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

Today I’m very happy to be joining in with the Creative Movie Maker Blog Hop, brought to you by Echo Park and Carta Bella paper companies. Echo Park and Carta Bella are sister companies that release paper collections throughout the year, and they sent a few scrapbooking video makers one of their latest collections so we could give it a try, and also so we could all share a video with you today.

For my project, I used the Hello Again collection from Carta Bella, and set myself two challenges: create a page on a white background instead of my usual habit of patterned paper, and think of travelling light when it comes to supplies. I created my page in my usual space, but it’s been about six months since I went away to scrapbook and I’m thinking I need a day scrapping with friends soon, and that requires getting in the mindset of packing light!

Does adding a patterned border around the edge of the white cardstock count for that first challenge of mine? And as far as the packing goes, I would have needed to pack a sheet of white cardstock, the 12×12 and 6×6 Hello Again paper packs (or have decided at home which 12×12 sheet I would use and just pack that one piece of paper plus the sticker sheet), two bottles of mist, one pack of stamps plus ink pad, block, and ink applicator for edges, one pack of Thickers, two rolls of tape, a sheet of enamel dots, and my usual to-go tool kit of scissors, adhesive roller, pop dots, black pen, and cloth for cleaning up ink. I don’t usually take a paper trimmer to scrap elsewhere. Would that all qualify as travelling lightly? I’m not sure when you consider I used all that for just one page, but if I knew I had a few pages worth of photos that would work well with just those supplies, then I think it certainly makes the jump to being quite useful for scrapping elsewhere! If I’m going to spend the day cropping somewhere, I do tend to carry more than this, but as I don’t take a car I am usually limited to one bag and it’s always surprising just how quickly it’s filled!

Now! The movie! Youtube is giving me minor fits today, but it looks like it should be ready to view shortly, fingers crossed! This is the perfect time to jump through the hop and take a look at the projects and videos posted, and by the time you make it back here, hopefully this notice will be replaced with the live video! I’m happy to report YouTube and I are finally back on speaking terms! Well, mostly. It has still decided to display ads on this video for the music, except I bought a license to play that particular jingle, so this is new! Please click the ad away and I’m working on getting rid of it for good.

I hope you find a few new channels you like, and please do subscribe to the YouTube channels of any of the participants that you enjoy! Take a visit to Jen Gallacher, Celine Navarro, Lilith Eeckels, Janna Werner, Marcy Penner, Wilna Furstenberg, and Laura Craigie. Laura’s post will bring you back to here!

Many thanks to Echo Park and Carta Bella paper for this opportunity, and may YouTube smile on me in the next few minutes!

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The trash can in my craft room is always the first one in the house to fill up. I try to do a good job of saving leftover scrap pieces of card stock and patterned paper for other uses, but lately I’ve noticed that most of the contents in my trash can is the packaging that comes from the crafting products I use. I’m here today to show you five ways to recycle leftover product packaging on your projects because helping to reduce waste is always a good thing.

Cards
I created a shaker style birthday card using the leftover plastic ‘window’ piece from some packaging that contained various embellishments. I carefully removed the plastic window, placed confetti inside, and adhered the piece to the front of my card. I placed a frame over the plastic window to hide the edges and added a die cut number to the front of the window finish it off.

Journaling and Filler Cards
Most companies coordinate their packaging with their collections so I love to utilize the paper that comes inside of the clear plastic bags that usually contain non-bulky items such as tags, acrylic stamps, die cuts, etc. The manufacturer’s information is almost always at the top or bottom, but can be easily cut off to create 3×4 and 4×6 sized journaling and filler cards which are perfect for PL style memory keeping. I cut these cards to size, stamped a few images onto each of them, and used some enamel dots for added embellishment.

Masks
After I pop out chipboard letters or pieces from their packaging, I love to use the ‘negative’ part as a mask. I cut out the portion of the image that I want to use, position it on my layout where I want it, and then spray ink or watercolors over it to create the image like I did in my ‘Home Work’ layout above. The misted chevron arrow mask helped direct attention to my title and gave my layout a trendy mixed media look.

Layers and Embellishments
I have quite the stash of empty vellum envelopes and bags that were once used to house sequins, wood veneer pieces, and kit contents. In my layout, ‘The Beam’, I used scissors to cut the side and bottom of a vellum bag apart. Then I scrunched it up a bit to give it some texture before layering it behind my photo. I used another vellum bag that I had cut apart and ran it through my sewing machine to make the ruffle embellishment behind my title. I really like the texture and whimsical effect the vellum gives my layout.

