You asked and we listened…

December Classes have been added to the line-up.

Wednesday, December 2nd – Scrapbook Basics
Tuesday, December 8th – Tree Tag Album
Monday, December 14th – A Muse Stationary Class
Friday, December 18th – Monthly Crop Night

Scrapbook Basics – Wednesday, December 2nd (6:30pm)
We recommend that you take this Scrapbooking class first if you’re just starting out. We will focus on how to get started, introduce you to the basics tools, and show how to use and care for your tools. We will pass along lots of helpful advice and discuss popular scrapbooking terms. You will also learn how to use the tools in our fully stocked workshop and create a basic Scrapbook Layout. Included in the cost of this class is an issue of Canadian Scrapbooker Basics – these Idea Books are a MUST-HAVE for beginners to guide you on your Scrapbooking Journey.
$15.00

Tag Tree Album

Tag Tree Album – Tuesday, December 8th (6:30pm)
Join us for this darling Tag Tree Album, a great conversation piece to adorn the wall or display with a plate holder on the coffee table or mantle. A sweet gift for loved ones near or far, this wooden Album will feature some of our newest Holiday papers from Crate Papers and paint from KaiserCraft. Santa’s helpers are welcome at this class, if you’d like to bring along your son or daughter to help you with your project just let us know in advance!
Members: $20.00
Non-Members: $40.00 

A Muse Stationary Set – Monday, December 14th (6:30pm)
Join Meghan to create a beautiful Stationary Set of 6 matching cards and envelopes featuring the new A Muse Shimmer Couture Paper and stationary stamps. An ideal Christmas Gift, the cards will be perfect for any occasion and will be enclosed in a matching portfolio. Included in the cost of this class is one of the newest clear stamp sets from A Muse, the Monogram Frames Set! You will love the versatility of this stamp set and you’ll be able to use it to create gifts and custom stationary for years to come!
Members: $35.00
Non-Members: $70.00

Pyjama Crop – Friday, December 18th (6:30pm-Midnight)
Put on your best Holiday PJ’S and come to The Paperie to get some last minute scrappin’ done before the big holiday – you DESERVE a night to yourself! This night is for you to spend some quality time with your scrapbook while all of the distractions of home are left behind as you spend up to 5 hours scrapbooking with other scrapbookers. You have unlimited use of all of our die-cut machines, punches, scissors and access to countless idea books. (Get your Paperie Crop Card – attend 2 Crops and get your 3rd Crop free!)
Members: $5.00
Non-Members: $10.00

Welcome back for our final week showcasing Jeni Glover, our featured Scrapbooker for the November Spotlight. Today we have another great layout that Jeni made during our Fall Scrapbook Retreat two weekends ago.

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Don’t you love the collaged border of smaller photos at the top of the left page? So cute! We just love the way Jeni arranges her photos, making them the true focus of her layouts - it reminds us very much of Becky Higgins who has illustrated countless sketches and even has a few idea books dedicated to multi-photo layouts. 

Thanks for sharing your talents with us this month, Jeni!

Today we have a special AccuCut Showcase for you displaying another layout from Jeni Glover, our featured scrapbooker for The Paperie’s November Spotlight…

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Jeni used the AccuCut Typewriter font with some older Scenic Route patterned grid paper for the main word in her title. Thanks for sharing another great layout with our Blog readers, Jeni!

Check back on Friday for our weekly feature – we have one last layout to share from Jeni!

 

Are YOU interested in being featured in one of our monthly Spotlights?! Drop by the store with 5-10 examples of your work, we’d love to see it!

Comment #5: JACKIE FRADSHAM!

And the Winner of the Stamp Giveaway is…

Oh those magical Copics! Combine being a fiend for colouring with these sooo smooooth Copics and I just feel a bit nearer to heaven. I am still a novice on how to use them to their full potential so I hope a class is in the works. These markers bear my most extreme MOM ONLY warning labels! Hoping Santa is paying attention.

