What's In A Title?

The blog title is my take on my favourite quote from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novel, when Bella realises she is in love with vampire Edward. My version is slightly less impressive than that in the book but never the less true:


"About three things I was absolutely positive, first I was an obsessed crafter, second, there was a part of me - and I didn't know how potent that part might be, that thirsted for beautiful craft materials, dies, stamps, papers, cardstock etc, and third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with scrapbooking and cardmaking"







Friday 26 April 2013

Happy Easter

Last weekend I signed up for another of Shimelle Laine's on-line scrapbooking classes. I like to sign up for a couple of classes every year as she is so inspirational. The class I am doing is about mixing and matching patterned papers from different ranges and manufacturers and it has made me look closely at the papers and kits in my stash box that have been there, ignored and unloved, for a number of years. Yesterday I pulled an old kit out of my stash with the intention of watching and following one of Shimelle's tutorials, she sends them Tuesdays and Thursdays along with that day's class pdf. I put the video on to play then totally ignored it as I got totally engrossed in playing with the papers in the kit and I have no idea what the video tutorial was about but I ended up with this layout which I really enjoyed putting together. See, Shimelle is so inspiring you don't even have to watch her tutorials to soak up all that inspiration. I will sit down this weekend and actually watch the video tutorial.



Thursday 18 April 2013

My Bear

Another page for My friend's baby album. The page protector is from a mixed set by Stampin' Up! and has nine slots for photos or journaling or anything that takes your fancy. The set of page protecters has lots of different variations of slots/pockets so you can make lots of different looking projects with them. I am loving the current fashion for Polaroids so I did the whole thing as a series of Polaroids. The papers, punches, ribbon and inks etc are all Stampin' Up! Just in case you are wondering, the clips on either side of the page aren't part of the design, just there to hold the page protector up.

Thursday 4 April 2013

Me in '68

Yesterday Kathy and I went to Caroline's for a crafting day. We talked the morning away and had a lovely lunch including an amazing, huge strawberry and cream filled sponge cake Kathy had made. In the afternoon Caroline and I started a Graphic 45 mini album and Kathy was working on a layout. When we were packing up to leave I noticed Kathy had been pulling a layout apart and redoing it in slightly different papers and the discarded sheet of paper was in the bin looking a bit shabby, with torn areas and areas covered in tacky glue. I liked the floral design on the paper so I pinched it out of the bin. I cut the elements from one side of the sheet and a rectangle from the floral pattern on the other side. I added a sheet of cream cardstock and a scrap of real red cardstock and created this photography themed layout using a photograph of me when I was 18 months old. The camera stamp is From a really old Stampin Up set I bought a while back from eBay and the text stamp is by Technique Tuesday.