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

_{©twopeasinabucket.com Supplies: page base and mesh by Chelsea Parsons, feather from Kitschy Digitals, ledger paper by Meredith Fenwick, sequins by The Queen of Quirk and font by Jennifer McGuire.}

Loving the transition into autumn right now. Wearing cardigans and coloured tights and crocheted hats. Drinking spiced coffee. Looking forward to the autumn photo outing this Sunday.

Also loving the new autumn scrapbook pages in the garden. So hard to pick favourites, but I am head over heels for…
...this page that proves Tia’s mind just works in ways I will never know. The title + pencil border? Fabulous.
...this page by Rebecca that is just so rich and lush and layered and lovely.
...this project by Jen McGuire, which may be the very definition of too cute.
...this page by Lianda that is so beyond beautiful. I wish I scrapped like that!
...this page by Jen Gallacher, which is both hybrid and perfection. Love it!
...and actually several more but I reckon you won’t click more than five so I’ll stop here!

Have you posted autumn pages or photos anywhere? Link us up so we can all check them out!

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Sometimes magazines are so frustrating in terms of keeping quiet about exciting things! Subscriber copies of the new issue are already in the post, so we can finally let the cat out the bag!

A very warm welcome to our new extended team at Scrapbook Inspirations.

From the top left, that’s…
Andrea Gourley
Anita Mundt
Anne Parry
Charlotte Poole
Cheryl Johnson
Chloe Harp
Helen Miles
Jane Dean
Jen Naulls
Jo-Anne Cavanagh
Julie Kirk
Karen Cole
Kathy Bridgwater
Laura Buckingham
MaryAnne Walters
Morag Cutts
Sam Ball
and me!

_{Cake paper by Jill McDonald.}

These ladies have been a blast to work with so far and I can’t wait to see their debut in the new issue. You can get a sneak peek of issue 58 here – and subscriber copies are already on their way so these faces may be in your post today.

If you’re not a subscriber, the new issue will be on the newsstand this Friday, the 18th of September, throughout the UK. And of course you can always subscribe.

xlovesx

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Fancy a little sketch challenge this week? I posted this sketch challenge on the Garden Girl blog this weekend and I’d love for you to play along! Digital and paper scrappers both welcome.

Happy Sunday! Back tomorrow morning with some excitement!

xlovesx

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I am Moon Ko and I love this photo because this is funny. It makes me laugh. Their expressions are so opposite; Charlie’s agony and the girls’ glee. And I know that Charlie will get them back in due time. In a couple more years, I’ll probably have the opposite photo. And I can’t wait!

Moon Ko lives in Kentucky with her very patient husband and three active kids. She has been scrapbooking for five years and is currently on the design teams for American Crafts and Two Peas in a Bucket. She describes her scrapping style as clean and simple. When not watching children or scrapping, you can usually find Moon on the Internet or on a photo shoot. Visit Moon’s blog here, or check out her 365 Photo Blog.

I love this photo… was a special week-long series of posts during A Month of Colour, but so many of you said such nice things about it that I’ve decided to make it a weekly post. From now on, we’ll have a special guest share their favourite photo every Friday. I hope you enjoy!

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This not-so-mini minibook is up over at the Frog Blog if you fancy something a little different but easy on the supplies and technique! It’s a book I leave out on a counter in our flat.

In other news, autumn change are making Greenwich Park absolutely beautiful—does anyone localish want to meet up there and shoot a gazillion pictures for a while? The more girls with cameras, the better? Email me if you fancy it and let me know what day/time over the next week or so looks good to you, and I’ll get some details sent out to anybody that’s interested. Just show up and take pictures. And possible eat cupcakes, throw leaves in the air or go shopping in the market, but all those things are optional of course.

Have a lovely Friday—there’s an ‘I love this photo’ post coming up later today.

xlovesx

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_{Album by Emma.}

I think I had forgotten just how lovely and inspiring it is to see the lessons everyone has learned in September. Absolutely loving this class and wanted to share just a few favourites that the participants have blogged. The combination of woodgrain, floral silhouettes and dotted fabric on Emma’s book is just making me swoon.

Alissa’s albums are always so gorgeous! This is her start and I am excited to see her pages to follow.

There are few things that make me smile as much as a rainbow of pages just waiting for writing, so Jen’s zipper book makes me giddy.

But I love that you can work through this idea for a whole month without scrapping at all really—there’s so much to be absorbed in posts like this one from Donna.

Just a little share for now as there are lots more I want to link to before the month is out!

xlovesx

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I am Jen Naulls and I love this photo because I can’t remember what was so funny, but it still makes me smile. I love how it is totally un-posed; a spontaneous eruption of laughter captured forever on camera. I love how we are both completely lost in the moment. This photo reminds me to laugh hard, and to laugh often.

Jen Naulls lives in Suffolk, England, with her husband, one cat and two adorable kittens. She spends most of her time being very busy as a Junior Doctor, but manages to find time to scrap whenever possible. She designs for Sarah’s Cards and has been published in Scrapbook Inspirations Magazine. Visit Jen’s blog here. Photo of Jen by Anna Bowkis.

I love this photo… was a special week-long series of posts during A Month of Colour, but so many of you said such nice things about it that I’ve decided to make it a weekly post. From now on, we’ll have a special guest share their favourite photo every Friday. I hope you enjoy!

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_{©twopeasinabucket. Supplies: Scrap Canvas 13 and Bare Branches kit by The Queen of Quirk, Spool of Stitches by Tia Bennett and my Trip to Nature papers.}

_{©twopeasinabucket. Supplies: Scrap Canvas 2, Caldera and Limoncello by The Queen of Quirk, Organic Sunset Papers by Jen Allyson and Round n Round brush set by Rhonna Farrer – one of my all-time favourite digital elements to use.}

Am trying to be a superproductive wondergirl today. Needing to catch up and get things done and not feel so far behind.

So quick on the blogging today—two recent digi pages for the garden. Hope you like! They both use templates from The Queen of Quirk to make things superfast, if you need to scrap on a superproductive wondergirl day.

xlovesx

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