Want To Win This?

This is a cute little purse that I demonstrated at a workshop last weekend, and I want to give you the opportunity to get the supplies to make one of your own!

So how do you get yourself one of these? I need a little help from YOU. This blog is quite new, and I would like to know what you think of it and what you would like to see in the future. Would you like to see more tutorials, more stamping, more scrapbooking, more tips and helpful hints, storage ideas, video posts, reviews, competitions? I want to know! Leave your comments on this post to be in the running the pack. Posts will be accepted until Friday March 6, 2009. Please check back during that weekend for the announcement of the winner.

~The pack will include all the instructions and paper supplies to make the purse. I demonstrated it with the ‘Afternoon Tea’ range, so the pack you will receive will have the same colour scheme but may be different patterns from one displayed~

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Another Scrapbook Page

So here is another layout for Isabelle’s album. I have had this one sitting in my ‘box of unfinished layouts’ for several months now. It just wasn’t working for me. The original title was ‘Vegemite Kid’, and the layout was on a very pale/dusty yellow with circles of different sizes and colours on the bottom. I loved the paper, but found myself not liking what it did to the photos. I was in one of my local scrap stores and came across a laser cut chipboard title ‘My Little Aussie’ and knew that this would fit the layout perfectly. I brought it home (paid for it for course lol), and I was happy, but the paper was just …ugh. I just happened to have a scrap of paper on my desk that had fallen out of my scrap pile which suited my layout. Then suddenly the light bulb moment happened! All I needed to do was change the paper. Once I did this the layout was done in a matter of minutes (well almost). The lines were already a part of the design of the paper, so it just seemed like a logical place to put the journaling. I added Kindy Glitz to colour the title (Gold and Aztec Gold)

Now, I wouldn’t say this layout is one of my favourites, but it’s not my least favourite. I came to the conclusion, and it wasn’t that long ago, that not all of my layouts had to be beautiful works of art. It was just taking too long. If my layout tells a story or portrays the feeling I want to share, then I am successful. If it happens to be a work of art, even better. For all those that are out there struggling with scrapbooking or find it daunting, this is my advice…..Make it simple. You don’t need a ton of embellishments, and fancy do daa’s to make a scrapbook page. You will find that the more layouts and project you do, the easier it will become, because you will find a style that suits you. Your layouts don’t need to be perfect, this is one thing I struggled with. When I let go, I found I was more creative and more happy with the results. Hope you enjoy!

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