I trust everyone had a lovely holiday with family and friends and took lots of photo’s of your memories. As I slowly recover from my Christmas food coma, I would like to share a project that was inspired by a challenge item included in my Design Team Kit . Along with the super cute Echo […]
Hello Nerds! I have loved watercolorus since i took art classes as a little girl. I especially love how the watercolour dries when splatter on paper, and how it can beautifully can add color to a scrapbook background. On my last month reveal, I used a watercolor background on one of the layouts, and […]
Hello everyone. Welcome back to another issue of our Scrapbook Nerd Academy. Today I have a very quick and easy tutorial for you – making any of your pre-made embellishments into epoxy embellishments. I saw this tutorial on the Pebbles Blog and it has changed the look of my pages right now. I love the […]
Hello All, December 1st! Wow. I can’t believe it is here already. And this week was my last reveal week of 2016. Here are a few things I shared: Awesome Dude: Using the free cut file from the Scrapbook Nerd store, I created a layout featuring my oldest son. Love the bright colours of the […]
Hello All, During the past month, even as I began doing holiday crafts and cards, I set a goal to start and complete an album documenting our summer trip. We have two boys, and we are all avid baseball fans, so we planned a trip to the U.S. to visit a couple of baseball stadiums […]
I had a large amount of photo’s I wanted to create a layout for, way to many for a single 12 x 12 so I decided to get out my WRMK Fuse Tool and see what I could come up with. Using the Simple Stories – So Fancy Collection and some elements from the Simple Stories – Life in […]
I am a slow scrapbooker. When I first started scrapbooking and was simply adding photos to a page with a few pieces of paper and a smattering of themed stickers, I could make several pages in less than an hour. Then I went to a crop with a much more experienced scrapbooking friend and I […]
Hello everyone, and welcome back to another Nerd Academy on Scrapbook Nerd. This tutorial is all about embellishment clusters. I love embellishing a page. It’s my favourite part of the whole layout process. I also love that the manufacturers give us plenty of embellishment options. Sometimes, however, you can look at all the bits and pieces and think “what am I supposed to […]
Fall inspired candle holders. To make these quick and easy candle holders you will need 6″ x 12″ Washi Tape sheets, jars, and scissors, punches, die cut machine and/or dies. Measure the height and circumference of your jar . Choose a pattern with little to no detail and cut out your shape/s. Next take […]
Hello! I can’t believe how fast this week has passed, and now it is time to share all my September projects with you all. This month, I drew my inspiration from different places, and played with different paper collections along the way. Black and white photos, lots of white space and simplicity were the […]
Hello everyone! It is been a while since my last post, that even the season has changed. Well today, i am back with a tutorial -no video this week- on how to stretch a cut file. I don’t know about you, but i always try to see how can i use every single piece of […]
In the past two weeks with the kids returning to school, I have had to face two of my least favourite things: making school lunches and piles and piles of papers coming home and landing on my kitchen counter. While I unfortunately have not found a way to tackle the lunches with paper and glue […]
Hello Nerds! I am here to hare with you a layout of mine, using something that I created for my background. Super easy way to make stamps! One would think, while looking at all my stamps (and there are quite a bit!) that I would have a choice of patterns, like flowers. Honestly, I […]
This week I am working with the My Mind’s Eye – Happy Camper Collection Papers and Embellishments and continuing with my Gelato obsession . For this layout I decided to try a more subtle background, more of a water-colour look so I could later add word stamps. Supplies needed : Gelatos, stamps, water mister, paper towels, cardstock, […]
Hello Nerds! I don’t know about you, but sometimes I take a step back from my scrapbooking and ask myself, “Is there a supply I love and just haven’t been using much of lately?” When I asked that question this week, there were a couple of things that came immediately to mind: vellum, and embossing […]