Mini Album
After I’ve used up a product that comes in those self-adhering plastic sleeves, I save them to use as pages for mini albums. I just slip my photos and embellished pages inside of the sleeves and run a piece of ribbon or twine through the existing holes in the packaging to bind all of the sleeves together. And since the sleeves have a sticky strip of adhesive on them, no machine sewing or stitching is required to hold the photos and pages inside.

I hope I’ve inspired you to recycle some of you leftover product packaging on your next project. Having less waste is obviously great for the environment and you might be surprised at what you can create with something you would’ve otherwise thrown in the trash.

Adrienne Alvis is a stay-at-home mother of three from Illinois and has been married to her husband for almost eight years. She started scrapbooking in 2006 after her second son was born and was hooked instantly! She designs for Freckled Fawn, Gossamer Blue, Scrapbook Circle, Chic Tags, and is the creative team coordinator at Come On Get Crafty. You can see more of her work on her blog and find her on Instagram @adriennealvis.

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I love discovering new techniques by messing around with different mediums. The one I am going to share today is a blend of x2 of my fave supplies at the moment & once we are done will be perfect for your next fall inspired page.
Let’s get started!

Select a bunch of stain colors that when blended make pleasing new colors. eg: yellow + red = orange.

Daube stains colors close together, directly onto your craft sheet.

Lay a piece of plain vellum on top of the stain puddles & press down rubbing gently to blend.

Daube surface of vellum with paper towel to absorb any remaining wet spots. Turn the inked vellum over & dry with a heat gun.

Mixing up your leaf shape dies, will create some great interest on your page.

Position the entire piece of your marbled paper over the die to make the most of every scrap of paper.

Run through the die cutter/ embossing machine.

Use the back of a paint brush to pop the shape out, remembering not to puncture the vellum.

Your beautiful fall leaves are ready to grace your next crafty project.

This is my completed page. I love how the subtle texturing of the leave clusters compliment the beautiful fall inspired patterned papers, craft bag and wooden sentiment.

BONUS IDEA:

Blended Chalk Inks To Create a Quick Ombre Effect

I had extra leaves left over, so thought a fall themed card might be cool to make

To create my cool ombre background, you’ll need to mask off a section of your stencil using sellotape to fit your base card. Starting with orange ink blend, adding the lighter yellow shades as you work down the stencil.

This is the completed card using my left over marbled leaves, clustered to make a focal point on the card.

Thanks for joining me today! I have enjoyed sharing these techniques with you, I hope you found them helpful. If you try them for yourself, link up a comment in comments section of this post & I’ll be sure to pop on over and leave you some crafty love!

Happy day friends!

Kim Watson is a papercrafter, graphic designer & writer from Cape Town, South Africa. She feels blessed to be able to do her hobby as a job, designing for Creating Keepsakes magazine Dream Team member, as well as designing for Fancy pants Designs for the last 4 years. You can find Kim on Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter or her blog and gallery. Check her out!

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Hi there! As a cardmaker in addition to being a scrapbooker, I end up with a lot of half-used 6×6 paper pads. I love the 6×6 pads for my cards, but I can only make so many cards with one pad before I am ready to use something different! Lately I have been trying to figure out how to use the 6×6 pads more in my scrapbooking so they don’t go to waste. No pretty paper should go unused! I have come up with a few ways to scrapbook with 6×6 pads and I am going to share them with you today.

Use Them as Photo Mats for your Instagram Photos
6×6 paper pads make perfect photo mats for your square Instagram photos. I used the entire 6×6 sheet to mat the photo on this layout. However if you want less mat, just crop the 6×6 sheet to 5×5 or even 4 ½ x 4 ½!

Punch Stuff out of Them!
No need to waste a whole 12×12 sheet of paper when you want to punch out a couple of things. Use the 6×6 sheets instead!

Layer Them to Create a Background for a Layout
Combine a couple or several different 6×6 sheets to make the background for your scrapbook page. One fun thing about 6×6 pads is that all the papers usually coordinate. That makes it easy to use a few different sheets together on a page! On this page I used 4 6×6 sheets: 2 sheets of the starry paper, 1 purple sheet, and 1 orange sheet.
tip: I used another 6×6 sheet of the purple paper to make the photo corners here. I just cut 3 of the corners off the 6×6 sheet and had 3 easy photo corners to add to the page. Just another way to not have to waste a 12×12 sheet!

