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

This weekend, one commenter will win a Pretty print called ‘they lived in a paper village’ from Caroline Rose Art.

Caroline loves to work with paper and make bright, colourful collages for children and adults.
“It is always really wonderful to hear that my art makes people happy.
I also love to play with fabric and have designed a fabric owl and a fabric giraffe. It is nice to have a break from cutting and glueing and to sew for a bit, but my real love is my art”

Want to see more of Caroline’s beautiful work? Find her on her facebook and also Flickr

To enter just leave a comment telling us, if you could create an imaginary village, what it would look like.

Entries close at midnight Sunday UK time and the winner will be posted Monday evening, so be sure to check back to see if it’s your lucky day!

Good luck!

xlovesx

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Have I finished my Christmas cards? No.

Do I have more finished than this time last year? Yes.

I’m calling that success, so far.

So here’s a little share of some cards I’ve been making. You’ll find a tutorial for the card set above here on the Jenni Bowlin Inspiration blog, and there are cards from the whole team throughout the month.

And these you’ll find on the American Crafts blog as part of their Christmas card week. These use the Hollyday collection, plus a little Christmas-themed washi tape.

So that’s at least five cards done. Perhaps I should number the list to see how many I really need?

Have you been making and sharing cards on your blog? Share a link so we can all see!

xlovesx

PS: if handmade cards are just so not your thing at this time of year but you still want to sort some pretty greetings, these letterpressed cards (including Christmas designs) are already 30% off.

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Congratulations to Angela, who wins a fab superhero-inspired necklace from Kitschensink.

Angela, please email me (shimelle at gmail dot com) with your address. And also accept complete cool points from me, as I literally did a moment of ‘A roller derby girl reads my blog??!!!’ and this gives you total powergirl street cred from me. I hope this gives your game a little more pow or kapow!

There’s a new giveaway every Friday night, so check back next week for another chance to win just by leaving a comment.

Have a great week!

xlovesx

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This weekend, one commenter will win either a POW or KAPOW necklace from the amazingly funky Kitschen Sink Jewellery store.

KitschenSink jewellery and accessories is the result of Rowan Grant spending quality crafting time with her Grandma, a fascination of colourful branded toys and a desire to re-purpose mass-produced materials into handmade, wearable fashion treats. Very often, the jewellery features iconic comic images which have been repurposed into jewellery for you to make a statement. The designs, which are reminiscent of Lichtenstein, are perfect for pop-art princesses, Lichtenstein lovers and graphic novel geeks alike.

Kitschen Sink has a fabulous blog where you can keep up to date with the latest news and creations.

To enter, just leave a comment on this post telling us who your favourite super hero is, or what your super hero name would be!

Entries close at midnight Sunday UK time and the winner will be posted Monday evening, so be sure to check back to see if it’s your lucky day!

Good luck!

xlovesx

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So excited to be back to the Journal your Christmas time of year. So much more I want to share, but first I need to catch my breath just a bit. If you’re dithering about joining in this year, go ahead. We would love to have you along for the ride, and I know you’ll treasure the Christmas stories you document through this project.

Christmas, you are pretty darn fabulous, you know.

xlovesx

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This week, how about a special Christmas edition of the sketch of the week? I revisited my 2010 Christmas journal to find a page to inspire the sketch, then scrapped a different kind of Christmas page with these two photos of what we did on actual Christmas day last year. Don’t worry – we had a more traditional Christmas with family and friends before we left home, though I could get used to fresh watermelon smoothies and waterfall hikes at Christmas every year, I think. Or it might just be the cold talking: I finally caved this week and started wearing my gloves. It’s only downhill from here in shivering on train platforms and so forth! (But I do have a rule for cold weather: if it’s going to be cold, bring on the snow!)

By the way, the video this week includes that revisit to my 2010 journal, so if you wanted to see what a sample Christmas journal looks like in my world, this is the video for you.

This sketch started very simple and in the end my embellishments became far more prevalent, but I wanted to include the simple sketch here so you can work with either option. Keep it more minimal like the sketch, or add more embellishment in the top left corner and surrounding the circle accent. Whatever suits your crafty this week!

Here’s a look through my 2010 Christmas journal, plus a quick look at how the ‘different Christmas’ layout came to be. It’s never too late to join Journal your Christmas but prompts start on the first so go ahead and join in so you can start with everyone! You don’t need to have anything prepared, I promise. It’s okay to jump in at any time.

As always, the weekly sketch is no-stress and just for fun! If you use it, I’d love to see, so please leave a link if you post your page online. I have to admit I am short on time and need to do a few round-ups of layouts from the past few sketches, so I’ll get on that for next time with a sort of omnibus sketch post!

Now… are you up for some sketchy scrapping this week? I’m quite excited to see this sketch adapted to different styles. Give it a go and share it with us!

