Something Saturday - watch out Heather's Scrapbooking again!🤣

Hi there Creators,

Yep I'm back at it, I figure I really would like to scrapbook the photos I've had sitting on my desk since last November, which is from my trip to the US.  And I'm proud to say that the 2 pages I did were only supposed to hold 5 photos total and I've managed to squeeze in 11🤣

I have a feeling it's a little like space in the house, Tom (hubby) always accuses me of needing to fill up every available space (I don't consciously do it, it just seems to happen!)

Anyway back to the scrapbooking I've used a kit that has now retired (yes it took me that long to get round to using it)  But I figure that there are a heap of the kits all different designs, so you pick something that matches what you're going to be scrapbooking about, check them out here: Scrapbook Workshop Kits (plus there are some bargain kits in the retiring goodies down the bottom of this page)

However let me show you how my pages turned out.....

I'm starting up a scrapbooking evening once a month at the Kangaroo Flat Library, the first session will be on Thursday 24th September at 7pm, and my aim is that everyone will complete 2 pages.  I didn't add anything except photos (and obviously glue) to this kit to create these 2 pages, and I was able to use some of the left over bits to mount the extra photos onto.  My fav glue to use is the Stampin' Seal, it does take a bit of getting used to, but once you're there I do find it was worth the perseverance!

If you'd like to check out the video, here it is:

I hope this inspires you to create, and if you're thinking I'd love to have a go at this and get some of my photos off my phone and onto paper, it's really rewarding.  Do check out the page above to see what Stampin' Up! has available currently (and I'd love you to purchase through me if you don't already) or why not join my team and get a discount on your purchases?  If you're in the Bendigo area why not book in to come and join us on 24th at Kangaroo Flat Library?  Check out this blog post about it: Simplistic Scrapbooking, and make sure you sign up for my emails to get more details on a regular basis.

Something Saturday - Sneak Peek

 Hi There Creators

Today I thought I'd show you a quick sneak peek of some of the new goodies coming up in May (unless of course you are a demonstrator, in which case you have access to them now!)😃  Excellent reason for joining Stampin' Up! and my CreateAbles Team - not to mention the fact that we get a discount on our goodies! Let me know if you want more info.

One of the goodies I showed off is the Water & Dotted Lines Decorative Masks, which are 12x12 size, so I got out my glass mat, (it really is the perfect surface to craft on!) and my thick white 12x12 cardstock (and my photos from my trip last November to the US, and Yay got 2 more pages done😃)

Thought I'd show you the process first, best to tape the mask down over the cardstock or it does move! you can see I've used 4 colours and I've just realised I've got my blue ink pads in the wrong order down the side of the piece, Ah well at least the middle one is right🤣

And this is how it turned out - isn't it amazing?!

So then moving onto creating my scrapbook pages (go me🤣)  I also cracked open my new White Gel Pens for the writing

The next page I used the dots mask on the blue piece I had cut out of the frame from the above page, they are pretty subtle dots but that's nice when the water background is not subtle!  I also cut out a couple of milkshake cups from the Love Notes Designer Paper (which has been moved to retiring/Last Chance list and discounted)

Then back to my "comfort zone" and made a card, using the stamp set from the new April Paper Pumpkin kit (did you see my previous post about Paper Pumpkin?) Look out for a proper review of them whole April kit coming soon!

And lastly to decorate up one of the scalloped window boxes using the Scalloped Bloom Dies and the Artisan Sketched Garden Designer Series Papers, how nicely does it decorate up with the matching dies?!💖

There's a few extra bits I show off in the video, so if you haven't seen it yet, here it is:

I hope my projects inspire you to create, these new goodies will be available from 5th May  (unless you are a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, or decide to join and become one! 😉)

God Bless love

Heather xox

Something Saturday - A touch of Scrapbooking with Beautiful Balloons

 Hi there Creators, 

Well I've been saying that my new glass mat would be ideal for scrapbooking on, so thought I'd better prove it 🤣  Just as a side note it's Sale-a-Bation at the moment (SAB for short) till end of Feb, and you can score yourself one of these amazing glass work mats for free when you join Stampin' Up!  The deets are: pick $235 of goodies, and only pay $169, then get the glass mat studio for free with it (see here: Join my team if you're interested or ask me).

Anyway moving on to the scrapbooking, I can't say I'm an expert at this, it's definitely not my favourite thing, but, I volunteered to create a scrapbook of our Carol service as a gift for someone.  I have these bright ideas sometimes 🤣  Although actually I quite enjoyed making these sheets up in the video and I've had a few more ideas for the pictures with songs connected to the photos.

The first page is this one: not made in video - and as you can see it's remarkably simple!

Then I made this one up in the video, I decided the streamers from the Beautiful Balloons Bundle would look good in the background, and I'm happy I did do that, then some of the balloons to go with it, it's such a fun page with the little kids section of the service.  And by the way during SAB if you order this bundle - as it's $91.75 you get to pick an extra gift for free from the SAB offering - woo hoo! check out what's available in the SAB offering here: SAB goodies

Then the other side of the spread is this one, I've tried to connect up the streamers so it works across the 2 pages.

 

They are fairly basic, although I'm quite chuffed with my use of the Decorative Circle punch to create an interest in the corners of the photo on the blue page.

I tend to think the whole purpose of scrapbooking is to preserve the memories in photo form, and these will also have cards in the gaps, that those involved in the carol service are writing on, so I'm not really big on lots of embellishments, although we'll see how the other pages come out if I get more adventurous!

Anyway if you missed the video here it is:

 I hope I've inspired you to dig out some of your photos, and have a go at scrapbooking too!

God Bless love
Heather xox