Celebrating

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My friend, Stef, had a birthday recently and she treated a couple of us to an afternoon of scrapping. We printed four photos of ourselves and gave one to each mate - Stef provided a sketch (a la Becky Fleck) and this is my interpretation.

I Shopped Today!

I have to tell you that today I bought not 1, not 2 but 6 of the new Making Memories Corduroy 3 ring albums.

Am still trembling with excitement I tell you! The master plan is, of course, to have one for each member of the family + 1 extra for more general layouts.

For months I have had layouts lying around, homeless and lost. Now I cant wait to grab a gap and re-home them in their swanky new spaces!

Work in Progress

I decided I need to share as I go because its clearly more fun that way. At least for me. It will teach me to stop being so bloody anal and just show the stuff....I tend to want to wait til its "all done" but in my life that my take forever!

The cover - ta - da!


Whats in a Name?

My Dream Job

My Breathing Space

My Magic Carpet Ride

A special email I received this year.

Me - {in Labels}

Birthday Delights

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The LO's are of the girls birthdays.

The colours a) match the photos and b) are indicative of the girls personalities

I had fun with these - birthdays are licence to go the "whole hog" so I did.

Happy scrapping y'all!

Lessons from A Child

I love this LO; truly my daughter has taught me so much in her 4 short years.

Remember SOME of the Funnies

Do your kids say the funniest things? Remember to scrap them! Dont feel like you have to scrap them all - sit down today and write down 3 of your all time funnies that your kids have said and scrap them!


Journalling on photo reads:

Me: YOu can be a pretty wild child sometimes Faithy!
Faith: I'm not wild. I am Strawberry Shortcake! I am the QUEEN!
Me: OK Lou-Lou if thats the way you wanna play it!

Below photo quotes: My butt crack is falling down (meaning: my pants are slipping down)
Food me Mom ( feed me Mom)
Where is my Cinda Binda? (where is Lucinda?)



Journalling reads:

Rach: You're a baby Faith!
Faith: I notta baby.
Rach: Yes you are.
Faith: 'Notta a baby!
Rach: You're a toddler then.
Faith: Notta toddler!
Rach: What are you then?
Faith: I'm a girl!

Capture some of the moments - you dont have to get them all!

Sticker magic

I must confess to being bit of a sticker junkie. I think it may be because I am inherently a lazy scrapper. I believe I am in good company though as both Ali E and Jami e W love stickers! Now I just wish I could work the same magic on my layouts as they do on theirs.... ;))

Journalling:

Rachel holds Levi for the first time.....Its somthing I cant quite grasp. Almost indescribable. Watching my firstborn holding my lastborn. The tenderness and joy radiated from Rachel as she held her brother for the very first time. Even now, 2yrs later, they have a special bond-a unique way of relating. As most mothers, I can only pray they grow up to be the best of friends.
Pics 21 june 2006 .

Journalling :

Russ has always adored the infant phase. I think it rides with his calm and placid nature. All the kids were soothed by his presence and gentle touch.
Pics June 2006


Posted by The Scrapfan alias Simply-Mel

Comfort Zones

I have been doing many classes and a couple of personal layouts that incorporated numerous photos. This is not my most comfortable space. I am more a 1 photo type of chic, but due to the number of photos I take it is imperative that I "multi-photo" scrap occasionally!

Today, I took a breather and slipped back into comfort zone..... this style of scrapping takes 30mins and not a whole lot of prep...just up my alley!

"34 " with hidden journalling behind pic.

sketch for "34" courtesy of http://camillaslillasida.blogspot.com

"Friendship"

Variety is the Spice

Dont forget to scrap YOURSELF.
Many of us spend loads of time making albums for friends, scrapping our kids, dogs, cats and daily life. The missing link is often US.

Choose a medium that speaks to you. It doesnt have to be an entire album or even a mini-album. Lisa chose to use an accordion style tin format.

She didnt do any heavy journalling but managed to capture the key points of who she is.

Thanks for the inspiration Lisa!

Getting it Done {and loving it!}

These are some of the LO's from the classes. The girls are all still working on " catching up " on their kids pics. Here is a shot of some of them....hard at work making great progress! Really need to get another table!

The LO for the class was inspired by .... Becky Higgins...

My take (Mel):


Lisa's take:


Vicki' s take:


Some single LO's from class:

Michelle's first page EVER! Go girl!


This LO is a Mel Original....I do sometimes create original stuff!


These are Vicki's takes on my sketch.

Out of the Box...Or maybe In the Box?

Its been a while since I posted...having Blogger technical difficulties.

Have managed to scrap MANY layouts the last few days, but this is something new I played with.

Inspired by something I saw in Ali's new book "Life Artist" . Perfect for all those bits and bobs you got lying around.

The ScrapFan alias The Five-Browns

And now she can READ!

What a special day - my firstborn learnt to read!

Results of the Purge

My new, much more organised scrap storage area. Everything has a home and the diminished number of supplies means a much more efficient way of scrapping for me! I must confess, the less "stuff" I have to obsess over the easier it is for me to get a page done.
Simplicity is my scrapping middle name!


Stuff in the 3 drawer stacker - see pics above from left to right : General flat embellishments, rub-ons and stickers.


These are the mags / books / empty albums ----- I know some of you want so see what I got!

This is not the complete collection - some of my favourites are next to my bed, in the
bathroom, in the lounge, in the car - you know - all over the place!

Also sorted my chipboard/acrylic alphas into a little gidget box so each letter is in its own space, so much easier to see if I can spell out the desired word. Been meaning to do that for ages. Next task is keeping everything 'op sy plek' {in its place}

I did 4 LO's today but am not ready to load them today as the journalling is not complete. Hope to have them up by Friday. Possibly along with the class LO's that I am teaching.

The Scrapfan alias The Five-Browns

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Class Layouts

These are from last week. I keep forgetting to photograph the layouts before the ladies leave! I managed to get these two though. We are still on this terms' mission to get "caught up" on our kids. The ladies are doing remarkably well, usually finishing 1 x double LO and 1 x single. These are both original sketches.

Ilse's Layout:

Lisa's Layout:

Melody's altered book.

This is my completed altered book project using Autumn Leaves Techno Pop Range.
I used great photos from our Portrait People shoot last year and married them with some of my favourite blog posts from 2007. This was such a fun project and my kids love the colours and visitor always pick this one up to peruse!