Shimelle Laine’s mysterious accomplice, Glitter Girl, posted another great video this week, this time about scrapping larger photos, which was pretty perfect considering I have some larger prints I’ve been dying to use. My friend Sara got married ten, correction, TWELVE years ago and I was the bridesmaid. It was such an honour to be asked, and I have so many great memories from that day! Like hoe we met early to do the hair and make-up, and the photo shoot before the wedding, and how I found myself crying so much during the ceremony [...]]]>

Shimelle Laine’s mysterious accomplice, Glitter Girl, posted another great video this week, this time about scrapping larger photos, which was pretty perfect considering I have some larger prints I’ve been dying to use. My friend Sara got married ten, correction, TWELVE years ago and I was the bridesmaid. It was such an honour to be asked, and I have so many great memories from that day! Like hoe we met early to do the hair and make-up, and the photo shoot before the wedding, and how I found myself crying so much during the ceremony so much that I think my sniffles was echoing in the church, and how all the guests held a joint speech for the couple during dinner, and dancing so much I had to take off my shoes.

We were so young then, and now suddenly it’s been ten years and Sara and her husband Tor (Thor! How cool a name is that?) have two beautiful children and a house that was once small but keeps getting bigger every now and then (they are a super handy family!). They are a happy bunch and that makes me happy.

The photographer they hired for the wedding had also taken a lot of photos for our theatre group. There are so many great shots from the photo shoot before the wedding, and not only of the gorgeous couple on their special day, but luck had it that we had a few minutes extra for a few photos of Sara and I. Among them this one is my favourite, because I know that the happy smiles are completely spontaneous.

So this is how the layout turned out:

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I seldom throw away small scraps of paper. Not because I don’t have enough product to work with, but because I don’t like the waste, especially with product that has doubtlessly has left a global footprint (even if it is made from recycled paper).

That little piece of pretty paper has been through a long journey to end up in my box of scraps. I mean, think about it: How much energy and resource is used for producing the basic paper, print it, package it and then ship it? Add in the fact that all [...]]]>

I seldom throw away small scraps of paper. Not because I don’t have enough product to work with, but because I don’t like the waste, especially with product that has doubtlessly has left a global footprint (even if it is made from recycled paper).

That little piece of pretty paper has been through a long journey to end up in my box of scraps. I mean, think about it: How much energy and resource is used for producing the basic paper, print it, package it and then ship it? Add in the fact that all the components in the product has possibly been hauled half across the globe at least twice before they make it to the end product… And then there’s me, the end consumer, in a country that mostly import the things we use in this hobby. That’s yet another transport.

So you see… I don’t often bin scraps. I try to use them, as much as possible. And that includes the scraps of “non-pretty” paper as well. All testers and experiments can always be reused and repurposed. I often use plain, unbleached paper when trying out mists or paints or any sort of mixed media experiment. Or if I am spraying the edge of one paper, I put down a scrap piece of paper edge by edge to catch the excess. They can then easily be used as an accent layer on a layout or a card, or for making a handmade embellishment, or for making tags.

I have a tag punch that is one of my favourites, for example. It punched three tags in different sizes in one go. I grab it, punch it, pierce it and hang it on a binder ring where I keep loads of other tags I’ve sort of collected (the ones I like from clothes of packaging that can be recycled). I use them when organizing my storage, for gifts, for layouts, for cards, for flowers, as bookmarks…

There are so many things you can do with the scraps. Punch out shapes, fold them into something, layer them and sew them together. Ink them or distress them and turn them into something new. Good material can always be turned into something new and useful. Good material can always be turned into art.

I had a sort of mishap I wanted to use, and that was this sprayed background on white Bazzil. I’d mixed some Color Wash and Perfect Pearl Mist, and the result was awesome and happy and bold, but didn’t match the project I was working on at the moment. However, I thought it fitted this photo perfectly. I am also considerably pleased with the fact that I’ve used both a patterned paper and some alphas that has been sitting in my stash for at least 5 years! They’re some classic Basic Grey from that time, and I [...]]]>

I had a sort of mishap I wanted to use, and that was this sprayed background on white Bazzil. I’d mixed some Color Wash and Perfect Pearl Mist, and the result was awesome and happy and bold, but didn’t match the project I was working on at the moment. However, I thought it fitted this photo perfectly. I am also considerably pleased with the fact that I’ve used both a patterned paper and some alphas that has been sitting in my stash for at least 5 years! They’re some classic Basic Grey from that time, and I loved them, and I bought them, and still love them, but I loved them so  much I never used them. So, wohoo for using things from your stash!I’ve mixed it up with some Washi tape and some teen alphas from Glitz. It’s nice when you can mix old and new, I think!

