pretty paper. true stories. {and scrapbooking classes with cupcakes.}

...it was lovely to see you all so beautiful at the prom last night!

Enjoy your summer and I’ll do my best to see you on results day – may it be just as happy!

xlovesx

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_{Supplies: Bazzill cardstock, Love, Elsie patterned paper, Project Cuts Noel Card by Jen Allyson and a few little adhesive pearls.}

It seems to be big-time deadline time here, which is always exciting if a little disconcerting. The flat seems to suffer the most: there are class kits stacked in pizza boxes all over the living room (including in the window, so I am sure the neighbours think we eat far, far too much pizza) and layouts in a line on the counter with rough-draft PDF files printed out and sitting on top. Which means a new class is so very very nearly here. Excited.

_{Supplies: Digital quick page by Michelle Underwood.}

So not a lot of time for making things for the blog this week, but these two projects took no time at all. They are both part of the Christmas in July celebrations, which might catch your fancy if you are a) getting ahead on next Christmas or b) still catching up from last Christmas.

I’m afraid I am most definitely in camp B, although I do so long to achieve camp A status one day!

xlovesx

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Just a few things inspring craftiness here today:

Some of my favourite pages from the latest garden (click those thumbnails above to see).

A pancake picnic for breakfast, listening to a brass band concert in the park and a stroll through the rose garden, now that it is sunny but not so unbearably hot.

Seeing what people are making with the library cards, like this popsiclelicious wonderment, which I love.

Pretty much every single item in this etsy store.

And possibly (hopefully!) inspiring for you, I’ve got a post over here today. Hop over and take a look!

xlovesx

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Lots of giveaways that were open for all of June…and a drumroll for our winners please!

Scrap your favourite colour:
Selina_C and her love of green win an archived class of her choice.

Scrap with the template or rainbow border:
ConnieC and her digital page win a $15 gift certificate to Two Peas.

Spin the colour wheel and scrap the combination that comes up:
Wendy and her tulips win a set of letter stamps.

Use the colour wheel to make a project:
Nathalie and her pumpkins win a spot on learn Something New Every Day this September.

Symbolic colours:
Emma and her green symbolism win a green themed print.

Blog badge:
Dawn of Artist Reborne wins £10 shopping money at shimelle.com.

Green photo:
Brit and her greenery win a green 8×10 print.

Red, rose and pink photo:
Loumaroo and her flowers win a rose 8×10 print.

Grey & black photo:
Alison and her mosaic win a grey 8×10 print.

Blue photo:
Julie and her antique finds win a blue 8×10 print.

White and light photo:
Lynn and her white house win a white 8×10 print.

Earth tone photo:
Alissa and her daily Starbucks win an earth toned 8×10 print.

Cool pastel photo:
Rebekah and her pink blossoms win a cool toned 8×10 print.

Green crafting:
Leanne and her Jedi mind tricks win an online class.

Red, rose and pink crafting:
Lisa and her red laout win an online class.

Grey and black crafting:
Scrappycarrie and her Eiffel Tower win an online class.

Blue crafting:
ScaryMary555 and her blue beads win an online class.

Light and white crafting:
Anso and her owl card win an online class.

Earth toned crafting:
List and her rock chick layout win an online class.

Cool pastel crafting:
MarieP and her buddies win an online class.

Acrylic paint:
Laura and her bird book win a set of Banana Frog stamps.

Kirsty’s colour combination challenge:
Anne and her moped win a set of Banana Frog stamps.

Tia’s guest comment giveaway:
Mariangeles wins her choice of a Tia kit from Two Peas.

Write in colour challenge:
Tifany D and her green stitching win a set of Banana Frog stamps.

Thank you so much for all your participation over the last month! If you are one of the winners, please email me at this special email address so I can get your prize to you. Some will need to be posted; others will go by email so bear with me while I get them all out over the next week.