Cut Them Up to Use on your Project Life Pages
Once again, no need to waste a whole 12×12 sheet of paper when you have a 6×6 pad! Use the 6×6 sheets as photo mats, journaling blocks, and fillers for the pockets in your Project Life pages.
??Confession:? I don’t really do Project Life. BUT I do like to throw a Project Life-style page into my albums every now and then. It really adds some fun contrast between the regular 12×12 pages.

Use them for Mini Albums!
6×6 sheets are great for mini-albums! Even if your mini album is not 6×6, these sheets are a great size to use. No need to be cutting up those 12×12 sheets! And with all the coordinating papers in a 6×6 pad, you may only need 1 pad to complete an entire mini album.
I have made a 6×6 2-ring mini-album to keep track of some races that I have run. It is very easy to use 6×6 sheets as the background for each of the pages in the album.

Thanks for stopping by today! Hopefully this gave you some fun ideas and inspired you to use those 6×6 paper pads in your scrapbooking!

Gretchen is a physical therapist by day and a scrapbooker by night! She started scrapbooking 10 years ago after she got married and had all those wedding pictures to scrap. She and her husband do not have children (yet); but between friends, pets, family members, hobbies, and travelling adventures she still has plenty to scrap! Gretchen was a Creating Keepsakes Dream Team member this year and she currently designs for KI Memories/Hampton Art and Noel Mignon kit club. You can keep up with her and see more of her work on her “blog”:www.gretchenmac.blogspot.com.

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I have shied away from Project Life for years, I tried in 2008 for about a week and that was it. I just wasn’t cut out for documenting my everyday, but the products kept getting prettier and prettier and I really had to have some of them. So, here are some ideas on how to use those gorgeous cards even if you don’t have a life!

Journaling on your Scrap Pages
The PL cards that are out there might be made for pocket scrapbooking, but they are wonderful to use to journal on your pages. In this layout, Happiness starts here, I used the Simple Stories cards as both a journaling spot and as my title. I even cut the cloud out of one of the 4 × 6 PL cards.

Papers on a Scrap Page
Why would I cut up a perfectly good piece of 12×12 paper when instead I can layer these adorable PL cards and create a quick and easy page that fits my Simple yet layered style? I am hooked! In my layout, Our Story, I layered multiple PL cards from Simple Stories, I fussy cut some stars from the cards, added in a few stickers and used a scrap of 12 × 12 paper to finish out my project.

Mini Album
Cute little cards, cute little boy, and together they create a cute little mini album that I can send to his Great Grandparents. In my Rocco mini I used the cards as my base for the album, added a few stickers, and stamps to create a complete album within a short period of time.

Cards
I love using the 4×6 PL cards to make cards because again, I don’t have to use up my 12 × 12 sheets of paper. (I am beginning to think I might be a hoarder!) I used a 4 × 6 PL card as my base, then I added a vellum envelope and a smaller PL card some chipboard and twine to finish up the card. Again a quick an easy card!

Traditional Project Life
I finally decided that I would break down and buy some of the PL sets, I figured I could use them in a variety of ways and just maybe I would begin to document our everyday life! I started documenting our lives when our little boy was born August 2013 and so far, I am enjoying it. I only use one page and I’m not very specific about the dates so that some weeks might really be 2 weeks in one. Here is my page for week 5 using the same Simple Stories products as in the previous examples.

To me I needed to know that purchasing the Project Life items would be cost efficient and not just a purchase sitting in my closet waiting for my next box of donations to go out. Needless to say, I am hooked! Thanks so much Shimelle for having me, it has been an honor! Stop on by my blog for even more examples of how I have used the Project Life cards, once I got going I couldn’t stop!

Wendy Antenucci is from FL and married to her wonderful hubby of almost 14 years. They have 6 kids, ranging from 11-2 months. she started scrapbooking shortly after her first child was born in 2002. Wendy is a AHM and homeschooler so tends to scrap during her kids rest time. Her style is simple, but loves to layer and look for the perfect way to embellish her pages that connect with the memory she is telling. Wendy designs for Pebbles, Bella Blvd, and is the DT coordinator for Memorable Seasons an online store. She has been published in Creating Keepsakes, Cards, Create, Scrapbook Trends, Scrap365, and various online publications.

