I saw an article in ScrapScene, followed the link and then discovered a whole new blog that is perfect for helping all of us to take better photos for our scrapbooks... so why don't you check it out too... www.canadianscrapbooker.com/handson
Thursday, 21 January 2010
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Nuts About Sketches - Week 92
This week's sketch is a double page...
I had to be quite particular in which photos to use as I was sort of official photographer at the birthday party and took TONS!!! But I ended up picking the most pertanent ones and I love how my layout turned out.
To see how the rest of the team did, head over to Nuts About Sketches. You will also see how a lot of the ladies did single pages from this sketch... ie only used one side of it... just another idea when working with sketches.
I had to be quite particular in which photos to use as I was sort of official photographer at the birthday party and took TONS!!! But I ended up picking the most pertanent ones and I love how my layout turned out.
To see how the rest of the team did, head over to Nuts About Sketches. You will also see how a lot of the ladies did single pages from this sketch... ie only used one side of it... just another idea when working with sketches.
Monday, 18 January 2010
Candy Shoppe Challenge
Head over to the Candy Shoppe and enter the blog competition for a change to win an awesome prize... holding thumbs that I manage to get something!!
A fruitful weekend
I spent this weekend scrapping in more ways than one!
On Friday it was spent browsing the net and just catching up with this and that (ie I can't really remember!)
Saturday my maid was scheduled to return from holiday... and she didn't! She ended up with flu and so cancelled coming in... I did housework all morning... so if it snows in Jhb soon you'll know why! In the afternoon a friend from church and her daughter came for the afternoon... while our two kids played I helped Maritha with her scrapping.... she has only been scrapping for about 6 months and her pages are very plain and some very incomplete... so it was really just added a few embellishments here and there and making the pages more complete. It was really a very fulfilling afternoon emparting knowledge... I loved it!
Once Maritha left I dived in and stuck some photos down on a page... you know that you just have to stick at least one photo to say that you've been scrapping properly.... hehehe. I did the journalling on Sunday morning and bingo one unfinished project now complete!
During the afternoon on Sunday I tackled a kit page... I'd seen this kit often at Scrapbook 'n Things and when they had their 50% off sale in December I just dived in and bought it... had the perfect photos too so I had tons of fun completing it.
On Friday it was spent browsing the net and just catching up with this and that (ie I can't really remember!)
Saturday my maid was scheduled to return from holiday... and she didn't! She ended up with flu and so cancelled coming in... I did housework all morning... so if it snows in Jhb soon you'll know why! In the afternoon a friend from church and her daughter came for the afternoon... while our two kids played I helped Maritha with her scrapping.... she has only been scrapping for about 6 months and her pages are very plain and some very incomplete... so it was really just added a few embellishments here and there and making the pages more complete. It was really a very fulfilling afternoon emparting knowledge... I loved it!
Once Maritha left I dived in and stuck some photos down on a page... you know that you just have to stick at least one photo to say that you've been scrapping properly.... hehehe. I did the journalling on Sunday morning and bingo one unfinished project now complete!
During the afternoon on Sunday I tackled a kit page... I'd seen this kit often at Scrapbook 'n Things and when they had their 50% off sale in December I just dived in and bought it... had the perfect photos too so I had tons of fun completing it.
After this one I just had to get my hands on something more so pulled out another unfinished project... this time one from last year's convention... and hey presto it was done!
After Aaron was in bed last night I started tackling the Off-the-page item from this class too... am making a sort of birthday calendar and am nearly finished it but you'll have to wait to see it.
And then Monday morning arrived and we're back to work! ouch!!! I'd must rather be scrapping!
Friday, 15 January 2010
Nuts About Sketches - Week 91 + bonus
This week with school starting and catching up on other stuff I haven't had a chance to post my NutsAboutSketches layouts... so here they both are...
Week 91
And Week 91 Bonus
and just for an added extra, here is another premade layout that I managed to finish this week...
Week 91
If you have loved the Nuts About Sketches as much as I have, please read the post with Week 91 Bonus as there is a new design team call and maybe you can be in it!
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Catching up...
... on unfinished projects that is! hehehe... I'm way ahead of my target this month of a page a day so thought that seeing as I printed some photos for my already made pages I would take the opportunity and scrap them. So last night I tackled a few of them and managed to scrap 7 pages. I did actually do another one yesterday as well but can't show that to you till much later in Feb (yip part of my sketch team committment). So feast your eyes on these....
It feels so great to make inroads in the pile of ready-made layouts... got a few more up my sleeve but you might have to wait a while before the next marathon scrap as I fetch my little guy this afternoon and school starts tomorrow.
Monday, 11 January 2010
Monday update
Well the last weekend of school holidays is now past... I have one more sleeping late chance before I fetch Aaron tomorrow afternoon and we start with the early early mornings on Wednesday when school starts again :( It's been a nice break and I've managed to do quite a bit of stuff (scrapping!).
This weekend I did manage to scrap 4 pages but I can only show you this one as the others are for my sketch team commitments.
I was halfway through with this page when I found a challenge on the site Let's Scrap so quickly managed to add a few extras to complete the challenge... In Challenge 32 you had to choose three things from a list of six and use them on a layout... I chose Glitter, Rub-ons and Bow... the glitter part was really FUN??? I painted the letters and then stuck glitter on it (which I won in my parcel from Helen last year)... I had to work most carefully so as not to get glitter all over everything on my desk... even now the layout is stored in it's own plastic sleeve so that it doesn't touch anything else!
Well that was a fun and productive weekend... now for another afternoon ahead with more scrapping planned.
This weekend I did manage to scrap 4 pages but I can only show you this one as the others are for my sketch team commitments.
Well that was a fun and productive weekend... now for another afternoon ahead with more scrapping planned.
Friday, 8 January 2010
First week of scrapping
I set myself a goal of a page a day for this year... and by this morning ... I'm AHEAD of schedule.... so far this month I've scrapped 13 layouts and I've still got a whole weekend of scrapping ahead of me too. So without any further jabber from me, here's what I've done....
The others are in an earlier post.
The others are in an earlier post.
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Nuts About Sketches - Week 90
Herewith the first sketch for 2010... it was a double and I really really enjoyed doing this one... catching up on a past holiday!
Remember to please check out the other layouts too....
Remember to please check out the other layouts too....
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Holiday Scrapping
I managed to do some scrapping just before we went on holiday and then again over New Year weekend.... and here are the layouts that I did... these are all from my 2007 album and I have now finished all the double pages for that year too... so only have 38 singles left to do!
Thanks for looking... I greatly appreciate your comments on my scrapping.
I'm not one to make resolutions and goals for each year, but I do decide that "this year I want to..." and sometimes that plan happens and sometimes it doesn't... but they are also usually not plans that really matter whether or not they are met. And so my "goal" for this year (again!) is to scrap a page a day and then hopefully by the time 2010 reaches it's end I will actually be scrapping 2010 layouts!.... so the plan is to do 365 layouts this year... whether it is actually one a day or just seven a week or 30+ a month who knows... let's see if it happens!
I'm not one to make resolutions and goals for each year, but I do decide that "this year I want to..." and sometimes that plan happens and sometimes it doesn't... but they are also usually not plans that really matter whether or not they are met. And so my "goal" for this year (again!) is to scrap a page a day and then hopefully by the time 2010 reaches it's end I will actually be scrapping 2010 layouts!.... so the plan is to do 365 layouts this year... whether it is actually one a day or just seven a week or 30+ a month who knows... let's see if it happens!
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