Another month has passed us and I enjoy my scrap meets and workshops. Most Tuesdays I had my casual meets at the craft store and attended to three workshops through my CM consultant. I have been going to her workshops for about 7-8 years now.
This year she decided to introduce a new workshop once a month on Wednesday nights. About a dozen ladies are attending to this workshop, known as the BOOK OF ME album. It will be about our ourselves from the time we were born to current but it has got a twist into the album.
Our album will feature other creative pages about us and have history about news events, songs and etc about the year we were born. And other things that other people don't know about.
This album is ideal to give to your kids. They will learn more about their mum through the album. My albums are only eight inch sized as I don't have many photos of myself while growing up. My mum isn't really a photographer and generally it takes over a year to finish a film.
Last night was the first night of our BOM workshop. In 90 minutes after all the introductions and lessons ideas said in the first hour, we had to complete our title page and another page about our life before scrapbooking. No one got to do page two because most of us didn't get much homework done beforehand. I managed to get most of the title page done but I need to use the cricut to diecut the title. Page two I have written up some draft notes but I will complete this page at one of Tuesday's meets. Because I am creating two albums it will take me abit longer to do then other ladies.
Workshop two will be held at the end of this month. This time we need to have photos from our childhood years to early adult. Enough photos to create four pages.
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
My mojo is slacking off
A month has almost passed since I last reported about my scrap meets. I attended to most of the workshops at my consultant's house on Friday night, Saturday and there is another one hosted tomorrow. This month has been more about family and love layout ideas with the new paper packs introduced.
She will have a new workshop once a month, starting next week. This workshop will be all about me. Most of us who intends to be photographer don't have many photos about themselves and we don't intend to album about ourselves either. I am not really a photographer person to have photos taken but I guess I should have an album about my life and give the album each to my kids. My consultant started this workshop theme four years ago but the group lost interested after a couple of months. It will be interesting to see how long these monthly workshops will last.
One of the ladies from the casual meets has started to create her ideal of an album about herself and her life. Her first album was about her first ten years of life and it was quite interesting to view. She gives alot of history about the city life to where I grew up. And lucky for her parents they collected alot of memorabilia during her child hood years. Unfortunately my own mother wasn't a photographer so there isn't really alot of photos of me while growing up. So I guess my album will be more about journalling then photos. Also I don't have alot of memorabilia to share either.
I missed two casual meets at the craft store on Tuesdays this month. The first one I had another commitment on and I missed today's casual time as I had a sick child home from school. I have almost finished one project I started in January. It's about my kid's school life at the first primary school and I plan on giving this mini album to a family member for Christmas. I never realised I taken so many photos from their school events.
The next project will be another primary school album from the current school my 11 yo is still at. She will be graduating her primary school life at the end of this year. I plan on making a start with this project at scrap camp in April.
Another project I have in mind is a mini book of me to give to someone special. I purchased this love package deal in January. It's an 8 inch album with love theme pages to use into the album. But I think you only use one photo on each page. On the front cover of the album has a family tree in a shape of love hearts.
Don't lose your mojo! Keep on creating on whatever projects you got planned to do.
She will have a new workshop once a month, starting next week. This workshop will be all about me. Most of us who intends to be photographer don't have many photos about themselves and we don't intend to album about ourselves either. I am not really a photographer person to have photos taken but I guess I should have an album about my life and give the album each to my kids. My consultant started this workshop theme four years ago but the group lost interested after a couple of months. It will be interesting to see how long these monthly workshops will last.
One of the ladies from the casual meets has started to create her ideal of an album about herself and her life. Her first album was about her first ten years of life and it was quite interesting to view. She gives alot of history about the city life to where I grew up. And lucky for her parents they collected alot of memorabilia during her child hood years. Unfortunately my own mother wasn't a photographer so there isn't really alot of photos of me while growing up. So I guess my album will be more about journalling then photos. Also I don't have alot of memorabilia to share either.
I missed two casual meets at the craft store on Tuesdays this month. The first one I had another commitment on and I missed today's casual time as I had a sick child home from school. I have almost finished one project I started in January. It's about my kid's school life at the first primary school and I plan on giving this mini album to a family member for Christmas. I never realised I taken so many photos from their school events.
The next project will be another primary school album from the current school my 11 yo is still at. She will be graduating her primary school life at the end of this year. I plan on making a start with this project at scrap camp in April.
