Library Pocket Books

One a year Heirloom Productions brings their rubber stamp/paper arts show to Allentown.  Last year was the first year I went.  I returned this year.  My favorite vendor is The Paper Cut (and their sub-company Paper Creations).  They produce card die cuts, have tons of brightly colored papers, and sell book kits.  Accordion book, concertina book, flip books and my favorite the Library Pocket Book.

The first year I bought two of the pocket books, two concertina books and a flip book.  This year it was a mini memory book, and two more library pocket books.  These Library pocket books are awesome.  So here is the beginning of my project:

My Materials List So far:
COVERS:
Ranger Distress Inks in walnut stain and forest moss
Tsukineko Tuxedo black and Encore Ultimate metallic Gold
Spellbinders Donna Salazar - Sprightly Sprockets
Paper Creations Library Pocket Book Kit in Harvest Variety
Close To My Heart Stamps - Key Moments set.
Avery Dennison Reinforced Hole Shipping Tags #5 tags (4 3/4" x 2 3/8" )

Library Book Covers

Covers, a photo by jdkcubed on Flickr.

Took me about 1.5 hours to do the covers.

Lapbooking for fun and knowledge

One of the 1000 hobbies I like to indulge in is scrapbooking.  It started when my niece was born as a way to preserve history.  But then it grew and I enjoy messing with paper and glue.  I like to make and hand bind my own journals (and have sold a few).  So I am always on the lookout for new ideas.

This year I have been part of the One Little Word project over at bigpictureclasses.com. And while it has been fun, I found it too be too little each month.  I personally think its hard work to find the focus on a particular word for  a year with one or two exercises a month.  So I have been adding more stuff to each month to better keep my focus!

So on to lapbooking.  Lapbooking is a method used mostly by home schoolers for children to focus on a particular area of study.  It boils down to a portfolio of journaling, scrapping, illustrating using muti-media, collage, writing and other techniques to illustrate what they learned about a particular subject.  Then when finished they can always go back and peruse their work.  It helps to re-enforce what was learned.

I think it is the perfect medium for scrapbooking.  Particularly if you are focusing on a specific event, trip, time period or other singular thing you want to incorporate into your scrapping and or life.  A google search on lapbooks will get you hundreds of links but the gist is the same:

• Make a portfolio.  Typically using file folders or poster board or whatever.. Skies the limit
• typical with fold outs, envelopes, pictures, drawings whatever ephemera you would like
• Ability to add small flip book, step books any thing as long as you can access it
• Make, gather or otherwise come by "CONTENT" for your folio based on your focus
• Assemble your content into your portfolio.  When satisfied, move on to the next one.
• Enjoy it.

My idea is to spend a year working on these.  One a Month, with a unifying theme...So...Join me on the adventure over at Lifebooking

One LIttle Word Album

One LIttle Word Album, a set on Flickr.

Here are the pics from my album construction for my previous post!