Continuing To Document...

Today I'm busy writing down more of my journaling for the class and making sure that I don't miss out any major parts for my album. My desk is a bit of a mess and I have checklists and word/journaling ideas every where on pieces of paper :)

[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)]

Above is a card made as part of my Sweet Shoppe Designs Creative Team work. I really liked the little paper strip in the kit from Lauren Grier that says "I've got to tell you"... and decided to use this as a base idea for my card. It turned out to be a bit of a "silly card" in the way that you pass on some secrets inside the card. Kinda made me think of teenage girls when I made it :)

This Is What I'm Working On...

If you're taking the same class, you might have worked out what my little "peek" picture was yesterday... otherwise this might give you a better clue...

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 :)

I don't know about you, but I tend not to manage to fit in too many "normal" things (details and info) in my albums. If I scrap about Christmas, yes I will write about the traditions of that day, what we did etc. And if I scrap a "moment" photo, I will scrap details about "when", "where" and "what happened". But very rarely do I actually sit down and document, in words, little every day details. This will be like an encyclopedia of me... things I like, things that annoy me, people most important to me, food that I love and hate, things that I collect, places where I have lived and for how long, hobbies & interests, music and my fave artists during the years, things that are part of my everyday life right now. Imagine just how cool this will be to read in a few years time?

It's only when I'm sitting down and documenting all these thing that it's really dawned on me: wow, what a cool, cool album this will be. I really can't wait to finish it (which will take another few weeks still) and I will be eternally grateful to Cathy Zielske for coming up with this idea and for getting me to sit down and get all these important details, the things that make "me" me, on paper :)

A Little Peek...

A little sneak peek of what I'm working on right now...

More about it tomorrow :)

Birthday Card...

This card has hopefully arrived in Sweden by now. It's a hybrid birthday card which I have made for my brother's girlfriend - it's her birthday tomorrow. I posted it late last week just to be sure it would arrive on time even though the post normally only take 2 days.

[Supplies: Forever Friends - Kristin Cronin-Barrow, Mayberry - Kristin Cronin-Barrow (from SSD)]

I really enjoyed working with these kits by Kristin Cronin-Barrow from Sweet Shoppe Designs. That bird is just too cute and as soon as I saw it I just knew it had to be part of the card I was making :)

These Are The Stamps...

For those of you who have followed the layouts I have posted during the last few days (for Shimelle's "Go To Press" class), you might have noticed the round stamps that I have used on quite a few of them. "Liberty" left a comment and asked what they were. These are the ones:

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 :)

If fact, I'd love it if you'd share with me what things are your best scrapbooking purchases? Please take a moment to leave a comment if you have time - thanks :)

Anyway, back to the stamp set. It's called "Sentiments Circles", it's made by Autumn Leaves and the code for the product is: AL2618. Hope that helps :)

Family Time...

I'm on to a new prompt for the class (yay, I'm so pleased I'm making progress and keeping going with the prompts!!) - this time? "Family Time"...

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 :)

Crafty? ...

This was an interesting prompt for the class...about being crafty... I journaled about my true feelings for this topic...

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!

Scrapping On a Rainy Day...

The weather is terrible here at the moment. So rainy and windy. Not to mention the darkness. Perfect weather to curl up in a big cosy sweater and get some scrapping done though. :)

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 :)

Weekend soon - yay! Hope you're all having a good Friday :)

Music...

Just before I forget, I wanted to answer a question that I got from Sue Bone: will I do Shimelle's "Learn Something New..." class? Well...the honest answer is that I'm not sure. I want to do it since I have done it for the last two years, but if I'm going to be realistic I really do not have the time to take on yet another class right now. Fortunately I get the prompt for free since I have done it in the past so I do have a few more days to think about it. Really, I should say "no" though LOL! I've got Cathy's class starting tomorrow, I'm working on Shimelle's previous class and I have some more plans for the autumn...plus normal DT/CT work. We'll see...

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 :)

The Start...

Last week I told you about Shimelle's "Go To Press" class that she ran in August. And about how I had signed up for it knowing that I would have to do the class after it was actually run.

Well, I'm doing pretty good so far without getting too stressed about "being behind". Anyone else out there with me...doing the class now? Please pop in and say "hi" if so. :)

Anyway, here's the first page for the class. An intro page to the album (Yes it will be a complete 20 page 12x12 album when it's finished. Pretty cool, eh?):

Apart from a few different embellishments, this is a complete scrap lift of Shimelle's first page. I thought I'd start out easy :)