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It’s the thirtieth of the month, so that means it’s time for a brand new edition of 4×6 Photo Love! Since it’s the eleventh month of the year, we’re scrapbooking eleven 4×6 prints on one scrapbook layout – which is quite possibly an eye-crossing endeavour, but it is possible! Grab some photos and join in the fun and games.

I shall swear up and down that this month’s design isn’t cheating – it still counts as one layout to me! It starts with a double page spread including seven 4×6 prints (I used three portraits and four landscapes) then an extra 6×12 page in the middle holds four more landscape images and two journaling cards.

With so many photos on the page, you’ll find that it comes together rather quickly and without a huge stack of supplies, since more of the page than usual is filled with photographs. This month’s pages are definitely easier to see on video than in still pictures, so watch this month’s pages come together when you have a minute!

Stop by Two Peas to download a PDF with notes on this project and visit the Education message board for all the Two Peas classes.

This month I’m joined by special guest (and scrapping friend!) Leanne Edwards with her take on this design principle. She printed a big stack of photos from her wedding reception at 4×6 and they are all landscape, so she adapted the design to work perfectly with the pictures she wanted to scrap. I love the bright colours and the party feel from all those polka dots!

You can find Leanne’s project here at Two Peas to add to your bookmarks.

Now it’s your turn…
Every month, there are two ways to win a prize for participating in 4×6 Photo Love! The first is at Two Peas: create your page and upload it to the gallery. Be sure to tick the box for this challenge in step four of the upload process. One participant will win a gift certificate to Two Peas to go shopping for whatever you like. But there’s a second chance to win right here: on this post, leave a comment with a link to your page (in the gallery at Two Peas or on your blog, whatever you prefer) and one of those links will win Two Peas shopping money too! The deadline for both is the 29th of December.

Congratulations to Karen for winning the draw for last month’s ten photo class! (Karen, I need your email address. Can you contact me at shimelle at gmail dot com please?) Will you be next? Just choose eleven 4×6 photos to scrap and follow along with this month’s class prompt.

What if I don’t have those page protectors?
Using these page protectors is not a requirement of entering the challenge. You can create one yourself or adapt the idea as it suits you. Plus, don’t hit me but… these page protectors are out of stock at Two Peas after the big Thanksgiving weekend sale, darn it. But go here and you’ll find them as the first thing in the supply list. Click the ‘Request and Notify Me’ button, and then when they are back in stock, you’ll get an email so you can grab them before someone else. (Seriously, I use that button all the time for my standby items that I order again and again. Very useful!)

xlovesx

PS: Feel free to grab the button there on the left for your blog or to share this class with a friend – since it’s free, the more the merrier! And you’re welcome to use any supplies and any photos, so there’s no boundaries to your scrapping with this year-long project.

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Journal your Christmas starts tomorrow! It’s not too late to join, and more importantly, if you have left it to the last minute to choose an album, I might be able to help. Choose an album and/or page protectors and these will ship straight away, and there’s no extra postage charge – the postage is included in the price. I don’t have many of each album, so bag a bargain while you can!

ETA all albums are now sold and making their way to their new homes! There are extra 8×8 page protectors still available should you need any, so I’ll leave this post up while those are still in stock, in case you decide you need more space for more pages!

6×8 Box Album. Lush, sturdy album perfect for JYC. Comes with six page protectors (three full pages, three divided) and Paperchase sells additional page protectors (both plain and divided) that fit this binder!

Available in Navy Blue Canvas (sorry, all colours now sold out).
£15, including standard shipping to UK addresses.

8×8 Modern Album. Popular American Crafts ring binder with fabric spine and plain cover ready for a design of your choice. I have used this album twice for Journal your Christmas – once in 8×8 and once in 12×12 – and both albums are still sturdy and pretty! Comes with ten 8×8 page protectors inside. Additional page protectors available – keep reading for those.

£12, including standard shipping to UK addresses.

Chestnut Brown spine.
Cardinal Red spine. Sorry, both colours now sold out.

8×8 Fabric Album. Same engineering of the ring binder by American Crafts, but with an all-over fabric cover and a window for a photo or embellishment on the front. I’m using this album this year, in leaf green, and I use the 12×12 albums in this style for all my standard scrapbooking. Comes with ten 8×8 page protectors inside. Additional page protectors available – keep reading for those.

£14, including standard shipping to UK addresses.

Leaf Green fabric cover. Sorry, green albums now sold out.
Cardinal Red fabric cover. Sorry, now sold out.

8×8 Page Protectors. Additional 8×8 page protectors for American Crafts, in a pack of ten. £4 including standard shipping to UK addresses.

That’s everything, and it’s all in very limited quantities and first-come, first-served. So add whatever you would like, then click the View Cart button to check out your order. (Don’t forget to provide a valid UK address for shipping!)

Many thanks and happy scrapping! I’ll be back later today with a special Christmas edition of Sketch to Scrapbook Page, and it’s 4×6 Photo Love day too! Busy, busy.

xlovesx

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