By: Jackie on November 20, 2009
at 4:19 pm

 

CONGRATULATIONS Jackie, enjoy your prize!

 

Winner was found using Random.org

This week your challenge is…

 Create 20 tags for the upcoming holiday season!

Use your Scrapbooking and Cardmaking supplies to make some quick and easy tags, it’s a great excuse to use up your leftover scraps! You can cut some tags free hand, use a punch, bring in your scraps and use our AccuCut Machine… there are tons of options!

Check out these cute tags that Chris made last year with our AccuCut dies…

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The tag die-cut is actually designed to cut a single layer, but Chris was able to create a creased tag by laying a folded piece of cardstock on the die-cut, with the left (creased) side laid just inside the blades.

Traci Armbrust created a sweet greeting card with another AccuCut die using this same technique – visit the AccuCut Blog to see her tutorial! You can try this out with other dies to create shaped cards & tags – Circles, Scalloped Circles, even our Apple or Pencil for cute Teacher tags.

Attention Stampers and colouring enthusiasts! We want to know what your favourite Colouring Tools are - and WHY you love them!

Comment by Monday, November 22nd at 11:59pm with your answer!

You could win these two adorable stamps from the A Muse 2009 Holiday collection! This card was inspired by a class Julie Ebersole taught in Seattle and was one of the cards I taught in our most recent A Muse Christmas Card Class on November 10th.

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 (Giveaway is open to residents of Newfoundland & Labrador only).

Recently I have fallen in love with Copic Markers… I know I promised myself I wouldn’t do it – I even swore to some of you that it would never happen (remember that, Wendy?). But seriously… the seamless colouring and blending is what finally got me. As my collection grows and my experimentation continues, it’s safe to say that The Paperie might just have to offer some Copic Classes later in the New Year…  

Did you know that The Paperie can get a large variety of COPIC Markers in? We can get all of the colours listed on the A Muse website and we can get a selection of the 12, 24, 36 and even 72 piece sets and tons of individual colours! Check out the Copic Website and let us know what you’re interested in and we can get right back to you!

Today we have another beautiful layout to show you by Jeni Glover. Jeni attended our Fall Retreat last weekend and this is one of the layouts she created…

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Check out that TITLE! Jeni was excited to discover Smooch Ink during our Retreat Demos and she set to work colouring her entire chipboard title with the Luscious Lime Smooch ink. Isn’t that zipper cute? Jeni admitted to buying that zipper when The Paperie first opened back in 2004 and she vowed to use it at this Retreat – what a clever way to incorporate it!

Here’s a close-up of that shimmery Smoochy goodness on the title…

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TIP: When applying Smooch Ink to chipboard, it’s a good idea to first ink up the chipboard with the same colour using chalk ink, distress ink, or pigment ink. By doing this you’ll extend the life of your Smooch Ink because you won’t need as many layers to get that more opaque look.

TIP #2: When using your Smooch Ink as a colouring tool, another way to make it go a little further is to put a dollop of the ink on an Acrylic Block or your Inkssentials Craft Sheet and pick up the colour with an H2O Brush and paint your image. You can also use a regular paint brush with a bit of water - this will dilute the ink so you can quickly cover larger surfaces, then you can go back with the Smooch Ink applicator and add darker highlights for dimension. 

At the Retreat we sold out of more than half of our Smooch collection but we have more enroute to us as I type this… check out our pretty display before it was “ransacked”

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Don’t worry – if you’re Smooch-starved, we still have 8 colours in stock and the rest will be back before you know it!

Today we’re back to show you two of the quickest cards you’ll ever make featuring the AccuCut Machine and A Muse papers and a variety of stamps. We actually made these two cards during our Make’n'Take back on October 3rd for World Card Making Day.

Our first card features the sweet little mitten from the Mini Holidays #2 set of AccuCut dies, Red Petite Gingham paper from A Muse, their Holly Jolly Christmas sentiment, and White Liquid Applique.

