I’m excited to share with you that I’ve joined the Peers team at Scrapaneers! Have you
visited Scrapaneers yet? It’s a new online educational site where digi
scrappers can grow and share their technical skills. It’s really pretty awesome!
They offer classes for seasoned digi
scrappers as well as people who are just thinking about trying out digital
memory-keeping - and all things in-between.
The first class I'm going to tell you about is called Keeping it Real. Here's a page I put together last night for that class (using a paper tear and a paper fold ... just like paper scrapping).
Credits:
All from the Keeping it Real class materials:
Krafternoon Delight kit by Creashens; template by Tiffany Tillman.
Like I mentioned, there are a bunch of different classes available right now - and new ones coming up all the time! Here are just a few:
Keeping it Real – This is a FREE class!
DESCRIPTION: Time and time again, I hear scrapbookers (digital and paper) say
they don’t want to sacrifice the tactile look of their paper pages by building
pages digitally. Well, I’m here to shout from the mountaintops that you don’t
have to sacrifice the look — just the messy clean up!
Anyone can create digital scrapbook pages that look as real as paper
pages. You just have to know how! In Keeping it Real, Scrapaneer
founder and instructor Tiffany Tillman shares classic techniques mimicking
tearing, curling, shadowing, pinching and more using Photoshop and Photoshop
Elements. By the time you print your page, you will pick it up and run your
fingers across just to see if it’s real! Tiffany will share that going
digital is NOT a death sentence for realistic art. Rather Keeping it Real
can be a solution to a freeing and more satisfying digital artistic
expression.
How about a class for those of you who are new to digi scrapping,
or who are just starting to think about trying out digi scrapping. You might
want to check out Sans Paper Scissors.
DESCRIPTION: Calling all paper scrapbookers, newly minted digital scrapbookers
or hobbyists who have never scrapbooked at all! Recording your memories,
creatively displaying your photos, and sharing good times with friends and
family just got a lot easier. Join Aria Andrus in Sans Paper
Scissors for Beginners, which takes a step-by-step approach for
learning the absolute basics of digital scrapbooking. In just under two hours,
you’ll learn the easiest tricks for scrapbooking sans, a French word
meaning without,
traditional paper and scissors! Via high-quality video lessons you can
enjoy at your leisure, Aria will show you how to use custom made digital paper,
embellishment files, and digital cutting tools available in Adobe Photoshop and
Photoshop Elements to preserve your precious memories. Included with the video
lessons are PDF reference guides and the digital supplies you’ll need to follow
along with Aria and complete your scrapbook pages. You’ll also receive other
learning materials designed to help you gradually and effortlessly master new
digital scrapbooking skills.
How about a class for those of you who are trying to figure out what the heck to scrap now that your kids are out of the house? If that sounds like you, check out Empty Nest Scrapbooking!
DESCRIPTION: Scrapbooking in the empty nest. Really? Is that even possible?
What (and who) in the world are we supposed to take photos of now that the kids
have graduated from high school and are off to college, have moved out of the
house to enter the work force or have married and started families of their
own? Many us who have enjoyed this passion of memory keeping for years are
often left wondering what are we going to fill our albums with now that the
kids are gone. Do we just give up on our beloved past time? Are our supplies
destined to become fodder in the next neighborhood yard sale? Veteran
scrapbooker (20+ years!) and graphic designer, Kelly Sill says, “Absolutely
not!”
So much of this industry revolves around children and documenting their
milestones. We often forget that if it wasn’t for us–their
parent(s)–they wouldn’t be here in the first place! Just because our kids
aren’t leaving their socks on the floor, involved in extra-curricular
activities or eating us out of house and home, doesn’t mean we empty nesters
are out of things to scrap!
There are lots of other classes to choose from. Here’s a link to
all the class offerings.
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