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Creative Team Digest

March 02, 2018 Card Making Creative Team Design Team projects general Inspiration Inspsired Nerd Layout sketches Mixed Media Nerd Academy New products Scrapbooking sketches Tips & Tutorials Videos What's new in store

Hello there! It is March already! And we all are thinking of Spring, flowers and nicer weather. Or at least are wishing for nicer weather to come! This week our Creative team has been hard at work bringing a bit of inspiration for all of you! Let’s see what they have been […]

Layering chipboard pieces without adding bulk

February 27, 2018 chipboard sticker Crate Paper Design Team projects dimension distress oxides general Good Vibes collection Inspiration Inspsired Nerd layered chipboard Mixed Media mixed media background Nathalie DeSousa Nerd Academy New products process video Product Information Scrapbooking Tips & Tutorials tutorial Videos What's new in store

Hello friends! Hope you are ready to start a new month! It seems like this year is flying by, and now we are ready to put the winter gear away, and start to see how Spring starts to pop around us. Today, I want to bring you a new layout that is fun, and colorful, […]

Nerd Girl Friday Digest

February 09, 2018 Card Making Design Team projects free cut file Free cut files general Inspiration Mixed Media Scrapbooking Tips & Tutorials Valentine

It’s Friday, where did the week go? This week’s creative team projects… Hello all you wonderful scrappy Nerds, it’s Gisele here to bring you this week’s all things scrappy from our creative team. We have some wonderful Valentine themed projects for you, so let’s get started. I had a tutorial earlier this week, where I made this […]

VALENTINE CARD AND A BONUS…

February 05, 2018 Card Making Design Team projects general Inspiration Nerd Academy Scrapbooking Tips & Tutorials

Hey scrappy Nerds, Gisele here to bring you a Valentine card tutorial and a little bonus… a small treat bag. Some of the materials used: American Crafts Thickers: Together, Rose and Sweetest. Also from Crate Paper: Main Squeeze 6×6 paper pad, stickers. I used a bow punch too, Tim Holtz ruler for measuring, Tim Holtz […]

Creative Team Weekly Digest

February 01, 2018 Card Making design team members Design Team projects Free cut files general Inspiration Inspsired Nerd Mixed Media Nerd Academy scrapboking Scrapbooking The Cut Shoppe Tips & Tutorials video tutorial Videos weekly digest

Hi there! Nathalie with you today bringing you a bit of inspiration courtesy of the amazing Scrapbook Nerd Design team. First up is Gisele with a sweet and colorful layout about her grand-nieces. She is a master at combining colors and designs in one page. For this page, she is using Photoplay Paper’s “I […]

Silhouette Savvy Series: Welding Cut Files

January 30, 2018 Design Team projects free cut file Free cut files general Inspiration Love song cut file Marble paper Mixed Media Nathalie DeSousa Nerd Academy New products Product Information Scrapbooking silhouette Savvy Series Simple Stories Simple stories Romance collection The Cut Shoppe Tips & Tutorials Videos watercolor weld cut file Yupo paper

Hi there! Hope you are doing well! We are heading into February (time is flying!), and that means “Valentine’s day”. The store will be releasing a few free cut files, this month. The Love Story cut file is available now and the rest will follow on Feb, 1st. I wanted to show you an […]

THEME WEEK at SCRAPBOOK NERD: another use for your Christmas papers… and using a mood board.

January 09, 2018 Card Making Design Team projects general Inspiration Nerd Academy Scrapbooking Tips & Tutorials

Hey all you scrappy nerds, Gisele here with some scrappy goodness. This week is theme week to get you to try a mood board as inspiration. How beautiful is this board? If you have never played with a mood board, then maybe this is your cue. You use colours, or textures, or patterns… from this picture […]

Easy LLAMA Home Decor Idea

January 02, 2018 Crate Paper Good Vibes collection Design Team projects DIY home decor Inspiration Nerd Academy Tips & Tutorials

Hello there crafty friends, It’s Joy here today with a quick and easy home decor project using a new favourite of mine…a cute little Alpaca! For this project I’m thinking of this guy as a Llama so I can use a trendy quote reference. One sheet of pattern paper, one sheet of cardstock, a picture […]

Scrapbook Nerd Girl Digest | Weekly Review

December 29, 2017 Christmas cards Crate Paper Fa La La collection Design Team projects designers general Inspiration Inspsired Nerd MFT Happy Pawlidays stamp and Die set Nerd challenges Photoplay Scrapbooking Tips & Tutorials weekly digest WInter Meadow

Hi there! Even after the Christmas festivities, the Nerdy Girls have been working on sharing a few projects to give you a bit of inspiration. Let’s just see what they have been up to: Mari shared a set of of beautiful Christmas cards. She has used Crate Paper’s FALALA collection to create two […]

Using Mixed Media to Mute your Backgrounds

December 26, 2017 background design team project Design Team projects Inspiration JustNick cut Fiie Meadow Winter Mixed Media Nathalie DeSousa Nerd Academy New products Phototplay Product Information scrapbook nerd Scrapbooking Tips & Tutorials What's new in store