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The trick to cutting out this little mitten is to lay one of your patterned paper squares facing up and the other facing down on the die-cut so that you don’t end up with “two left hands”. A quick line of liquid applique along the tops of the mittens gives them a wooly look (heat set with heat gun), then they were adhered to the card front with dimensional foam tape. Die-cuts are a great use of the leftover scraps you end up with when you cut two 4.25″ square cards out of an 8.5″x11″ piece of A Muse paper.

This next card can be created quickly with the Scor-Pal – just cut your paper to 4.25″x10.5″ and score at 2 1/8 and 6 3/8…

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We used the Convertible Insert Frame to make the die-cut for the card front and stamped the A Muse Elegant Tree in the center, using the Quickie Glue pen to add glitter to the veins of the tree. We actually used the reverse side of the Green Kitchen paper for this die-cut as well as the circle  we punched for the next part of the card (as you can see in the next photo).  

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The sentiment on the next layer is from Hero Arts and on the final layer of the card (below) we used the AccuCut Convertible Photo Insert die-cut to make slits to hold a gift card or a family photo.

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That’s all from us today – for more Fast & Fabulous Holiday Card Inspiration, check out the A Muse Blog this week – I might just have a card featured over there before the week is out

Thanks for Stopping by!

-Meghan

Use “10″ on your layout!

Well we have just returned from our TENTH Scrapbook Retreat at the Wilds on Salmonier River and are buzzing around the store unpacking all of our AccuCut dies, paper, etc. While at the Retreat we had a number of challenges and we thought it might be fun to carry one over to this week’s Mojo Monday Challenge…

In honour of our tenth Retreat, your challenge is a little bit more specific this week…

It can be the word TEN, the number 10, a Top Ten List, etc. etc. etc… as long as 10 is represented on your page prominently. You can include it in your journaling (“Ten funny things you say”), your title (“TEN years old”, “Ten Tiny Toes”, etc.) or wherever you like – be creative!

 

Welcome back for another day celebrating the scrapbooking talents of Jeni Glover. Feast your eyes on this beautiful layout she created – love the title in those big chipboard letters!

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Jeni has such a knack for multi-photo layouts - with careful cropping, a few sweet accents and a bold title, her photos really get a chance to shine. On this particular layout the only accessories Jeni used, with the exception of her chipboard title, were some brads and a few die-cut accents. Don’t you love the way she folded down the corners of the double-sided patterned paper to reveal the peek of blue on the other side? Cute! We’ll be back next Friday with another great multi-photo layout from Jeni.

We were busy beavers today packing and preparing for our big weekend – this is our TENTH Retreat at the Wilds, and we’re thrilled to announce that this is our most popular Retreat yet (with a record attendance of 66 participants)! We’re celebrating with a special giveaway, make’n'takes, demos and more – be sure to check out the Blog on Monday for our weekly Mojo Monday challenge and some pictures from the Retreat.

If you want to get creative at home this weekend, why not make some cards? A Muse is hosting a Virtual Stamp Night on the A Muse lounge – see their blog for more details: http://amusenews.typepad.com/a_muse_news/2009/11/save-the-date-vsn.htm

Have a great weekend! Don’t forget we’re taking Stamp Pre-Orders for Hero Arts, A Muse and House Mouse Stamps – deadline is Tuesday at 1pm!

We’re back after a relaxing day off – a heartfelt thanks to all the Veterans, you will always be remembered for your service and selflessness.

Today we have a special AccuCut Showcase for you… Guest Instructor Sara Case Strickland is working on a spectacular Day Planner featuring the A Muse 8.5×11 Calendar. Sara figured out a way to re-orient the calendar and printed it on the back of the A Muse Lined Paper so that it only printed on the lower portion of the 8.5×11 sheet – check it out!

