It's been one of those days...

A little bit of red.

I’ll be honest, scrapbooking is a rare thing in my house these days but when it happens there’s a big old “well, that was fun” that happens afterwards.  Then I pack it away to do some menial task, like the GST, and I lose the mojo. 

The most inspiring thing for me at the moment are the challenges and assignments given to me by Prima Marketing, like this one.  The assignment was to create a Christmas card using one of their chalkboard cards.  I’m still in love with chalkboard and I love red, anyone remember the layout I created years ago about how much I hated red?  How times have changed, so I loved creating this card.

Lots of layering of wooden embellishments, flowers & gems.

813413    Everyday Vintage Chalkboard Cards
960728 Finnabair paper pad
569877    Wood Icons Gears
572471    Wood Icons Optimist
570262    SIIC Arrows
561420    Interlude Red flowers
552473    North Country Avon Rose
300500    E-line pearls

And so I created.  Then I packed my stuff away and haven’t created again.  I’ve spent plenty of time organising all the creative bits and pieces for Autumn Escape in April though.  Good times, good times.

Laters.

November Prima Sketch Challenge

It’s November – strawberries are in season, the sun is (usually) out, the days are really long and best of all I get a whole day to myself.  Many people are shy of celebrating their birthdays.  Not me.  Bring it, I say.

November BAP is out at the Prima blog, such a gorgeous sketch I couldn’t wait to give this one a go.

I loved everything about this one, the colours, the swirls, a few small photos, just gorgeous.  I also loved that it was the kind of sketch just begging for masks & texture paste.  Some of my favourite stuff right now.

Out came the pile of masks, the texture pastes and the coloured glimmermists.  Out came some of my favourite photos, transparencies, different flowers. 

And this layout was born :)

Totally enjoyable process.  This is the layout I created and then stood back and said to myself “why don’t I scrapbook more often?”

This sketch was fun.   Why not give it a go?  You can see it here – enjoy your week :)

Laters