Another project I have in mind is a mini book of me to give to someone special. I purchased this love package deal in January. It's an 8 inch album with love theme pages to use into the album. But I think you only use one photo on each page. On the front cover of the album has a family tree in a shape of love hearts.
Don't lose your mojo! Keep on creating on whatever projects you got planned to do.
Thursday, 26 January 2012
2012 meets
Back to school meant it was back in business to attend to regular scrap meets this week. And it was good to be back and catch up with other regular scrappers.
On Tuesday I went back to my casual scrap with other ladies at my local scrap store. At the moment I am working on getting a mini school album finished for one of this year's Christmas presents. It might be another week or two and this album will be completed.
The next day which happened to be yesterday, I had my first four hour workshop at my consultant's house. She will be planning to host three workshops per month on Wednesday, Friday night and Saturday morning.
We had a workshop topic about love with using the new love series papers and the new border cartridge. Not sure if I will purchased the love cartridge as I find it intends to have the paper caught inside the punch. But I didn't purchase the new love series papers through. Also I placed an order to get a new 8 inch love series album with the paper kit suited for this album. With this album I plan on creating for someone special.
Until my next report, keep on being creative.
On Tuesday I went back to my casual scrap with other ladies at my local scrap store. At the moment I am working on getting a mini school album finished for one of this year's Christmas presents. It might be another week or two and this album will be completed.
The next day which happened to be yesterday, I had my first four hour workshop at my consultant's house. She will be planning to host three workshops per month on Wednesday, Friday night and Saturday morning.
We had a workshop topic about love with using the new love series papers and the new border cartridge. Not sure if I will purchased the love cartridge as I find it intends to have the paper caught inside the punch. But I didn't purchase the new love series papers through. Also I placed an order to get a new 8 inch love series album with the paper kit suited for this album. With this album I plan on creating for someone special.
Until my next report, keep on being creative.
Saturday, 7 January 2012
12 hour scrap
My first scrap meet occurred yesterday. The organiser is my CM consultant who I have been attending to either her home or other venues for the past eight years, hosted this 12 hour event at her child's local school staffroom. Consider the size of the staffroom, there was 22 ladies crapped inside this room to work on their own projects for 12 hours. There was only one lady who showed up six hours late as she had a prior commitment to attend to that day.
Yes... it is normal work day for some people but most of the ladies who attend to our regular meets are teachers who currently on summer holidays. And they had the advantage to attend to a 12 hour workshop with their co-workers. There was only a couple of ladies who aren't teachers so they had to organise a day off work to be able to come along and scrap. It makes me wonder if their employer really knew what their employees really got up to on their unexpected day off after having time off during the festive season break.
Most groups have their own little group members who sit together to chat and scrap but I am the only outsider who just gets dumped and sits with whoever has a spare chair to sit at the table with. Unfortunately the majority of the group I sat with yesterday weren't really user friendly when it comes to conversations. Working alone was a good advantage point to get the motivation to complete many pages I intend to participated on the day.
This year my resolution is to work on completing projects I started on sometime ago. Yesterday I worked on two eight inch albums which I managed to finish off one album. My consultant did have a couple of workshop demos for any of us to try out but I already spent a week at home preparing the pages I wish to work on for 12 hours.
Also our consultant had raffle tickets on offered which we had to try to earned for free. I never really bothered with any of the offers because I never win anything from these meets.
I already won a scrap challenge from other sources. It was a challenge I entered online last month. My winnning prize came in the mail just before I walked out the door. I was so over the moon with what I received which I am sure my goodies will come in handy to use at some point.
Back to normal scrap meets and workshops doesn't resume back until the new year of schooling starts in late January.
Yes... it is normal work day for some people but most of the ladies who attend to our regular meets are teachers who currently on summer holidays. And they had the advantage to attend to a 12 hour workshop with their co-workers. There was only a couple of ladies who aren't teachers so they had to organise a day off work to be able to come along and scrap. It makes me wonder if their employer really knew what their employees really got up to on their unexpected day off after having time off during the festive season break.
Most groups have their own little group members who sit together to chat and scrap but I am the only outsider who just gets dumped and sits with whoever has a spare chair to sit at the table with. Unfortunately the majority of the group I sat with yesterday weren't really user friendly when it comes to conversations. Working alone was a good advantage point to get the motivation to complete many pages I intend to participated on the day.
