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"







Wednesday 1 January 2014

A Journey Concertina Tag Album

I started 2014 as I mean to go on, I woke up, sat up, grabbed a bag of stash from the side of the bed and made this little concertina tag mini album before I ventured out from under my lovely warm duvet.

A couple of days ago I was telling my friend Kathy that I have dozens and dozens of unstarted and unfinished class kits from retreats as long ago as Scrapaganza in 2006 up to the present day.  She challenged me to go grab one and do something with it.  So off I went and the first kit I found was an old Rusty Pickle travel album kit that must be at least five years old, if not older.  The papers were not really to my taste so I grabbed another part kit which contained some left over Glitz papers from a class at Scrapstars a few years ago, taught by the wonderful Rachael Elliott.  I constructed the chipboard album and inner envelope concertina from the Rusty Pickle kit and covered it with the Glitz papers and embellishments.  I am going to use it to record my weight loss journey in 2013 and 2014 with a photo each month on a tag with some journaling about how I feel.  Since mid August I have lost 2 stone so I already have a few photos to put in and I look forward to completing the album and my weight loss journey soon.




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