My Life. The Blogable Bits.

I admit, you only ever see me when I have a new layout to share. Maybe if I was funny or quirky and made more interesting reading than I would post more. Sadly, I don’t think I am all that interesting. So. Yes. Another layout. It was a quick layout because I thought it wasn’t due until next week. That’ll teach me to leave things to the last minute! It still took about 2 1/2 hours with a vision in my head. I fail to see how people can scrap a layout in a hour. The whole experience was way too intense for my liking!

I based the layout on this inspiration piece for the Cybercrop being held at Ideal Papercraft at the moment.

You know, I have been on a bit of a technology low. I didn’t want to use the computer or phone or camera. I just felt like getting away from technology for a while. I go through periods like that. But I am back now and I have a layout to share. It has taken me about a month to do this layout. I made the base of the layout quite quickly but it took me a week to think of my journalling and then it has taken me another week to be bothered to print it out and stick it down.

But here it is anyway.

I have another layout here that is finished except for the journalling. Maybe I will get onto that tonight since I am not going to work. Love me an RDO!

Ok, so the layout didn’t turn out as bad as I had thought it would. I have been loving the inspiration coming from this blog – Gallery Standouts. I already love scrapping vertical and symmetrical so a lot of these layouts just feel ‘right’ to me. You know? I tried to be arty and free with this layout like some of the inspiration, but, yeah, it didn’t work and I tried to cover most of it! LOL! Oh and how good do I feel that I was able to use up some of that Junkitz paper? I bought it when it first came out and I’d be darned if I could make it work with anything! It just goes to show, if you keep (aka hoard) something long enough you will be able to use it eventually!

I am in the middle of a scrapFAIL layout.

I can’t start a new layout without finishing the first layout.

It’s just a thing I do.

So I have nothing to share.

Until I finish my ugly layout.

Except I spent a wonderful scrappy day with some new friends.

Sarah. Daphne. And Cindy.

I had the best time and I can’t wait till we do it all again.

You can’t rush these things… yes, it only took me tree days, but I scrapped! This layout was for the sketch challenge on the Scrapbooking Memories site. I don’t do challenges often, but I had a bit of an idea for this one and just had to scrap it. Just before I go, I would like to thank everyone who stopped by my blog and especially to those who took time out of their day to comment on my last post. A heartfelt thankyou.

Yes, my SM Master’s 2009 projects to share. I am not sure if it was my achievement or my shaped layout that received a HM so I won’t share either of them until I find out.

ETA: Thanks Michelle for letting me know it was my achievement layout. Wow, a bit surprised as I thought the journalling wouldn’t read well when shrunk to fit in the magazine. Interesting.

So then, here is my shaped layout. It took me ages and I agonised over this layout the most.

I beaded the flowers down the bottom, it was the first time I had done anything like that and I quite like the way it turned out too.

Here is the double. I find this layout tremendously boring but I wanted to create a balanced layout using big photos, I think they are about 5.5″x3.5″. Just click on it to see the full layout.

My mystery poject which is an altered book I did for Steve. I will tell you now, individually gluing together 246 pages of a book is not fun. Also cutting out about 200 of these pages to create the recesses was equally not fun. A not fun project, but I love it to bits because it is Steve all over.

I have some more 365 photos to share, but the post is already image heavy enough as it is. I can’t believe I am still keeping up with it also, it’s as if I am enjoying looking for stuff to photograph. Who’d have thought?!