Reminder to self

Funny enough I made this layout in a day when the two of them were really hard work. Nothing serious, they were just plain tired, cranky and moany.

One of those day when someone should tap in your sholder and say "It'll pass, just remember, they are children and they grow up fast, you'll miss even the bad times when they're all grown up".

For the first time ever, I retook photos of a layout twice and even with 3 attempts and several edits, it still doesn't look right, the background should look white, and the patterned papers are  much more vibrant, please use your imagination :-)

The cute cameras were cut with the Silhouette Cameo, I had great fun mixing and matching the different colours. Love this shape!

*Patterned paper: assorted, all from the Studio Calico Brooklyn Flea Kit

*Camera Shape: Amy Tangerine for American Crafts @ Silhouette Store

Delightful 10

Her 10th birthday was in February. I made a layout a while ago, this was supposed to be the right side of a double page, the second being a multiphoto layout with photos of her party. Which is still in my ever expanding to-do list.

Decorating Hair Pins

Lately I have been trying to use my scrapbooking stash to creative ways. Like leftovers tiny stickers are a fun way to close envelopes. Washi tape is great wherever you need to stick things temporarily since is very low tack. Think sticking things on the wall, fix patterned paper into A4 paper to feed into the print.

This is a long introduction to show something I came up. Decorated hair pins for my daughter. She loves this sort of thing but gets tired of them quickly, so there's no point in making anything time consuming.

I'll put a little tutorial as soon as I find the glue I used; I am like that, keep on misplacing stuff in my craft room.

Have a nice week!

Joy to Photography

It was a shock to realise that it's been more than a month since my last blog post. I'll try to get back to blog regularly and more important, scrapbook more often.

Here's one I've made for a challenge, I had to lift a page from Christine in her SC gallery.

I choose this layout to lift:

And came up with this:

I think it is a lift of a lift, since it seem that the original was based on a sketch by Kelly Purkey for her sketchbook class.
I was an extremely fun thing to do, thanks for the inspiration Christine!

(*) I now noticed that I forgot to stick the "to" in the title which is supposed to read "JOY to photography"...

Yet more cards

I am still in a card mood; I made some for some upcoming birthdays and some to send to Barbara, who in turn sells them for charity.

I am still doing the photo a day project but not uploading my photo every day as I used to do at the beginning.

My 2012 Little Word: FOCUS

For the first time, I have my own One Little Word.
I am not doing Ali Edward's class (maybe next year), not am I going to scrap about it - except for this page, but I'll try to remind myself everyday that if I want to so somewhere I have to focus. And yes, that mean less time in google reader, pinterest, scrapbooking and photo forums... :-)

The journaling says it all:

"OLW. One Little Word. Choosing a word to go by for the year. I read about it in Ali Edwards’ blog a few years ago and thought the concept was interesting but I never had a word. Until some days into 2012 when the word I needed hit me: FOCUS. Focus in life. Focus in photography. Focus in the daily boring tasks. Focus on being a better person. Focus on getting things done. Dear me, don’t get sidetracked. FOCUS!"

60 seconds

That's how long it took for him to learn to ride a bike.

1st of January we took my son to the park with the new bike he got from Santa. My son never wanted to try, because he was afraid of falling, never let us remove the training wheels of his older bike. But Santa gave him a brand new bike - only slightly bigger than his old one - without them because he was sure my son was ready. And he was!

* cardstock: Bazzill

* patterned paper: My Mind's Eye

* rubb ons: Chatterbox

* letters stickers: American Crafts 

* font: Courier New

* tools: punch - Woodware (circle under the asterisk), tiny attacher.

* other: textured white paper, foam adhesive, scrappy glue

I love that paper, it is spotty and glittery!
I used one of my homemade kits.  It is great to use old stuff like the rubbons over the photo as well as my newer stuff.

I scrap slow and use little embellishments so two layouts after, the "kit" still looks intact. Yes, I am aware that at this rate, these two kits will last forever. Scary thought!