'Our Family Scrapbooks’

A delightful book from Creating Keepsakes, ‘Our Family Scrapbooks’ by Lisa Bearnson & Becky Higgins is filled with wonderful photos and delightful layouts.

‘Our Family Scrapbooks’ is ideal for those looking for inspiration or have always wanted to start a scrapbook or a series of scrapbooks for their family. Divided into six different chapters, Lisa Bearnson & Becky Higgins inspire you to gather, share, learn, connect, cherish and appreciate your family.

The albums about family that the two talented ladies have created are just a joy to look at and would make you want to start something for your own family. For those of you who are just looking for inspiring new layouts, this book will help you do just that as well as these albums and the beautiful layouts can always be adapted to suit your theme. That’s the beauty of scrapping!

Filled with short snappy “how to’s” and sketches and bonus layouts, this book will keep you on your toes and itchy for your supplies or your sketchpad. This book also includes ideas on everything from how to create an ‘All About Me’ album to how to scrapbook your child’s yearly school photographs.

Some other highlights of the book include how to document your family line in a single scrapbook page, how to design “fill-in-the-blank” baby albums to give to your friends and how to summarize your childhood in just a few pages. So, would I get this book? Probably for the layouts and the wonderful ideas presented to scrapbook my family.

Results ~ Online Layout Competition

Papier Scrapbooking Challenge II ~
Online Layout Competition Results

~ All the lovely layouts on display @ Papier ~

Dear Ladies,

For those of you who have followed this blog closely, you would already know the winner of the Papier Scrapbooking Challenge II ~ Online Layout Competition. If you don't know who the winner is...

well bring your hands together for...

(drumroll)

Layout #10

Congratulations to the winner Suhaida who also won second place in the Scrapbooking Challenge II. We will be in touch with you shortly.

To everyone who voted, thank you for the votes and for participating.

NEW Goodies!!!

NEW Goodies!!!

(smiles smiles)

~ K & Co scrapbooking kits (Baby boy and girl & Weddings) ~

~ I personally loved the Wedding themed ones ~

~ The pretty matching stickers, ribbons, papers and etc. in the Baby Girl kit ~

~ 329 amazing pieces to use ~ JOY! ~

~ I couldn't help but notic these absolutely gorgeous notebooks by La.di.dah Courtyard album. It makes a perfect journal, book of 'inspiration' or just another pretty thing to add to your colletcion of notebooks/journals ~

~ Making Memories 5th Avenue Collection I love the stunning red and pink die-cuts, chipboard. It's uber chic ~

~ The stunning red and pink die-cuts, chipboard and border stickers ~

~ Pretty coordinating blossoms and buttons ~

~ These are the serenly cool blue and green version of Making Memories 5th Avenue Collection die-cuts, chipboard and border stickers ~

~ A spiral journaling book also from Making Memories 5th Avenue Collection. I loved the black and white designs as well as the design of the different paper in the book.

~ K.I Memories softies stickers. I love the different softie borders and accents ~

~ An idea of how to use K.I Memories border softies in your layout ~

~ A lovely range of stickers from K.I Memories. The doodles are cute but the K.I Memories taglines allow you to specialise each sticker with the information that you want. ~

~ La.di.dah artifacts chipboard accents. Essential patterned alphabets and shapes ~

~ October Afternoon Patterned paper. The Daydream and Detour range = a must! ~

~ October Afternoon journaling cards. You will be able to use these as emblishments to your pages or for a totally different project altogether. The patterns and colours are easy to mix and match with your layout or project ~

~ Our new range of Sizzix cutters. Some of the designs are really cute ~

~ One of our new layouts in Papier ~

July Workshops

July Workshops

For the month of July, we have two mini albums that you can make

Travel Notes (perfect if you intend to or have already traveled)

and Baby Love (a mini keepsake for your little one).

As for card making, we have our current month's Special Occasions (SO01) theme which is Wedding Invitations. So, for those interested in learning a few simple tricks to make your very own unique invites, do sign up for this session.

For more information, contact: 03-7725 4815 .

Guest Designers for Papier

Dear Scrappers,

We are pleased to announce that Papier is now on the lookout for

Guest Designers for our Papier Blog.

All you need to do is just submit your layouts to papierlove@yahoo.com

and we will select several Guest Designers based on the layouts provided.

Each month, we will have a different theme and we will select several lucky scrappers

to try out different materials. The layouts can be done any way you choose,

your creativity is the limit.

All layouts will not only be posted on the blog but will be displayed in-store

for a period of time before we return them to you.

So hurry and send in your layouts.

We look forward to be amazed!

'Adore'

An 'Adorable' layout by Dr Zahilah.

Papier's Scrapbook Challenge II

~ Papier's Scrapbook Challenge II ~

I walked into I walked into Papier halfway through the Scrapbook Challenge and was amazed at the buzz in the air. I saw ten busy ladies hurrying to finish their layouts… some were stamping, some were cutting, others placing embellishments and others with their heads bent over their layouts with their fingers nimbly creating wonderful pieces of art.

~ Pretty Papier goodie bags ~

~ The fantastic prizes for the winners ~

~ All the layouts in a row *pretty embelishments* ~

After 3 hours of intense creativity, the scrappers submitted their layouts and took a break (yummy doughnuts were provided) whilst the judges did the difficult task of selecting the winners of the scrapbook challenge. I sat amongst the three judges and realized that their job was quite a tough one as the ten layouts in front of them were all pretty wonderful.

How was the winner going to be picked? Some of the criteria that the judges looked for were journaling, techniques and yes, even the neatness of the layout. There was also a vote for the favourite layout that ‘supporters’ could vote for which was a pretty interesting twist to the challenge.

~ The judges having the difficult task of picking the winner ~

Finally after much deliberation, the winners were picked.

As a bonus instead of just two prizes, a third prize was also presented.


The third prize was awarded to Kim.



The second prize to Suhaida.

And (drumroll…)

The first prize went to Liza Norman.

~ The top 3 winners of Papier’s Scrapbook Challenge II ~

~ The participants with thier LOs ~

The ladies were all pleasantly surprised to win an were delighted with their gifts, especially Suhaida who was actually eyeing the second prize with joy.

I would say that the Scrapbook Challenge II at Papier was a huge success. Not only did we see awesome layouts but it was wonderful to see so many scrappers come together to not only compete but to scrap together. I believe that scrapping is a hobby that is meant to be shared with friends and family and it was a joy to see a number of family members and friends who came to give their favourite ladies their support.

Overall, I thought that the Papier’s Scrapbook Challenge II was a huge success and I hope that ladies thought so as well... but I dare say from the looks on their faces, they thought so too.

I for one, can’t wait for the third challenge!!!