{welcome to our staycation blogshop}
staycation: 1. A vacation that is spent at one's home enjoying all that home and one's home environs have to offer. 2. A vacation spent close to home
Welcome to our blogshop!!!! A Blogshop is a workshop on a blog that we happen to be offering to {we are} storytellers fans all summer long.
Dates: July 4 - September 5, 2008
Place: Here http://wearestorytellers.typepad.com/my_weblog/
Led by: Julie Ann Shahin with assistance from the wst creative team and select members
Gallery and Forums Now Open too!
We are bringing back the good ole' fashioned summer vacation that you remember from your childhood. I remember exploring the woods and the stream, catching tadpoles by day and fireflys by night. Perhaps big huge vacations weren't in fashion or we just couldn't afford it then. I was relaxed, happy, and content to spend time with my family. So now it's 2008 and you might have heard the popular new term: staycation. What is a staycation? It's a vacation taken in your own backyard. Millions of Americans and holiday-goers across the globe will be sticking close to home instead of huge, expensive, and exhausting vacations. I don't know about you but my family didn't go on many trips flying around the globe, nor across country. We did more daytrips, and peaceful time spent at home. With gas prices and the economy, a few marketing geniuses trying to sell outdoor furniture and grills invented the term called "staycation". So let's run with it and have a rockin' time. Each week this summer, I will be giving you prompts for making the most of summer whether you are taking a staycation, a daycation, or just enjoying your town and your backyard. Each prompt comes with a project idea that you could do either as a digital page or a hybrid (digital + traditional) page, album, or project.
Weekly Email Reminders: If you are interested in receiving email reminders every Friday, please sign up by leaving a comment below. Be sure to fill in your email address.
Staycation Blogshop includes:
- complete supply lists of the projects you'll see us create here every week
- special gallery at {we are} storytellers
- special forum at {we are} storytellers
- tips for planning and enjoying your staycation
- page layout ideas/project ideas to document your staycation
- weekly prize drawings for participants for the wst boutique
And it's all FREE!!!
Here is the First Week of Staycation Prompt (download PDF format)
I enlisted a few {we are} storytellers gallery posters to create their own project for week 1. This layout is by wst gallery member Michelle aka mimsmom.
{credits} from {we are} storytellers
Once upon a Dream by Emily Merritt and Lili
Life Snips and Treetop Sunrise by Emily Powers
Kraftastic by Emily Powers and Emily Merritt
MA Quaddie font
Here is the slideshow of my mini-album I am making for the summer:
Supplies for hybrid mini-album:
**Digital**
in be{tween} by Emily Powers and Nikki Beaudreau
Things That Make You Go ZOOM! by Two Sisters Designs
Art Nation--Whales & Snails Kit by Emily Powers
Tutti Frutti by Emily Powers
White Space Templates by Two Sisters Designs (retired)
Fonts: Century Gothic, CK Peace Filled Out, Type Ra
**Physical**
Creative Imaginations Bare Elements Brook Peek O Book Album
Japanese Kawaii Tape from Etsy
Rubons from Making Memories and 7gypsies
Stickers from Imagination Project (retired)
The following layout is by {storyteller} Steph aka stephk.
Credits:
I'm Free by Emily Powers
Alphabet Soup Acrylic by Emily Powers
Alphabet Soup Foam Stamp by Emily Powers
Once Upon a Dream by Emily Merritt and Designs by Lili
Messy Machine Stitches-Straight by Emily Merritt
Tutti Frutti by Emily Powers and Paislee Press
Retro Quirk by Emily Merritt and Holly Designs
Office Supplies - Tabs & Tags by Amy Hutchinson
grunge brush by Tiff Brady (freebie-retired)
Hybrid Envelope Mini-Album by Christine aka ScrapTigz - only her second hybrid project ever!!!
