I've used my crafting time this past week to fill in a few gaps in The Boy Child's album. I added a double spread of 11 photos from last Summer. We had a wonderful six weeks, and I couldn't help but marvel at how different The Boy Child's Summer holidays are from the ones I … Continue reading Scrapping in 2019 #4
In Week 4 of Cathy Zielske's Design Your Life 2.0 class, we looked atthe principle of Emphasis/Contrast.There was also a look at Type, but as I don't make many hybrid pages,I've merely skimmed that section. Assignment One was, you've guessed it, about contrast/emphasis through the page design.Another simple design, but one that works well. Assignment Two was … Continue reading Design Your Life 2.0 | Week 4
In Week 3 of Cathy Zielske's Design Your Life 2.0 class, we looked at unity and space.Unity suggests to our brains that everything is, in a purposeful way, where it should be.Space suggests restfulness on any given design.Where a design lacks content, space creates a bit of calm.Assignment One was to create a page featuring … Continue reading Design Your Life 2.0 | Week 3
Week two of Cathy Zielske's Design Your Life 2.0 classintroduced the idea of repeated elements.Repetition. I loosely followed the suggested design for Assignment 1and really like how the finished page looks.Those palm tree stickers from Echo Park are perfect for my Marrakech photos.There isn't any journaling on the page, because I plan for its sister pageto … Continue reading Design Your Life 2.0 | Week 2
Design Your Life by Cathy Zielske is up and running,and Week One introduced the idea of symmetry and asymmetry on scrapbook pages. The first assignment was to produce a symmetrical layout using a grid design.I used recent photos of The Boy Child to tell a story from over twenty years ago. Isn't it great when … Continue reading Design Your Life 2.0 | Week One
As the weather this weekend was cooler than of late, we chose to spend a little more time inside, with a visit to the National Army Museum at the top of our list. It reopened in March of this year, after a major overhaul of the space, and like the Design Museum, the space has … Continue reading This Weekend I …
A regular readers will know, when it comes to scrapbooking,I am a fan of Cathy Zielske's style.I've taken a number of her online classes over the years,and they've all been excellent value.Yesterday, Cathy announced that she was running an revised and updatedDesign Your Life 2.0 class, beginning in the middle of July and running for four … Continue reading Design Your Life 2.0
I left space in The Boy Child's album for a page about Granny. The two of them had an extremely close relationship and I felt it was important to record the last few times he saw her. As I didn't have many photos from Mum's time in hospital that featured The Boy Child, I opted for a simple … Continue reading A Page About Granny
As of last month, I've found the need to scrapbook on an almost daily basis has reasserted itself.I've finished off our album from the visit to the USA last summerand I've added pages to The Boy Child's album,and to that of my nephew.I revisited a few details learned from Cathy Zielske's Design Your Life class.This class, … Continue reading A Return to Scrapbooking
A definite plus to a tidy craft space is the desire to create.A simple page documenting The Boy Child's 6th birthday. I went back to Cathy Zielske's Design Your Life class for inspiration.For a page about The Boy Child's school photo, I used some stickers that had been on his blazer (I stuck them on … Continue reading Scrapbook Saturday | Telling Tales
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