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

Yay for Scrap your Day pages from the last month or so! Click on the picture for credits and links to full-size pictures of each layout.

Did you realise this is the sixth month we’ve been celebrating Scrap Your Day day? We’re halfway through the year! And since it’s the twenty-fifth, you can download the September Album Prompt now!

As an extra celebration, I’ve got a prize package to send to one lucky SYD scrapper this month! To enter, make your SYD pages for September and upload them somewhere online – our Flickr group, your blog, an online gallery…wherever you fancy. Then comment on this post and include the link to your pages. The winner will be randomly chosen from all those who have commented with a link by the 8th of October. Because that’s my birthday, and we might as well have a little SYD birthday celebration! This is a drawing, not a page contest, so it’s just a little extra reason to work on your SYD pages this month!

For more Scrap your Day information, check out:
About this project
Sign up for reminders
Getting Ready
Photo Fact Sheet #01
April Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #02
May Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #03
June Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #04
July Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #05
August Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #06
September Album Prompt
Our Flickr group
UKScrappers discussion thread
Small image for signature files
Blinking image for blog side bars

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It’s the twenty-fifth tomorrow, so it’s time to scrap the day! Grab your camera so you can start tomorrow morning!

You can download this month’s photo fact sheet here!

For more Scrap your Day information, check out:
About this project
Sign up for reminders
Getting Ready
Photo Fact Sheet #01
April Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #02
May Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #03
June Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #04
July Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #05
August Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #06
September Album Prompt
Our Flickr group
UKScrappers discussion thread
Small image for signature files
Blinking image for blog side bars

xlovesx

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Shop update today at noon!

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These two girls will never really know just how grateful I am. At the time it seemed silly: two fifteen year old students laughing at their teacher’s sudden shyness around a certain employee in a record store. They said I was flirting. I said I wasn’t. They said I should give him my number. I said I wouldn’t.

So they did.

And that was that.

Quite how these two became so wrapped up in my social well being, I’m not too sure. Cassie was actually never in my class, but she was on the cheerleading squad I coached. She was the energy and the organisation that kept everything going. I really do believe she secretly cornered girls who thought about skipping practice and made sure that one way or another, they showed up. Beks was certainly in my class. She was one of those students that made me come home and study because I needed to have more than just what was in the lesson plan. If you ever want to talk film critique with a fresh perspective, oh my goodness this is your girl. (She is also the girl that comes to school with a stack of DVDs, sits them on your desk and says I cannot believe you haven’t seen these. And now in retrospect, I can’t believe I hadn’t either.)

Somewhere between cheerleading practice and this summer, they grew up. They now laugh at the silly adventures we have had, from last-minute study sessions in Starbucks to meeting Busted) (and more importantly, Busted’s grandmothers!). But they have serious lives with universities and bills to pay and yet they are still the loveliest of friends. With that perfect little balance of not being so alike that they always see eye to eye, but being alike enough to care and understand and goodness, they are just lovely.

So now I feel pretty darn lucky to still know them and even luckier that they were my bridesmaids. They are now going to separate universities — one east of our house and one west of our house. It has not gone unnoticed that this means our house should be a central meeting point! (They have also checked out and endorsed our local pub so I think this may help the cause.) Because aside from gushy scrapbook pages (and blog posts), I like to tell these girls that they are fabulous to their faces. Because they are. And it never hurts to be reminded. They have certainly done the same for me over the years. It’s what we do.

Oh: I should explain. This starts a random series of wedding posts with photos, scrapbook pages and the words on those pages. To be continued as time & scrappish inspiration allows! Pretty wedding photos by Ben Roberts Photography.

xlovesx

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Click here to download this bonus PDF.

(Should you wish to take the full course in your own time, you can do that at any point on the calendar! You can find all the details here.)

I look forward to seeing some of your still-life images on the forum.

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With a bit of luck, we will get a DVD in the post tomorrow filled with our official photos. They are not very much in the formal of official. We love this.

Tomorrow is also the day when the first eight rolls of thirty-six pictures will be ready at the developers.

To go with the 75 polaroids we have in a jar on our coffee table.

And we have eight more rolls of film that we need to finish because they still had a few more frames left.

Modern technology? What’s that?!

But if you’re all about the modern technology rather than the polaroid, you might want to check out the People Imagery workshop from Cheryl at Feel Good Photos. Class starts today so go quickly!

Also: thank you so much for the well wishes. We haven’t stopped smiling yet!

xlovesx

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Indeed! Saturday came and went and eeep, there is so much to tell. And although there were ten million cameras present, I only have a couple pictures at this point. So there will be many notes and many photos and many crafty wonders to share.

As soon as I have pictures to put with them!
(Thank you Bev for this one!)

Until then: eeeeeeeeee!

xlovesx

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August’s album prompt is now available here for your scrapbooking happiness!

When you finish your August pages, comment here to let me know so your pages can be included in our round up next month!

(Also: Learn Something New starts on the first of September—that’s Monday! Sign up here if you want to play along and make a book as we go back to school in an entirely different way than PE class and second-hand textbooks. 30 prompts plus extras for just £8. I’d love to see you in class!)

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ETA: Reposting as this clearly wasn’t working! Which means no pretty pictures for today…I suppose we’ll live, though I do prefer pretty pictures!

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