Hi there! Hope you all had a blessed and peaceful Christmas! Now, we start the countdown to the end of the year. Wow, time has flown by! Today, I wanted to share with you a small idea on how to mute busy backgrounds using a bit of mixed media. I found it that […]

Choose Your Angle | Mari Clarke

December 19, 2017 general Inspiration Nerd Academy Scrapbooking Tips & Tutorials

Hey everyone, thanks so much for stopping by the blog today! I have a fun, winter themed layout to share with you today using a sketch created by team member Milena. I love working from a sketch and I especially love a diagonal design. This particular sketch suggested the creation of the angle by cutting […]

Extend Your Single Sketch

December 12, 2017 general Inspiration Layout sketches Nerd Academy Scrapbook Nerd layout Sketches Tips & Tutorials

Sometimes I have a single page sketch I really like but the photos I want to work with are from a trip or at an event and I need more than a single page. An easy way to take a sketch and turn it into a double page layout is to use that single page sketch […]

DISNEY MINI TUTORIAL …

December 05, 2017 general Inspiration Nerd Academy Tips & Tutorials

Hey nerd friends, Gisele here with a tutorial on Disney autograph books I made earlier this fall for my 2 grandnieces. I used the Say Cheese collection(stickers and papers) by Simple Stories from the store. First was designing a cover for my mini; this picture shows the plastic I put over the album to […]

Silhouette Savvy Series – Stitching Guides

November 28, 2017 Advent collection Bella Blvd. Illustrated Faith Countdown to Christmas Design Team projects hand stitched Inspiration Mixed Media Nathalie DeSousa Nerd Academy New products Scrapbooking Silhouette Cameo silhouette Savvy Series stitching guide Tips & Tutorials video tutorial Videos watercolor

Hello Nerds, and friends! It is time for a new entry of the Silhouette Savvy Series. This is a tutorial, that had been shown before, but since then the Silhouette software has been updated, and the new version does not perform all the commands from the previous version, so I want to show you an […]

Working in a Traveler’s Notebook | Mari Clarke

November 21, 2017 general Inspiration Tips & Tutorials traveler's notebook

Memory Keeping in a Traveler’s Notebook It’s Tutorial Tuesday on the blog today and I wanted to share a project in my Simple Stories Traveler’s Notebook. This is such a fun format to use for memory keeping! I love the size of this particular notebook. The cover is gorgeous and the pages inside this particular […]

Getting The Most Out Of Your Sketches

November 14, 2017 Design Team projects general Layout sketches Nerd Academy Scrapbooking ScrapbookNerd Sketches Tips & Tutorials

When I find a sketch I like or one that worked particularly well for me, I go through my photos to see if there are any others that will work with the same sketch. However, I don’t want all my pages to look the same so I try to change the sketch up a bit. […]

December Daily…Traveler’s Notebook?????

November 06, 2017 Crate Paper Fa La La collection general Inspiration Nerd Academy Tips & Tutorials Traveller's Notebook

Hey scrappy nerds, Gisele here with a tutorial on a Traveler’s Notebook. Now you may be wondering why I have December Daily in my title. Let me just say, December is always a very busy month and keeping up with a December Daily is sometimes challenging to find time to document. You might feel guilty […]

Tuesday Tutorial | Scrapbooking Alternate Page Sizes

October 31, 2017 Design Team projects general Scrapbooking Tips & Tutorials

Hey everyone, it’s Mari here! I am excited to be doing my first blog post for the Scrapbook Nerd Blog. Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you are inspired today to do something creative in your craft space! It seems that periodically I am struck with a lack of mojo…this comes and goes, […]

Scrapbook Nerd Creative Team Weekly Digest

October 27, 2017 cardmaking Design Team projects general Inspiration Inspsired Nerd Mixed Media Nathalie DeSousa Nerd Academy New products scrapbook Scrapbooking ScrapbookNerd Sketches sketches Tips & Tutorials Videos weekly digest

Hello Nerds!!! It is finally starting to feel like Fall around here! This week our Scrapbook Nerd design team has been busy working on bringing you some inspiration. Let’s see what they have been up to: Barb has been working with 1Canoe2’s Creekside collection to document one of her travel adventures. This page shows […]

A New Take on Halloween || Combining cut files and mix media

October 24, 2017 Amber moon collection Design Team projects distress oxides Free cut files general Inspiration Mixed Media Nathalie DeSousa Nerd Academy New products Pink Paislee Prima marketing process video Scrapbooking spellcast collection Tips & Tutorials Videos

Hello Everyone!!! Can you believe we are about to celebrate HALLOWEEN!! I know, time has flown this year!. With this is mind, I started to dig through my picture files to check all my Halloween memories (as my teens do not dress up anymore!) to create a layout that brings Halloween with a […]

Sewing with the We R Memory Keepers Stitch Happy

October 03, 2017 Design Team projects general Inspiration Nerd Academy Scrapbooking Tips & Tutorials We R Memory Keepers Creekside collection We R Memory Keepers Stitch Happy Machine

