The layout above is the next in line for the "Go To Press" class. Writing down how your "creative process" flows. Which is a bit of a long story. Or actually rather simple for me. But this is a story for another day. :)
...Cathy Zieske's Big Picture Scrapbooking class which is currently on it's last week. This is by far the best scrapbooking album I have ever made. No doubt. I never ever thought it would turn out quite this great. And it's not so much about the yummy album she recommended, or the pretty patterned papers, or anything like that. But about the details that she has made you record...
I finally have an album that is "me". And of course I have scrapped lots of layouts of myself in the past, but I have never really written down all those details that makes me "me". The things I love, the things I hate, favourite foods, collections, family details, music taste, qualities which I like about myself and qualities which I had more of. I let Ross read through my album as I finished it on Friday evening and he was going on about how amazing this was to have, even before he'd gotten to the letter "D". And of course it will be even more interesting to read through in a few years time. Now I just wish I had something like this for everyone in my family :)
This is the next layout I have done for the "Go To Press" class. It's pretty much a scraplift of Shimelle's example and I really enjoyed doing a layout with a decent amount of journaling on. This is something that I'm usually quite bad at!
...laptop! It's a present from my parents and it got delivered on Tuesday afternoon. It's something I have chosen not to blog about in the past, but this year has been rather tough for me. I have gone through two eye operations with very painful, slow and tough recoveries. I'm recovering from the second one right now (some of the blog post you have seen during the beginning of the month were pre-scheduled ones as I physically could not see to write them!) and I still don't know whether this is something I have to go through again and again for the rest of my life. Not something I want to think about and something I try not to complain about.
A prompt about reading! I love reading and always have a book on the go so this subject was a happy one for me to scrap. I'm listening to an audio book right now and after that I will re-read the whole Twilight series.
This layout was done for Shimelle's 6th prompt. To document our daily habits of tea or coffee drinking. Me? Not so much. In fact ---> not at all. And I do find that people are rather surprised when I don't drink tea or coffee (it's not a choice as such, I just simply don't like either of them)... so I figured this "habit" of mine has never actually been documented. Plus I had some photos of a rather yummy cup of hot chocolate to use... so the perfect subject for this layout of mine. And I scrapped in colours that are so totally NOT me. Cream (ok, I like that), yellow (!!) and red. Having said that, I quite like the finished combination so it was definitely worth taking a step outside the box in terms of colours this time.
I'm so pleased to finally see a release date for this DVD (7th of Dec). I have been looking for weeks now and it has always said "release date not announced yet". We went to see the film at the cinema when it was released but Harry Potter films are something that I can watch over and over again. Not to mention that I need it for my collection as I can't have DVD 1-5 and not the final 3 DVDs (book 7 is going to be made into 2 films for those who might have thought I miscalculated there LOL!)
[Supplies: Inspired By Sara - Bree Clarkson, Cherry Sweet - Kristin Cronin-Barrow, Beeping In Style - Lliella Designs, Cutting Templates - Edges - Misty Cato (all from SSD)]
Today I'm going to blog about something totally different to crafting as I just need a 10 minute break. My back is achy from cutting out 52 photos, other various bits of patterned paper and inking edges. So I'm taking a few minutes out to blog about...Echo the Bat. I got him!!
The album is needing a lot of preparation. Paper picking, photo picking, journaling, lots and lots and lots of printing and cutting. Cutting patterned paper and letter squares to size. Then an awful lot of inking of paper edges. But once all these steps are done it will be a bit like a factory line for putting it all together - so it should come together pretty fast then :)
[Supplies: Key To The Executive Washroom - Darcy Baldwin, Happy Place - Lauren Reid, I've Got A Lot To Say To You - Lauren Grier (from SSD)]
It's Cathy Zielske's latest BPS class - "Me: The Abridged Version". What you see in the picture is just the little pre-class jotter for writing down ideas. When I signed up for this class I didn't think it would be anything other than an normal class. But since I have been working on the journaling for this, I have come to realise that this will probably be the coolest album I have ever, ever done when it's finished :)
[Supplies: Forever Friends - Kristin Cronin-Barrow, Mayberry - Kristin Cronin-Barrow (from SSD)]
They are quite old now. I would guess I have had my set for maybe... 3 years or so, so I'm not sure how easy they are to get hold of nowadays. I would say it's one of my most used stamp sets that I own. If a layout is missing that little something, reaching for these stamps usually solves the problem for me. :) The best scrapbooking purchases are definitely the ones you reach for time and time again :)
Perfect for me as I had some photos that I'd taken in Sweden, only a few weeks ago, which I was dying to get into my scrapbooks - so great timing with that prompt. Not to much to journal about really but mainly people's names, the place for the photos and the date. These photos really make me smile :)
And how do I feel? Well, I think a lot of people close to me would definitely say that I'm "crafty". Me? I don't think I'm REALLY crafty/creative. I WANT to be creative and I ENJOY doing crafty things a lot. But I don't feel like I'm truly "creative" in the sense that I take the word to mean. I'm sure I'm too hard on myself. But a truly creative person, to me, is someone who has these brilliantly unique ideas ...and I never feel that's really me. Also "thinking outside the box" is very hard for me...again a quality that I think truly crafty/creative people have...something that I wish I was much better at. As I said though, this is just my personal opinion and I'm sure I'm faaar too hard on myself as usual LOL! After all, I only figured out this week that I'm very much of a perfectionist (like waaay too much for my own good) LOL!
A layout done for Shimelle's class on the subject of "having fun". It's a bit strange scrapping in 12 x12 (something that I gave up a few years ago) ...but I figured it would be fun to go with a different format for a change. It's unusual to work with a square starting point instead of a rectangular one...but it does give you some different possibilities so that's always good. And I'll be back to my normal scrapping format after this class anyway :)
Anyway, as we're talking about classes... As I said last week, I'm now starting to work on Shimelle's "Going To Press" class. I've got 20 prompts to work through so it will take some time, but I guess I can only take it one layout at a time and I will get there eventually. This layout is for prompt 2 - about music and I really enjoyed creating it :)
Apart from a few different embellishments, this is a complete scrap lift of Shimelle's first page. I thought I'd start out easy :)
