Debby Schuh Classes

This is Paradise Album

I fell in love the minute I saw the new Crate Paper Oasis collection – the vintage tropical images and pastel colors are perfect for capturing the magic of sunny days in pretty places!

Using a Simple Stories scrapbook album filled with an assortment of twelve different page protectors, we will fold paper, alter the page protectors, and create places for lots of stories and photos as we look a mini album in a whole new way. The album will be perfect for your vacation and summer memories with family or girlfriends.

Tools to bring to class: Each person needs their own 12” paper trimmer. Please also bring scissors, pencil, strong tape adhesive, liquid adhesive, foam tape, sanding tool, scoring tool, Crop a Dile, non-stick craft sheet, ink-blending tool, ink pad to distress stickers, corner rounder punch, stapler, standard 2-hole punch – I use the Tim Holtz Binder Punch.

This class will be taught Whim So Doodle (St. Pete, FL), Version Scrap (Paris, France), Scrap Shack Texas (Houston, TX), Paper Tales (San Diego, CA), and possibly one other store.

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Joy Christmas Album 2016

We will be creating our annual Christmas album using the brand new, pastel and playful Crate Paper Snow & Cocoa collection and products from Tim Holtz Ideology, Ranger, PinkFresh Designs, May Arts, and American Crafts. This kit is huge! From the darling pom-pom banner that we'll create to the cute paper clips that decorate the pages, I think you'll love the colors and graphics of this whimsical collection as much as I do! Your kit will have a choice of color for your album cover… turquoise blue or pink.

We will make this custom 11" x 8 1/2" album together in class - then you'll be able to use the techniques to make any size scrapbook or journal that you want! I hope you are inspired - the skies the limit on what you can create! This book will be perfect for a daily record of your December stories or you can do like I do and document the people, the activities, and the traditions that you celebrate during the Christmas season. Each kit will contain instructions with color photos.

Student Supply list: Each person needs their own 12” paper trimmer and strong tape adhesive (I use Scor-pal ¼” and 1” tape most often), ruler, pencil, scissors, scoring tool, sewing needle, and foam adhesive. Supplies that can be shared: stapler, Crop a Dile or We R Memory Keepers ¼” Power Punch, corner rounder punch, scallop scissors, Tim Holtz Ideology Binder Punch.

This class will be taught at my workshops in Cupertino, CA, at Whim So Doodle, The Crafty Scrapper, and Paper Tales. Please see my teaching schedule for store locations and dates.

 

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So Blessed Album

Counting your blessings isn’t just for Thanksgiving time… it can change your outlook every day! This special scrapbook/journal is the perfect place to record the things you are grateful for whether just the words or the photos of dear people or wonderful things or special places. You might use it to tell the story of your spiritual journey or of a great love that you have. With a specially curated kit including products from Bella Blvd, Pinkfresh Designs, Pebbles Inc, Amy Tangerine, Ranger, and even Target and the office supply store, you’ll have lots to choose from to make this album personal for you!

We’ll create this unique album together, and you’ll learn techniques that can be used in other scrapbook projects to make interactive, interesting pages as we fold and flip the paper like an origami engineer! :) You can change the title and look of the front cover of this unique book to make it anything you want it to be for you or for someone special.

Your kit includes all the products you need to make this album and includes directions with color photos.

Student Supply list: Each person needs their own 12” paper trimmer and strong tape adhesive (I use Scor-pal ¼” and 1” tape most often), ruler, pencil, scissors, scoring tool, stapler, foam adhesive, Crop a Dile or We R Memory Keepers ¼” Power Punch, corner rounder punch, scallop scissors, Tim Holtz Binder Punch, powder to make stickers “unsticky”

This class will be taught at Whim So Doodle and The Crafty Scrapper. Please see my teaching schedule for dates and store information.

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My Story Book Album

This mini album class could be called an encyclopedia of ideas for altering scrapbook pages and page protectors. You will be amazed at what you can do to add more photos to your scrapbooks and to make your books more interactive and interesting to look at. Each of the pages in the book will teach a different technique that you can adapt for your other paper-crafting projects.

You will not only learn many techniques but will also make a darling album filled with the Crate Paper Cute Girl collection that is bright and happy and perfect for stories and photos about your life as a girl or for someone you love.

