Debby Schuh Classes

Chicago/Illinois Keepsake Album

Debby has designed an exclusive, one time class, just for our store, and for all your special Chicago and/or Illinois memories! In class you will either be able to create a beautiful Chicago Keepsake album or an Illinois Keepsake album that is perfect for all your photos and memorabilia of the Windy City and the Land of Lincoln. Using a fabulous screen-printed and embroidered Chicago tea towel or an Illinois tea towel to make the cover, we’ll make a 10 x 10” album full of pockets and pages and textures that will house all your favorite photos and memories of our great city and state. Your kit will be filled (to overflowing!!) with products and choices for you to use as you assemble your album in class. New products from My Mind’s Eye and custom Chicago and Illinois papers and Chicago stickers will make your album a one of a kind keepsake. This unique album makes a wonderful gift for yourself or someone special.
This is a limited edition class – Debby is making only twenty-four kits, so be sure to not miss out. There is a possibility that the Chicago towels for the covers of your book will not make it in time for class due to the ongoing strike at the Port of Los Angeles. The Illinois towel will be available in class for sure. If you want a Chicago towel, it will be sent to you when it comes in. You will learn in class how to make the cover and have printed directions to follow. If you want an Illinois towel, you will able to make your cover in class. If you cannot attend class that day, the kit will contain the directions with color photos to follow to do the kit on your own (be sure to specify whether you want a Chicago or Illinois towel.) If you are attending class, you can decide that day.

Student supply list: Please bring the following items to class… 12” paper trimmer, pencil, ruler, scoring tool, scissors to cut fabric and paper, strong tape adhesive, regular tape runner adhesive, Crop a Dile. 

This class will be taught at CraftFancy.

Open Book Journal

The possibilities are endless for this one-of-a-kind journal/scrapbook that we will create using the parts of a pre-made journal kit along with papers and embellishments from the gorgeous new Maggie Holmes Open Book collection and lots of other fun bits of this and that. Each journal can be unique as you choose your cover design and the assembly of your book to reflect your style and your needs (or do it just like Debby’s!)

This versatile 5 ½” x 8” book would be perfect as a travel journal that you could take on a trip with you to add to as you go; it would be a lovely garden or home journal; it could be a daily journal to record your thoughts and plans; you could use it as a gratitude or prayer journal; it could be a place to reflect on your life stories… You can make it whatever you want it to be! My journal has 104 pages! The lined pages that are scattered throughout the book give you a place to tell the stories and to include photos and mementos that you collect.

Student supply list:

Please bring the following items to class… 12” paper trimmer, pencil, ruler, scoring tool, scissors, strong tape adhesive (1/8”, ¼”, or ½”), regular tape runner adhesive, Crop a Dile (or 1/4” We R MemoryKeepers Power Punch), Distress Ink (I use Vintage Photo Distress Ink by Ranger), ink blending tool, non-stick craft mat, sanding tool, stapler or Tiny Attacher, foam squares, corner rounder punch, scallop-edge scissors. Optional: We R MemoryKeepers Tab Punch, baby powder to make stickers un-sticky, We R MemoryKeepers Cinch binding machine

This class will be taught at Whim So Doodle and Memories Live On in 2014, and then in stores continuing in 2015.

Candy Cane Christmas Album 2014

The seasons are changing, the stores are getting their holiday products in, and that means it’s time to make our annual Christmas album. This year we will be making an album filled with papers and embellishments from one of my favorite Christmas collections ever – the new Bo Bunny Candy Cane Lane collection. From a jolly vintage Santa to the nostalgic Shiny Brite box, this collection is a whimsical array of darling images that will be perfect for all your holiday photos.

We will be making our album from a shopping bag with lots of techniques for including all your memories – whether on a daily basis for the month of December or for the whole season. Even if you have made this type of album with me before, you’ll have new things to learn and will love filling this book with your Christmas memories, photos, and cards. The mix of page protector sizes and the things we'll add into our book makes the twenty-plus pages interactive and fun!

If you have a chance to get the small size shopping bag from an Anthropologie store, it would be so helpful. I will have some for those who are not able to get a bag (if you can get more than one to share, I’ll be forever grateful!) I’m not able to get the large quantities I used to get but will have one for everyone who needs one. The album-making techniques can be used with any shopping bag – you’re mind will be full of the possibilities!

Student supply list: 

Please bring the following items to class… 12” paper trimmer, pencil, ruler, scoring tool, scissors, strong tape adhesive (1/8”, ¼”, or ½”, and also a wider tape, if possible), regular tape runner adhesive, Crop a Dile and/or 1/4” We R MemoryKeepers Power Punch, Distress Ink (I use Vintage Photo Distress Ink by Ranger), ink blending tool, non-stick craft mat, sanding tool, stapler or Tiny Attacher, two pieces of lightweight chipboard at least 7 ¾” x 8 ½” – it can even be a cereal box cardboard – that’s what I used, scallop-edge scissors, small size Anthropologie bag (8 ¾” x 10 ½”).