Hello Nerds! Welcome back to another Scrapbook Nerd Academy! When I saw the We R Memory Keepers Stitch Happy at CHA in January, I was so excited!! I couldn’t wait until it hit the market and I could get my hands on it. When they came in, I was dying because it sat there for […]

Art Journal Process video

September 26, 2017 art journal Dina Wakley Media paint Fall Inspiration Mixed Media Nerd Academy Tips & Tutorials Videos washi tape

Hey there nerds! As I sit here writing this blog post it was anything but fall-like outside here today, temperatures were in the 30’s in Ontario. Hot enough to kick on the A/C unit at my house and extend flipflop season a little longer. Today’s art journal page is all about my mum. Fall was […]

Free Cut File | 12×12 Layout – H2O PLAY –

August 29, 2017 all angles background Bella Blvd. Design Team projects distress oxide inks free cut file Free cut files general illustrated faith Inspiration Mixed Media Nathalie DeSousa New products Scrapbooking Silhouette Cameo The Cut Shoppe Tips & Tutorials watercolor

Hi there! Nathalie with you today -it has been a while since my last post!-, bringing you some inspiration using the “All Angles” cut file. This new cut file was designed by Ashley Horton from the Cut Shoppe exclusively for Scrapbook Nerd, and it is now available for free at the store. […]

Sunday card share #80 – Deco Foil Transfer gel

May 14, 2017 birthday card Card Making Deco foil Deco Foil Transfer Gel foiling Inspiration Product Information Sunday Card Share Thermoweb Tips & Tutorials Videos

Happy Sunday! Today’s share is all about foiling mixed with some product information. If you’ve followed us for a while, you’ll know the Nerds love Deco Foil. Thermoweb released a new product call Transfer Gel and it recently hit our shelves and my crafting desk, I’ve created a video and a few cards to […]

Nathalie’s Friday Recap

May 12, 2017 cut file Design Team projects flowers free cut file Free cut files general Inspiration Inspsired Nerd Kaisercraft Mixed Media Nathalie DeSousa Nerd Academy New products Pink Paislee Scrapbook and Cards Today Magazine blog Scrapbooking Simple Stories Tips & Tutorials What's new in store

Hello Crafty Friends, Can you believe we are at the end of my reveal week?!!. This month’s projects were all inspired by the saying, ” April Showers bring May’s Flowers”, and boy! did I use flowers for all of this week’s projects. Let me show you what i was inspired to create: […]

Silhouette Savvy Series – One cut file, multiple ideas –

May 09, 2017 3layouts altered cut file Design Team projects different looks Free cut files From around the Web general Inspiration Nathalie DeSousa Nerd Academy new collections New products one cut file Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine Scrapbooking silhouette Savvy Series Tips & Tutorials

Hello Crafty Friends! I hope you all are doing well, and enjoying the beautiful colors that are popping here and there after all those April showers (even though our part of Canada has been hit with lots of rain in May, also!). This month I wanted to show you how versatile cut files can be, […]

A mini-album with tags, flaps and pull-outs!

May 02, 2017 general Inspiration Inspsired Nerd Nerd Academy New products Product Information Scrapbooking Tips & Tutorials

I’m so happy that spring is here finally, despite the rainy days. With spring, I have been enjoying using collections with lovely spring colours and icons. Hazelwood by OneCanoeTwo fits the bill and even after using it on many layouts, I still had a lot of papers and embellishments to work with. I hadn’t done […]

Nathalie’s April Review

April 28, 2017 Bella Blvd. Secrets of the Sea collection Cut files design team Design Team projects distress oxides Echo Park Just Be You collection Fancy Pants Joy Parade collection general hand stitching Inspiration Jillibean Soup Chit Chat Chowder collection Mixed Media Nathalie DeSousa Nerd Academy New products Product Information scrapbook layouts Scrapbooking Tips & Tutorials Videos

Hello everyone! Spring is in full swing!, and i was inspired in the change of season (colors are starting to show, flowers are blooming, weather is warming up, and no more boots! -at least in my part of Canada-) to create colorful projects for my reveal week, this month. Here is a review of what […]

Creating a background with Distress Oxides

April 25, 2017 Bella Blvd. cut file Design Team projects distress oxides Inspiration Inspsired Nerd Mixed Media mixed media background Nathalie DeSousa New products scrapbook layout Secrets of the Sea collection Tips & Tutorials Videos What's new in store

Hello there! It finally looks like we have passed our Winter season! Trees are starting to bloom, and soon everything will be once again full of light and color. In fact this month’s reveals are inspired by color, and for this week’s tutorial, I want to invite you to discover Distress Oxides, This new […]

Gelatos with a stencil? Yes!

April 18, 2017 Inspiration Jillibean Soup Chit Chat Chowder collection Mixed Media Nerd Academy Scrapbooking Tips & Tutorials tutoral

Stencils are my scrapbooking weakness, I just cannot resist them. So rather than fight it, I look for ways to use my stencils to justify my collection, and I have stumbled on yet another medium in which to use! Gelatos! and the best part this is so easy. Items needed: Crafting mat, Gelatos, sponge, […]