February 2021 Blog Post Calendar

Due 28.01. for 02.02. Tutorial Monica
Due 04.02. for 09.02. Inspo Rikki
Due 10.02 for 15.02. Template Challenge Gaelle (EDIT: we will use Karen's template she made for December 2020)
Challenge should be posted 31.01 for CT. Layouts due 10.02.
Due 11.02. for 16.02. Hybrid Geraldine
Due 18.02. for 23.02. Pretty pages Karen

I have a question...I just created a layout and tutorial for a blog post around the new BYOC release Lots and Lots. I didn't notice until I finished that it doesn't release until after the blog post is scheduled to post (Feb 2). Is it okay to go ahead and post or can it be scheduled for later in the month?

I'll post below and if I need to crank something else out, I can possibly work on it tomorrow or over the weekend.

When I saw the newest release, Lots and Lots, I instantly thought of the song lyrics for "Lovin' You Lots and Lots" by The Norm Wooster Singers.

After looking up the lyrics, I decided to create a background with the chorus lyrics using alphas included in the bundle.

The lyrics go, "You got me all tied up in knots; And I'm lovin' you lots and lots; I'm just lovin' you lots and lots; I'm lovin' you lots and lots".

I started by selecting a template from the collection that left lots of white space for the lettered background to show through.



After opening and making a duplicate of the template, I hid all of the layers above the background layer so that I would be able to see while placing the alphas on the background.

Next, I placed the alphas on the background, spelling out the lyrics. I had to resize alphas for the first three lines of the chorus to 50% of their original size. I left the alphas for the last line of the chorus at their full size. I added a drop shadow to the alphas so they would stand out a bit more and add some dimension to the page. I also rotated colors of the alphas for each word.

Here is the background with alphas spelling out the chorus lyrics --



After completing the background, I placed a paper underneath the alphas and then unhid all of the layers of the template and worked on filling them in with my photo and elements to complete the layout.

Here is my completed layout with a large background title from the lyrics to the song "Lovin' You Lots and Lots" to compliment this amazing kit!

So sorry that I didn't reply earlier @Monica. It was a bit crazy here and I didn't have time to check the forum thoroughly. Let's use this one for next month. We will just skip February. Everyone is probably still busy finishing the MOC so the post will most likely get more attention next month anyway

Love the post again btw!

I have updated the March schedule so we will remember that we will use this one next month.

Awesome! Thanks Rikki!

Oh another thing....

The Feb challenge is with a template from Gaelle, but we still have the template from Karen which we didn't use in December. Should we use it in April?
Karen, have you still got it? Is it suitable for April? I don't want to let anything go to waste :)

More great thinking Rikki! If Karen is okay we could definitely use this one! I agree it would be a total shame not to use it. It is a great template! Or maybe we could use it for March? What do you think @Karen?



Let me know Karen so I can set it up in my Dropbox folder. I have all the files.

Hi !
This month I created an hybrid album with photos of our last snowy sunday.

I used a video tutorial published by CelmaScrap (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi2Vv_UiOmA&t=513s). I love her mini albums and her tutorials on her youtube channel.

I followed the explainations of the tutorial for the pages' size and the cover size.

I began to decorate the cover. Do the cover at first it's a good way to give the ton and the main elements to the album : colors, elements, ink and stamps that I will use for my complete album.

For my cover I used printed papers from It's cold outside :


I decorated the cover with a cluster of elements :

(Leaves from Lots and lots|elements, tape from It's cold outside|elements, WA from It's cold outside, yellow tag from Listed|elements)

Then I decorated the album's pages.
I show you some details below and you could find at the end of this post my complete album.

Several pages of my album have stamps on the background.

I stamped with black ink and grey ink a text pattern to create the background. The two colors give a deepth to the page without overprint it :

(paper from Forget me not|papers)

Then I glued a clustering of elements :

(gold branch from It's cold outside|elements, leaf from Lots&Lots|elements, blue tag from Listed|elements)


(blue tag from Labels&tags|elements, WA from It's cold outside)

Another page, built with the same process with ink and elements :

(paper from It's cold outside|papers)

I glued two photos on the stamped background:


And I added elements :

(left page : Leaf from Lots&lots|elements, WA from It's cold outside - right page : black tag from Labels & tags|elements, WA from It's cold outside, leaf from scrapbooking supplies)



Zoom on the right page :



The last example of pages :

(left page : WA from Homebody|elements - right page : paper from It's cold outside|papers)


I created a clustering of elements in yellow colors (I love grey and yellow).


(Yellow flower is from Listed|elements, Leaf from Lots & lots|elements, WA from photography|elements, brad from photography|elements)

Once my album completely decorated, I bind it with two brads (I followed the instructions of the video tutorial)






My album is finished !














Enjoy the winter !

I love this Géraldine!!!! Makes me want to grab paper, scissors and glue. Really great project!!! Thanks so much!