So, my sister got herself hooked up lately with this awesome stuff from Stampin Up, and it makes me wish that I had a way of getting that stuff to my part of the world … so I could get my hands dirty with all this fun actual paper stuff she’s been doing. Here are just a few of the projects she’s been working on lately.
I mentioned it last Saturday already, but one website with tons of amazing inspiration is “pretty paper.true stories” by Shimelle. Shimelle is one of the great paper scrappers out there, but you can find a lot of stuff that will help you work on your digital pages as well. She’s got great style, a wealth of knowledge, and it’s certainly a place you would want to keep sticking around for …
Today, in the Journaling Café we’ll be focusing on our daily routine. Project Life being all the rage at the moment, it is about recording what seems to be neglected in our memory keeping so much: the mundane, the simple life. Take a look at today’s journaling prompts, and see if any of these could inspire you to put some of your thoughts to paper … Of course, I gave myself the task of recording something very mundane, and here’s how my page turned out …
I have another great source of inspiration for you (though some of you may know about Shimelle already, of course). But if you’re someone who doesn’t go there all too often, or someone who is always looking for more inspiration, you don’t need to look any further … for now. Take a look at this fun paper layout: What really caught my eye about it was the fun boldly patterned papers, which were used on this layout, and so when I was doing my own page, I looked for the same … a combination of bold patterns and bright colors. So, here’s my page …
We’re there, we’re there! I’m happy to share with you the last part of my winter kit “A Cup Full of Winter.” Now you can finally go and play with it, yay! As always, my Terms of Use apply (see sidebar to the right), and now I have a couple of announcements, still. If you wish to get the bonus to this kit (a sled and an ice skate), all you need to do is scrap with this kit, add your layout to a gallery that that non-registered users can visit (since I’m not be registered at every single gallery, and some are restricted for registered users only), and post a comment with a link to your layout here (you’ll easily find this post later by simply searching the tag “Freebies”). I will get back to you via email and send you the links to this bonus. Note: The bonus part will be available only for the next four weeks, until March 22, 2013. Any layouts posted afterwards will not be considered. And now, I’m happy …
Are you ever looking for more inspiration and stuff to learn? A great place to start would be Anna Aspnes’ blog. If you’ve never heard of her, AA stands for lots of fun, useful digiscrap designs (stitches, brushes, stamps, and lots lots more). Her blog also has lots of great tutorials that I find very inspiring. So, if you want to get your scrapbooking skills soaring out there somewhere, Anna’s blog is a place you don’t want to miss peeking around a bit.
Oftentimes, we focus so much on the light and happy times in life, that we forget to look at the difficult times (something which is true, I think, especially when it comes to us scrapping about the events in our lives). Today’s journal prompts, therefore, will focus a bit more on the hard and heavy side of life. And here is my page, journaling a bit about losses and a very sad story.
There’s so much inspiration out there, and this week, I decided to lift this page: And here’s my take on it … Now, don’t miss the blog where I got the original page from, because it has a lot of fun layouts that are easy to lift.Of course, you can see, I kept faithful to myself, by adding extra clusters and stuff. Just because I’m lifting something doesn’t mean I can’t give it my personal touch, right ?
Well, well, here we go again. It’s Friday, and I’ve got the next installment of “A Cupful of Winter” ready for you. Today, you’ll get the first set of elements, and then there’s only one more part to go, which means I should be starting to work on my next project, shouldn’t I? Anyhow, my Terms of Use apply as always, and of course, I’d like to see the pages you create when you play with freebies from Misty Hilltops Designs. See you next week, I guess, and happy Friday, scrappers!
Here is the last part of my minibook of travels, an all out hybrid project for which I used tons of digiscrapping materials which I printed and assembled into this book. You can find the other parts here: PART 1 PART 2 PART 3