This will be taught at each of the stores on my schedule for the rest of 2014 and at Paper Tales in 2015.

StoryTeller Book

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Don’t you love it when someone says, “Tell me about the time…” - who doesn’t love a good story! You have stories that only you can tell, and this album is just the place to write those stories down. Just like a good book that you would get from the library to read over and over again, your StoryTeller book will be a treasure-trove of your “tell me about” stories.

Using the whimsical new Public Library collection from October Afternoon mixed with the nostalgic new Open Road collection from American Crafts, we will make a storybook filled with lots of places to tuck your stories and include your photos. The new Heidi Swapp 8” x 6” binder album with three different styles of horizontal page projectors will be the base of our book  - we will alter some of them and make your book an interactive scrapbook for writing, photos, and mementos.

You’ll have several papers to choose from for your book cover and, of course, can use your book for anything you want – it would make a great place to record your favorite books or to use as a school album or even a travel album. Your kit includes thirteen sheets of 12x12 papers, 4 stickers sheets, stitched borders, Miscellany die cuts and buttons and ribbons and the album with color directions – it’s huge!

Student supply list: Please bring the following items to class… 12” paper trimmer, pencil, ruler, scoring tool, scissors, strong tape adhesive (1/8” and ½”, if possible), regular tape runner adhesive, foam adhesive, Crop a Dile (or 1/4” We R MemoryKeepers Power Punch), Distress Ink (I use Vintage Photo Distress Ink by Ranger), ink blending tool, non-stick craft mat, sanding tool, stapler or Tiny Attacher, corner rounder punch. Optional: Tim Holtz two hole punch and powder to use make stickers “unsticky”.

This class will be taught at each of the stores on the rest of my schedule throughout 2014. If you would like to purchase a kit, please contact one of those stores and they will send it to you after the class is taught at that store. Thank you!

#bigideas #smallbooks album

Using the new We R MemoryKeepers 4x4” Instagram album, Debby will guide you in making an encyclopedia of ideas for expanding the room for photos in the small books that are so popular now. The folds and cuts and extensions and add-ins and more will supply a wealth of ideas that can be adapted for any of your paper-crafting projects.

The darling new Styleboard collection by Maggie Holmes from Crate Paper will fill our books with nostalgic charm and be the foundation for the sweet little pages that we’ll make for our favorite photos. The page protectors that come in your album will be perfect for 4x4” or 2x2” Instagram photos or you can crop your photos to fit the pages. We’ll add ribbons and tags and pockets and other little embellishments to make our books the cutest things ever!

 Student supply list: Please bring the following items to class… 12” paper trimmer, pencil, ruler, scoring tool, scissors, strong tape adhesive (1/8” and ½”, if possible), regular tape runner adhesive, Crop a Dile (or 1/16” and 1/4” We R MemoryKeepers Power Punches, Distress Ink (I use Vintage Photo Distress Ink by Ranger), ink blending tool, non-stick craft mat, sanding tool, stapler or Tiny Attacher, corner rounder punch, scallop-edge scissors, foam squares. Optional: Tim Holtz two hole punch.

This class will be taught at all stores on my schedule beginning the weekend of March 7.

Little Golden Seashore Album

Some of my happiest memories are of days spent at the seashore – whether it’s in Florida or Texas or California or somewhere else across the world – most of us have pictures and memorabilia from these special times that need a home.

In this class we will be making a darling album using the classic Little Golden book, “A Day at the Seashore” as the foundation of our project. We’ll take the book apart and then refashion it with the beautiful new collection “By the Sea” from Graphic 45, and mix it with goodies from American Crafts, October Afternoon, 7gypsies, and more, along with gorgeous ribbon from May Arts. We’ll be making interactive pages with fold-outs and pockets and page protectors and all the techniques that Debby is known for – you’ll love the possibilities that this book presents to include lots and lots of photos and techniques that you can apply to your other paper crafts projects.

 Student supply list: Please bring the following items to class… 12” paper trimmer, pencil, ruler, scoring tool, scissors, strong tape adhesive (1/8” and ½”, if possible), regular tape runner adhesive, Crop a Dile (or 1/16” and 1/4” We R MemoryKeepers Power Punches, Distress Ink (I use Vintage Photo Distress Ink by Ranger), ink blending tool, non-stick craft mat, sanding tool, stapler or Tiny Attacher, Glossy Accents (or other liquid glue or glue dots), corner rounder punch, scallop-edge scissors. Optional: We R MemoryKeepers Tab Punch, Tim Holtz two hole punch, craft knife, cutting mat, flat nose wire cutters.

This class will be taught at all the stores on my  spring and summer schedule.

Celebrate Every Day

In Debby’s newest class, we will be creating a very special little book - doing what she loves best: combining clever techniques and unexpected materials with an inspirational subject to make a sweet journal that is full of techniques for your scrapbooking, book-making, and other paper-crafting projects.