This year my resolution is to work on completing projects I started on sometime ago. Yesterday I worked on two eight inch albums which I managed to finish off one album. My consultant did have a couple of workshop demos for any of us to try out but I already spent a week at home preparing the pages I wish to work on for 12 hours.
Also our consultant had raffle tickets on offered which we had to try to earned for free. I never really bothered with any of the offers because I never win anything from these meets.
I already won a scrap challenge from other sources. It was a challenge I entered online last month. My winnning prize came in the mail just before I walked out the door. I was so over the moon with what I received which I am sure my goodies will come in handy to use at some point.
Back to normal scrap meets and workshops doesn't resume back until the new year of schooling starts in late January.
Sunday, 18 December 2011
First crop talk
Consider now I am on a break with casual meets and workshops I thought it might be nice to share some of the layout ideas I have done throughout the year or so. You are welcome to use them if it inspires you to try out.
You need to have a jumbo star cutter from Creative Memories and two CM cutter blades to be able to do this layout idea.
You cut three different coloured star ribbons and mount down on the page as shown on the left.
And you need a bold star shape cut and mount onto the main cardstock before you add the star ribbons on top.
This layout is quite simple. If you have scrap strips of paper of plain or printed, this layout is ideal to use them.
Firstly you need a triangle shaped paper cut to fit the album page. Add strips of scrap papers onto your triangle. Cut ends to make the triangler shape. Add photos onto your tree and add a small star punch on top and a medium square punch on the bottom (as the base of your tree).
Requirements: small circle punch and a "L" template created to use on the main photo. Cut two L shapes on the photo. See layout to show how the "L" template was used. Mount the cutting onto paper/cardstock.
Cut a medium sized circle to add behind the long strip as illustrated. Then add the small circle punches on one of the half circle. The rest are added to the other side where the shorter paper is (as illustrated).
Use one 2-3 inch strip to mount down the page. Add a standard photo sized paper to the right side of the page. Then mount the photo on top between the long strip and the shorter one.
Have fun creating!
You cut three different coloured star ribbons and mount down on the page as shown on the left.
And you need a bold star shape cut and mount onto the main cardstock before you add the star ribbons on top.
Firstly you need a triangle shaped paper cut to fit the album page. Add strips of scrap papers onto your triangle. Cut ends to make the triangler shape. Add photos onto your tree and add a small star punch on top and a medium square punch on the bottom (as the base of your tree).
Cut a medium sized circle to add behind the long strip as illustrated. Then add the small circle punches on one of the half circle. The rest are added to the other side where the shorter paper is (as illustrated).
Use one 2-3 inch strip to mount down the page. Add a standard photo sized paper to the right side of the page. Then mount the photo on top between the long strip and the shorter one.
Have fun creating!
Sunday, 11 December 2011
Scrap meets ended
My scrap meets are all finished for the year now. I had the final three meets on the last week of school term. Also last week I placed my first order online because I thought my consultant wasn't going to do anymore ordering until after Christmas. Normally it's later each month she orders. But it doesn't matter it will be nice to see a big parcel arriving at my home address (hopefully this week) for once. I think I will continue going this way from now on as I know alot of CM customers are doing the same thing and they say the orders do arrive within a week.
Two of the final meets were break up workshop parties held at my consultant's house on Wednesday and Friday night. Friday night was basically our consultant provided supper but I wasn't quick enough to grab hot finger food. So I grab Maccies on my way home for a midnight snack.
On Wednesday we had to bring a plate to share but I decided to bring in a fruit punch instead. Unfortunately it didn't get all drank because we had a cool and wet day to remain indoors scrappin' away with a topic idea. In the last hour of the workshop we had our lunch with seafood, a variety of salad freshly made and dessert. Who said about going on a diet over summer is ideal? I think it's the worst time of the year to start dieting because you have break up parties and Christmas celebrations to deal with.
The next workshop is scheduled to happened in the New Year. Between now and then I will need to get some pages organised. I have been looking on eBay to see what retired products are still available. My consultant is hosting a 12 hour meet at her child's school hall after New Year's Day. All we got to bring is our scrap gear and BYO lunch. I will be going to this meet because my kids will be away at Grandma's for their holiday.
Have a great summer with the kids!
