I draw the winner this morning (local time) and the winner is Kelly!

Kelly, please contact me using the contact me-form on the right. Kristin will set you up with access to the Facebook group and send you the class.

Thanks to everyone who participated. If you wish you had won, and want the class for yourself (or a friend), you can buy one here. I promise you won’t be disappointed!

Happy Thursday, all!

Today you get to enter to win Fold It In, a brand new workshop from rukristin papercrafts!

This workshop will teach you to make your own mini-book in minutes with the amazingly versatile accordion album technique. Follow the instructions once and then use it to make dozens of unique mini-albums. With over 80 pages of inspiration from 10 different unique, international contributors there is an style for everyone and a theme for every occasion. These albums make great gifts for mother’s day, father’s day and graduation!

What’s included:

• A self-paced workshop with Step-by-Step instructions for creating an accordion album from start to finish.
• Additional inspiration with albums from 10 amazing contributors, each with a different perspective and unique style.
• Tips & Tricks for using your stash to complete an entire album. Finally use that paper and embellishments you’ve been waiting on!
• A private facebook group for questions, community, and a place for participants to share their albums and inspiration.

I made an album with photos and stories of my recent trip to St. Petersburg, Russia.

If you just can’t wait, pick up the class right now!
And, if you like the class, pick up the limited edition Fold It In Kit with awesome products from Dear Lizzy, Freckled Fawn, and more. The kit gives you all the materials used in the workshop album and enough to make multiple mini-books/projects.

If you have any questions about the workshop or the kit, please contact rukristinpapercrafts@gmail.com

Leave a comment here telling me what the theme of your album will be, and I’ll draw a winner Sunday evening!

Happy Sunday, everyone!

I hope you had a good (inter)National Scrapbooking Day yesterday!

Today I want to share the layout I made using May’s Premium Member Sketches from Simple Scrapper.

I made this layout after cheering for my niece during a weekend long competition. The photo is from Sunday morning, right before she started warming up. She had already won 2nd place the day before and won 3rd place in a cup that day. So proud of her!

This layout includes exclusive papers from Cocoa Daisy and Simple Stories.

Use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter a giveaway for a one month trial membership at Simple Scrapper. There are three ways to enter and three winners will be selected. To be eligible, you must enter by 11:59pm CDT on Wednesday, May 8.

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I hope you’ll also visit the other design team members this month!

Simple Scrapper (Jennifer Wilson)
Lisa Corbin-Polak
Ronnie Crowley
Margrethe Aas Johnsen <– YOU’RE HERE!
Amy Kingsford
Samantha Landay
Pam Lozano
Aimee Maddern
Jean Manis
Van Nguyen
Melissa Priest
Mandy Ross
Celeste Smith
Sara Strickland

Make your own mini-book in minutes with an amazingly versatile accordion album. Learn this technique once and use it to make dozens of unique mini-albums. With over 80 pages of inspiration from 10 different contributors there is a style for everyone and a theme for every occasion.

Workshop Cost: $12

What’s included: 

• A 30+ page workshop with Step-by-Step instructions for creating an accordion album from start to finish.
• A supplementary .pdf with albums from 10 amazing contributors, each with a different perspective and unique style.
• Tips & Tricks for using your stash to complete an entire album from several contributors.
• A private Facebook group for questions, community, and a place for participants to share their albums.

Click Here to Purchase the Workshop

Pick up the limited edition Fold It In Kit with awesome products from Dear Lizzy, Freckled Fawn, and more. Details here: http://rukristin.bigcartel.com/product/fold-it-in-mini-album-kit

If you have any questions about the workshop or the kit; please contact rukristinpapercrafts@gmail.com

As an affiliate with Rukristin Papercrafts, I do receive a small commission when one of my readers buy a workshop through the link above. There is never any extra cost to the reader. 

You remember that workshop I was invited to contribute to? Yeah – It’s only two days away! Some of the other contributors have already shared their sneaks, but I didn’t make my album until this weekend since I was away last week. Well, here’s my sneak…!

If you want to know more about the workshop, check out this post on Kristin’s blog!

Happy Monday!

As you know from my last post, I’ve been away this week. Monday morning I left for Russia with a colleague and 14 students. We had a great time – with some minor hick-ups (erroneous visas for 3 students, closed church and a missed flight back home).

