As it Happens scrapbooking video :: Using all the cute stuff
I find it physically impossible to leave a shop filled with cute Japanese stationery without buying at least a tiny notepad or sheet of stickers, so I’m a little confused with myself when it comes to my scrapbooking style and embracing supplies on the saccharin end of the cuteness spectrum. Even with baby pages I’m not finding myself gravitating toward all things smiley face and kawaii. The more I looked at what I had left from that combination of the Walden and Underground kits I’ve been working through, the more I realised how I kept pushing the cutesy stuff aside until my desk was basically left with just that. Time to take all the cute-yet-random and try to put it together for another page.
I’m sharing these a teensy bit out of order so this was the fourth layout I made with this combination of kits and the page I shared yesterday was actually the fifth. I find this background paper an interesting conundrum: do you feel sky papers should be… sky coloured? I love working with blue sky prints and it took me a little while to come round to the idea of the orange paper with its happy little clouds, but once I embraced the idea of all the cute, then I somehow found it a bit easier to just detach from reality and accept all the colours, patterns, and motifs together on one 12×12 canvas. I will say it’s a little different from the vast majority of my pages, but I hope it is just enough in line with my style that it will work as I turn the pages of the album.
I ended up with a grammar issue again. And had a moment about the definition of cider in two different countries. Those two things combined with the cutesy angle somehow make me feel like this is some sort of time warp and I’ve narrated this video at age twenty, completely in awe of the entirety of the world. Sigh. This ‘as it happens’ concept may be the end of my illusion that I do not obsess about small things with no big purpose in the world, one scrapbook page at a time.
Definitely feeling ready to move on to new supplies for new pages and videos now. What to pick, what to pick!
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23 April 2015, 12:00
I haven’t watched one of your videos in such a long time! Today I am so glad I did because I forgot how fun they are!! You also helped remind me how lovely scrapbooking is!
23 April 2015, 14:58
I think you picked the right grammar. If you ask the question who? Then it’s definitively you and me.
I speak ukrainian too and since it’s language with 7 cases, sometimes I find myself asking the questions in English that I would use in Ukrainian to help determine the correct case.
And incorrect use of “I” and “me” also drives me nuts..and don’t even get me started on apostrophe abuse!!!
Ps I’m loving all the Wonder Boy layouts. I can feel your joy and as a mum to a very much loved little boy myself, I can relate!
23 April 2015, 15:43
Great page…..and I am pretty sure there is a law somewhere that entitles you, as a parent, to embarass your child on a regular basis!!
23 April 2015, 21:06
I think you and me is correct as well. I believe if the rest of the sentence were there, it would say, “This is you and me.” So therefore, you have definitely chosen well! Plus, you’re right, it looks better.
23 April 2015, 21:19
Lovely layout! Can you please tell me the name of the font that you used? TIA
24 April 2015, 07:07
I’m loving your videos! I’ve been in a scrapping slump lately bc of work and time constraints but you’ve been really inspiring me to just get back in it. Thanks!
24 April 2015, 09:51
Great LO … and I love your grammar conundrum!! Actually I love that you care enough about grammar to make a point of it!
24 April 2015, 18:55
I so much enjoy watching you build your l/o’s; how you decide on the elements and placement. And I would never have thought that the addition of those little hearts would’ve added so much!
27 April 2015, 15:53
Shimelle, what punch did you use to back the stamped embellishment, the pinked punch? Thanks!
Darlene
27 April 2015, 21:10
Good things, have to praise
30 April 2015, 14:21
I am loving on the new wonderboy LOs!! He is absolutely precious. I like how u used up all the supplies. I always find myself with a few left over from a kit and then I never use them…
1 May 2015, 23:20
I kept waiting for you to cover the “hello fall” in the upper left corner! :)
2 May 2015, 11:41
Love your LO. I have to try being more adventurous in my designs….