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And so my weekend-long scrapping spree continues… with so very much kraft cardstock!

Jamie’s second challenge is all about questions and answers. I was stumped for a bit, I have to admit! It led me to interviewing someone for journaling and well, there wasn’t an obvious candidate around for an interesting interview. Back to the drawing board and a flip through some pictures and I realised there is one question that keeps coming up, and that would work for a page. And actually be something quite sweet to record now, because who knows where the future will take us.

The Boy grew up in several different countries and generally thinks it was a pretty amazing and defining experience. So although I already live in another country than where I started, he looks at new countries with the question Could we live here?, which can be funny. Sometimes we agree. Sometimes we disagree. But of the dozen countries we visited, there is one that we agree we could happily call home for a few years, should the opportunity present itself. And that was New Zealand. It’s our answer to all the ‘Where was best?’, ‘Where do you want to go back to?’ and ‘Where should you have stayed longer?’ questions.

And then for something completely different… the next challenge is scraplift a Garden Girl. I chose this layout by Chelsea Parsons. Chelsea’s style is so different to mine, but I always love her pages – both paper and digital. So I gave it the old What Would Chelsea Do try. I tried her technique for the background paper and rubbed lots of red chalk over a sheet of kraft dotted swiss. I think the background is lovely fun but then I had a hard time getting it to look right with my patterned papers and such. I wished I had started with a big photo like Chelsea did! But I used a few other things that come up in Chelsea’s albums, like lots of tape and stitching. And then splashed it with a bunch of white paint. I’m not sure if our styles work together or not! But it was fun to try all those new things… and I have plenty of photos in front of that wall, so a bit of variety is a great thing.

Three challenges down, and there are currently four more on the Garden Girl blog, plus I will be setting my own challenge at the start of my chat session today. So there is plenty to pick from, all week long!

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08 May 2011

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