I have been asked many times from where do I get the inspiration for my scrapbooking. My reply is “from Everywhere”, but I do gain a lot of crafting inspiration from other peoples work and I find most of that by browsing the internet!
The next question is usually something like “how do you remember the inspiration in order to use it in your crafting?” My answer… “simple, I save a copy of the scrapbook page or card on my PC and then I can refer to it whenever I like. ”
If I want to make a page, I refer to my collection of examples and choose which ones suit my current project best. I then print out a sheet full of various pictures and I can now look at that when I craft (or even take to a crop).
The next question is then…. “How do you do that then?”
So I have made a video to show you How to View, Save and Print scrapbook pages, cards and other projects to refer to for inspiration when you make your layouts. I hope it helps..!
Well, it’s official… ScrapBuddies, my Scrapbooking group, at which I give demos and workshops and generally help members with their own Scrapbooking projects, is moving home!
The venue for the last three years has been at the Village Hall at Ditchingham, but as of April this year it is moving into my Tearooms on Tuesday evenings.
So Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday Evening of every month, the ScrapBuddies Scrapbooking group (which is also about cardmaking and other paper crafting, by the way) will be held at The Tally Ho Tearooms in Mettingham (which is near Bungay in Suffolk, UK) on the B1062 - Here is a map. Times are 7.15 till 10pm (although y0u can arrive later and/or go earlier) and the cost is £3 per person.
The first to be held at the Tearooms will be on Tuesday 27th April.
So in Summary:
2nd & 4th Tuesday of every month
7.15-10pm
£3 per person (bring your own materials)
Free First Session if you bring your own materials.
There is plenty of parking and ramps for rolling totes.
I hope to continue with demos/workshops once a month (probably on the 4th Tuesday each month)
I am hoping to be able to help everyone create page kits and card kits for themselves so that members can get lots done each time they come along.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been playing with the papers and stamps from the Nook & Pantry collection by Basic Grey.
In the stamp set for the cupcakes, you build the cupcake with separate stamps. For instance the image on this card is made up from a cupcake case, then I added [...]
I realise I took the picture of this in it cellophane wrapper, but I thought I’d share one of the first cards I have made with the Nook and Pantry Basic Grey) set of stamps my mumbought me for Christmas.
No, I haven’t taken this long to get them out, I only received the gift mid [...]
I always say that finally getting to that stage where a new carpet can be laid after months of looking at a building site, is when you’ve turned the corner.
We are now on the home straight. We had the whole Tearooms carpetted yesterday and today… hoorah!
I do realise that unlike putting the carpet into a [...]
I took two different classes at Honey’s school… the Juniors… the subject of the earlier post and the seniors, here are their finished Paper Bag Albums.
I gave the children a general idea of the content of the paper bag album (instead of an envelope album for the juniors) but focused on showing them different techniques each [...]
Here is a quick(ish) scrapbook page I made recently. You can see I have no photographs on this page. Instead I have used the piece of paper which my daughter had written on as my focal point.
As there was no colour dictated by this focal point I worked the colour around the diecut butterflies, a [...]
I reaslise that it’s a week later, but here is the photograph of the Valentines card I made for my husband.
As my other half likes chocolate so much (but is currently trying to abstain) I tend to go for a chocolate theme for valentines day and hence the colours here.
Quick, freehand and it probably shows, but [...]
How do you get your friends to gladly GIVE you Scrapbooking Supplies? (and they can also be used for cardmaking.) What Scrapbooking items am I talking about?
Well you have probably guessed from the photograph… yes… ribbons. Those annoying ribbons you (and your friends) find in the inside shoulders of blouses, jumpers, t-shirts and even on [...]
During the Autumn School Term at Honey’s school I held a few 6 week scrapbooking classes/courses for the Juniors (and the seniors, but that’s in another post)… We made Envelope Scrapbook Albums and here are the pictures. The children were aged between 4 and 7 and I think they did rather well. For most of [...]
