a bit each day. I think I'll combine some of each designer's ideas and come up with my own book. If everyone likes this idea, I can teach a class on it next Fall...let me know!)

If holiday party invitations are on your to-do list, check out check out the holiday invitations on the Make Your Own Invitations blog. They love to have people submit great invitations they've created for inclusion in the blog, I'm submitting some of mine soon.

Here are 25 Holiday Quotes from Creating Keepsakes to download & print and use on your holiday cards, layouts & other projects.

On Creating Keepsakes's blog, I found a cute envelope for that DVD of photos you've been meaning to send to the relatives. Put it in the envelope and send it as their Christmas gift!

I was going to include individual links on to this one, but the home page of Paper Crafts magazine's webpage has so many cool ideas, I thought I'd just link to it & let you choose what you like best. They have 12 online bonus projects for cards & gift ideas, along with a great idea for using recycled Christmas cards you received last year as your cards for this year...such a cool green idea!

Of course, search through the web for holiday ideas just wouldn't be complete without a visit to the craft diva herself, Martha Stewart. Now, I was one of those who used to follow Martha, but kind of got out of the habit when I started to find all these other sources for craft ideas. But lately, I've found myself coming back to Martha for her sense of style and ideas that seem easier to me now than her old ideas did way back then. So check out Martha's Christmas Ideas page for all sorts of fun Christmas ideas. If you give a lot of gift cards, give them a little of your personality this year and check out these great gift card holders.

And just to "toot my own horn" a bit, if you're looking for a nice project to create for your home or to give to a special friend, check out my H-O-M-E project article which is featured in Scrapbooking.com Magazine this month, complete with photos & instructions. I was very excited to be asked to write this article and have my project featured this month. As always, remember to check out my blog JulieChats, to see my latest Layout of the Week or browse through my "Get Your Creative On" section of blogs from all over the web.

You can sign up to have updates to this blog and/or my blog emailed to your account.

Cheerleader Mini Album by Gina Smith

Fall is here, and that means the kids are busy with sports & activities! This mini album was created by Whimzee's customer, Gina Smith. Gina used our custom high school papers from Stamping Station and a 7 Gypsies album. (Album size is 6" x 8", page size is 6" x 6".) This album showcases Gina's daughter's youth cheerleading experience. (After reading the article, scroll down to see the inside pages.) This album shows us that you don't have to have a child in high school to use these cool custom papers. You might use them to create an album for your child's youth sports season. And if you do have a high schooler, you could use this idea to create an album celebrating a special event in your child's high school years. Still need some ideas...how about marching band, science fairs, school plays, homecoming, drill team or just freshman year. Twila scraplifted this idea and created a mini album she plans to use to document her son's high school football season at Aloha. We'll share her album soon!

Yes, we all scraplift, even those of us who are seasoned scrappers, in fact seasoned scrappers probably to scraplift more often than beginners. Scraplifting is a term used by scrapbookers to describe borrowing an idea from another scrapbooker. You might recreate an entire page layout from the design to the papers & embellishments used. You might use another person's design and placement of page elements while using different papers & embellishments. You might borrow only the color scheme of the layout, card or project. These are all forms of scraplifting.

For those of you out there who are beginners, don't be afraid to scraplift! In scrapbooking, we consider it the highest form of flattery when someone appreciates one of our creations enough to scraplift it!

Meet Our Friend Ella!

When I think about it, I'm so surprised at all the cool people I've met and websites I've stumbled upon as a result of being on Twitter. My latest discovery is a very cool website that just published its first eZine this month. (In case you didn't know, an eZine, is a magazine found only on the internet.) Scrapbook Ellaments is a brand new monthly scrapbooking eZine published by Ella Publishing. This month's issue has tips for all those Photoshop users out there and a great free journaling quiz download. The journaling quiz, is a 4" x 6" printable box, complete with questions & blanks for you to fill in your answers. The article has lot's of layouts using the journaling quiz in different ways. I've already printed mine & I can't wait to use it! I'll share my layout with you as soon as I get it done!

