Sue's Family, Flowers and Fun Stuff: My Mind's Eye

Friday, 12 June 2009

Some More Scrapbooking

Jamie and I have been scrapbooking again - here are some pages we've done over the past few days. Jamie's scrapbook is due to be handed in at school next week so thankfully he is just about finished it.

I've decided to give the UK Scrappers 'Scrap Like You Mean It' (SLYMI) Challenge a go and although they're now into week 22 , it gives me something to get my teeth into. To complete them all by the end of the year will be my goal. The current challenge is from a sketch with the theme of minimalism - so here are my pages .........

Cute - using a super picture of Jamie, I'm really pleased with this and the combination of colours, really works well, this is now one of my favourite pages. The paper is from one of the MME kits, the red strip Basic Grey.

Doug - another Doug Aldrich page (yes I know - but he does it for me!) I turned the sketch around, I like the stitching under the photo (well rub-on) but not as keen with the way I did the journalling. As a style I like the minimalist approach for some layouts, when the picture is striking and you want to really highlight it or you have some fantastic paper.

Then I did another couple of pages in a minimalist (ish) style using one of the MME kits.

My Husband - love this one, just a great photo of Mike and the masculine colours work well too.

The Way You Look At Me - one from our wedding day, with a bit of a private joke between Mike and I! I like the rounded corners, and I just think the MME papers look so classy. So for about £4.50 I have got 3 layouts and I still have some tags and journalling bits left over, pretty good value!

Finally Argostoli Ice-Cream - a page about our holiday last year when we spent the day in Argostoli and ate some of the best ice-cream I have ever tasted, the journalling reads,

"Saturday 19th July, 2008, Argostoli, Kefalonia. We spent a lovely day wandering around Argostoli, the capital of Kefalonia. Jamie is stood outside a bar on the harbour side where we sought refuge from the heat and enjoyed several cold drinks! Mike and Jamie are taking a rest on a bench, hats, sun-cream and water was essential. Later we had some of the nicest ice-cream I have ever tasted. A truly lovely day. "

Another green page, I do love my green, but with lots of layers of paper, I had a go outlining the title and am quite pleased with the result, I will use that technique again. I guess this layout reflects why I like scrapbooking so much, I get to tell the story of that day and just add that bit extra to the photos.

Ciao

Sue

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Reading challenge 0/16 - currently reading Only Dad by Alan Titchmarsh
UK Scrappers - SLYMI challenge - 1/52

Wednesday, 10 June 2009

My New Scrapbooking Stash

Wednesday 3rd June - Some Scrapbooking Stash

Not too much talk today, just a look through my new scrapbooking stash. I bought a few bits during half term but today some items I ordered off the web have arrived. I try not to buy too much because it's very easy to get carried away and to have stuff stuck in the cupboard and never used, which I don't like doing. I have seen it done to an extreme extent and the hobby seems to be buying the stash rather than using it! For me scrapbooking is about telling a story - be it of the person, the event, the day etc, it is always about the creative process and the end result.

After having a major major spend at Capture the Magic and Calico Crafts over Easter, well it seemed churlish not to call in as we were passing directly by both, rather well planned on my part I think. Poor Mike and Jamie had to wait for about 2 hours whilst I was in both of them! So now I can scrap to my heart's content for the next few months without needing anything (I hope).

So I have bought a handful of papers, I've gone off buying pads, as I find I use some pages and then are left with others I don't particularly like. Whilst being creative, I also want to be savvy about what I spend my money on!

Some Basic Gray, Sassafrass Lass, October Afternoon and 7 Gypsies .....they should be good for about 10 - 12 layouts.

Some October Afternoon embellishments and alphabets, OA is one my favourite companies at the moment - I am so into their products.

All the rest is My Mind's Eye, which is one of my top 3 - but all of these packs were really cheap between £4 and £6 ish which I think is pretty good value. These are older papers, I don't feel the need to 'have the latest' I would rather it fit with what I want to create. I think with the following papers I will be doing lots of family pages, but that's what I do anyway!

My Little Prince - wonder who that might be?