To celebrate nothing more than me getting a few things right over the last few weeks, it’s time for some bargains! These will be available for just two days, and all of these offers are for archived classes. That means they have finished their live run and when you sign up, you’ll get access to the entire set of lessons and materials to work through at your own pace. My classes don’t expire, so you can sign up and save it for a rainy day if that’s your preference! Or you can dive right in and get to work as soon as your class hits your account. If you’ve already taken a class with me, you’ll ..read more

We’ll talk about this in more detail in today’s livestream on YouTube! A reminder of #advertising: all these products are linked with affiliate links. Thanks so much for your support! Albums I love the 6×8 format for this project and have stuck with it happily for many years, so these are all 6×8 recommendations. Of course you can choose another size if you like! I’m using that first album from Paige’s Sugarplum Wishes collection. It has the widest spine of any of the 6×8 albums I’ve found! It comes with some page protectors but you will need more – the Vicki Boutin page protectors listed th ..read more

Hey hey there Christmas fans! This year’s edition of the Journal your Christmas stamps are now available for preorder, which will remain open for two weeks – until Wednesday the 19th of July. I only get a very small number of extras, so if you would like a set please place a preorder. Any extras would be available in late October or early November. This year’s vibe is a multitude of words you can mix and match to fit the stories you tell over the holidays and then throughout the rest of the year. For example, I have long wished for a stamp that says ‘core memory’ to go with my writing on plen ..read more

It’s definitely time for a new class around here that does more than focus on supplies: let’s get back to stories and back to the book in scrapbook. This is the heart of what makes me a scrapbooker and it’s been a while since we’ve really discussed this at length. It’s time for This Year’s Story. I flipped through my January stories in a recent YouTube video so you can see a little about how my stories look this year, but for the events of February through the rest of the year, I’m sharing everything about that from album philosophy, planning, decision making, sketches, and process videos all ..read more

Welcome to the complete list of online classes available at shimelle.com! Please note that class registrations are processed by an actual person (me!) and you should immediately receive a Paypal payment receipt email upon making a purchase. This will be followed by your class registration email within 48 hours. If it’s your first class purchase, you’ll also receive your login details to access your classes. If you have any questions or don’t seem to have received your welcome email, please do not hesitate to send me an email. If you have some classes already and would like to check your class ..read more

Leafy scrapbooking is an entire genre I could happily look through for days and days, so I hope you’ll enjoy all the autumnal and leafy goodness of today’s guest post from the lovely Rebecca Moore! -Shimelle I love scrapbooking – it’s my ‘me time’. I have a busy life with a five year old, so scrapbooking is something I do in the evenings when things are a bit quieter. I love to have lots of dimension and layering on my scrapbook pages. It means I can’t always get as many layouts in an album as I’d like – but it’s my style and it’s what makes me happy so I don’t let that stop me! I recently to ..read more

The countdown is dwindling and I pulled out the suitcases and started packing things today! But I have another offer – a bundle of two classes from not so far back in the archives this time: The 20 Project and The Scrapbook Process. The 20 Project is great for getting out of a rut and getting yourself actually making stuff and making stuff relatively quickly! It’s a great exercise if you usually spend two hours wondering if a particular piece of paper should sit at a 90 degree angle or a 91 degree angle. I challenged myself to create 20 scrapbook pages, spurred on my twenty descriptions I’d s ..read more

Our travel day is getting closer and closer and with that comes another countdown special! This time it’s a bundle of three classics: True Stories, Pretty Paper Party, and Scrapbook Remix! True Stories is all about scrapbook journaling. It covers 15 different strategies for telling your stories on your pages. Pretty Paper Party is a love letter to paper and includes plenty of patterns and lots of layers. It’s a mix of PDF lessons with pages from a range of talented scrapbookers and videos from me sharing the tips while making pages. Scrapbook Remix celebrates mixing collections and designs. I ..read more

The third day of countdown discounts brings a class that’s ready to stop you just staring at your paper willing it to do something and ready to cut and stick things into place It’s Start with a Sketch, an online scrapbooking class with 15 sketches and 45 videos, so you can see three different ways each sketch can be interpreted. From there, you’ll be ready to look at every scrapbook page sketch in a new light! Start with a Sketch is usually $30USD but for 24 hours only, it’s just $20. If you have taken online classes with me before, you can sign into your account at http://www.shimelle.com/fo ..read more

The second countdown discount is ready now for the next 24 hours! It’s the Half and Half online scrapbooking class for half price – it’s usually $15 and today it’s just $7.50. This class is all about page composition using two patterns or colours to make up the background – two equal halves of the page. Half and Half includes 12 full length videos, and a few shorter segments: 10 12×12 single page layouts, each broken down in its own extended video plus a simple summary PDF. 2 12×12 double page layouts, again each in their own video + summary sheet. A selection of short videos that adapt some ..read more