In the scrapbooking and memory keeping community, documenting the Holidays is a Very.Big.Deal. There are numerous ways it’s approached, whether by making a mini-album, doing stand alone pages, or adding to an already existing Christmas book. One of the most popular ways is to make a daily record of the month of December. This is…
If you’ve been following me for a while you will know that scrapbooking was my gateway craft. There was a time that I was obsessed with it. I literally couldn’t wait to wake up every day to make scrapbook pages. I was all in: Design Teams, getting published in magazines, the whole kit and caboodle….
I’m not a fan of posed photos. I try to avoid them as much as possible! What I want to capture is real life, as it happens. When Kieran is engrossed in doing something, I don’t want him to stop to give me a cheesy grin, I want to capture the real smile or other…
Each Friday for the rest of the year, I will be choosing an inspiration piece from my Pinterest board and using it to jumpstart a scrapbook page. Six months into 2013 I have done two pages a month so far. This is more than my total last year, but still less than I would like…
Here is the tutorial for my DIY Smash Book. I am calling it my “Whatnot Book”. Bear in mind that I’ve never actually seen a Smash book except online, so there’s a good chance mine bears little resemblance to the real thing! How to make the DIY Smash Book I used chipboard, which I upcycled…
Remember the spiral bound journal from last week? Here’s another one I made with the June Little Black Dress Kit I’ve become quite obsessed with theses spiral bound journals actually, so it wasn’t difficult for me to make yet another and do a step by step tutorial. But first: The Bind-it-All was one of those…
