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

_{minibook by Karen Cole}

If you’re looking for minibook inspiration today, check out Karen’s matchbook of resolutions and plans for 2010. It’s made with the Resolutions printable and just a little bit of other stash — and it’s super cute!

If you haven’t figured out what you would do with a scrapbooking shopping spree you might want to give it a bit of thought…by the end of this week, all the details will be here so you can find out how to win! The mystery ends soon!

xlovesx

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So apparently it is quite cold here. So cold that the birds don’t quite know what to do, other than stay out of the fountain. Many people were not so intelligent, and Trafalgar Square was overrun with people shouting about their cold feet, for not one but multiple people thought it would be a good idea to stand on that ice for a photo opportunity.

That ice is, of course, merely sitting on top of a very cold pool of water.

Brains: apparently some of them malfunction in cold weather.

In other notes: today’s random celebrity sighting in Covent Garden was an Osmond brother, I was responsible for a panda hat appearing in the background of a London television report on the state of our icy roads, and the total lack of non-iced pavement in my neighbourhood seems to be a wonderful bonding experience wherein everyone is suddenly chatting as we all struggle up or down the hill into the village, mostly stating our dismay that no one has bothered to sort this out but also in an attempt to deflect from the lack of grace we have suffered in our performance of the dying swan from Swan Lake, performed on iced-over concrete whilst wearing casual footwear.

Wishing we had a fireplace this week! Am having to settle for warming cardigans on the radiator, which isn’t quite the ambiance.

Stay warm!

xlovesx

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A very simple question for you today:
If I gave you £65 or $100 to spend on scrapbooking supplies, what would you buy?

Totally guilt-free. You can’t have this money to spend on other things in life: just scrapbooking supplies. Paper or digital. Cardstock or adhesive. Ribbon or die cuts. Pick your poison: what would you buy if that shopping spree was yours for the taking?

…because later this month, it just might be. Somebody here is going to win a $100 shopping spree to Two Peas Not today, and not just by commenting, but by playing along with something fun and crafty.

Keep your eyes peeled for details…everything will be revealed here next week.

So…what’s on your wish list?

xlovesx

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_{Supplies: Welcome 2010 page template and Art Greco mini kit by The Queen of Quirk.}

Sent out the final Journal your Christmas prompt this morning until next year. Save one little bonus that goes out next week, that’s the whole year of Christmas all wrapped up! I kept thinking that would mean I would discover newfound free time today but somehow that didn’t happen. Such is life!

I did want to make good on yesterday’s promise to show you a few examples with this week’s new digi template though. So here is a page from me, and two pages from the gallery at Two Peas.

The page on the left is a lovely girly layout by Wilna and the page on the right is a fabulous party page from Scrapdolly. (Click to see either layout more clearly.)

Can’t wait to see even more pages from this template!

I’ve had a few requests to come up with something for digital beginners, so I’ll see what might be useful — but for the moment you can find a few tutorials to get started if you fancy.

xlovesx

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Excited here because we have a new nephew! Watch this space for some crafty projects soon and check out the Frog Blog for his welcome card!

Two new items in my digital store today — and one is for paper scrappers! The Write It Down series will release a new journaling set every Tuesday for 2010 (that’s the plan anyway!) and the kit includes a PDF printable for super-easy use by paper scrappers — just print it out on the paper of your choice, no extra software required. The kit also includes the same designs in the right format for digital scrapbookers (JPG or PNG, depending on the kit) so one kit has everything for everybody! And the Written Down kits are just 99 cents. This week it has a 2010 theme, with cards for resolutions, goals and dreams, and the font matches the Rockabye Thickers from American Crafts just perfectly. Find Write It Down :: Resolutions here.

Plus there’s also a 99 cent digital page template too. I’ll share pages made with that later this week, and you can see a few here already!

UK girls — if you’re snowed in, why not scrap?! I think that sounds like the best plan yet.

xlovesx

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1. Iceland Dec 2009, 2. Day 24 – Let It Snow, 3. MMmmm! Snow-keh-licious!, 4. The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love~, 5. I miss you, you were like dream., 6. Rain Sinfonia, 7. B is for bokeh (and blue), 8. XA bokehlicious bunny, 9. mind the gap, 10. Toshihiro Oshima Exhibition “Déjà Vu” 4, 11. bokeh snow and christmas lights., 12. Voyage à Tokyo 13, 13. Man in glasses waits at the station with umbrella; Shibuya, Tokyo, 14. Boy Meets Girl + Rain Meets Umbrella; Shibuya, Tokyo, 15. Thank you & good bye Japan, 16. Shaped bokeh experiments – Snow 02, 17. powder, 18. Zagreb by night, 19. beloved, 20. Let it snow!, 21. How to find a swirl, 22. Don’t ‘cha Wish Your Bokeh was a Star Like Me?, 23. Resisting winter, 24. 003/365 ~ The Real Beauty Of The Candy Cane…., 25. Go down gambling, 26. Your Name in Lights, 27. Lots of Snow, 28. [ 154 / 365 ] Close to the Flame, 29. The Ashmolean Museum, 30. Ferris Wheel Revisited, 31. Sky Ranch Motel (Explore #60), 32. my street tonight…., 33. vintage fawn, 34. Keepitlight_Week_6, 35. Sweet, 36. Bokeyh Boulevard

…loving beautiful wintry shots. Share a link to your favourite winter photo?

xlovesx

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This month the garden is filled with page ideas for scrapping with 4×6 photos. I still love 4×6 prints and tend to upload big batches of pictures to an online printer so I can always have a big box of pictures that are in my yet-to-be-scrapped file, all ready to go.

(By the way, if you haven’t been printing online, you can get free prints when you join or watch for sales to get the best deals when you want to order a big batch of pictures. Here in the UK, I use Photobox. They give you the first 40 prints free if you sign up on their website, or 50 if you sign up through a referral email — so if you want the extra ten, let me know and I’ll send you the email of course! They run lots of offers on various things, like at the moment you can buy 600 prints for the price of 400 and use them at any time, so it can be one big order or lots of little orders. Whatever works. In the US, I use York Photo which gives you the first 40 prints free or 4 cents per print with code FORFOUR until the 15th of January.)

I promise my grammar hasn’t disappeared completely. This is merely in reference to the website I Has a Hotdog, part of the Cheezburger Network and well…grad school be damned, I am endlessly amused by funny pictures of animals with silly captions. I just can’t help it.

And now…to upload all the Christmas photos I want to print, while I’m still thinking about it!

xlovesx

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Looking forward to so much in the new year. No giant post to dish everything today — but rest assured there are new scrapbooking classes, new products and other new excitement that will be mentioned here very soon. Some in just a few days. I love the energy and promise of the new year, even if I’m not always one for concrete resolutions.

Resolutions or no, may 2010 be glorious for all of us! Why not? It seems like a very nice idea indeed.

xlovesx

PS: If you resolved to blog more often in 2010, Blogging for Scrapbookers includes a workbook with a full year of blog topics for scrapbookers. You can sign up at any time and have permanent access to all the class materials, including the Year of Blogging workbook.

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