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

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.

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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!

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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.

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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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Over this past weekend we hit that almighty date on the calendar which means we can never appear on the Newlywed Game were such a thing to come back to the world. We bought up all the Polaroid film we could find for our wedding last year and saved a few boxes back so we can take a Polaroid every year on the same day. Which I think is pretty cool.

The Boy, on the other hand, says something like ‘Look! It’s a flipbook in which you can watch us get old!’

Well hmmm. Something like that. Anyway, the weather was not as nice on the 30th of August this year as last but it was a lovely, lovely weekend to go away, be tourists and eat too much. We think we shall stick with this married thing because it’s quite lovely really.

But what you’re really interested in is our prize winner from yesterday, right? So you can go sweet talk her into picking you as a friend!

The winner is…
Terri Says:
31 August 2009, 20:20
Would love to take this class.
Pick Me

So if you know Terri, you may want to send her flowers today – just because!
Terri, I’ll email you with all the details you need.

Thank you for all those who entered! You can still join us if you would like – the class details are here.

For those who have already joined us, you should have the first prompts by now! At the beginning of the course we always have a few hoops to jump through as different email providers decide all those attachments being sent must surely be dodgy spam attacks, so there is the possibility that your email has been blocked. We have been working on those hoops and today’s percentages were better but still not perfect. You can download anything you have missed from the private class forum – and just email me if you have any trouble or need a hand.

Have a lovely day!

xlovesx

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