If you follow me on Instagram, you’ve already seen some of the photos. I brought my dSLR as well, so there will be more photos later (I’ve imported them to Lightroom, but not saved them yet). While you wait – some insta-photos:

I slept in this morning and them started working on my Fold it in-album for Kristin’s new workshop. I hope to share some sneaks tomorrow!

Have a great weekend!

A dear friend told me a few months ago, that things would go my way – I just had to keep true to myself and wait. And boy, was she right…! Without going into great detail, I received yet another exciting e-mail this week. I already wrote about being invited to contribute to Kristin’s first workshop earlier this week! And now another thing cropped up!

I hope to say more soon…

Speaking of Kristin’s workshop; I made the album today. Never done that before and even though it is a bit… on the not so straight side, I really like the technique! I haven’t decorated it yet, and will not add any photos to it till next week, when I’m back from Russia!

I know, can you believe it??? Monday morning I’ll be up before the sun, heading east with one of my student groups! Awesome! Kristin was kind enough to let me push back the deadline a bit so that I could made the album using photos from St. Petersburg. If you’re in Instagram, check out the hashtag #folditin to see all the great sneak peeks (including my own).

Before I leave you, I’d like to share a small sneak of my 400th layout. Yes, you read that right – I do in fact keep track of how many layouts I’ve made, and this is my 400th.

This is for Simple Scrapper and will be shared with you shortly!

Have a great weekend everyone – see you soon!

I’ve been invited on as a contributor to Rukristin’s newest workshop!

• A 30 page .pdf file with Step-by-Step instructions on creating an accordion album from start to finish.
• A supplementary .pdf with albums from 10 amazing contributors, each with a different perspective and unique style.
• Tips & Tricks for using your stash to complete an entire album.
• A private facebook group where you can ask questions and share your albums

Don’t miss out! Sign up for the newsletter today and receive exclusive discounts on workshops and class kits. You can also visit Kristin’s blog post about it all here.

Today I’m guest designer with We R Memory Keepers. Have you seen my layout on their Facebook and followed the link here? If so, welcome! Good to have you! If you’re a regular reader, welcome back

I received a lovely assortment from WRMK’s “For the Record” line and was really drawn to this dark paper and the sentiment tag. The photo is of my husband, one of the first I took using the camera I had just bought. As you can see, I used WRMK’s Sew Easy – so easy! I’ve always admired those who do a lot of detail work on their pages, and using these tools made it easy to add embroidery! I layered the photo using some of the other papers and a doily (a staple of mine!).

From the Silhouette store, I got a couple of shapes from WRMK, but ended up using these butterflies on both layouts. I added some sequins to make it even more dreamy.

Instead of using Thickers or anything like that for a title, I used this tag. Turning it slightly to fit in the corner made the page more interesting, breaking with my normal, grid-like style.

My second layout also features my husband. We took a two-day motorcycle trip last summer, with more than just a few ferry crossings. For the trip, we brought this classic Norwegian chocolate crackers called Kvikklunsj and he had a few strips every time we caught a ferry, while posing for me and my iPhone! The photos are not from the same crossing, but that doesn’t really matter

There is a lot going on on this page here! I used one of the WRMK papers, but cut out the print on the side. Instead I added it on top of plain white cardstock, but… I cut out the butterflies and added more of those dark papers beneath it, creating a very cool effect. I used the same paper for the Silhouette-cut title.

Once more, doilies! I got some silver and gold foil doilies at Etsy and used those to layers the photos. This made me cut out even more butterflies (well, the ones from the negative space…) and embossed those with gold embossing powder.

I didn’t want the page to be too cute, so instead of adhering the butterflies to the page, I used my mini-stapler.

I really hope you’ve enjoyed your stay on my blog today and that you’ve been inspired. Have a great weekend, everyone!

I came to scrapbooking with a background in photography (many of my photos are here on DeviantArt). I have done many different “genres” as a photographer – from ordinary news paper article styles, to portraits, to landscape (here) and also a lot of concert photography (general concerts photography, one particular band that I have many photos of,. I started scrapbooking as a way to showcase my photos and there is particularly one layout – my second ever – that stands out to me.

Kits have been an easy way for me to scrap. I like that I get to try different things – and therefore finding a style that suits me, yet gives me the chance to try something new and daring. It’s almost like I sound like a broken record, but my goal is to stamp more. Emboss more. Layer more. Being part of a kit club has also shown me that scrapping is ok – whichever style you have. It’s showed me that the same product can be used so many different ways, and for me, I think that is what has changed me as a scrapper the most.