Can't Get Enough Of My Kindle...

I've been doing lots of digital scrapping Creative Team work today. One of the things I decided to scrap was my love for my Kindle... which I really didn't quite expect to get that HUGE! Anyway, here's what I did...

[Supplies used: Penny Pincher - Kate Hadfield, Splash-Tastic! - Kate Hadfield, St Paddy's Pranks - Kate Hadfield, Simple Singles Templates - Gina Miller, Shabby Krafts 2 - Amy Wolff
{Tiddly Winks} Ruffles, Ribbons & Strings - Amber Clegg (all from the Lilypad)]

And my journaling goes like this...

*****

I was so unsure when I placed my order. Was it the right thing to do or not? I love the feeling of REAL books, would I miss them too much? I instantly loved my Kindle when it arrived and felt it was a good purchase. Then fast forward 2 months and I had a few unread paperbacks which I had bought just before I ordered my Kindle. I said to myself that I HAD to read these before I read another Kindle book. And this was when it really hit me. I was reading these paperbacks and all I could think about was that I wanted to read on my Kindle. I really was dying to read on my Kindle again! BIG eye opener!! I forced myself to read all the paperbacks but honestly, I was sooooo happy when I was back reading on my Kindle again. And I could never ever have guessed this back in January when I was wondering whether to buy a Kindle or not! I’m still kinda amazed in a way. I still love real paper books but I love my Kindle books so much too!
June 2010

Family...

So anyone watching Big Brother? :) The very last BB seasons ever (unless some other channel takes over). I'm watching. For 10 years it's been a summer tradition to watch BB every evening. I can't give up now, on the 11th and final season can? LOL! And I love it that the live streaming is back too - signed up straight away :)

Oh and I'm looking for a BB iPhone app, anyone seen any around which is running for this season please?

The layout above is the 3rd for the BPS class. Apart from your photo you were supposed to scrap a receipt from your weekly food shop. A fun idea. But I find that our receipts fade SO quickly (maybe US ones keep better?) so I didn't really want to use a real receipt on my page only to have it faded and unreadable maybe already as soon as in a few months. So I went with my own idea a bit on this one. :)

Mum & Me...

This is my second layout for the BPS class. We'd been told to pick a vertical photo and a patterned paper that went with it (I picked the sparkly dotted one)...

In our egg carton went a chipboard heart and a matching ribbon. We had no idea that that specific compartment was to go with that specific photo... but it's fun to try and work with what you have got. :)

Again my take on the layout sketch is pretty different. I moved the whole main focus on the page over to the right and added in some more details... using a corner punch, flowers etc.

Starting The Class...

Remember this from a few days ago?

...the quite mysterious start of a BPS class that I'm taking. And a lot of gathering different supplies and different photos together. Without having a clue about how they would go together. I totally embraced it and went with it. Having no idea of the outcome...

During the last few days I have been working on the first layouts. And waiting for some better light for photos. But since it's so dark and rainy here (not to mention so cold that we had to put the heating on last night!!) and no hope of it getting better at the moment, I brought the camera out anyway...

This is the double layout which I made following the first prompt. Having said that, mine is not very much like the original by the teacher anyway. He style is very "plain" (very little embellishments etc) so I took the general idea and then made it a lot more "me" instead :)

And One More...

This is the final of three layouts that I did for the BYOC released at the Lilypad on Friday...

[Supplies used: {Tiddly Winks} Ruffles, Ribbons & Strings - Amber Clegg, Line It Up - Amy Martin, Shabby Krafts 2 - Amy Wolff, Simple Singles Template Painted 2 - Gina Miller, Paint Rubs - Lauren Reid, This Summer - Valerie Wibbens (all from the Lilypad)]

The other two layouts that I made were pretty brown/grey in the look so I decided to go for a lighter look for this one, mixing in some pinks and bluey-greens :)

Working some more on the BPS class (A Bakers Dozen), which I'm currently taking, today. Got a layout done this morning and I'll see if I can get started with another one later. But first I have some chicken which I need to get cut at marinated in tikka masala paste and greek yogurt - yum! Better run or it won't be ready for cookingtonight :)

More TLP BYOC work...

I showed you my favourite BYOC picks on Friday and then a layout over the weekend. But I did more scrapping that than with the yummy kits :) Another layout that I created using some of my favourite Lilypad kits from this month is below. I used a photo (which I really love!) of me, Mum & Dad taken in the Lake District the other week.

