So You Think You Can Scrap...

So what does the staff from a scrapbook store do to celebrate the end of the year and spend quality time together for the festive season...?
Have a scrap of course!!! So at the end of last year we had a fantastic work scrap! It was Natalie, Kelsey, Mel, Jenny, Vicki (from our DT) and Me! What do we do to spice things up...? (I just know these are all questions you have been asking yourself this whole time, tehehe!) We have mystery challenge! Each of us bought in a pack from our own stash at home to the value of $10 or so, and we put them in and pulled one out each, lucky dip style, making sure not to grab our own (that would just be cheating). We then had an hour and a half to make something with what we had. We could add colour and bits and bobs but the bulk had to be out of our "pack". We then put it up for the customers to vote on and who ever got the most votes was in line for a most gorgeous tool tin that Jenny had made. And the winner was... ME!!!! Talk about blown away!! Thanks to all the girls that voted and in particular the ones who voted for my little canvas. Thanks to Jenny for packing in G45 paper, tags, dress form and wings! This thing just made itself!!



I am almost sure that they are all still at the store, scattered around for everyone to see, but I will also remind the other girls to put up something on their blogs so you can take a peek.
Take care of each other,
see you soon.
M

Sharing

It has been awhile, but here is a quick update with a "share"!
I had a fantastic class on Sunday with the girls in my Intro/Basics class!  We played with lots of design and layout ideas and then had a play with making our own embellishments with Opals! And I asked the girls what they would like to do in the next class... drum role please... CHIPBOARD!! So I am whipping up a sample, with heaps of ideas of what you can do with chipboard.  If you'd like to come to the next Intro Class on Sunday February 28, 12.30-3.30pm, ring Scraptivate to make a booking.


And here is my "share"! This is a layout I did of some old photos of my Kassidy. He is 3 in these photos.  I can't ever get over how I can melt just looking back at photos. He is such a character.  It is so amazing and wonderful being able to watch him grow.


These photos were taken on an old phone and as such aren't such great quality. Instead of trying to correct them (especially when I know it isn't going to really make them very good) I have used the graininess to help give the photos an aged appearance. The photos of the photos actually makes them look pretty good! IRL they look grainy and I have faded out the colour just enough to make them look aged.

This Making Memories paper is gorgeous, I couldn't work out at first what I was going to do with them, I just knew I wanted to use them, and soon!

Take care of each other,
see you soon.
M