Scrapbooking with Everyday You & Me.

Hello & welcome. 

My name is Alison & I live in beautiful Melbourne, Australia. 

For those of you who have previously visited my blog & are now returning, thank you. For those of you who are here for the first time, welcome!

 Here's a little bit about me. I love creating cards & gifts for my loved ones & this blog will show you how to create something special for those you love. I blog twice a week, once on a Sunday where I mainly showcase a stamp set or dies, embossing folders, projects & sometimes special DSP and Wednesday evenings when I highlight a technique, fun folds or tools & tips. I would love to hear from you if you have any questions or suggestions & my email address for that is craftedbyalison@gmail.com.

Stampin' Up® 's Annual Catalogue was released last year with a very different format & it's a beauty! It's set out quite differently to previous catalogues but there are benefits to that. They now have sectioned it to have beginners, which is a step by step collection of materials in kits, then there is quick & easy where you select base materials & packs of pre-printed or diecut materials plus some stamp sets then there is create your way where you choose all the materials, stamps etc yourself & create your way! In the quick & easy section Stampin' Up® have also provided some inspiration with a colour wheel & information of various ways to use colour combinations. I explored this in a bit more detail in my 1/1/25 mid week blog. The new mini catalogue was launched on January 7th with lots of lovely stamps, dies & papers to ooh & aah over. If you would like a copy of this new catalogue then please contact me at craftedbyalison@gmail.com. Stampin' Up® also have products available only online. These are called Online exclusives & have no end date, when the stock is sold out, that's the end of it.

This week I am sharing some scrapbooking pages made with the Everyday You & Me stamps & dies as well as the Everyday Happiness DSP & Sticker sheet. I've just recently got back into creating scrapbook pages as Stampin' Up® took over some of the products from Close To My Heart when the company closed last year. Stampin' Up® now have a growing range of products designed for scrapbooking to help the Close To My Heart creators that moved across to Stampin' Up® last year & the benefits of that combination is that there are loads of products to help scrapbookers & card makers alike. I have posted some previous pages I created with the Gnomes for Summer Scrapbooking kit in my 1/12/24 post & my 8/12/24 post. 

Today I share a double page spread made without the kit instructions (scary step creating from scratch!) & I love how they turned out. I hope you do too. Here they are...

To create these 2 pages I started with the Everyday Happiness DSP & Sticker sheet with a little bit of stamping from the Everyday You & Me stamp set. 

The DSP has a list of co-ordinating cardstock colours listed on the back so I went through & collected them all to see which ones went well with the stickers to help me decide which ones I would use.

For the first layout I played around with some of the stickers, cutting DSP patterns that went well together & chose two strong colours, Pecan Pie & Pretty Peacock as accent pieces for the background.

The breakdown of measurements for this page are:

Pecan Pie cardstock - 10cm x 21cm

Pretty Peacock cardstock - 7cm x 20cm

Dotty DSP & Floral DSP - 12cm x 16cm

The small dovetailed banner in the top right - 4 cm x 9.5cm

Two bottom strips of DSP - 1.5cm x 30.5cm & 2cm x 30.5cm

The rest of the layout has stickers from the sticker sheet plus a stamped image in Lost Lagoon, Wild Wheat & Gray Granite. The sentiment is stamped in Pretty Peacock.

For the second page I wanted a mirror image of the first but I wanted different colours & patterns.

The measurements are the same but I chose Copper Clay & Lost Lagoon as the accent cardstock. Copper Clay is not listed as a co-ordinating colour but I loved that it picks out one of the bands in the bottom right hand sticker & how it is a nice contrast.

This time I only stamped some Copper Clay leaves in the left corner, using 1st, 2nd & 3rd generation to give a variety of tones.

I enjoyed stretching my creativity this week with a scrapbook layout & am now a little more confident to play around with more layouts & materials.

So that's it for this post. I really enjoyed creating this scrapbook layout & hope you enjoyed learning how I made it, now I'd like to share some of the latest news from Stampin' Up®.

Stampin' Up® has a number of ways to purchase their lovely products. You can look through their physical catalogue or browse through the catalogues online but there are also some products that are only available exclusively online that don't appear in any catalogues. These products are called the Online Exclusives & are only available under the Online Exclusives section of the Stampin' Up® shop. Check out the online exclusives in my online store. Stampin' Up® adds more product items to the online shop so don't forget to keep checking the store to see what's new. There are some lovely new products now available including kits, embellishments, stamps, dies & embossing folders. Something for everyone! If you would like a copy of the catalogue please send me a message at craftedbyalison@gmail.com or on my Facebook page, craftedbyalison. 

Stampin' Up® have a great range of Kits including crafting, card making & gift giving. There were 2 brand new kits just added to the collection. Click here to check them all out in my online shop. As Stampin' Up® have so many beautiful kits available I feature a different kit in each blog so that you can see the range. 

This week's featured kit is called Welcoming Garden & is a lovely outdoor garden kit that makes 9 gorgeous cards.

Here's how Stampin' Up® describes the kit...

Create your own charming, garden-themed cards with the Welcoming Garden Kit. Featuring precut, colourful flowers and unique garden gates, this all-inclusive kit is perfect for crafting a heartfelt thank-you card or a note to say a friendly hello.

If you feel that you need to add this to your list then click here to purchase one from my online store. 
If you shop with me then don't forget to use this month's host code QTKJG2A2. This will allow me to pass on any hostess benefits to customers when the sales reach the required qualifying amount.

Lastly, there have been lots of great items added to the clearance rack which is now called Last Chance items so make sure you check them out using this link to my online store.

If you would like to purchase any of my creations that I feature in my blogs they can be found in my FaceBook shop at craftedbyalison or you can order something unique. 

I hope you've enjoyed today's post. I certainly enjoyed pushing my creative boundaries a little. If you would like me to send you a copy of the current Annual catalogue or the new mini then please message me via my FaceBook page, Crafted by Alison or send me an email at craftedbyalison@gmail.com.

That's all I have for you this week. My next blog is on Wednesday & I will share a fun way of heat embossing called split negative.
In my next Sunday blog I will have a some cards for you made with this week's stamp & dies - Everyday You & Me.
I hope you can join me for both of them.

Well, that's it for another week. I hope you enjoyed this post & come back for more. 

Til next time, take care & keep creating! XX Alison.

Here are some links to the products I used today & some craft room essentials.


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Stamps, Dies, Embossing folders & punches
Cardstock, DSP & paper goods
Inks & Markers
Embellishments
  • No embellishments used this week other than the sticker sheet.
Adhesives




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