Hand Crafted Memories

I have completed another page from Shimelle's challenges from last weekend. I have scrapped this style before using one of Shimelle's sketches and it was the one that immediately came to m ind for this challenge. The remit was to make a page and emphasise the vertical aspect so I got a small picture I had of me and my sister and repeated t to create a photo strip. Remember those days when you used to jump in the photo booth in Woolworths at every opportunity? NO, just me then.    As its now the weekend I am hoping to get the rest of the challenges finished, this has been a great boost to ny scrapbooks.

The Shimelle  challenge I'm posting today was for us to create a page using a favourite sketch, well that was a mission, trying to decide which of the sketches I liked most. Watching all these videos again made me want to scrap through the night, in the end I decided to just pick one and went with this . Then when I started sticking things down I just didn't stop and it doesn't even look like the original sketch apart from the stamped chevrons that I had added. But isn't that the idea of a sketch to use it as a starting point?

I am on a big roll at the moment with my scrapbooking and its all down to Shimelle's challenges over the last weekend. I even made two more pages last night after work, this is unknown for me. This page was made for the take Three 3 x 4 journaling cards and see where it takes you. Well mine took me to Paris, once you had the journaling cards teamed up with three 3 x 4 photos there wasn't much more embellishment needed. I only added two border stickers, a stamped postcard and some postmarks and it was done. I am noticing how rubbish these photos of my layouts  are coming out, I may have to retake them at some point.

Shimelle' s challenges from last weekend have really motivated my scrapbooking again. I am getting home from work and disappearing into my craft room to make another page for the challenge. I've actually set myself a little challenge to make a page each night after work.Hopefully if I stay on track I should complete all of the challenges before the deadline on Sunday.  This challenge was to use stickers, well this is something I really need to do, I buy sheets of them and then just save them, so this was easy just out my hand in the pile and out came the Christmas ones from October Afternoon .  Also last year I purchased Shimelles Journal your Christmas prompts and read them all, but that's all I did read them. This year I will make the album and in fact I have started making some of the embellishments. I've decided to journal all my Christmas memories rather than just one particular Christmas. I found out this photo and made up the first 8x8 page for my album of Ch...

This past weekend Shimelle hosted a weekend of challenges based around a kit called Best of Both Worlds . I didn't purchase the kit, I couldn't justify it with all the supplies that I have, but that's the beauty of Shimelle's challenges and workshops, you can use your own supplies. The first challenge was to use a flexible template form Noell Hyman of Paper Clippings fame. Go and check out some of her videos they are very in spring. I scraplifted the layout that Shimelle had chosen and came up with this