Good times, good friends, good scrapping...

My sister Barb is a Creative Memories Consultant. She use to host a National Scrapbooking Day each year around this time. It was a big to do!

We'd always do a lovely presentaion to welcome our group to the day's activities, with many suggestions and prizes and giveaways, with a great lunch and a lot of comaradery. And even if you didn't get a million pages done, you most certainly got a jump start and "in the mood" again.

Remember "A Page a Day in the month of May" is at least one book complete. Happy Scrapping.

Friday card adventures

Most of the cards I make have no sentiment inside, just because I like to write a lot of "feeling" but, I think I might try a few next adventure with sentiment inside. It them becomes far more a planned thing, than "Oh I'll just make a card".


This one was embossed, I like embossing but it's a lot more work than you think.

I always think I want to make flowery cards with pink and blue and then when I do, I'm not so thrilled, but I do like the stitching on this one.


The center of this card is a bookmark, with magnets on the ends.





Some of this grouping is still a stampin up class, some are adventures with Irene creations, see if you can see which ones. I didn't have my glass of sherry until after card making so I'm not sure why this last one is askew, quite possibly the scanning. Card designs by various designers. I. Makarewicz, M. Leishman, and Lynda Yamamoto.

Thurs. card session

O.k. we made a blue and white grouping, two birthday cards, a gift tag, and a gift card, all wrapped up in a decorated folder, tied with a ribbon. Four plastic envelopes hold these cards when the packet is opened.








Michelle Leishman is the designer or all the above cards, and a most patient instructor.

Back on track...

I subscribe to all those magazines and articles on scrapbooking and while I love the creativety of these creations, I think "you've only got one picture on that page", how many pages would I need to do to place all 200 of these pictures, not to mention the 3,000 pictures I have yet to do, So if it doesn't look too creative, sorry, it's all about the picture for me.I love working on black pages. So when I finally remembered that it jump started my scrapping session.


The problem of coarse for me is making the change over to white pages, when I need to. I always seem to work on a centre spread. And now that I'm on a role, I hope this will expedite the completion of the long overdue book.

You must think I've gone missing...

I haven't posted in this blog for awhile. I have been scrapping, but the layouts are so boring, I can't bring myself to photograph them. I'll be making a sizable donation to the Breast Cancer fund because of it. I have not met my deadline with this album, but then again, perhaps it will be a better book if I don't rush. Huh! This is quite likely the most difficult project I have taken on. My cook book is coming along as well, and then I'll have to test and photograph each of the dishes so I can include a coloured photo. I'm feeling a little more energetic with the onset of SPRING, it has been a very long winter. Happy Scrapping.

Week 5

I'm stuck. I have a number of pictures that are not very good. But, they are the only record for this event. So I'm stuck. I've changed layouts so many times, and I hate it all. Now you know why I started in the middle of the book with that cute little girl, that was a fun page to do. I did replace the brads in the flowers with round brown felt so they look a little more like flowers. But with the next grouping, I just can't seem to please myself. So I've walked away. See you Thursday.

Week 4

I have not had the energy to post a new series of layouts, but hopefully tommorow, I can at least get started. Those centers of the flowers are still not right so I'll be "fixing" that up as well.