Each kit comes with directions with color photos.

Tools to bring to class: Each person needs their own12” (30,5cm) paper trimmer. Please also bring the following items to class: scissors, pencil, strong tape adhesive, foam tape, sanding tool, scoring tool, Crop a Dile, corner rounder punch, stapler, standard 2-hole punch – I use the Tim Holtz Binder Punch.

This class will be taught at Version Scrap (Paris, France), and Rome, Italy.

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Better Together Album

Sample pages:

Celebrate your home and family and friends with this playful retro collection of darling papers and embellishments called “Honey I’m Home” from We R Memory Keepers. You’ll never look at a 6x6” page protectors the same again after we alter them so that we can include lots of photos of everyday life in our album. You’ll be able to take the techniques we’ll learn to make our pages interactive and use them on any size page protector and even in cards and pocket pages. Our pages will flip up and out and open, making a super cute book for your favorite photos. This makes a beautiful gift for someone special, too!

Your kit includes all the products you need to make this album and includes directions with color photos.

Student Supply list: Each person needs their own 12” paper trimmer and strong tape adhesive (I use Scor-pal ¼” and 1” tape most often), ruler, pencil, scissors, scoring tool, stapler, foam adhesive, Crop a Dile or We R Memory Keepers ¼” Power Punch, corner rounder punch, scallop scissors, Tim Holtz Binder Punch, powder to make stickers “unsticky”

Secret Garden Album

This beautiful album is a book I wanted to make after reading the book, Make It Happen by Lara Casey, as a place to record my thoughts and plans, my goals and purpose, my word for the year, and photos and mementos that celebrate the progress I’ll make as I “tend the garden” of my life. Just as garden needs cultivating, so our lives need tender-loving care to bloom beautifully! AND if all this seems way too introspective to you, then it’s just a really pretty album to use for anything YOU want!

Your carefully curated class kit will be full of the gorgeous new Bloom collection from Maggie Holmes from Crate Paper and the playful new Simple Stories striped Snap album. The inside of your album can be set up in a way that best suits what you decide to use it for – it can be divided into sections and the divided page protectors will be perfect for displaying your photos and stories and thoughts. We’ll use the Fuse tool in new ways to add interactive elements to your pages. As always there will be lots of options for decorating the cover and the pages in your own way, too! Each kit comes with instructions and color photos in case you cannot attend the class and want to complete the album on your own or with friends.

Student supply list: Please bring the following items to class… 12” paper trimmer, ruler, pencil, scissors, scoring tool, stapler, strong tape adhesive (I use Scor-pal 1/8”, ¼” and 1” most often), foam adhesive, Crop a Dile or ¼” Power Punch, corner rounder, scallop scissors. Optional supplies: Fuse tool, file tab punch

 

Summer Stories

Summer! The best time of year and the perfect time to make a mini album to hold the memories of all the fun that summer brings. Family and fireworks and picnics and ice cream and all the things that fill our summer days will find a home in this darling 7 ½” x 8 ½” mini album.

Using the Summertime collection from October Afternoon mixed with the Spring Fling collection from Pebbles, Inc, we’ll make our own album filled with interactive pages for lots of photos and mix in page protectors with room for even more. Your kit will be full of products to personalize your album (even your own full roll of washi tape!) Each kit contains the instructions and color photos if you cannot attend class.

Student Supply List: Please bring the following items to class… 12” paper trimmer, ruler, pencil, scissors, scoring tool, stapler, strong tape adhesive (I use Scor-pal 1/8”, ¼” and 1” most often), foam adhesive, Crop a Dile or ¼” Power Punch, corner rounder, scallop scissors. Optional supplies: Tim Holtz Binder Punch.

Debby-dori Dream Configuration Book

In class we are going to do what Debby likes best – take something apart and put it back together again in an unexpected, new, creative way! This time we will take a Tim Holtz Ideology Configuration Book Box completely apart, using the cover to refashion it into a Debby-dori book with elastic Midori-style binding that will hold the two scrapbooks that we will make, and then add the boxes back in to make a clever pocket to hold another fat mini book for recording your hopes and dreams and inspiration or keeping track of the blessings throughout the year… or whatever you’d like to use it for! It’s super cool! The colorful Shine collection from Crate Paper and Tim Holtz products will be the stars of this project – the possibilities are endless for you to use both the scrapbook and the journal components of this unique book.

