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Scrap in Style TV

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SISters are doin’ it for themselves.

For those who haven’t come across it before I just have to share this really cool site that Martha put me on to. It’s called Scrap in Style TV, it started up this year and it’s one of the slickest sites I’ve seen in a long while.

SIS is a flash based website, so there are things jumping out and popping up all over the place. Personally I find that cute the first time but a bit tiresome after that. But that’s just a small personal niggle of mine. The rest of the features on this site easily help me to get over that.

The website is run by Jeanette Herdman who’s realising a dream in this site and it has some pretty spiffy features. Including an excellent gallery with some great mouse-over features to let you see the enlarged layouts without having to click open new windows. Although it’s primarily a traditional scrapping site there’s a section for digi scrappers too and layouts in the digi gallery are also part of the main gallery too. Which is a good thing because there seems to be a growing trend on many sites towards segregating the two types of scrapbooking which can only be destructive to the hobby. The products in the boutique seem to be interesting packages of limited edition products and a vibrant and dynamic messageboard promotes a strong community spirit.

But best of all there’s the TV Show!

Scrap In Style TV is the result of a dream…a really big dream, like a “I’m gonna run for senator someday” kind of dream. It was something I really never thought would actually happen. Developing and hosting a TV show that combines my passion for scrapbooking, with (ok, confession time) my love of performing and being in front of the camera?

Jeanette Herdman

These ten minute long web based TV shows are really really good (at least the ones that I have watched so far). Once you register with the site you get access to them all and there are 17 at the time of writing and more being produced regularly. And these are great shows. Despite being produced on what is obviously a tight budget they more than make up for that in varied, innovative and creative content.

The episodes are much more than graphic tutorials they have a lifestyle/entertainment quality to them too. The five I have watched so far have covered a scrapbook challenge to do with a friend, making a custom planner (and then piling into the car with five kids to hunt down the recipient and present her with it), two interviews with prominent scrappers (although Jeanette’s lack of interviewing experience shows through here, but this will hopefully be overcome as she gets a few more under her belt) and, my personal favourite, The Acrylic Paint Olympics.

Hint: Streaming video through the web can be a bit clunky if your connection isn’t super fast. So a bit of a tip I would give you is when you click on an episode pause it for a couple of minutes whilst it is buffering, then when you press play it will flow smoothly and not keep stopping and starting in the jerky way that you sometimes get with this medium.

So I heartily recommend you check out Scrap in Style, register to become one of the SISters and, at the very least, watch the great scrappin’ lifestyle TV episodes.

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