Jul19
Page Maps July Newsletter has posted!
Like many of you, I’m obsessed with papercrafts, and I spend almost all of my free time involved in it in some capacity or another. I do for my own personal pleasure, and this year, I’ve chosen to turn a passionate hobby of mine into a business. It’s always a goal of mine to add new skills and techniques to my repetoir, but my experiences allow me to share that knowledge with my Stampin’ Up! customers. I ALWAYS learn something new from other people, and then I pass it on!
Because of the internet, there is just an amazing amount of information and resources available for those that have the time to find it or use it. I have too many resources for scrapbooking and cardmaking to mention. Dare I try to mention even a few? I don’t do this to brag, but I always want to share with you information I’ve learned, and will continue to pass on through my blog, or at my stamp-a-stack and scrapbook classes, or pretty much anywhere I meet a fellow stamper or scrapbooker.
I subscribe to about five or six monthly magazines regarding the Paper Crafts Industry. I also attend several conventions per year to take classes at them (as well as shop). I’ll be sharing my first experience at the Stampin’ Up! Convention in Utah, in just a couple of weeks. I can’t wait to go and tell you about that, so stay tuned for that soon. I also browse the Split Coast Stampers Gallery. I’m a member of SUDSOL and other organizations for this art and paper crafts industry. I watch tutorials and videos not only created by other fellow Stampin’ Up! demonstrators, but places like TV weekly, or the Craft Lounge. I subscribe to numerous blogs, yahoo groups, and newsfeeds which are all about scrapbooking, rubberstamping, and crafts in general, like Craft Critique, Scor-Pal, CHA, etc.
Today. I’ll share with you one of my newsletters, called Page Maps, which just sent out their July 2008 newsletter. Page Maps offer a collection of sketches for album pages of different sizes, as well as interesting shapes and dimensions, and traditional card making . Think of it as a template, for when you get stuck in a rut, or simply want to save time, which is exactly why I love them. With all of these resources, why reinvent the wheel if you don’t have to? So PageMaps are more of a blank canvas, with gives the design layout, and you take it from there, as opposed to seeing a finished product, and trying to match colors and embellishments to somehow adapt the original artist’s work to what you have in available product. I do this too, but for some people, it could be easier to look at a blank sketch and run with it. For myself, I find this more true of scrapbooking sketches for 12×12 pages. I absolutely LOVE to use Becky Higgin’s (Creating Keepsakes) sketches, and since I met her years ago, I now keep my own sketch book handy. When my magazines come every month, I draw my favorites as a sketch, without getting cluttered with all the descriptive details and supply lists, and use them frequently.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy Page Maps, and that they help you out. The newsletter is sent out in email form, and the page maps themselves are in PDF format for Adobe, which you can download/save to your computer.
Enjoy!