[Supplies: {Tiddly Winks} Ruffles, Ribbons & Strings - Amber Clegg, Start Of Summer - Amy Martin, Shabby Krafts 2 - Amy Wolff, Garden Party - CD Muckosky, Cosmic Blooms - CD Muckosky, Flip Flop Alpha - CD Muckosky, Fruit Smoothie - Gina Miller (all from the Lilypad)]

Check out the doodles by CD Muckosky, aren't they great? :)

Progress...

Yesterday I went through my personal top 3 picks from this month's Lilypad BYOC release. And today it's scrapping time...

Well actually that's not really true... as I did this layout earlier in the week, ready for Friday's release. Having said that, I actually AM scrapping today, just not using the Lilypad kits... or indeed doing digital scrapping at all.

Today I'm scrapping the paper way. Following one of the prompts from the BPS class that I'm taking at the moment. Fun :)

[Supplies: {Tiddly Winks} Ruffles, Ribbons & Strings - Amber Clegg, Start Of Summer - Amy Martin, Shabby Krafts 2 - Amy Wolff, Stamp It - Emily Merritt, Messy Machine Stitches Borders - Emily Merritt, Fruit Smoothie - Gina Miller, This Summer - Valerie Wibbens (all from the Lilypad)]

My Kit Picks...

I mentioned the other day that I was working with the new BYOC stuff from the Lilypad. And today all the kits are finally available in the shop. There must be... over 50+ new kits I think. I'm not kidding. A huge colour co-ordinated bunch of kits to choose from. :)

As usual (and it feels like this is getting harder and harder each time!) I will try and pick my top 3 and tell you why. So here we go...

Mega ribbon kit :) I'm so happy. I love ribbons. If a layout is "missing" something, adding some ribbon normally solves that problem.

This fun alphabet by CD Muckosky just makes me smile. Not to mention that I love tall & narrow letters. I find a lot of alphabets are quite "fat" and it's hard to make your titles fit - so this one I like a lot!

And finally a paper pick! I love, love, love kraft cardstock. Both as "real" paper and while digi scrapping. You can never go wrong with kraft so this had to be one of my picks.

If you have some time tomorrow, please come back to see what I have created using these...

Home For Christmas...

No I'm not making Christmas plans quite yet (even though I totally love Christmas and would be very happy to do just that) LOL! It's the title of the layout below and that's why I picked it as my blog title for today :)

This morning I have been really busy grabbing some of the new Lilypad BYOC stuff that goes on sale on Friday this week. Lots of great kits to pick from. So I have kept myself busy downloading, unzipping, tagging and scrapping. I can show you, but not until Friday at the earliest...

And talking about Lilypad, I'd better get back and get some more scrapping done with the BYOC stuff. Have a great day everyone :)

A Bakers Dozen...

I mentioned this a little bit on Saturday already. A Bakers Dozen is a new BPS class that I'm taking that started last week. Rather than doing my usual (grabbing the stash and jumping in ONCE we get down to scrapping and I know what we're doing) I've decided to embrace this class fully and follow every mysterious stash gathering prompt that we get. And it starts out rather unusual... with an empty egg carton...

(Please excuse my poor photos, the weather is terribly rainy and dark here so they are pretty rubbish flash photos).

Each day for the last 5 days we have gotten an e-mail to fill up certain parts of the egg carton with certain items. So and so many brads here, so and so many buttons that co-ordinate with a piece of ribbon there etc. The whole point is to use your stash and not buy anything new. And I'm loving it!

If you don't have a certain something, the substitute with something similar. Like one day one of the things to go into a certain compartment was a green crayon. Now I'm not actually sure I have ANY crayons... so I added a green pencil instead. Will hopefully work :)

Apart from the egg carton we're also gathering stuff into 13 big envelopes. Or I'm gathering mine into 13 12x12 zip lock bags as I did not have a full 13 BIG envelopes to hand. And what are we gathering? Photos and some patterned paper.

I have no idea where this will end. I'm guessing a random numbered egg compartment gets combined with a random numbered envelope (zip lock bag!) for a layout... but who knows. I'm quite enjoying following this to the letter without knowing exactly what or why I'm doing certain things... :)