OWOT - January

We've introduced a new weekly challenge over at the Truly Madly Crafty Blog called One Word One Technique. We have assigned a different technique to each month of the year and each week has a specific word. The idea is that you create a project, be it a card, layout, art journal page etc based on that weeks word and using that month's technique.This month's technique is paint and my word is GO!

i decided to use paint for my title & finally busted out some Amy Tangerince goodies to do a page about a trip i took to Manchester last June. Does the design of the page maybe look a little bit similar? Perhaps a bit like the last page i posted? i'm ok with not reinventing the wheel every time :)

Jolly good fun

i recently started having a tidy up in what i like to think of as my 'making space' and realised it's not just been a really long time since i had a sort out but also since i put any pages into my albums. Anyone else have this problem? i counted and there were over 60 pages, plus there are at least another 7 in progress. Ooops.

i also haven't been so great at sharing those pages here or anywhere online. i guess i have been going through one of those phases where i just want to stay away form my laptop. This also means i owe a lot of people e-mails (sorry if you're one of them!). But i'm giving myself permission, because i'm still scrapbooking & having fun.

And speaking of fun, here's a page i did during the JBS Mercantile online crop back in October. This challenge was based on a sketch, which i stretched into a two-pager. The Royal Wedding was a really highlight of 2011 and i'm excited for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations this year! i've scrapbooked this event before, but it was an occasion i took lots of photos of & have lots of thoughts about so i felt i wanted a couple of different layouts about the day.

Papers, Chipboard, Stickers, Rub-Ons: Jenni Bowlin Studios Other: twine, embossing powder. 

TMC January Challenge

Happy New Year to you all! i truly hope that 2012 brings wonderful things for you all.

A new year, a new challenge on the Truly Madly Crafty Challenge Blog. There was a huge response to last month's challenge and it would be great if that continued. There's some other fun challenges planned which i am excited about. This month's challenge is nice and easy, the theme is 'anything goes'. So all you have to do is submit a new project. i used it as a chance to use up some of my new goodies from the MME line 'Everyday Fun'. i LOVE this line! i adore the kraft papers, the stamps are right up my alley and the embellishments are so freaking cute, especially that garland. i think it's such a fun twist on the banner trend, i want to use it on every page!

i snapped this instax photo on my 29th birthday (yes it's my last year of my twenties, eek!). And i used a list format to summarise the highlights of my day.