Two of the final meets were break up workshop parties held at my consultant's house on Wednesday and Friday night. Friday night was basically our consultant provided supper but I wasn't quick enough to grab hot finger food. So I grab Maccies on my way home for a midnight snack.
On Wednesday we had to bring a plate to share but I decided to bring in a fruit punch instead. Unfortunately it didn't get all drank because we had a cool and wet day to remain indoors scrappin' away with a topic idea. In the last hour of the workshop we had our lunch with seafood, a variety of salad freshly made and dessert. Who said about going on a diet over summer is ideal? I think it's the worst time of the year to start dieting because you have break up parties and Christmas celebrations to deal with.
The next workshop is scheduled to happened in the New Year. Between now and then I will need to get some pages organised. I have been looking on eBay to see what retired products are still available. My consultant is hosting a 12 hour meet at her child's school hall after New Year's Day. All we got to bring is our scrap gear and BYO lunch. I will be going to this meet because my kids will be away at Grandma's for their holiday.
Have a great summer with the kids!
Sunday, 4 December 2011
Break up parties
You can tell it's heading towards the end of the year as TV shows are ending and break up parties have started.
Last Saturday I had my first break up party to attend for scrapbooking with the Saturday's group. Not sure what time this event ended as I had to leave as I had a sports break up party to attend that evening until 11pm.
Only have this week to go with two break up parties on Wednesday and Friday night for scrapbooking and one casual meet and then it will be finished for year. For Wednesday's group we need to bring a plate to share for lunch but I intend to be a little different and bring the fruit punch ingredients. The ladies love it and my punch intends to go quite quickly. There is no real secret! Just you need to have the right fruit juice to add and the right amount of ginger ale and lemonade to use in the punch bowl.. I use diet lemonade instead of the normal lemonade, otherwise I think it would be too sweet to drink.
My CM workshop meets won't resume back until school resumes in late January 2012. My consultant has discuss last month about having a day meet in early January at a function room but she hasn't got back to anyone to say if the venue has been booked. Not sure when I will return back for casual meets at the craft store as I will have kids home with their school holidays for six weeks. But if the kids managed to have a holiday at Grandma's, I might call in the New Year for a casual sit or two but more likely I will be at home and get other projects organised while the kids aren't at home.
Even through Frank and the kids will be away for a couple of days after Christmas I plan on using "my" home alone time to have my own scrap camp at home. I might be busy printing many photos ready for 2012 workshops with the use of my new A3 printer that I got as an early Christmas present. My standard printer is slowly dying of old age and lots of usage.
Speaking of printing, I have my new printer to set up as I have some Christmas card inserts and my annual newsletters to print up, ready to add with the cards and post to people who aren't connected to the internet. I had a busy AM spring cleaning around this area. I need a space area to set up the A3 size printer.
Last Saturday I had my first break up party to attend for scrapbooking with the Saturday's group. Not sure what time this event ended as I had to leave as I had a sports break up party to attend that evening until 11pm.
Only have this week to go with two break up parties on Wednesday and Friday night for scrapbooking and one casual meet and then it will be finished for year. For Wednesday's group we need to bring a plate to share for lunch but I intend to be a little different and bring the fruit punch ingredients. The ladies love it and my punch intends to go quite quickly. There is no real secret! Just you need to have the right fruit juice to add and the right amount of ginger ale and lemonade to use in the punch bowl.. I use diet lemonade instead of the normal lemonade, otherwise I think it would be too sweet to drink.
My CM workshop meets won't resume back until school resumes in late January 2012. My consultant has discuss last month about having a day meet in early January at a function room but she hasn't got back to anyone to say if the venue has been booked. Not sure when I will return back for casual meets at the craft store as I will have kids home with their school holidays for six weeks. But if the kids managed to have a holiday at Grandma's, I might call in the New Year for a casual sit or two but more likely I will be at home and get other projects organised while the kids aren't at home.
Even through Frank and the kids will be away for a couple of days after Christmas I plan on using "my" home alone time to have my own scrap camp at home. I might be busy printing many photos ready for 2012 workshops with the use of my new A3 printer that I got as an early Christmas present. My standard printer is slowly dying of old age and lots of usage.
Speaking of printing, I have my new printer to set up as I have some Christmas card inserts and my annual newsletters to print up, ready to add with the cards and post to people who aren't connected to the internet. I had a busy AM spring cleaning around this area. I need a space area to set up the A3 size printer.
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