Monday, May 7, 2012

A scrappy card

I really love to create using bits and pieces I have lying around on my desk - and it's not that messy either, really!

This card started out quite different, I stamped the Eiffel Tower and the big circle from Artistic Etchings by Stampin' Up! and started playing around with them but somehow other things started to creep onto the card and in the end the Eiffel Tower and circle got up and left in disgust LOL!  (I used the circle in my scrapbook page here, the Eiffel Tower is still waiting on my desk :< )

The only 'new' element is the sun, I had the circle left over from diecutting letters, found a snippet of the same yellow in the wastepaper basket and a few snips and drops of glue later the sun came out - right in front of the clouds which I find rather odd somehow hehehe...


A scrapbook page - I made it back finally!

Wow, that's a long time without posting anything!  In the meantime I notice Blogger is all changed so hope I can find all the usual stuff I need to compose a post....

 It all started when my camera broke, then I got a new one for my birthday a couple of months later but somehow my 'oomph' had deserted me by then.  Now that my little boy has started school I'm trying to get back into some papercrafting because I really find it relaxes me when I finally have a go!

To get myself back on the horse, so to speak, I chose a sketch from 365 Cards but rather than making a card I decided to make it as a 6x6 scrapbook page...

We took this photo the week before he started school when we went to check out the school playground [the most important part of a school for any 5 year old, right!?] and thought the photo would work really well with the circle theme.  The little circles dotted around were surplus to my marathon of die-cutting up lots and lots of scraps into letters with my Cuttlebug, they are all the centres from the o's, a's, p's, g's etc LOL!  Waste not, want not I say hehehe....

I will add some  journalling later, but here is the main image.