Supply List:
Envelope Templates by Tiff Brady
Fresh Day and Blowing Dandelions from Kasia Designs (retired)
New Life WST's March kit
Sisterhood WST's May Kit
Art Nation Imagination from Emily Powers (Memory Makers Blog)
A Garden Party from Cre@Bisontine
Font: Pea Stacy
Grab your blinkie and proudly display it! (Right-click on it to save, and upload it to a hosting service please)
Weekly Email Reminders: If you are interested in receiving email reminders every Friday, please sign up by leaving a comment below. Be sure to fill in your email address.
Have a safe and happy holiday!
{storyteller} Julie Ann Shahin
This sounds like fun ! Can i suscribe even if i'm going away for a few weeks? I'd love to have all the inspiration from your prompts !!! Thanks
Posted by: Alice | July 04, 2008 at 05:53 AM
Definitely you can subscribe!!!! I'll add you in.
Posted by: Julie Ann Shahin | July 04, 2008 at 06:58 AM
Sign me up. Sounds like fun
Posted by: Teri Leigh | July 04, 2008 at 10:18 AM
Sing me up. I am on staycation these days. I loved this term. I'll add the blinkie in my blog.
Posted by: Erica Ambrosio | July 04, 2008 at 12:30 PM
I'm in on the Staycation this summer! Sign me up please :)
Posted by: Tania | July 04, 2008 at 01:24 PM
oooh....sign me up please....this is so cool!
Posted by: Courtney Zadik | July 04, 2008 at 02:06 PM
ok...silly question...i was trying to put the blinkie in my signature and it says that it is too large. max 9 kb and it is over 100kb...am i doing something wrong?
Posted by: Courtney Zadik | July 04, 2008 at 02:29 PM
I'm definitely stuck at home for the month of July...
Please count me in! Sounds fun!
Posted by: lisamars | July 04, 2008 at 02:45 PM
Sign me up!!!
Posted by: Gabi Butcher | July 04, 2008 at 03:00 PM
This sounds interesting, sign me up!
Posted by: Aggie | July 04, 2008 at 08:04 PM
Please sign me up for e-mails - this will certainly be the way we spend our summer!
Posted by: Lucrecia | July 04, 2008 at 08:56 PM
Please sign me up, too! Great idea!
Posted by: Chris | July 04, 2008 at 11:08 PM
JA:
What a super idea :)
Maggie
Posted by: maggie | July 04, 2008 at 11:45 PM
Please sign me up, too! I'm definately sticking close to home this year. Thanks for the wonderful idea.
Posted by: Judy | July 05, 2008 at 02:31 AM
Please add me too. What a great project! Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Jamey | July 05, 2008 at 05:20 AM
Sign me up. I'm always looking for new ideas.
Beth B.
Posted by: Beth | July 05, 2008 at 06:35 AM
Sign me up too!!! Looks like fun!!!!
Posted by: Selenatx | July 05, 2008 at 08:11 AM
I would love to be part of this. Such a great idea and I love your little book Julie Ann.
Posted by: Sue | July 05, 2008 at 11:39 AM
Fun!! Please add me to the list. TLog77@aol.com
Posted by: Scrap Evangel | July 05, 2008 at 01:05 PM
please add me to the list - we keep a summer journal of all the little things we do during this vacation time - ice cream flavors, visit local parks and attractions, gardening, books we read etc.
KathleenSD@verizon.net
Posted by: Kathleen | July 05, 2008 at 01:14 PM
I will join in too, sign me up
Posted by: Pam Alexander | July 05, 2008 at 02:08 PM
I wanna play!
Posted by: Nancy Jones | July 05, 2008 at 02:25 PM
Hi - i would love to recieve your email reminders.
thanks so much
Kim
Posted by: Kim Stirling | July 05, 2008 at 04:16 PM
I would like to receive the email reminders!
Posted by: KarenL | July 05, 2008 at 05:05 PM
Sign me up!
Posted by: Chels | July 05, 2008 at 06:43 PM