The photo is of course one of Sixxten the Cat, who is a very playful cat who often brings toys around for you to play with. He’s very vocal; he has certain sounds for food or cuddles, or for when the bathroom door is accidentally shut, or for when someone has the nerve to go IN the bathroom and shut the door voluntarily, and for when he wants attention and wants to play. If you happen to ignore him, even though he’s brought toys and laid the by your feet, and even though he’s been making his intentions very clear, he will in the end poke you. Or, sort of slap you. Play, darn you! Play!

Quick Sunday night post! Dreadfully busy week, but at least I managed to finish this last layout as planned for Shimelle’s weekend crop.

This is a layout for Challenge number 7: Put it in a pocket. The idea is to create a scrapbook layout and incorporate a pocket. So I decided to add a memorabilia pocket with one of the seashells I found on the Big Strand Beach on Islay, Scotland. Me and Jed had had the most amazing day and ended it by making our way down to this perfect, 7-mile long [...]]]>

Quick Sunday night post! Dreadfully busy week, but at least I managed to finish this last layout as planned for Shimelle’s weekend crop.

This is a layout for Challenge number 7: Put it in a pocket. The idea is to create a scrapbook layout and incorporate a pocket. So I decided to add a memorabilia pocket with one of the seashells I found on the Big Strand Beach on Islay, Scotland. Me and Jed had had the most amazing day and ended it by making our way down to this perfect, 7-mile long sandy beach, and we were the only two people there. It was sort of marvellous, really. Being just the two of you, smooching on the couch at home, that’s really great; but being just the two of you, smooching on a beach, that’s even better ;). That one sunset is gonna stay with me for as long as I remember. I hope I get to go back there sometime. A perfect place!

It ended up a double layout:

This is how they look side by side:

Hopa you all had a great, great weekend. New fresh week tomorrow! Stay safe!

This was the last challenge I had time to finish during the weekend, and this was for Shimelle’s Weekend Crop Challenge No 4: Colour Adventure – Scrap with grey, yellow and one other colour of your choice.

Which turned out to be a complete nightmare! Except some yellow card stock I couldn’t hardly find ANYTHING YELLOW IN MY STASH. I just don’t do yellow, it’s a childhood trauma thing, so of course I don’t shop for many scrapbook related things that are yellow either. I’m sure if I could find a photo of [...]]]>

This was the last challenge I had time to finish during the weekend, and this was for Shimelle’s Weekend Crop Challenge No 4: Colour Adventure – Scrap with grey, yellow and one other colour of your choice.

Which turned out to be a complete nightmare! Except some yellow card stock I couldn’t hardly find ANYTHING YELLOW IN MY STASH. I just don’t do yellow, it’s a childhood trauma thing, so of course I don’t shop for many scrapbook related things that are yellow either. I’m sure if I could find a photo of myself as a kid in a yellow turtle neck, I could scrapbook it and write up a heck of a story for the journaling, but there wouldn’t be much else yellow on that page.

So, I opted out for the yellow card stock, it was just way to intimidating, but in the end I found these old Basic Grey alphabet chipboard stickers, and, bless’em, some Sassafras Lass stickers that worked. It’s not very visible on the photo below, but the third colour of choice got to be blue. Here’s my page:

These are photos from Port Ellen, Islay, from the morning when we are leaving. We were waiting for the ferry, and I took one last stroll and took some photos. Spending time on Islay is one of the best times I’ve ever had on any vacation. It’s hard to explain, but that place just made me so relaxed and content. These are sort of my goodbye photos from there.

Yes, I did it, I went rogue and jumped to the next challenge that caught my eye! This layout I made for Shimelle’s Weekend Crop challenge no 5: Inspiration Points – Take your inspiration from this scrapbook page.The page to take inspiration from is a really fantastic page by Wilna Furstenburg, who is a really wonderful designer (make sure to check out more about her work here).

These are my inspiration points from her layout: