Cover by Cover

So, yes I've decided to take an-other on-line class with Shimelle. You can find her full class description here.

I scrapbook every week, and over this past year or so, I found that my albums don't have a continuity to them, they are in specific albums, but when you look at them they don't flow. So I'm hoping that this class will give me some direction in sorting them out.

I can hear you saying, 'you can do that yourself', why yes of course I can, but sometimes it just takes someone to say something, or do something and it just clicks and you find that 'light blub' moment and you think WOW I get it now, so I'm hoping this class gives me that 'light blub' moment that I need.

The class starts on 7th May, and I looking forward to seeing what it entails.

Shimelle 4x6 love

I've not done every month of these and I was curious as to how she was going to incorporation 11 photos onto one layouts. Well technically its a double but it still counts as one layout using a 6x12 photo protector in the middle.

So here is my take on the sketch. I used photos from my recent scrappy weekend in Shropshire, with October Afternoon - Sidewalk Collection.

A quick shop on how it will look in my album. One of Shimelle suggestions was to add embellishments that allows your eyes to flows across the 2 pages, which I did so starting at the top left - into the middle - then on the bottom right.

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Shimelle - Starting Point 8-9 October 2011

Another starting point layouts from Shimelle - you can find the layouts here.

and here is my version

I used the new Fancy Pants Design - Summer's Ends, which I purchased from SJ Papercrafts, here. She recently had a BOGOF offer on selected papers, and following her blog looks like she has regular bargains/specials offers, so well worth checking the shop out.

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Shimelle Sketch of the Week - 21 September 2011

This year I'm really enjoyed working with sketches, I seem to be able to work a lot better with a starting point, sometimes I stick closely to the sketch, other times they just give me a kick start that I need to get going.

So this is Shimelle sketch of the week and you can find the details here

and the is my take on the sketch. For this one I've followed the design closely.

Products used:

Patterned Papers: Crate Paper - Toybox; October Afternoon - Rocket Age; Pink Paislee

Alphas: October Afternoon - Rocket Age

Maya Road - Kraft Dollie

Embellishments - Crate Paper - Toy box; Jenni Bowlin 'flag banner'

Stamps - Technique Tuesday

Puches - Stampin' Up ; Fiskars

These photos where taken by Morag at a recent day out, (I will be using a lot of these photos in coming layouts).

When I watched Shimelle's acccompanying video, she said that she had used scrap, so I did the same, this is using pieces from my Studio Calico June 2011 'Paper Moon' kit.

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Layouts from my Weekend Crop

I realised that I've not been sharing much of my scrapping, so here are a few layouts that I did at my Solihull Crop at the weekend.

I used my Studio Calico (SC) September kit "Glee Club" and did a scraplift from the one of the SC DT team, Nicole Harper here.

Bazzil Cardstock - Vanilla

Patterned Papers - Basic Grey 'Out of Print' ; American Craft (AC) Any Tangerine; SC exclusive

Alphas : SC/AC exclusive; MME - Lime Twist

Punches : Fiskars; Stampin' Up (SU) circles

Stamps: Hero Art 'formula'; SC stamp, SC month, Pink Paislee, Technique Tuesday

Inks: Jenni Bowlins, Brown Sugar, Malted Milk,

Zing Embossing Powder ' Brown Sugar'

Embellishments: AC/Any Tangerine

Photo is of Izzie and me before we went to see Batman Live in August.

This months kit had a great camera stamp, which I know I will be using a lot.

SC exclusive paper, AC/Any Tagerine, MME

Stamp - SC camera,

Nestiies: Heart, small pinkies

Punckes: SU circle, Fiskars borders

Alphas : AC/SC exclusive

Embellishments :AC/Any Tangerine

Photo of James at our recent photoshoot with Morag

This one was using the new Fancy Pants 'off to school' collection of James and his friends on their 1st day back at school and in there new school uniforms. Design based on a Shimelle sketch.

I have done a few more but can't share at the moment, but please keep popping back to have a look.

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Shimelle Starting Point

Over on Shimelle blog she in starting a feature called 'Starting Point" find the details here,

This is my starting page,

and this is my finished layout

I've used scraps from my Studio Calico June 2011 kit.

All the papers were already cut and just needed trimming. This is such a brill idea to use all your scraps and still make a full page layout.

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Shimelle Cyber Crop - 'Let's Go Retro' Challenge

Details can be found here, and the challenge was to complete a layout with a photo older than 2011, so I used a photo from 2005 when me and my friends went to Dublin for the weekend.

Again loads of stamping, and a few bits I found when I had been clearing out my room.

Selection of stamps used : Unity Stamps; 7Gypsies; Studio Calico; MME

Shimelle Cyber Crop - Half Page Challenge

Shimelle's half page challenge can be found here

And here is my take, I decided to use the sticker from Glitz as the title, and have left off the journalling which I will be adding,now I've blogged the layout.

Products used - Sassasfras - Sunshine Broadcast; Glitz stickers; Studio Calico month stamp; Bakers Twine

Got a new punch - a cute squirrel by Fiskars, punch using Kraft cardstock and inked the edges.

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Shimelle Cyber Crop - '3 is the magic number' Challenge

Details can be found here. The challenge was to use '3' of something, so I did a row of 3 circles embellisments.

A quick one here, photo taken of me and James at Webbs Garden Centre, Droitwich. the day after I was given the 'all clear' to drive after my operation and was so exciting about being able to drive after 7 weeks, that I went too far for the first outing, and spent the all time worrying about how I was going to drive back home, which I ended up doing in 2 stages - stopping half way for a coffee - lol

Products used Studio Calico August 2011 kit (yes I purposely turned the paper upside down - like the design better this way).

Shimelle Cyber Crop - Starting Point Challenge

After spending some time trying to sort out my craft room, I decided I needed a break and what better way than to scrap, so I had a go at a couple of Shimelle's challenges from her weekend cyber crop.

As I did a few I will be adding them over the next few days, so please pop back to see what I did.

Starting Point Challenge can be found here

and here what I did, this is one page for the August Document 2011 Pages. I will upload my August pages at the beginning of September.

Photo of James 1st visit to the Theatre, which he really loved.

Products used - Studio Calico August 2011 kit

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Shimelle Sketch - 6 July 2011

Another great sketch from Shimelle, this is the sketch

And here is my layout, used photos of James 'Log Stacking' last weekend at Nana's. I love how I have used 4 photos, all the layering.

I used Studio Calico June 2011 kit - Log Stacker

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