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

lovely to meet you Twitter Facebook Pinterest YouTube

Take a Scrapbooking Class

online scrapbooking classes

Shop Shimelle Products

scrapbook.com simon says stamp shimelle scrapbooking products @ amazon.com shimelle scrapbooking products @ amazon.co.uk

Reading Material

travel

Inspiring me lately:

...The Last Lecture from late professor Randy Pausch. Which reminded me of both the ‘When I Grow Up’ scrapbook project and a few exceedingly inspiring professors from my own studies.
...Ysolda’s uncanny ability to write knitting patterns that are immediately fun as soon as the yarn is on the needles. I’m working on Liesl in the mid-length, in red, for a bit of chill time else I could be awake from now until the 31st of August from energy. But this is how special it is: I. Knitted. A. Swatch. It’s shocking.
...Style Me Pretty for making me extra excited and making me think about lots of tiny little details

...And arpeggios. Because I have finished an arrangement for string quartet and now I cannot wait to hear it with four real instruments instead of computerish sounds. I actually used the skills I learned in music theory class! This is clearly why I minored in music. So I could reinvent the wheel with the explicit purpose of throwing a good party.

A warning: I have kept so much a secret so far. For seventeen months, this did not become a wedding blog. Tomorrow marks one month away.

This will totally be a wedding blog for the next thirty-one-ish days.

!!!!!

xlovesx

Time to scrap it!

Scrap your Day in Black and White

Happy 25th to you! We’re keeping it simple with black and white in our scrapbooks this month. You can download the July Album Prompt here. I snapped these photos of our plants today—some that are already in my scrapbook as seedlings. How is your book showing the passing of time or season?

Hope you’re having a wonderful day! Please drop me a note below to share what you’re up to and share your pages when they are in your scrapbook!

Scrap your Day links & schedule:
About this project
Sign up for reminders
Getting Ready
Photo Fact Sheet #01
April Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #02
May Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #03
June Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #04
July Album Prompt
Our Flickr group
UKScrappers discussion thread
Small image for signature files
Blinking image for blog side bars

xlovesx

A Reminder:

Reminder: Scrap your Day!

Tomorrow is the 25th—time to take pictures! Charge your camera and snap away.

For more Scrap your Day information, check out:
About this project
Sign up for reminders
Getting Ready
Photo Fact Sheet #01
April Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #02
May Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #03
June Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #04
July Album Prompt: online tomorrow!
Our Flickr group
UKScrappers discussion thread
Small image for signature files
Blinking image for blog side bars

xlovesx

Scrap your Day...in black and white

scrap your day in black and white

This month’s Photo Fact Sheet is available for download now!

xlovesx

Nearly time to scrap your day

June scrapbook pages

Despite appearances to the contrary, I have not fallen off the face of the earth. Summer is going by far too quickly and lots is going on. Between scrapbook goodness and wedding details, things are certainly busy here. And more than a little cluttered. Still, it has its perks.

In three short days it will again be time to Scrap your Day, if you’re playing along with us! Between now and then, I’ll be sending prompts to the My Freedom girls, trying on my wedding dress, finishing a string arrangement for the processional, seeing my bridesmaids to see if the dresses I’m making for them are fitting and looking lovely enough to make us all happy and going to see The Dark Knight. And perhaps eating or sleeping or something in there too. And hopefully catching up on email while I’m at it.

scrapbook  detail

So it is probably a good thing that I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Scrap your Day scrapbook pages
Some pages from Scrap your Day participants in June:
1., 2., 3., 4., 5., 6., 7., 8., 9., 10., 11., 12., 13., 14., 15., 16..

July’s photo fact sheet will be available for download tomorrow.
New to Scrap your Day? Basically, we take pictures all day long on the 25th of every month, share them on Flickr and scrapbook them sometime over the next month. You can join us! Check out all the info here.

xlovesx

Winners

Thanks for all the entries yesterday. Here are our three winning numbers from the Random Number Generator.

The winners are:

  1. Sarah Merritt (posted at 13:57)
  2. Olga (posted at 18:02)
  3. Lisa (posted at 22:29)

I’ll be in touch in just a bit to get you set up with a free spot for you and a friend.

Sorry to those who didn’t win this time! There is still time to join us if you would like to finish an album this summer. See all the details here.

xlovesx

Class giveaway day!

I’ll keep it short and sweet today: comment below and you’ll be entered in a drawing for a free place for you and a friend on the new class, My Freedom.

Entries close at 8am Sunday, London time.

If you’ve already signed up for the class, you can still enter and win. If your name is selected, you can give the place to a second friend or have your money back and enjoy the class for free!

I’ll pick three winners Sunday morning—class starts Monday!

Good luck!

xlovesx

ETA: entries closed…will post winners shortly!

Notes on style

scrapbook supplies

I promised a bit more info about My Freedom, and it comes in two parts. A little about style and a little about content.

Let’s start with style.

The class notes mention that you’ll see four albums come together over the completion of the prompts – each in a specific style: stream-lined, contemporary, arty and digital. That’s just the four versions that are done before we start—of course, you’ll also get to see the albums from fellow students come together as you share the creative journey.

Identifying four styles for this class certainly doesn’t mean there are only four styles possible—they are merely a sampling and a springboard. Take direction from the one most like your own style or try something in an entirely different style to what comes naturally. Or if style and scrapbooking in the same sentence ties you up in knots, use this album as an exercise in finding out what works for your scrapbooking. Each album points out design tips along the way, so trying something new is easy, while you’re also free to ignore the design ideas entirely and strike out with something that is undeniably you.

Your completed album will be at least twenty pages and you can actually finish this project within the five weeks, as there’s never one day with an uneven balance of stuff to do. Plus you have the weekends to give you a little break and keep a spring in your storytelling step. There is the option to add extra pages, especially if you would like to incorporate stacks of photos, or if your style would like to embrace a little more space here and there.

You can create the entire album using your own stash, and you can even get ready early if you want—registered students can access a from-your-stash shopping list this Friday. Or you can have almost everything you’ll need shipped right to your door: the kits used to create the projects in the prompts go on sale tomorrow at noon. There’s a little peek above, but you’ll be able to see more from each kit (including a sample page) in the shop tomorrow.

scrapbook supplies for sale

So tomorrow: shopping, a look inside each book and we’ll talk about what story we’re going to tell this summer.

Join this class here

xlovesx