![]() Shimelle has many free videos on Youtube including 4圆 Photo Love(one of my absolute favs), the Glitter Girl series, and tons of others. She also always provides the names of the paper and embellishments she uses. She usually scraps upside down, so there are not distracting hands, bodies,etc. One of the main reasons I will pay for Shimelle's classes/videos is that she does a great job of filming and speaking. I also felt very happy with myself that I could use an entire collection pack. ![]() She had some good tricks and hints that I found useful, and after I made all the pages, they looked pretty good, so I used them for my daughter's surprise 40th birthday party. ![]() The paper collection, Wild and Free by Glitz, was not one I would have looked at twice, but I bought it on-line for half price and made the exact layouts that Shimelle made. In Return to the Collection, her focus was to use a collection pack that she ordinarily would not use but wanted to put to good use and see what she could do with it. I made all of the layouts and even added a few extras. She did provide a cutting diagram which I have found very useful. The point was to randomly cut-up paper in order to use one's stash. In the Perfect Collection, Shimelle cut-up a collection pack of papers and arranged the cuts as starting points for layouts. I took both classes and loved both of them, for different reasons. I don't even recall liking it while I took it when it first came out, but I'll be honest, I don't remember why that was. However, I think if you took The Perfect Collection and have seen at least one or two other Shimelle/Glitter Girl videos, the Return isn't necessary. It remains one of my favorite classes ever. I think The Perfect collection was awesome and somewhat reset how I scrapbook. I feel bad saying that, but I just don't think that it rose to the level of what you find in Glitter Girl videos and that was the intended focus of the class.Ģ2:42:37 GMT Prenticekid said:I did not care for Return to the Collection. But, that is probably just me, you know? I also don't recall being particularly bowled over by the embellishing. I recall thinking that Shimelle didn't seem particularly enthused with the collection either. I used it to scrap an event and the collection did fit the guest of honor of the event. It wasn't anything I would normally have purchased, but I was willing to step out of my zone for the fun of the class. The main thing I recall is that I used the same collection that Shimelle used. It is me who reminds everyone to keep their subway-ticket stubs, me who embarrasses everybody by filching restaurant menus, me who saves the miniature-golf score cards and plastic ice-cream spoons and, at the end of every day, me who writes up a log of our activities beside the scraps of memorabilia.I did not care for Return to the Collection. At the end of a long day on the tourist trail, they would rather chill in front of an online movie or loll with a magazine on a hotel bed than snip and glue with their obsessive father. Every time I open their yellowed pages, the tide of memory rolls in.When I try to enlist my own offspring in the joy of scrapbooking, their eyes roll skyward. ![]() Those scrapbooks sit in my living-room bookcase still. “The wateress in Albany gave me this,” I wrote next to a brown Tootsie Roll wrapper. My younger brother and I wrote the misspelled captions. Making use of his ad skills, he helped with the layout. My father, a Mad Men-era advertising executive with the square jaw and sharp suits of Don Draper, brought scrapbooks on our 1960s car trips to New York, Detroit, Chicago and Nantucket. When I first proposed scrapbooking a trip, I thought it would be a great way to spend some family time while recording the experience for posterity. This is not how it was supposed to turn out. Photos of Marcus Gee’s scrapbooks by Kevin Van Paassen for The Globe and Mail
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