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I promised to come back with more details about my new workshop after this quick post, and it’s about time! My sparkly friend Glitter Girl, scrapbooking superhero, has a brand new self-paced workshop at Two Peas in a Bucket, Glitter Girl’s Scrapbooking Survival Guide. You can access all the class materials at Two Peas once you sign up, which includes five chapters each with a PDF and two videos (yes, ten videos in total), which adds up to forty-two brand new layouts, all of which are only available in the workshop. Of course Glitter Girl’s weekly videos will continue and you can watch those any time for no charge! But the workshop format allows for a more in-depth response to five big questions of scrapbooking, from photos to papers and stickers to tools and onto developing confidence in your own personal style. (The sign-up page includes further details about the content, but if you have any questions beyond that, just ask.)

It’s also possible to earn one or even two free bonuses when you sign up:
1. Anyone who signs up by the end of today (2nd of October, US central time zone) will receive an additional extended Glitter Girl video at Two Peas, all about getting the most from your stash. (This will be available as a separate purchase later, but it is free to those early birds who sign up by the 2nd.) You don’t need to do anything to claim this – I’ll go over that on the class message board tomorrow so you’ll be able to find it on your account there.
2. If you sign up through the links in this post (or the earlier post quickly introducing the class), you can claim a second bonus video that is just from me. This is only available to those who purchase by clicking through my link, and you need to follow the specific instructions that follow below to claim it. If there is interest, I may do the same as the Two Peas bonus video and make it available as a separate purchase at a later date. Just to be clear, the Two Peas bonus video is Glitter Girl. The video from my blog is just mild-mannered scrapbooker Shimelle Laine. And indeed, you can earn both if you’re quick!

To earn and claim the shimelle.com bonus video
1. Click from shimelle.com to Two Peas to make your purchase (as in click here to sign up for Glitter Girl’s Scrapbooking Survival Guide). It’s fine if you click around on the Two Peas site, add other stuff to your bucket, take stuff out of your bucket, read the message boards while you’re there, etc! But you need to have clicked from here to get to there. You can be clicking today to make your purchase or you may have clicked from my post last week – both are fine! Moving on.
2. You should have an email receipt for your purchase from Two Peas in a Bucket. Take that email and forward it to shimelle@gmail.com, deleting the original subject line and replacing it with ‘Glitter Girl Workshop Bonus Video’. Literally copy and paste that subject line: it must be the same or it won’t work, as there are computers involved instead of just people. So you removed all the original subject line and replaced it with the copied and pasted version, right? Perfect. Don’t add anything else to the message. I don’t need your mailing address so if that is showing on your receipt you’re welcome to delete it. Okay, now just hit send.
2a. If you didn’t get an email receipt for your purchase, you can also go to your order history at Two Peas (use the dropdown menu by your name at the top right of the screen to get to your shopping history). Find the correct order and you can screen capture the order from there. The capture must include the order number, date of order, the workshop as a named item on your order, and the fact that the order is complete. If that takes multiple screengrabs, fair enough, but if you can get it all in one image it would be really helpful. Attach that to an email to the same address as in step two, but for your subject line, you need ‘Glitter Girl Workshop Bonus Video – Screen Capture’. Again, copy and paste that subject line so it’s just like that. Hit send.
3. You must complete all these steps by the end of the 8th of October 2013, UK time. On the 9th and 10th, an email will be sent for all qualifying purchases with your details for that bonus video! If it’s the 11th and you have not heard, you can email me at the same address above (with a different subject line – no need for something so specific at this point) and I will do what I can to help.

Please make sure you follow these specific instructions as I cannot guarantee you will receive the video if you use a different subject line, send your message after the deadline, or don’t forward the right information. Thank you!

I think that’s about enough of all that email talk, so how about a little look behind the scenes at making a workshop like this come to life?

