It's been too long since I've last updated this blog. My apologies. In fact, I had completely forgotten that I had one until Heidi (Gotham City Stamper) mentioned it last night on her ustream. Oops! Thank you to those of you from the ustream that took the time to check out my blog and offered wonderful comments. I truly appreciate it! It's amazing how things like ustream and skype bring people together while crafting. It's great to bounce ideas off of each other even from MILES and MILES away! :)
Now that holiday vacation is underway, I can actually take the time to blog and to craft. I crafted all day yesterday and have been all day today thus far. When grad school is in session, I don't have the time to even step foot in my craft room. It's so nice to have the time over vacation to use my creative energy. That and my poor craft room has been ignored for months. I'm sure it's happy as well...except for the fact that it's now a mess from my many projects.
As I was crafting, I was looking through some of my scrapbooks. It made me giggle a little as I noticed how my scrapbooking style has evolved. When I first started years ago (perhaps 10 years ago), I was all about the stickers. Not that there is anything wrong with using stickers...I just used them everywhere, on every page...stickers stickers everywhere. Then I started using fibers and eyelets on EVERYTHING. Nowadays, I have more of a simplistic approach to scrapbooking. Pretty patterned papers, but little embellishments. I like to let the paper, pictures and journaling do the work. I sometimes can't help but wonder if maybe I'm too simple with my pages. To be quite honest with you, if you gave me cool embellishments, I probably wouldn't have a clue as to what to do with them. Does everyone's style evolve over the years??
Here is a paper pack I got at Hobby Lobby that is all NYC. There are sheets of paper and fun glittery letters and embellishments. I had been looking for NYC themed items that weren't on the cheesy side for so long and now...there it is! I did learn that the glittery letters are so glitterfied that they won't stick on anything...too much glitter was floating in the package and got on the back of the letters. I had glitter EVERYWHERE when I opened the pack. Not cool.
This was the first page I made using items from the paper pack. I took the letters from a sheet of paper and cut them apart. I thought it would be cooler to use them that way rather than the whole sheet of busy word paper. Again, a very simplistic layout. I usually lay the pictures out in an orderly fashion, but I saw a sample layout like this on a sketch site and thought I'd give it a go. I really like it! I also inked the edges of the paper in black ink to give it a little grunge look.
This page gave me a little trouble. I love this picture that I took by Lincoln Center. I didn't want to have the paper take too much away from the picture. I'm not quite sure if I like the word paper behind it or not. What do you think? Is it too much or not enough? It just doesn't sit well with me yet...I'm sometimes too much of a perfectionist when I scrapbook..
This layout is a 2 pager. My little sister turned 21 over the summer. A milestone like that can't go without being put in a scrapbook. We had so much fun that night! I used K & Co paper. I love that line. It has embellishments that go with each of their themed lines so it makes me quite easy to coordinate everything. I also did some random placement of cardstock that I used to journal on. I try to do journaling on every page if I have the room and it works with the page.
My best friend, Katie, is the mother to a beautiful little girl named Brianna. She is the love of my life! The little angel is the first baby of our group of college friends and has all of us wrapped around her sweet little finger.
Any suggestions or comments about my work are welcome. Sometimes after staring at projects for so long, one can lose focus. Outsider voices can help bring something to your view that you didn't see before and bring the project to life.
