A beautiful end to 2013!

I've not blogged since October but I've been hanging around reading blogs and loving all the inspiration I get. It's now the 31st of December 2013 and I am wondering where the year has gone! For me it's been a pretty straight forward year, only a few challenges popped up and reared their heads but the most beautiful ending of this year was the most special highlight for me and my family. I welcomed a beautiful baby girl Violet Holly into the world on the 19th of December, she arrived just in time for Christmas! The best Christmas present ever for myself, my husband and daughter. I am looking forward to scrapbooking my little girls in 2014! Between sleeping of course...

I hope everyone has a happy and healthy new year and I look forward to reading all your blogs in the coming year!

Chantal's giveaway!

Chantal Vandenberg over at Girls just wanna scrapbook is having a big giveaway! She is opening her own business on November the 1st 2013, making and selling her very own handmade embellishments. They are super cute and very colourful. The giveaway is open worldwide and closes on the 31st of October 2013. The winner will be announced on 1st of November 2013.

Go over and take a look at her gorgeous creations. :-)

Base Coat

 

Hi there!

 

Back again with another layout. Sometimes I keep photos for many years before I scrap them, because for one I can be a bit slow on keeping up with my scrapping with the amount of photos I take and secondly because sometimes I am looking for the right paper, embellishments etc..

I've had these photos of my nephew Lennox for about 10 months now and just didn't have that right paper in my stash so they were put to the side. Then recently kaisercraft bought out a new range called 'base coat' which was perfect for this style of photo. A bit weathered, vintage and boyish I thought, so out came the photos of Lennox. Here he is sitting in the mud of his house that is being renovated, just being a typical boy I suppose. So I wanted the page to look a bit messy, muddy, worn and boyish.

 

To create the layout I used the background paper called weathered which I distressed and inked around the edges with Tim Holtz distress ink in walnut stain, the strips of paper what looks like weatherboard I can't remember the name of in the base coat range but I cut it up into different sized strips and inked and distressed the edges. I randomly placed the string around the page and attached it in a few places with staples and fabric glue. I also created a small bunting with left over scraps. For the background I used a kaisercraft stamp called 'distress' and again Tim Holt's distress ink and stamped randomly. I then applied gesso messily and once dry I rubbed over the top with distress ink to get that muddy look. I used an unknown alphabet stamp that I've had in my collection for forever to stamp his name again with the distress ink and a kaisercraft stamp called 'tag' to write my journaling in. The little die cut which says 'boys will be boys' is from the kaisercraft range called 'rewind'. I also inked around the edges. The date was stamped with a dater stamp.      

 

Even though it is quite a simple page I really love it, and enjoyed creating it. I had an image in my mind and it turned out just the way I wanted. I will definitely be using this kaisercraft range again, it's very versatile.

Thank you for the lovely comments on my last post, it was nice to know someone was reading my blog. :-)

Until next time,
happy scrapping!

Belinda

Yet another scrapper, first post!

 

 

Hi there! Thank you for visiting my new blog 'yet another scrapper'. My name is Belinda and I have been scrapbooking for eleven years. I was first introduced to scrapbooking through my eldest sister who had just gotten into the hobbie herself and introduced myself and my other sister to it. I then was given an album kit for my 21st birthday and I enjoyed it from there on. I did have breaks here and there from it but it's something I've always done and since having my first child in 2011 I got heavily back into it wanting to scrap her precious memories. I can't even begin to tell you how many photos I've taken of my daughter, hundreds and hundreds, it became like an obsession! I didn't know when to stop, haha. I've slowed down a bit now and don't take 500 of her a month. I took the majority of photos of her in her first year of life. I guess that's the milestone year of any child. Apart from scrapbooking I also love to cross stitch and I have a blog in my blog header about that too.

 

I am due to have my second child in December which is very exciting and I can only imagine that my photo taking obsession will happen all over again. Maybe I will calm down a bit and not take as many since my time will certainly be limited with two littlies. Hopefully I do get time to scrapbook at some stage though.

 

Since spending money on scrapbooking supplies and scrapbooking magazines I get lots of inspiration from everywhere. A recent interest though is scrapbooking blogs, and I do follow quite a few now. I really enjoy seeing what people create and their particular styles. It's nice to be open to the scrapbooking world too which can be limited at times. The internet is a wonderful thing. I am yet to take part in a challenge which I notice many scrapbookers do, maybe one day.

I am yet to figure out if I have a scrapbooking style..I am not even sure if I have one. I guess I do like simple designs, and I am really into my bright/pastel colours, Girly embellishments and pretty papers. I do have two nephews though so it is nice to scrap boy pages at times. I tend to not get too busy with my layouts, and I am more of a multiple photo scrapbooker rather than sticking to one photo a page unless there is a really special focal photo I want to work on. Just recently I've been playing around with stencilling, texture paste, gesso, gelatos, stamping and mists etc...I know I probably should have been introduced to that a lot earlier since I've been scrapbooking for so long! but the world of blogs opened me up to that. I am still playing around though with these new products and I must admit some pages I've played with I've hated! and have thrown away. I guess it all takes practice though right? And finding what I am comfortable with too.   

 

This is a photo of a page I created recently of my daughter who is two and a half. We were at the park on Father's day and she had a great time on the playground equipment.



 



 

 

That is another thing I will have to learn is taking good photos of my finished scrapbook pages! I am yet to perfect that art like most of the girls who's blogs I read. If anyone has any tips, I'd love to hear them!

I can't remember the exact products I used because I just created without thinking I would put it on my blog but I will be sure to take note in the future.

 

Anyway, I hope you have enjoyed reading my first entry, and I hope you will come along with me on my new adventure of a scrapbooking blog.

 

Until next time,

Happy Scrapping xo