When I start working on a layout-based workshop like this one, it’s an album and a giant stack of page protectors that is my first step. It’s the only time I work on layouts in an album that won’t be their eventual home. Instead they live in this one central place while I’m working on the class materials and at the end of the workshop they go their own separate ways into the appropriate annual or theme album. I start with about fifty page protectors, knowing I can have way more page protectors in the album than normal because each page protector just gets one layout rather than the usual two. Then I start with patterned papers and fill thirty-five to forty of the page protectors with combinations of patterned papers I like. I don’t tend to do full page kits at this point, just papers at first, then I start matching photos to the papers. It takes a little more time selecting pictures than any other scrapping day because with day to day layouts I just want to scrapbook whatever I’m inspired to document. With a workshop, I want to be sure to offer a variety so there are large photos, small photos, and in between photos, there are single photo pages and multiple photo pages, square photos and rectangle photos – it’s an attempt at a balance while also staying true to what I want to work on. I’ve found if I am too strict with my planning, I will lose interest in the process of making all the pages and then I end up with examples that don’t make me happy. The balance for me is to plot out around thirty-five pages but still have the freedom to make some of the pages spontaneously (for this workshop there are forty-two brand new pages and one new version of an existing layout).

Next step: post-it notes! Each layout for the workshop has a place on my master-plan outline, like demonstrating a particular technique. So I write all those things on post-it notes and as I set to work on each layout, I choose something from the post-it stack to make sure I cover. When the page is complete, it goes into the album with the post-it note on the page protector. Because I tend to make that master-plan outline with the chapters in mind, this pretty much puts everything in the right order. A few changes will happen to the order as it all comes together, but for the most part once the layout is in a certain place, it stays there in that same chapter. As the layouts stack up in the album, the workshop really starts to feel like a true body of work, and since video is such an important part of workshops now, it also really helps keep everything organised to show the layouts in the chapter videos.

As for those layouts not started at the very beginning with the thirty-five partial page kits, they get made up here and there from papers that just end up anywhere in my crafting space. What I would show you here if I were twenty times as brave is the state of my studio when I finish a workshop. I tip the place upside down when I’m working on something so intensive, one page immediately following the next and so on. I just set up a giant box next to my table and when I finish one layout, I dump everything in the box and start again. I have a pretty good memory for what I’ve put in the box, so if I want to use the same stamps or Thickers on another page, I know they will be there and not in their usual spot. The box means I don’t have to clean up until the very end… but it also makes me a bit tempted to stick the entire box on eBay because I’m usually pretty sick of looking at those supplies by the end of a workshop and I just want them cleared away! I think that box is my big job for tomorrow, but it is difficult to just put scrapping stuff away all day – as soon as I have three sheets of paper in my hands, I would rather make a layout!

As each layout is completed, it’s photographed, and I also keep a notebook where I messily handwrite my notes on each page that I don’t film for a video because otherwise I will forget what I was aiming for in that layout from chapter one once I’ve finished all the pages right through to chapter five. I keep those notes as I go, but I don’t formally write the chapters till the end, and usually somewhere between the two the important points shake out as most important and that helps me put it all together with some feeling of continuity, I hope!

Now… there is more coming up. A few weeks back I mentioned on the Paperclipping Roundtable that I had started the year with this nice lovely calendar with things projected on different dates but life and work and calendars laughed at me with all that and now I have a bunch of projects that have ended up smooshed together on the calendar rather than spread out with all that balance I crave. The good news is that three of the four projects (this workshop + three things that have not yet launched) are self-paced, and all four will continue to be available, so although they will launch in a tighter timeframe than I planned, you won’t need to cram them all in together nor eek them out of a single month’s crafting budget. I know some of you are waiting for the layering masterclass video, and that is one of the three yet to come, as is the project with the Glitz Designs Wild and Free collection pack. More on each of those things as they are ready for you to dive in!

For now, don’t forget to sign up for Glitter Girl’s Scrapbooking Survival Guide at Two Peas and claim your bonus from signing up via shimelle.com!

And so many thanks for your continued interest in my classes and workshops!

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Morning! I have a video coming up later today to explain all this with the supplies and so forth, but in an effort to not keep you waiting if you just want to get shopping… a little update on Best of Both Worlds!

As you may have figured out from the launch of the new workshop, Glitter Girl has totally stolen all my scrapbooking time for the last couple months and it’s put me dreadfully behind in using my last two Best of Both Worlds kits. I want to catch up on that, and I know many of you would prefer not to buy a new kit until all those projects and videos are shown here. But there are also some of you who scrap more on your own (also awesome) and are ready for a new kit! I’ve tried a little compromise!

Most of the September kit is available and can be purchased here.

For October, I’ve selected things from the autumn sale at Two Peas, and that can be found here.

