So following on from last weekend’s crafting craziness I am back at my desk this morning and being inspired by Shimelle again. This time it’s a sketch – three photos on one page. I do quite often use three photos but I don’t think I’ve ever used them in this configuration before. I like it! I can see this being something I do again. So here’s the brief and the sketch if you want to try this yourself. 

I also did something this week that I haven’t done for years – I ordered something from an online scrapbook shop. Wow – it felt strange going through the pages and pages of stuff I haven’t seen for such a long time. I was very good though and only order consumable stuff (glue and a craft sheet because mine has gone AWOL in the move). I need to have a big tidy up of my supplies before I start buying fancy stuff again as I’m sure anything I see online I have a variation of it somewhere in this room.

Clutter and untidiness is not a reason to shop! <she says, sitting on her hands and trying to forget her paypal password>

I really enjoyed this one. Great colour scheme to use and I get to scrap holiday photos! Perfect.

I’ve been re-discovering my stash – good grief I have a lot of half finished projects! Not sure what any of this stash was bought for originally but it was all together in a bag so I didn’t even really have to think about the colours too much – they just worked perfectly for the challenge.

The photos are from our first holiday together in 2012. We’d had a stressful 6 months to get to that point and so the holiday was a major de-stressing exercise. I’d visited Barbados a few years before on a working holiday and I was very keen to return. Pete had never been there. It was a fabulous holiday – just the right balance of adventure (jeep safaris and the wild east coast beaches) and relaxing by the pool.

See the challenge on Shimelle’s website.

This didn’t turn out the way I thought it would – I’m not thrilled with it and I’m hoping it looks better when it’s dry. I used a sepia glaze on the circles, trying to echo the glaze on the background paper (Tim Holtz) but it just looks a bit weird. I may just top them with butterflies if it still looks strange when it’s dry. Or glitter. You can fix anything with glitter 😉

Challenge from Shimelle’s site here.

I have fixed this now – corrected layout is first – disappointing layout below. I realised it was mainly because it was an even number of circles that I hated.

So I groaned when I saw this title. I just threw away hundreds of old photos that I felt I would never scrap. I have a new life and I’ve scrapped that old part of my life already and I have no desire to keep revisiting it. So out they all went (I did keep the digital versions on a hard drive – I’m not completely heartless, I just don’t need them taking up physical space).

So the oldest photos I have printed are from January 2012. So that’s my “old”. My monochrome colour for this one is blue. I have no idea where the paper came from and I’m enjoying discovering my paper supplies again. The waves were apt because the photos were taken down by Liverpool’s waterfront and the scraps of material were near the top of my sewing box and caught my eye.

The journalling talks about how I love having a willing model – Pete will stand in front of anything so I can take a photo!

So the next challenge today was to scrap something that has value to you. Well, it was a no brainer really – the most important, valuable thing in my life is my came… no wait, my husband, it’s my husband 😉

And my home town. The two are intrinsically linked and between them they ground me and keep me sane. And I love them both more than words can say.

Read the challenge from Shimelle here.

I was once an avid scrapbooker. I took photos purely for scrapbooking purposes. I spent vast amounts of time and money on paper and glue and ribbon. A couple of house moves left me without a permanent crafting space – my desk was always covered with hairdryers, make up, clothes etc. I just moved house again and once more I have a dedicated crafting space. And fortuitously this weekend one of my scrapbook heroes is having an online weekend of scrapping loveliness.  So here I am. Ready to join in with Shimelle and her army of scrapbook fans. First up – monochrome – not just black and white but scrapping with one colour. So predictably I picked green. A colour I love more than any other. And it has a very special meaning to me. Here’s my first layout for over a year.