Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

As part of today’s presentation on teaching Visual Literacy through Digital Scrapbooking, I made up a few scrapbook pages to show different ways teachers could incorporate digital scrapbooking into their courses. I made these pages using Stampin’ Up’s My Digital Studio. At the end of my presentation I will be demoing how to use the software, as well.

If your students need to do a family history report, a family tree, immigration report, homeland report, or report on a historical time period, a heritage style scrapbook would be a great way to present the information. This is an actual picture of my great great grandmother and her three daughters.

Any type of biography would make a great digital scrapbook. You can find a lot of historical photographs and documents online at the American Memory Collection. Below is a scrapbook page about the world famous aviatrix, Bessie Coleman. (It also was created for this week’s Stampin’ Addicts Scrapbook Sketch Challenge.)

The final page I wanted to show you could be used for a book report. How great would it be to have a every student in the class do a two-page spread as a book report, then make them all into one book that students could look through when they wanted to find something to read? I would love to put something like that in my library!

What other ideas do you have for digital scrapbooking in the classroom?

I am presenting tomorrow at the Southern Regional Conference of the California Association of Independent Schools. My topic this year? Teaching Visual Literacy Through Digital Scrapbooking and Storytelling. (I like to weave my obsession with stamping and scrapbooking into all aspects of my life.) Over the next few days, I will share most of that presentation with you. If you would like to read the source material that I used, you can find links to it all on the LibGuide I created. Here are my opening slides, created in My Digital Studio, of course.

One of the main reasons that teaching visual literacy is important is that children believe everything they see. By learning the basics of design, they will see how to manipulate images, as well how to communicate effectively through them. This will open their eyes up to the messages other people are sending via imagery.

Rabbit, rabbit! It’s March first and there are new downloads available for My Digital Studio (and your digital studio, too). First to answer a few questions about these downloads.

Yes, they do in fact count towards Sale-a-Bration benefits.  (How awesome is that?)
No, there is no shipping charged on them.
Yes,  they are available for immediate download.
No, you cannot put them on a workshop order. They must be ordered online via my website (click on Shop Now).

Here are this month’s new releases:

121063 Satin Ribbon $3.95

120171 Mini Project Boxes $1.95

120172 Spring Shades Designer Series Paper $4.95

Let me know if you have any questions about these or any other aspects of My Digital Studio.

Yesterday was super exciting and exhausting as we finally got to meet and take home our new Great Dane puppy! His registered AKC name will be Echo v. Evans Hijack My Heart, but we are calling him Jack. His mother Annie is a champion, and his father Humphrey is only  points away from being a champion as well. We’re hoping that Jack will follow in their footsteps. In the meantime, we are enjoying his adorable puppy self. Eve has wanted to do nothing other than snuggle him since before we even got him! She was so excited when he fell asleep in her lap last night, that I just had to take a picture. It seemed to be the perfect picture to use for both the Stamping 411 Saturday Sketch Challenge and the Pals Paper Arts Challenge.

I did it in My Digital Studio, of course, while the puppy is sleeping beneath my legs. One more good thing about My Digital Studio — no small pieces for the puppy to chew on! This is an 8″x8″ page. I figure it’s never too early to start on the scrapbook!

If you are in the Los Angeles area and would like one-on-one lessons in My Digital Studio, please contact me for more information.

It is every stamper’s favorite time of year! Sale-a-Bration! One free product for every $50 you spend (in your subtotal). There are 6 products to choose from this year –  four stamp sets, a paper pad, and a border punch — PLUS a selection of stamps from the main Idea Book & Catalog as well! Incredible!  I have some pictures from Leadership to show you of different projects made with the Sale-a-Bration sets.

Come back tomorrow for the Stampin’ Addicts Sale-a-Bration Blog Hop. There will be some amazing projects to see! (You can always click to make the pictures larger.)

Click Here to shop now!