The shipping discount code for October is 5ZZKRD. Right now, that code gets you a discount for spending just $35 in physical, non-close out goods, rather than the normal $50, but I’m not sure what the end date is on that offer. I’ve tested it today and it’s working on my cart. Keep in mind the October kit goods are all on close out, so they wouldn’t count toward your $35 total, but you could add items from the September kit or your favourites from brand new collections like Amy Tangerine Cut & Paste, Dear Lizzy Polka Dot Party, or all the new Echo Park to take you up to the $35 needed.

I’ll be back with more later today… once Glitter Girl is done with my time again. Sheesh she’s demanding!

At the end of every month, for almost 4 years now, I blog a summary of the last 30+ days using numbers as a way to tie all my experiences and moments together. And the life-documenting philosophy behind my Month in Numbers posts goes hand in hand with scrapbooking. But to anyone recoiling in fear at the thought of mixing creativity with numbers, then you’re not alone. People often tell me they’d like to try this method but that they’re ‘not a number person’, which is when I let them in on the big My Month in Numbers secret: it’s not really about numbers! Who knew?!
The numbers are there purely as a handy hook on to which you hang all the stories and details of the previous 4 weeks. Think of it like unlocking a chain from around a bike wheel: the numbers you enter into the combination lock don’t make the ride itself any more beautiful or invigorating… but they’re pretty useful for getting the wheels turning on your journey!

Let me dissect a recent Month in Numbers layout of mine to show you what I mean.

Look back through all the photos you’ve taken over the month, select the ones with stories you really want to document, then pull out a number that really help you illustrate the story.
I managed to capture a shot of the International Space Station (it’s the tiny white speck amidst the black) as it passed over my back garden and it was definitely a moment to record. A quick look online gave me the altitude which made the perfect numerical detail.

Where possible take photos of signs, boards, screens, etc, which display the numbers involved in the story of your month. They make great memory aids at the end of the month when it comes to summarizing everything.

Record the fabulous ‘out of the ordinary’ events, even if there are no obvious numbers related to them!
There was no way I wasn’t going to record how my favorite author sent me a signed book and with a little thought I realized that as I now had ’2 copies’ of the novel I had a perfect number to begin the tale!

But don’t forget to count up some of those more ‘ordinary’ routine things too, things that might not make it into full layouts of their own.
These routines, like my morning walks around my neighborhood, make up a big part of our everyday lives and are worth remembering too. If, even a few months down the line, our so-called ‘routines’ change then these numbers will tell a bigger story than we thought at the time.

Keep track of a specific topic each month. Then at the end of the year you can calculate and reflect upon the total number. I made a concerted effort to start visiting my local libraries more often and so my monthly numbers this year always include how many books I’ve read.
You could use this to track numbers relating to all kinds of things for instance: a child’s height; cinema visits; sports team scores; the number of layouts made and so on, the list is endless!

Find a home for all those random-yet-noteworthy moments of your month by pinning a number to them. Using simple things like the time or the date is an easy way to record those odd moments, which, while not a huge part of your month, do help give a fuller picture.
And if you get completely stuck for ideas you can always try one of the prompts available in my Printable Month in Numbers Cards, or just jump in with whatever numerical idea strikes your fancy.

Join in the Communal Count on my blog where I issue a pair of number-themed prompts on the first day of the month. All you have to do is share your responses at the end of that month. This is a really fun way to compare and contrast your vital-statistics with those of bloggers from around the world!

I do hope you’ll give memory-keeping-by-numbers a try as it fits in so harmoniously with the ethos of scrapbooking. Additionally it opens up so many opportunities to jot down quick lines of journaling and lists making it ideal for incorporating into split-pocket memory keeping such as Project Life. For lots more tips and ideas on where to look for numbers and how to keep them organised each month then visit the Month in Numbers page of my blog. And while you’re there, if you’d like to begin your number-crunching in good company, then you’ll also find details on how you can join in the wider Month in Numbers community of bloggers too.

Julie Kirk is a blogger, papercraft magazine contributor and Etsy shop owner from North East England. She hosts My Month in Numbers on the last day of each month at notes on paper where the rest of the month she blogs tutorials and ideas on topics ranging from using vintage supplies to art journaling and blogging while also seeking ways to find, and share, the humour and delight in everyday life. You can find her on Facebook, Twitter and Etsy

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