AUGUST 2008
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You really do have to keep practising or you loose the plot! Sorry - but - it's true. When I have had a break from scrap book pages for a few weeks, it takes a couple of pages for me to get my ' eye' back and start producing stuff that I really LIKE. The last few pages I did are MUCH better than the first ones.
I have been trying to be a bit more 'minimal' with these pages - but I really love the gold one with all the seaweed and fish.
MAY 2008
Most pages seem to go into the scrap book sketch section these days. I really love scrap booking as a discipline, and I am really enjoying being MADE to put some thought into my designing.
However I was really pleased with this one - not finished the journaling - but it is all marked out ready.
I used the same technique as in the Christmas floral garland in the
design section, but I used lots of paler green background foliage, punched yellow and gold flower and added lots of tiny pink, white, green and yellow gems. As the garland is so long I also added a few of the smaller size flower
brads (yep, my fave). PS you can stamp over your photos if you ink the stamp with Whispers permanent pens - and clean with staz-on cleaner.
The photos are of a flower festival that I helped out in at church so it all blends in together really well.
MARCH 2008
This afternoon I sat and scrapped. I picked up some really unusual stuff in the Clearance sales . . . and the afternoon sun lit up my new desk space. I had clear time and space, and could not resist working a double spread - not something I do a lot. On my new work space I can have a double layout, my cutting mat (A3 now!), and still have space to breath. He's a Good old Goat really!
One thing I am not good at is all those lists you see beside a project. I love to scavenge about in people's selling off sections and mixing it all together. So here goes - the base paper is turquoise and sand 'distressed', turned so that the stripes go different ways - the big flower patterns are on the most brilliant transparency, that was 12" square, and I cut it up! They are from totally different places and ranges - but the colours really sit together. Sometimes when you buy all the co-ordinated stuff it can be a bit 'over cosy'. The photos are all cut to different sizes and matted on Old Gold pearl card - which happens to be a similar shade, but a bit darker, of the sand in the paper / flowers. The pale journaling papers are actually marbled fawn (from the church office!) that also matches. I have punched a circle pattern in the journaling corners so the gold shows through. There are also a few 'dog' themed embellishments that I picked up half price in Lakeland. I am so pleased with these - turquoise is defiantly an area to explore!
DECEMBER 2007
As the shop was closed after Christmas I had a few 'quiet' days and caught up a bit with my scrapbook pages. I don't often get a chance to do 'girlie' pages - so I really enjoyed doing Wills with Misty. I always end up doing more doggie ones than anything else and the one of me with some of the other agility dogs brings back so many memories. I still have loads of William at the beach, just need to get some grey backing paper. (Please excuse my lousy photos - it's a combination of standing on tip toe to get all the page in and poor winter light).
I only started scrap booking in 2007 so I am still finding my feet. I like being forced to work with a bigger size page than cards or sayings and I love the challenge of making my pages different from one another. Anything can spark me off, sometimes it’s the photos, sometimes it’s the paper and sometimes I find a really unusual embellishment and turn everything out to find a suitable use for it.
It’s quite hard to put a cost on a scrapbook page. Backing stock can cost from around 20p to 75p; patterned paper from 75p to £1.25, there is the card for matting the pickies and some embellishments can be pricey. I reckon £4 - £6 should produce a really good show for you.
Here's a few examples
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