Student Supply List: Please bring the following items to class… 12” paper trimmer, ruler, scissors, scoring tool, stapler, strong tape adhesive (I use Scor-pal 1/8”, ¼” and 1” most often), foam adhesive, Crop a Dile, Distress Ink (I use a dried out Vintage Photo ink pad), ink blending tool, non-stick craft mat, sanding tool, corner rounder, scallop scissors. Optional supplies: needle and thread, Ranger Distress paint – Antique Linen.

This class will be taught at The Crafty Scrapper in December, at Paper Tales in San Diego in January, and at stores throughout the winter and spring of 2016.

 

My Life Today Album

Do you remember what your daily life was like 5 years ago or 10 years ago? Time slips by so quickly and our lives and our tastes and our perspective changes with the years. I love to have albums that give a snapshot of my life for my own record but also to share with future generations. I did this project ten years ago, and it is so much fun to look back and see what I was doing and what was important to me at the time. In this album I’m documenting the most important parts of my life: my family, my faith, my friends, my work, and me - a snapshot of who I am today!

We’ll make our own albums that will hold 6x8” and 8x8” page protectors and product from the nostalgic Crate Paper Wonder collection and lots more goodies. You’ll be able to customize your cover with the many options in your kit - you can do yours just like mine or change the colors and the embellishments in the wood grid on the front. Inside our books, we’ll use a “formula” to give a cohesive look to all the sections of the book. You’ll be able to add your photos and memorabilia to your book at any time.

This is one of the favorite projects that I’ve ever done, and I’m so happy to share the ideas and techniques with you! You won’t be sorry that you took the time to document your life right now - it really helped me appreciate my life more - it becomes a gratitude journal, in a way!

The kit comes with instructions with color photos, so you can do this project on your own or with friends, if you can’t attend class in person.

Student Supply list:

Please bring the following items to class: 12” paper trimmer, scissors, pencil, ruler, scoring tool, strong tape adhesive (1/8” and wider tape, if you have it), liquid adhesive, Crop a Dile (1/4” We R MemoryKeepers Power Punch), ink pad for distressing (I use a slightly dried out Ranger Distress ink in Vintage Photo color), Ink-Blending tool, non-stick craft mat, sanding tool, stapler, foam squares, corner rounder punch, file tab punch, black stamp pad, black markers: .05 or Illustrated Faith pen and Slick Writer Medium. Optional: powder for making stickers “unsticky”, personal embellishments you might want to use on the front cover, sanding file.

 

December Story Christmas Album

It’s time to get ready for the holiday season once again and create the perfect place for all your special Christmas memories - your photos and stories and your cards and mementos. Using the darling new October Afternoon Under the Tree collection in one of their Daily Flash albums, we’ll fill the page protectors of the book with interactive pages and additional beautiful papers and embellishments from Simple Stories, Shimelle, Crate Paper, Tim Holtz, Ranger, and May Arts. There is SO much to play and create with in this huge kit! You’ll have lots of choices for the design of your cover and to document all your special memories during the holiday season with your own style. We’ll learn to use the awesome Fuse tool, too.

You will have a choice of the color of the fabric on the binding section of the album cover: either black or yellow. Both colors coordinate beautifully with the papers and give a different festive look to the cover. Please specify your preference when you sign up.

This book is perfect for a daily record of your December stories or you can do like I do and document the people, the activities, and the traditions that you love during the Christmas season. The kit contains instructions with color photos, so if you cannot attend an in-person class, you can still purchase a kit and do it on your own or with friends!

Student Supply list: Please bring the following items to class: 12” paper trimmer, scissors, pencil, ruler, scoring tool, strong tape adhesive (¼”, or ½” and wide tape, if you have it), liquid adhesive, Crop a Dile (or 1/4” We R MemoryKeepers Power Punch), non-stick craft mat, sanding tool, stapler, foam squares, corner rounder punch, paint brush, red paint for book cover - I used Ranger’s Dina Wakley Media Heavy Body Acrylic Paint in the Ruby color, 1.25” circle punch. Optional: painter’s tape if you want to insure that the paint doesn’t get inside your book, We R MemoryKeepers Fuse tool, powder for making stickers “unsticky”, scallop scissors.