One of the great features of Ella Publishing is the downloadable eBooks they sell. You can find all sorts of scrapbooking & photography eBooks for less than $6. Just download them to your computer and read them right there or print them out.

I think this website can be a great source of information and inspiration for all of us scrapbookers! Check it out and I'm sure you'll be just as hooked on it as I am!




Of course, I can share all the cool scrapbooking things I find with you even quicker, if you sign up to follow @JulieChats on Twitter!

Graphic 45 Helps Us Release Our Inner Domestic Goddess

You may not be the perfect housekeeper, chef or seamstress, but that shouldn't stop you from picking up the retro papers from Graphic 45's new Domestic Goddess collection. The 10 new double-sided printed papers and die cut tag sheet showcase a lot of June Cleaver types going about their duties. The 1950's are alive again on these wonderful, colorful papers.

Use them to make some humorous cards for your girlfriends, joking about who's got the best cooking...or take out skills. Use them in your heritage album...make a page with those photos of mom or grandma cooking or sewing. Or use them like I plan to...make something for mom to use in her sewing room. I'm thinking of using them to cover one of those multi-drawer wooden boxes from IKEA. (I'm sure you've got one in your craft room right now.) Don't hold me to it, but if I can get it done before Christmas, I promise to share it with you. I think it would make an awesome gift for not much money!

Summer Inspiration Part 2

Here I am again, up WAY too late cruising the internet getting all inspired to create some new scrapbook layouts! I can't be the only one to cash in on all these great ideas, just waiting to be "scrap-lifted"! Check out some of these cool online idea galleries & blogs...

Creativity Inc.'s Idea Gallery Check out the beautiful layouts featuring Autumn Leaves Acrylic Stamps

Today's Creative Blog Sharing all things creative...

Bo Bunny's Latest Post, an 8 x 8 Birthday Book

Paper Source's Blog Featuring all manner of papercrafting ideas.

Craft Critique's Blog Check it out for the latest on everything in the crafting world, they've got cool photos & videos from the latest CHA convention.

I've found most of these blogs & galleries through twitter & my blog. I can't believe the huge amount of inspiration that's out there when I go looking! I share as much as I can on twitter, so if that's your thing, sign up to follow me @JulieChats. I'm trying to tweet more about what's going on at Whimzee's too. And don't forget to check out my blog JulieChats to find a new layout every week in my Layout of the Week column.

That's all the "Creative-ness" I've got to share right now! See you here next week! New Whimzee's Scrapbook Studio newsletter out next Tuesday, look for it in your inbox or use the brown button on the left to subscribe!

Twila's Baseball Mini Album

We just don't have enough room in the newsletter to share all the photos we'd like to share with you. That's one more reason why we like our blog so much! Scroll down in this post to see all the cool inside pages of Twila's Baseball Pennant Mini Album. She created it using the Party Banner Mini Chipboard book from Creative Imaginations's Bare Elements collection and our new baseball papers & cardstock stickers from Reminisce. Of course she added some ribbon, felt & other embellishments along the way too! Check it out!

Coming soon from Pink Paislee

Twila sent me a link to view all the cool new CHA releases for Pink Paislee. Let us know which ones are your favorites! While I was there, I checked out their blog. They have tons of cool ideas, one for making your jelly, jam, pickle jars look really cute before you give them as gifts. Click HERE to see it.

We hope you're enjoying all our tips, ideas & inspirational info. this summer! Let us know which scrapbook suppliers' products are your favorites. Also tell us which products you'd like to see us carry. We want to use this blog as a way to communicate with our customers in a personal way that allows us to see what it is you'd like to see or do at Whimzee's Scrapbook Studio!

Use the Question/Answer column on the right side of the blog to ask questions & share your answers to others' questions. We know not all of us have the answers to every question, but that some of us have the answers to some questions! So use the Whimzee's Girls Online community as a sounding board for all your scrapbooking & crafting ideas! Thanks for your help!