New Scrap Crap!

I know I said I wasn't going to buy anything else at the moment and I have only bought a handful of papers and a couple of sets of stickers, so I thought I would show them to you. I am really really into October Afternoon papers at the moment so I have bought a couple of them as they were in the shop that called to Sunday's crop.

Some Cosmo Cricket and October Afternoon, I like the papers you can cut down and use as borders or extra interest on the page, the papers above are great for that, I've already used them once and now bought some more!

October Afternoon and Basic Grey (my favourites)

Creative Imaginations, Basic Grey and October Afternoon.

Cosmo Cricket and October Afternoon (yummy)

I have also managed to pick up a couple of storage bargains too on the internet. I found this photo tote from ArtBin for less than £10, which allows me to keep all the photos I want to scrap or may scrap in an organised way. I try to keep photos together, but they end up all over and then I forget what I have got so I have no excuses now. And I can hang it up so it is nice and easy to keep out of the way!

My pride and joy when it comes to going to the crop is my rolling tote and I have managed to find one of the other bags which matches it, going at a greatly reduced price because of some very very minor damage to the paper storage folder. When I spotted it I jumped at it, because it is going to be so very useful to me, to store rubber stamping bits, and pencils, pens and all manner of painting, colouring and embossing bits.

This box of paper I consider to be a real bargain, I got it from The Paper Mill Shop when we were in Spalding At Easter. The box full of A4 and A5 paper costs just £5.00 and I have used it for matting and layering and for journalling if I want to print the journalling off the computer. A great buy for me. Also as long as I keep the box and take it to any of their other stores, I can get 10% discount next time, so next time the box would be £4.50, even better value! They have a fantastic range of colours, in A3 - A5 and lots of other bits and bobs too.

Now here is where I make an absolute promise, no buying anything scrappy for at least 3 months, if not for the rest of the year!!

Ciao

Sue

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Reading challenge 3/16 - currently reading Pop Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones
Jamie's Reading challenge 2/12 - currently reading Bed and Breakfast Star by Jacqueline Wilson SLYMI - 1/52

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?



My Husband - I never scrap enough about Mike!

You Are My Sunshine - Jamie, Mike, Binnie

Pals

Love of My Life - Mmmmmm?


The Two of Us




Our Family



I am looking forward to using all of these.

Ciao

Sue

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(reading challenge 0/16 - currently reading Only Dad by Alan Titchmarsh)