I was so lucky to have had three amazing roommates at the Leadership Convention! They were all three from Wisconsin, and though we had been “friends” online for quite a while, I had never met them in person. It didn’t matter. By the end of our first afternoon together, we might as well have been friends since childhood! In keeping up with Stampin’ Up tradition, each of them made gifts for me as well.

Lyssa made a fabulous monogram luggage tag, which I immeadiately put on my awesome Leadership bag. It has the Statement of the Heart on the back. She also made a gorgeous card with yummy chocolate in it, but I don’t have a picture of it right now.

Staci made this great mini scrapbook. I haven’t put pictures in it yet, but it will be a fabulous memento of Leadership!

Shelley filled this super cute Fancy Favor bag with chocolate, and also made this adorable pin with the Build-a-Bear stamp set.

Barbara was not one of our roommates, but since she lives in Phoenix she went out of her way to make welcome gifts for each of us!

Thank you to everyone for their wonderful gifts!

One of the best parts of our first day of Leadership was doing the Make and Takes! We each received the With All My Heart stamp set and were given packets and instructions to create two cards, a tag, a scrapbook page, and a mini milk carton. Below are pictures of our projects (except for the milk carton, because I’ll make that at home so it doesn’t get crushed) as well as a picture of our table.

Alright, here they are, the last three months of the calendar I made for my parents. I know you’ve been anxiously waiting to see them, so I thought I’d put all three months in at once, instead of making you wait until tomorrow to see December. I’m considerate like that!

October has to be Halloween right? What else could it be?

For November, I used the quintessential “olives on the fingers” picture. Everyone has one like that from Thanksgiving, right? Is there another way to eat black olives?

For December I used pictures taken this week while we have been here visiting. It was fun to turn them into a scrapbook page so quickly. Makes me want to scrapbook life as I go along. What a crazy idea that is!

I hope you enjoyed looking at the calendar! Just a reminder that today is the last day to order from the Holiday Mini Catalog. The Build-a-Bear items, My Digital Studio, and the Shimmer Paint will continue to be available, but everything else is gone! Make wise choices!

I mentioned a few posts ago how fun it was to be able to take My Digtal Studio with anywhere since it is on my laptop. Not only that, but I can even begin to scrapbook things before the trip is over! You have to love digital technology! I used this week’s Saturday Sketch Challenge from Stamping 411 to create a scrapbook page while I am still at the American Association of School Librarians conference! This week’s sketch:

Right across from the Convention Center in Charlotte is a beautiful green, with these amazing statues of books. My friend and colleague, Elisabeth and I wanted a picture in front of this. Luckily a kindly librarian passing by took a picture of us together.

It is amazing to me that I can still be at an event, and be actively creating a scrapbook about it. Every time I use My Digital Studio, I like it more and more!

I found yet another great plus to using Stampin’ Up’s My Digital Studio. You can take it anywhere! I am currently in Charlotte, North Carolina for the American Association of School Librarians conference. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t have brought any stamping stuff with me, because it is too hard to figure out what I want to do, and how much to bring, and what if I don’t have time, etc, etc. But not this time! Nope! I simply loaded My Digital Studio on my laptop, and I can relax in the evenings by playing with it and creating a few pages! (I love that when you purchase MDS you are licensed to install it on two computers in the same home, so I can install it on both my desktop and laptop computer without a problem.)

I had some spare time this morning before I have to head out to the conference sessions, so I put together a scrapbook page for this week’s Pals Paper Arts Color Challenge. The colors are:

I used some pictures from last December, of my Dad and Eve building a hot air balloon out of her Mega Fort Builder set. I substituted Tempting Turquoise for the Taken with Teal, because the background paper I wanted to use was not available in Taken with Teal.  I’m very happy with the way it came out, and I may use it as one of the pages of the calender I am making for my parents for Hanukkah. (Another great feature of MDS — you can import pages from one project to another! It saves time and effort, no duplicating work!)

Happy Stampin’, whether it is real or virtual!