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Gloria Froese –Vinbellishment Kit

 

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The theme for this week’s portal is…

Transparencies..

The portal is updated every Friday with unique creations from the Blue Bazaar Design Team focusing on a specific theme each week. To view the portal simply enter Blue Bazaar via the main page at www.bluebazaar.com.au.

This week’s project is by Lisa Chadfield:

 

KI mini alphabet soup - tomato zucchini

Bazzill - Chatterbox dark sand

Crate paper - Samantha Snapdragon

Fancy Pants - Creative Cards Perfect Pen

cherryArte Cosmic Energy die cuts

Ribbon

This week we have had the arrival of many beautiful kits from both Poppy Ink and Gloria Froese.  Two of Gloria’s kits contain instructions on how to complete a layout using the contents and include a colour image of the finished version. The kits contain cool unique products to create a one of a kind layout.

 

This week we also began a new referral promotion which we are running until 31st August. We would love your friends to become our customers and we have put together a promotion to welcome your friend to BB and also thank you for your word of mouth referral.

 

If you know of someone who has never scrapbooked and would like to try, we will be putting together some essential scrapbooking tool kits which will be available on the site in the next week or two. This will be a great opportunity for someone to purchase what they need to start scrapbooking AND at a discount!

Free postage available to every 5th order placed after the newsletter is online until 11pm Sunday 15th July.

1. BB News.

2. Finding the right  words, with Leanne Ryan

3. NEW in the store.

4. Newsletter Freebie.

5. Products coming soon.

6. Portal Sneak Peek.

POETIC LICENCE

 

When you think poetry you think rhyming words, right? But there’s a whole lot more to poetry than the cat on the mat, and plenty that you can pinch to apply to your journaling. Alliteration and assonance for starters.

 

In theory

Alliteration is all about repeating consonants in close proximity, like the letter ‘j’ in the phrase ‘jazz up your journaling’. Assonance is all about repeating vowel sounds, like, well like the ‘a’ in ‘alliteration and assonance’. The simple repetition of these sounds ties the words together and gives the journaling a kind of unique tempo.

Supplies:

Cardstock - Kraft. Patterned paper - MAMBI

Reflex copy paper, Black gel pen

Alphas - Making Memories, American Crafts, Real Life

Making Memories leather frame

Ribbon, Ric rac, Embroidery thread, Button

Font: Foxscript

Which makes it the perfect device for generating catchy titles. Take the ever-popular ‘beach bum’ or ‘country bumpkin’. The reason these titles work so well, apart from them being entrenched clichés, is because the words have simple sounds in common.

 

But the usefulness of alliteration and assonance isn’t limited to titles. Their careful placement in the body of your journaling can also make it a pleasure to read.

 

In practice

 

I’ve used both alliteration and assonance in the journaling on my layout, which reads: ‘Happiness is … a beautiful bunch of just because.’

There’s an obvious connection between the ‘b’ sounds in the ‘beautiful bunch of just because’ bit, but this is also supported by a couple of other connections. The ‘i’ sound in the ‘happiness is’ section of the title is repeated, as is the ‘e’ sound in beautiful and because. There’s also a loose link between the hard ‘p’ sounds in happiness and the hard ‘b’ sounds in the rest of the journaling, which isn’t a necessary connection, but helps to make the whole thing more effective.

Although the journaling essentially means ‘I loved this bunch of flowers’ choosing specific words to convey the message in a way that has a sing-song effect not only makes it a more interesting read, but also a more satisfying one.

 

Tips:

 

Read your journaling aloud to see if it rolls smoothly off the tongue. Listen to how each word sounds individually and in relation to the others.

 

If the words you’ve written don’t sound quite right together use a thesaurus to find alternatives with similar meanings and better connections.

 

Use alliteration and assonance to enhance your journaling, but try not to overdo it or you’ll end up creating a tongue twister effect à la Dr Suess.

Autumn Leaves—  Designing with Details. Designing with Style. Designing with 2008 Calendar

Lil Davis—restocks and new acrylic stamps. (late August)

Books—We Dare You: Challenges about Real Life (shipping August)

New Creative Artist.

Scraptastic: Ashley Calder (Dec 07)

Type Cast: Creative Page Design Using Words Type and Letters

Find Your Groove: A Guide to Discovering your Scrapbook Style

Out of Bounds: Scrapbooking Without Boundaries

Scrapbook Designers Workbook: Unlocking the Secrets to Great Page Design.

Sassafras Lass—restock Oliver and Friends stamp. (due next week)

Technique Tuesday—acrylic stamps CHA Summer ordered. (due mid to late July)

Catslife Press Stamps—new stamps and restocks. (due end of July)

Purple Onion Stamps—new stamps. (due end of July)

Collections Stamps—unmounted stamps. In transit

Tim Holtz—storage tins. In transit

Autumn Leaves—single acrylic stamps. In transit

Punches—ticket, corner round, spring flower, sunflower, mini file tab, round tab, square tab, library pocket, folder, scallop. In transit

Bind it All—restock covers and wires. In transit

Adhesive—restock Essential Glue Pad and refill. In transit

Tim Holtz—Crackle Paint. (expected September)

Scenic Route—Sumner and Ashville CHA release (expected late July)

Gloria Froese—Vin-bellishment kits and layout kits.

Poppy Ink—July kit, add on kits and new stamps.

Inspired by Gloria Froese using the tears technique

Gloria Froese Kits

I Dreamed of…

 

Layout kit with instructions

Eye Create...

 

Layout kit with

instructions

Vinbellishment

Kits—Various

 

Contents of kit varies

Poppy Ink Kits

July Main kit

July Addon kit

Twinkle Toes

Twirl

Product Spotlight - Jenni Bowlin

Below are some projects using scalloped  journaling blocks and felt buttons from the Jenni Bowlin range.  You can use the journaling blocks for the purpose of journaling or just use them as an accent instead. The products are also available in a pink/blue combination.