In class we’ll make a canvas bound 9” x 6” x 1 1/4" book from scratch using an everyday dry erase board and filling it with darling pastel papers and embellishments from the brand new Dear Lizzy’s Polka Dot Party collection. There will be lots of pages for journaling - for recording both the things you can celebrate every day AND the everyday things you can celebrate! It is a perfect place to record a glimpse of your everyday life today.

Student supply list: Please bring the following items to class… 12” paper trimmer, pencil, ruler, scoring tool, scissors, tape runner adhesive, Crop a Dile, sanding block, Glossy Accents or glue dots, scallop scissors, stapler or Tiny Attacher. Optional: 1/4” WeR MemoryKeepers Power Punch or Tim Holtz Ideology 2 hole punch, WeR MemoryKeepers Corner Chomper.

This class will be taught at The Crafty Scrapper in Waxahachie, Texas, Memories Live On in Cupertino, California, and at Version Scrap in Paris, France. If you'd like purchase a class kit, you can contact one of the stores in the US or purchase a kit at the event in Paris.

Little Golden Christmas Album

It’s that time of year again - when we think ahead to the holidays and all the memories we will capture during the Christmas season. This year in my annual Christmas album class we will be making a darling book using the Little Golden book, “The Night Before Christmas” as the foundation of our project. We’ll take the book apart and then refashion it with Christmas papers from five different companies, making interactive pages with fold-outs and pockets and page protectors and a variety of embellishments to fill our books with nostalgic whimsy!

Your book can be used as a daily album in December and to collect the special memories throughout the season.

Student supply list: Please bring the following items to class… 12” paper trimmer, pencil, ruler, scoring tool, scissors, strong tape adhesive, regular tape runner adhesive, Crop a Dile, Distress Ink (I use Vintage Photo Distress Ink), ink blending tool, non-stick craft mat, sanding tool, stapler or Tiny Attacher, Glossy Accents or glue dots, corner rounder punch, scallop-edge scissors. Optional: 1/4” WeR MemoryKeepers Power Punch, 7Gypsies Binderie punch.

At this time this class will be taught at Whim So Doodle, Memories Live On, CraftFancy, and Paper Tales.

A Good Year Planner/Organizer Album

The new year is the perfect time to get organized: to have a central place where all your information can be stored and to keep track of your busy schedule. The cool thing about the album that we will make in this class is that at the end of the year you will be able to turn it into a year-in-review book, if you’d like. The planner/organizer can be started at any time during the year - it’s never too late to get organized!

Using new products from the Basic Grey Capture collection, Maggie Holmes’ Flea Market Collection, and several other companies, we’ll make a notebook that is both pretty to look at and filled with several sections to organize your days - it will even have a section to organize your photo information. If you are like me, you are over-whelmed with keeping track of which photos have been downloaded from your various devices, which have been uploaded to a printing service, and which ones you have actually ordered.The section tabs of your book are customizable - you can include your calendar, birthdays, household information, addresses, Christmas card list ... whatever you would like to use it for!

The kit for this class is huge - I ordered everything I wanted to use in my new planner/organizer, and I’m looking forward to sharing it with you! (If you purchase a class kit from a store, the only thing you will need to add is Tim Holtz Tissue Tape or another washi-type tape for around the edges of the notebook.)

Student supply list: Please bring the following items to class… 12” paper trimmer, pencil, ruler, scoring tool, scissors, strong tape adhesive, regular tape runner adhesive, Crop a Dile, Distress Ink (I use Vintage Photo Distress Ink), ink blending tool, non-stick craft mat, sanding tool, stapler or Tiny Attacher, Glossy Accents or glue dots, scallop scissors, corner rounder punch. Optional: Instead of the Crop a Dile - 1/4” WeR MemoryKeepers Power Punch and 1/16” Power Punch, standard adjustable 3 hole punch.

This class will be taught at The Crafty Scrapper in Waxahachie, Texas.  If you'd like to have this class at your local store, have them contact me at memorybee@msn.com. To purchase a kit contact you can contact the store.

My Great Adventure album class

Life is an adventure – whether traveling far from home… or venturing out on a road trip… or enjoying getaway time with girlfriends, there are so many stories to tell with the photos and “stuff” you collect along the way. This adorable 7” x 8 ½” album using the new Travel Girl collection from October Afternoon features their versatile new Daily Flash page protector assortment for a modular “daily life” approach to documenting your adventure.

Along with making our own canvas-edged album, we’ll make fold-outs and pockets and lots of pages for our book as well as explore ideas for using divided page protectors in fun ways to add more photos to your album. With a mix of whimsy and vintage design elements, you’ll have lots of creative opportunities for customizing your book and plenty of leftover products in your kit to use as you complete your album with your photos and mementos.

Student supply list:

Please bring the following items to class: 12” paper trimmer, pencil, ruler, scissors, Crop A Dile, strong tape adhesive (I like Scor-Pal tape), regular tape runner, glue dots, foam squares, scallop scissors, scoring tool, stapler.