Catch you tomorrow!

xlovesx

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_{©twopeasinabucket.com Supplies: Bazzill cardstock, Cosmo Cricket patterned paper and stickers, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, Hero Arts pearls, My Little Shoebox letter stickers, American Crafts Thickers, Prima Flowers, Ali Edwards for Technique Tuesday stamp, Colorbok leaf stamp, Creative Cafe tag and Brown Precision Pen by American Crafts.}

The first of the month means a new garden of inspiration—there are some amazing scrapbook pages in there this month so be sure to check it out. I am hoping I can actually buy the butterfly punch I used on this page—I had only borrowed it from Leanne and it was pretty painful to give it back! So definitely need one to take up permanent residence in my punch drawer.

_{Supplies: Dotted Swiss cardstock by Bazzill Basics, patterned papers by Cosmo Cricket, 7gypsies border stickers, Doodlebug letter stickers, Punches by Woodware, EK Success and Martha Stewart, Narratives brads by Creative Imaginations, Chipboard buttons and epoxy circles by Love, Elsie, Nailheads by Canvas Corp, and brown precision pen by American Crafts. And a bunch of pop dots!}

Today has been of a wind down from the month of colour. Watching Harry Potter, listening to Harry Potter, reading Harry Potter and scrapbooking about Hawaii, which has nothing to do with Harry Potter.

Am I the only person who is excited about Harry Potter? Okay, so we know what happens at this point but that is completely irrelevant to the films. I am more excited for Half-Blood Prince than I have been for any of the others…which is saying something. But the last film was by far my favourite of the five and book six is by far my favourite of all seven books…AND film six has the same director as film five, so in my head that equation all comes out to equal this film will be amazing. I really hope so, anyway. We have opening night tickets at a cinema with old-fashioned, super comfy red velvet chairs. And I’m taking great pride in the chairs because someone else I know has press screening tickets for this Friday which is just not to be thought about at all!

Okay, I shall try to end my Harry Potter ramblings here until after I have seen the film. Try being the operative word. No promises.

_{Supplies: Bazzill cardstock, Cosmo Cricket patterned paper, Making Memories straight pins, American Crafts Thickers, Prima tape, Punches by Martha Stewart, EK Success and Fiskars and precision pen by American Crafts.}

In other non-Potter news, I uploaded nearly seven hundred pictures from our two weeks away to Photobox and am pretty close to clicking the ‘order me one of everything’ button. Not sure. I am excited to scrap them (printed a few at home because I am impatient!) but I want to print way more than will fit in my ‘photos to be scrapped’ binder.

The good thing is I can tell this week is nice and calm because a) I can scrapbook for fun and b) I have time to think about how many photos I should order. I am learning to notice and embrace these weeks when they happen! {Now if someone can teach me how to channel them during the weeks where everything is so crazy that I realise far too late that I really need a shower, that would be brilliant useful.}

_{Supplies: Bazzill Basics cardstock, Cosmo Cricket patterned papers, Making Memories journaling paper, Die cut file by Kristina Werner (cut on the Silhouette), American Crafts Thickers, Fiskars border punches, Creative Cafe sticker strip, Prima bling and a brown precision pen by American Crafts.}

And my last thought for the day? Clearly the crazy heatwave we can’t stop talking about has made it impossible for me to string together logical thoughts. Hopefully you can forgive me and just be distracted by scrapbook pages? Perhaps my rational mind will return tomorrow.

ALSO: The prize list for Month of Colour is pretty long and I still visiting all the links! I will post the complete list of prize winners tomorrow! Thanks for your patience and participation!

xlovesx

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The calendar says today is the final day of June 2009. Which means A Month of Colour is coming to a close. But wait!! There is so much I meant to include that I haven’t had a chance to blog about yet!

Stuff like…
sorting your stash by colour (although seriously this boggles my mind), rainbow bookshelves that make me wonder how they cope with the multiple-colour spines that mess this up for me and how some days kuler can absolutely melt my brain with amazine colour combinations.

