8 posts tagged “scrapbooking”
Have spent the last two days doing some scrapping and polishing off some projects from the pending file.
It's been immensely satisfying and the results are not too shabby.
A very special photo from our wedding. Shelee sent me some beautiful stickers last year and as soon as I saw them I knew they were perfect for this. Didn't have a clue how to go about journalling for the page, but got some inspiration...and a library pocket template...from the scrapbooking pages on about.com. I wanted to semi-hide the journalling as it is personal, but I needed to do it in a space efficient way.
I'm somewhat ashamed to say that this layout has been in the projects pending file for over a year. I had the background done and the photos and buttons but didn't have a clue on where to go from there. Aquamum passed a whole pile of scrapping stuff to me that a friend of hers was giving away. The diecuts from one of the kits were perfect for this. The diecuts lead to the raffia, which lead to the titles and in about an hour the project was finished. I am very happy with it.
I actually started this LO before Christmas. Regrettably, I had a rush of blood to the head and decided to hand stitch the embellishments with gold lurex thread. May I never decide to do this again! It took forever and was some of the most painstaking work I've ever attempted. In the end it looked good, but it was a bit of nightmare to do.
Here it is finished...the first finished LO of 2008
In early 1997 when Mister Bear and I married, one of our friends gave us a most unusual wedding gift. It was a box of beautiful wooden ornaments and three huge tinsel garlands. In Christmas 1997 when we were strapped for cash, those ornaments were wonderful. Our tree was small but magnificent. We decided that each year we'd buy a set of ornaments for the tree and so as our life together grew, so would our tree. Not all years are represented here, but you'll get the picture.
I think it has something to do with perfectionsim, but I would have to be the world's slowest scrapper. I've read about - and met - scrapbookers who grab photos, cardstock, PP, embellishments and then throw together outstanding pages in a couple of hours and make like 48 pages in a month. I am lucky to complete 10 in a year. It's not a paucity of photos, or a lack of supplies. It's not being able to get it perfect and if I can't get it perfect, I won't do it.
Take a gander at my current project:
THEME: Christmas Traditions
As you can see, I have CS, PP and die cuts which complement the photos perfectly. In line with the cybercrop challenge I want to incorporate some hand stitching on the page and I know roughly how I am going to do that, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to put it all together. I wind up leaving everything out on the craft desk and fiddling, shifting things around, trying out different combinations and waiting for ages before deciding to go ahead and complete it. With a little luck this layout should be ready for Christmas 2008.
Am participating in the LSBS Cybercrop this weekend, my first one in ages. Looked at the Sketch Challenge and immediately thought of a particular layout that's been waiting in the projects pending pile now for months. I've completed the background, matted the photos and added a quote so far and am now waiting for the chipboard I just inked to dry. Whwn finihsed it will get photographed and put up in the gallery at LSBS. A picture here will have to wait until the winners are announced, but I'll add a link when it's uploaded to the Gallery.
Until today my ribbons have been stored in two cardboard drawers stacked on a chest. The drawers are difficult to pull out, harder to push back in and the ribbons were all jumbled up inside.
I was pottering around on the net looking for a soution to my ribbon storage woes and saw "it". It looked like one of my embroidery bobbin boxes - enough like one to inspire a digging out of such a box from the back cupboard. Over the course of the day it has become:
Ribbon Storage!
A pretty pink box that I had set aside has all the really wide ribbons in it along with the odds and ends which are too small to wind around a bobbin. All the fibres will be stored in this too. It's a pretty pathetic collection, but at least I can see what I have and it might just get used.
The Clean Up The Craft Room Project is well underway and if all goes well, I should be able to get into some scrapbooking in a week or so. As the room as been slowly emptied and cleared of clutter a few things have become apparent. I have a huge craft room - I think it's about 10 feet by 12 feet. No joke. I have masses of workspace - well at least I will by the time the desks are cleared properly. Space is seriously NOT a problem. But storage is. My Bazzill collection is under control. Dad made me this groovy little box about 18 months ago and it works like a charm. Stamps are sorted and I have a place for stickers/punches/adhesives/tools and all the doodads like an embossing gun that don't really fit anyplace else. Beyond that: nada. Everything is sort of stacked. Or boxed in shoe boxes where I can't see it. If I can't see it, I don't use it and then I buy more stuff, which I have no place to put so it gets shoved in a box. Then I can't see it so I don't use it and I buy more stuff and...
The other thing is that while I might have been blessed with many things - a wonderful husband and two delightful-when-they-are-not-bickering children, I don't have a decorative bone in my body. The craft room doesn't and never has looked interesting. Or beguiling. Or even just pretty. Rather a lot like my scrapbook pages really. Of all the things I could have had in life, a hint of the interior designer is the bit I really covet.
BTW if anyone has a good idea about how to store, arrange and organise photo albums...real ones, not digital ones, I'd be really glad to hear them.