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Isn’t that clever? Sara used the AccuCut Pumpkin die combined with A Muse papers for the October page. Her A Muse Day Planner Class is on Sunday, November 22nd at 10am. There are only two spots left, so be sure to call the store and sign up before it’s too late! This will be a fun class with lots of ink distressing, stamping, and you get to bind your project with the Bind-it-All! Here’s another sneak peek at two more months featuring two of the AccuCut Tree dies…

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Sara’s A Muse Day Planner Calendar – Sunday, November 29th (10am)
Join Guest Instructor Sara Case Strickland as she shows you how to take the blank 2010 A Muse Calendar and turn it into a functional day planner! You will use stamps, AccuCut dies, and a variety of techniques to decorate this project which is an ideal gift for any friend or family member – you may even want to keep it for yourself! Sara will be featuring one of the A Muse Calendar templates and their lined paper. $5.00 from your registration fee for this class will be donated to the chosen A Muse charity, Water First and you will receive a template of the calendar to download and use as often as you like! Visit the A Muse website for more details.
Members: $35.00
Non-Members: $70.00 

As promised, we’re back today to show you the holiday Advent Calendar we were making in class on Saturday.  As you can surely imagine, we are very busy this week preparing for our fall Scrapbook Retreat at the Wilds.

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See the glittery borders? Those are made with 1/8″ Scor-Tape and Doodlebug Swimming Pool Glitter – I love the effect. The idea is to put a picture of my neice in the square in the middle, and I was planning to use the title “Counting down to Christmas”. We’ll see how much I deviate from the plan… it’s always so much fun to play and see what you’ll come up with. Often times things will end up completely different from how you intended.

Terri, one of the class participants, was inspired by the new Crate paper that came out on Friday and she used one of the papers for the middle of her Calendar… check it out!

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Terri used two pieces of the same paper and cut out some of the ornaments from one sheet to paper piece over the existing ornaments, popping them up with dimensional foam tape. We both decided that we would leave our calendars the natural wood colour, even though the instructions called for Red Paint.

We have a ton of new papers in stock that arrived on Friday – the new Nook and Pantry from Basic Grey, North Pole from Crate Paper, Christmas Carnival from KaiserCraft and more.

We also have ALL of the new A Muse Shimmer Couture Paper – our A Muse 8.5×11 Paper Collection is now complete! We are working on an idea for a cute little A Muse section of the store – hopefully we’ll have this all set up by this time next week!

We are taking STAMP PRE-ORDERS for A Muse and Hero Arts - we will be placing our order next week so if there’s something you’re dying to get your hands on from either company please email us with the name and product code. Stamp Pre-Orders are subject to a Tax Free discount (Paperie Members receive 20% off Stamp Pre-Orders). You have until Tuesday, November 17th to place your order. Check their catalogs online:

www.amuseartstamps.com

www.heroarts.com

Welcome back to a new week on The Paperie Blog. For this week’s Mojo Monday Challenge we have a little holiday motivation for you…

Create a handmade gift for the holidays!

This can be anything, from something small and simple like a portfolio of cards, to something more elaborate like a Scrapbooked Calendar. Tomorrow we’ll be back to show you the cool Advent Calendar we made in class on Saturday afternoon – perfect as an early Christmas gift for the little kiddos in your life.

We are happy to announce our featured scrapbooker for the month of November…

JENI (YETMAN) GLOVER

Jeni’s distinct style is apparent throughout her album, she creates beautiful double page layouts that truly capture the photographs and events she is scrapbooking. Check out this beautiful layout Jeni made to remember her daughter’s first day of school…

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Don’t you just love those borders of die-cut alphabets? Jeni says the one thing she uses on almost every page is her fluid Chalk inks from Colorbox. Here Jeni has used these inks to distress the edges of the papers and every single letter in those alphabet borders – we love the finished look it gives.

 

Hello everyone, as many of you know we had a booth in Devotion: The Wedding Show this past Sunday at Mile One Convention Center. Once again we created a display of paper elements, including an Invitation and a Favour Box Centerpiece made with our AccuCut Die-Cutting System. Check out our gallery of images below for inspiration – many of these ideas can be incorporated into other events such as birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, a holiday party, etc.

Check back on Friday for our November Spotlight – we’ll be featuring a new Scrapbooker this month that will be a familiar face to many of you!

As promised, we’re back today to show you a card that Chris created based on a card by Jennie Moczan, as shown in a link in yesterday’s Blog Post…

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Don’t you just love the way Chris combined the popcorn stamp with the tiny gift to make a cute Christmas card? Chris used the A Muse Juliette Sky Paper to create the card above, combined with some A Muse Cranberry notecards that she cut up. Enclosed inside is a Movie Theatre gift card - the perfect Christmas gift for those teenagers that are hard to shop for!

In case you haven’t popped by the store in the last month, we now have ALL of the A Muse 8.5×11 Patterned Papers in stock – and the brand new Shimmer Couture Paper is on the way to us now! The thing that we all love about this paper is that it’s white or ivory on the opposite side which is IDEAL for cardmaking.

Here’s another card that Chris made inspired by one of Jennie’s cards…

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This card was made quickly and easily with the Scor-pal – cut a piece of paper to 3.5×10 and scor your lines at 5″ and  9″ – add some tape and you have a quick and easy pocket card! Chris used a border punch on the one inch lip that folds down – a great place to put your sentiment. She also lined the inside of the pocket with red Gingham patterned paper to add some visual interest – the repetition of the gingham on the scalloped square was a cute way to mount the image. Enclosed inside this pocket is a Tim Horton’s Coffee gift card.

 

PSSST! I fixed the link to Jennifer McGuire’s layout in yesterday’s blog post – check it out!

This week’s Mojo Monday challenge is to CASE a card or project by somebody else. What does “CASE” mean you ask? It means “Copy and Share Everything” or “Copy and Steal Everything” – it’s one of those popular scrapbooking/stamping terms that you’ll see a lot.  

Here’s a cool layout by Jennifer McGuire that I might CASE if I get a chance this week…

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Basically you just look at somebody elses card or layout and copy it! You can copy as much or as little of the project as you want - from something as small as the title or the colour scheme, right up to the entire concept! This is one of those crafts where imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery and most Designers love to have their projects Cased – it means they’re inspiring you which means they’re doing their job!  

There is one golden rule when it comes to CASEing: CREDIT the Artist. All original ideas are subject to copyright so it is prohibited to copy a project and pass it off as your own online, or use the ideas for publication or contest submissions. You can say “thanks” if your mom or friend is flipping through your album and says “I LOVE this layout” – no harm done - but if you’re going to display it publically, it is just common courteousy to credit the original artist. Even if you credit the publication or the blog where you saw the layout that inspired your project, that’s better than nothing! 

Stay tuned tomorrow – we’ll have a Pocket Card that Chris made inspired by the card below that  Jennie Moczan made…

http://simplycaffeinated.typepad.com/photos/a_muse_creations/coffeecupcake1118.html

Jennie is a talented member of the A Muse Creative team and she has OODLES of cards on her blog – be sure to check out more of her great ideas, you might just find yourself inspired to CASE something yourself

Okay… I have managed to keep silent about this for the last 30 days and I can’t take it anymore! You may be wondering where I disappeared to last week (if you noticed my absence)…

Well… The Paperie sent me to Seattle for Instructor Training at A MUSE!

And I have proof!

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YES. That’s me! And can you guess who that is next to me? YES. It’s JULIE EBERSOLE. Now I know that I’ve said it many times before, but in case you didn’t know it… Julie Ebersole is my stamping hero. She’s a creative genius – a mastermind even. To actually meet and LEARN from the master was a huge privilege and an experience I’m not likely to forget anytime soon.

You may be asking yourself how I lucked into this extraordinary opportunity. Well, A Muse posted an Instructor Call in August and I simply answered the call! I made 4 cards and a project and submitted my application to Julie Ebersole herself, and the rest is history! You are looking at one of the NEWEST certified A Muse Instructors to join the A Muse Creative Team – a big congratulations to Donna Hitz in Alaska, the other ”newbie” to join me on the team.  

A HUGE thank you to Chris and Janna for sending me out to Seattle for training – I would not have been able to join the A Muse team without their help and support. Since the inception of The Paperie, Chris and Janna have believed in educating themselves and their staff to keep up on the latest trends in the paper crafting industry. Through bringing in Guest Designers and Guest Instructors, attending classes at CHA, CKU, and now sending me away for training, The Paperie strives to be the premiere education resource for paper crafters in St. John’s.

Check out my FIRST official A Muse Class in this new role…

A Muse Christmas Card Class – Tuesday, November 10th (6:30pm)
Join Meghan - The Paperie’s very own official A Muse Instructor, for our last Christmas Card Class leading up to the big Holiday. This class will feature three beautiful card designs that will be quick and easy to mass produce for those of you in a time crunch and one “snazzy card” inspired by a class Julie Ebersole taught in Seattle. We will stay true to the A Muse Artstamps motto: Think Simple. Think A Muse, focusing on their clean, classic style! This class is great for stampers of all levels, even those who are just starting out!
Members: $20.00
Non-Members: $40.00

Folks, I am living proof that you just NEVER KNOW until you submit – and submit, submit, submit! Don’t get discouraged if your cards or layouts aren’t picked for the first few things you submit to - keep at it until you achieve your goal!

Welcome back for our October Spotlight Grand Finale, featuring the talented Kennell family! Today we have a project to show you by each crafty member of this talented family…

First up we have a layout by Taylor…

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Taylor echoed the colour scheme of her picture with her layout, using black Bazzill Bling Cardstock and pops of yellow. She used Print Shop Pro to add some of her journaling to the photo itself. Norine admits that her daughter is leaps and bounds ahead of her when it comes to Hybrid Scrapbooking (using Digital elements combined with paper elements).

Next up we have another layout by Norine….

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Norine used some of last year’s Making Memories Halloween paper and coordinating elements to make this SPoOoKy layout of her and Taylor at the pumpkin patch in 2006. Love that big 8×10 picture cropped down to fit the page – it’s a great way to showcase a photo that you really love and makes a bold statement.

And finally we have another layout by Tyler…

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Scrapbooking your favourite video games, cartoons, or hobbies is a great way to represent yourself in your scrapbook album. We often get caught up scrapbooking other people (our friends, kids, families, etc.) and don’t focus enough on ourselves. When it’s all said and done, what is your Scrapbook Album going to say about YOU? In ten years, are you going to remember what your favourite show was in 2009? Your favourite place to eat? Where you bought that sweater you’re wearing in every picture and why you love it so much? Document everything, you’ll be glad you did!

 

Today we have a few October Spotlight projects to share with you, featuring Norine Kennell and her daughter Taylor.

First up we have a layout by Taylor commemorating her family’s visit to the Insectarium in Deer Lake a few years ago. The AccuCut Jill’s Chunky Alphabet was used for the title here.

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Clever Taylor took the original photo (seen below) and used Print Shop Pro to remove the various other people in the photograph. Just look at the original photo…

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Next we have another layout of the family trip to Discovery Cove, made by Norine. How many people can say they have swam with the dolphins? Norine, Tyler and Taylor can!

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Norine’s colour scheme and use of the AccuCut Typewriter for the title is just perfect for this layout. We love how Norine’s double page layouts often flow seamlessly together to make a page with real impact. Love the blue foil on the strips of Scor-tape and the brown metal brads add a masculine touch.

Check back tomorrow for our last October Spotlight featuring Norine and her kids – we’ll have projects from all three of them to finish off the month!