Hello everyone, and welcome back to another Tutorial Tuesday on Scrapbook Nerd. This week I’m sharing a very quick tutorial and a frugal tip for you. Have you ever been working on a project, and find that you just don’t have the right embellishments for the page? Maybe it’s a subject matter that isn’t considered […]
Hello! It’s Laura here with a super easy project for you, and it is such fun. My husband and I (well, actually, more like my husband!) are in the process of renovating our daughter’s room, to make her a big girl’s room. He is in charge of the actual construction, and we (my daughter and […]
Hello everyone!, I hope you all are enjoying the last half of summer; it is amazing how fast this year is moving. Today, I am back with a new installment of the Silhouette Savvy Series. This time we will be looking on how the Silhouette software can be used to create a simple […]
This week I will be sharing the projects I have been working on using the Simple Stories – So Fancy Collection. For this project I decided to create my own background, I wanted something Bold and Colourful to pop my photo of some really great girlfriends of mine! Gathering the supplies needed – Gelatos, Mini […]
Hello, and welcome to this week’s project share!! It has been a lot of fun sharing my projects with you all this week; here is a recap of all the projects: HELLO LIFE This layout used Simple Stories’ Sunshine and Happiness collection to document my daughter’s first zip-lining adventure. CREATE This layout was […]
Hello everyone!, Nathalie here, I hope you all are enjoying the beautiful weather, and using the extra daylight to create beautiful projects. For this tutorial – and continuing with the Silhouette Savvy series -, we will be exploring how to create a compound design by welding shapes together using the Silhouette Studio program. For […]
Hi, It’s Paige here, back with a week of reveals and today’s tutorial. This year I got the Pink Paislee’s Outfitters Collection to document summer excursions and camping trips. I really liked the new canvas banners they included in the collection. I notice that the new Crate Paper Cool Kid kit just coming […]
Hello Nerds!! I am here to share with you on how to make a card, a fun card—Shakers!! With Jillibean Soup’s Shape shaker products, it is super easy, and really fun. First step, collect your supplies: card base, patterned paper, die cut pieces, metal dies, shape shakers, sequins, adhesive, For my tutorial, I used Jillibean Soup’s Mushroom […]
I was looking on Pinterest for some new ways to use twine and I stumbled across these cute flowers from Michelle from “Lady of Leisure Ink “guest posting on “The Bug Bytes February 2012”. I have made a few adjustments to suit my needs and this is what I came up with. You don’t […]
Hello everyone!, I hope you all are enjoying some summer relaxation, and getting ready to craft at the 4th On-line Scrapbook Nerd Creative Summer Camp -it promises to be a fun one-. We have been hard at work preparing lots of fun challenges and games for you all. In addition, the store is releasing a […]
http://static.inlinkz.com/ppr.js Hello everyone! Welcome back for another Tutorial Tuesday here on Scrapbook Nerd. I’m so happy to be back on the blog sharing this tutorial with you. I’m sharing another foiling tutorial with you today. This time, it is with the Heidi Swapp Reactive Screen Inks. I’ve been anxiously awaiting for this ink to come […]
Hello All! I love tags! I really, really love tags – all shapes, sizes and colours. And therefore, I have more tags than I need, and wanted to focus on using some on my layout (I typically use them on cards, or sometimes stuck behind papers on a layout). I am using Maggie Holmes “Bloom” […]
Hello Nerds! I hope you all are enjoying the beautiful weather, and getting lots of crafting done. This month, I was inspired to create using lots of white space, and focusing on the picture. Since I wanted the titles to stand out on my white layouts (since most of them were made on white cardstock), […]
Hi!!!! Welcome to the blog! Laura here, with a cute idea for the upcoming holiday–Father’s Day! I don’t know about you, but it seems to get harder and harder to buy different presents for my husband every year. I mean, how many ties, slippers, and such can he get?? LOL One thing I have to […]
Hello Nerds! This month I was inspired by the lovely spring Pinkfresh Studio “Felicity” collection. Even though I did not yet have many outdoor photos, I still was craving spring and loved the bright colours in these papers. In my last tutorial, I talked about letting the story lead. I also mentioned that sometimes my […]