Oops, I meant to post my LSNED pages more often than this, sorry! I'll keep it short and sweet and just share the photos (rather than babbling on!) because there's so many pages...
I'm glad I'm keeping up so far, sorry it means I'm not blogging quite so much though. I should be back at some point over the weekend with a layout, if all goes to plan!
Anyone else have a million ideas for crafting in their heads and no time to do them all? Hands up - you know you're out there! x
A brief post to show you the first couple of entries in my Learn Something New Every Day book (if you don't know what I'm talking about see previous post here).
1st Sept:
2nd Sept:
I'm having fun using my Ipod Touch for all the photos. The photo booth ones were taken using the PocketBooth App, and the others were all taken with the standard camera, and then effects were applied in the BeFunky App. The quality of them isn't perfect, but they work well as little prints for this kind of 'smash' book.
Hope you don't mind me doing an Ebay mention - I'm currently selling some scrapbooking and cardmaking bits, including papers, a scrapbook calendar kit, stamps, and more. If you'e a uk girl and you fancy grabbing a bargain then check them out here (scroll down - there's a few items of maternity clothing at the top!).
Now Mollie Makes issue 5 is calling me to read it! Bye for now x
On the 1st of September Learn Something New Every Day will begin at www.shimelle.com. I took this class for the first time last year (you can see the art journal I made for it here), and I've been really looking forward to the class stating again. I love looking back on my book from last year and I hope I'll like this year's one just as much!
For this September I've made myself a counterfeit smash book, turning an old, damaged Ladybird book into a journal:
Here's a photo of the book when I'd just cut the front cover off, so you can see how battered it was (to cut the covers and pages off I just used a craft knife and metal ruler):
I punched the holes in the cover for the book rings by using my Crop-A-Dile Big Bite. To see what else I've done to get the book ready for class, you can watch this you tube video. The book is packed with papers and other bits and pieces, all ready to go (to view the video larger on You Tube just click on it once it's started playing):
Sorry about all the 'errrms'!
Things mentioned in the video (except Shimelle's site which I've already linked above!):
I've made the book a bit like a smash book, to see the actual branded Smash Book that I got the idea from then check out this YouTube video.
Some Studio G alphabet stamps like the ones I used can be purchased here (I bought mine a long time ago from The Range Home and Leisure)
Julie Kirk's blog: http://www.notesonpaper.blogspot.com/ (I won the Airmail twine on a giveaway on her blog, and she sent the fabric strip in with the prize!)
The airmail twine can be purchased from The Ribbon Girl here.
The kraft paper I used for the pages inside can be purchased from Paperchase here.
Kirsty Neale's first post on security envelope decorative tape is here, and her second post about using other papers is here.
The Stick It glue dots that I've used on my page markers can be bought here.
The book is a little bit smaller than 6"x4", so I could slightly trim down a portrait 4"x6" photo if I wanted to include one full size. But I'm planning that if I include photos they'll mostly be ones from my Ipod Touch Hipstamatic or Instagram Apps, so I'll print them as 3"x3" square pics to stick in. To do my 'dates' each day I'll either just handwrite them, or I'll cut them from a newspaper or mag to stick in.
Hope you've enjoyed having a look at my book! If you have any questions, eg. if you want to know the make of a particular stamp or scrapbook paper then let me know as I should be able to tell you.
Are you taking part in LSNED this year? Do you have any lessons that you want to learn this month? Or are you going to just take each day as it comes? I'd like to learn how to make blackberry jam. Let's see if that happens! I'll be showing my pages throughout September as they get filled up, I hope you'll be back to see them!
