Stamp & Scrapbook Expo Sketch Workshop

Hey friends, I'm so excited to tell you about the Stamp & Scrapbook Expo sketch workshops that I will be teaching.  First of all, I cannot tell you how over the moon excited I am about this. Teaching my own workshops has been a goal of mine for a VERY long time. I am so excited to be teaching a class that I'm passionate about. From start to finish, this class is mine! I've worked so hard picking products, designing the projects, writing the instructions, designing the sketch, and creating promotional content for the class. I've been working with the Stamp & Scrapbook Expo team on their blog for a couple of years now. I adore my Stamp & Scrapbook Expo team! They've captured my heart! I'm grateful every.single.day that I get to work with them.

The first event I am teaching at this year is in Schaumburg, Il. This will be my first visit to the Chicago area. Have you ever been to the Chicago area? What should be on my "must see" list? I know my first stop will be for Chicago style PIZZA!! I'm a pizza girl, I'm sure pizza will never be the same to me after I have Chicago style pizza.

Okay, enough about pizza, onto the whole reason I will be in Illinois, my workshops!!!
While I'm at the Stamp & Scrapbook Expo in Schaumburg, I will be teaching 2 workshops. The first workshop is "One Sketch Three Ways". This class is all about using the same sketch in three different ways. In the class we'll make three layouts using products from PhotoPlay paper. Don't worry, If you don't finish all three layouts you'll take the product home with a step-by-step instruction sheet, photos of the finished layouts, AND the exclusive sketch that I designed for this class. (I'll be teaching this workshop on Saturday as well.) There are a few tickets left for this class. If you're in the Chicago/Schaumburg area, I'd love to meet you and have you in my class. You can purchase a ticket HERE. Make sure to come say hello, I cannot wait to meet my blog readers!

I don't want those of you who don't live in the Chicago area out so, I've created a couple of videos where I talk about the workshop AND included a process video of a layout that I created with a sketch.

Here's a video from my YouTube channel. (You can find a link to all the supplies, and the sketch in the notes of the video.)

 The second video I created is on the Stamp & Scrapbook Expo YouTube channel. (I tell one of my most embarrassing moments in this video ;) There are a few more details about the layout and the class on the Stamp & Scrapbook Expo blog.

Tune in next week, I'll be back here to tell you about the second workshop that I'll be teaching at Stamp & Scrapbook Expo (this workshop is almost sold out *yay*). Thank you for stopping by, I'll see you again tomorrow

Why I Joined the Memory Planner Club

 I've always had a paper planner of some sort. I was the nerd in high school and carrying my Franklin Planner. Do you remember those? I LOVE my planners! When the whole planner craze hit the scrapbooking world, I resisted. And I may have even said that I would never keep a "fancy" planner. My planners have been practical, not very pretty, and very used. I didn't see the purpose in making a planner pretty. Why I didn't think a planner needed to be pretty, I'm not sure. I still don't think a planner has to be pretty, but I've decided that I want my planner to be pretty.

 

When the Heidi Swapp Memory Planner came out I fell in love with it. I love that it combines memory keeping with the everyday "stuff" that goes on. And that my friends, is why I'm starting the month of August with a Memory Planner. I'm going to combine my memory keeping with the "stuff" that happens every day.

 One thing that I love about this planner is that you can start it at any time. The monthly pages aren't filled in so it will work for any month in any year. Starting a planner in January hasn't made sense to me since I've had school aged kids. I always start fresh with a new schedule and a new planner in August.

To get my planner started I printed my kids school schedules, my schedule, and gathered some fun embellishments. I may have gone a little overboard with the embellishments, no judging.

 Along with the embellishments I gathered some adhesive. I chose This To That Adhesive from American Crafts because I love the size (it fits easily in my bag) and Glue Dots because they're a stronger adhesive for holding the heavier embellishments like chipboard and wood veneer. I also have a package of my favorite pens in my planner bag, Precision Pens.

I may or may not have stolen this little bag from my mom because all of my planner stuff fits into it perfectly. I can easily take the bag with me if I need to or just take my planner with me. The bag sits on a shelf in my closet, packed and ready to go whenever I need it. I'm going to try using this bag for a while but I have my eye on this bag from We R Memory Keepers. I think it would work great a planner tote too!




I'm curious? Have you jumped on the planner bandwagon?

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