But alas, this is where June ends.
Okay, never fear—I may just drop some more colour posts now and then to keep you on your toes!

Thank you so much for joining me all month long! It has been lovely to see photos and projects from new friends and old. All the prize drawings close tonight at 11:59pm UK time and winners will be posted here tomorrow.

I hope you enjoyed this colourful month and I promise I have more to keep sharing when the calendar turns over to July in the morning, so I hope you’ll stick around!

xlovesx

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You know what I have been extra terrible about recently? Reading actual books. For someone who claims she likes to read, I have made zero progress in reading anything in 2009. It’s not that I don’t want to read—I’m actually halfway through a book I love! But finding time to finish it has been a huge obstacle. I was looking forward to finishing it on the plane last week and it didn’t even make it out of my bag due to the pure exhaustion by the time I hit that completely uncomfortable seat.

So it’s time for this to change! And I’ve made myself a mini book so I can truly commit. In fact, I went ahead and made a book bag and a stack of bookmarks too. You can find the minibook here with instructions and tips as this week’s free class at Two Peas—it’s the fourth in June’s Make Mine Mini series. The book bag and other goodies are here. There is also a discussion thread here.

As a little bonus, this class includes a free printable sheet of colourful library cards. I really want to covertly change all the cards in my local library to these pretty colours! But since they have gone all electronic, I’ll just save the pretty colours for the scrapbook I suppose. You can download the free printable library cards here (you’ll need to click one more time to download the PDF – but it’s there in the description).

If you take inspiration from any of these projects this week, you can enter to win a prize from Two Peas—you’ll need to upload your project to the gallery there and check the box for ‘Make Mine Mini’ when you get to the list of challenges. That challenge runs for a week, but of course the library cards are yours to use for your projects any time!

What’s on your summer reading list?

xlovesx

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_{Supplies: cardstock by Bazzill Basics, patterned paper by Cosmo Cricket, stickers by 7gypsies, So Happy Together kit by Erica Hernadez, Vintage Photo Tool Kit by Rhonna Farrer, brown pen by American Crafts and one very ancient sun punch from EK Success.}

The American Crafts precision pen in .03 is my writing implement of choice. So much so that I buy them two dozen at a time…but always in black. And recently this has seemed very wrong. Perhaps something brought about by a month of colour.

Okay, I haven’t gone far from the black but I feel I must announce publically that the precision pen in brown is just as fabulous. It’s not too pale to read like many a brown pen I have tried. It’s just like a black pen…only brown. Why that has been so difficult to find over the years, I do not know. Perhaps I was looking in entirely the wrong place.

I’m not ready to jump entirely into autumn any time soon, so for now I’m mixing my browns with rainbow brights, like the So Happy Together kit by Erica Hernadez. That’s what makes the printed circles, stars and labels in this paper layout, but it works digitally too:

_{Supplies: So Happy Together kit by Erica Hernadez, Wishing for Sunshine papers by Holly McCaig, page template by Ali Edwards from the Songbird Avenue charity kit.}

This template already had the title coloured, but easy enough to switcheroo with the ‘replace colour’ function, so now it matches the papers.

_{Supplies: So Happy Together kit by Erica Hernadez, Rich Bohema Solid Papers by Tia Bennett, Strokes and Splatters and Vintage Photo Tool Kit by Rhonna Farrer, and Butterfly Elements by Michelle Underwood.}

And the journaling typed one line at a time here so the words could be in the same colour as the labels…except that yellow that was too hard to read!

Today’s colour challenge?
Write in colour! Get out some coloured pens, pencils or markers and put some colour back in your penmanship. It can be a layout, a card, a note, a grocery list, the text of a blog post—whatever you fancy as long as it includes words in colours other than black and white!

Upload it somewhere online and link it up here in the comments by 11:59pm on the 30th of June and one lucky winner will receive a set of stamps!

{And if you missed yesterday’s post, there is a free download plus a give away that just requires a comment, so don’t miss that one!}

xlovesx

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