Me Scrapping Me

So much to do, so little time again and I am so far behind with my blog posts :-( I was supposed to blog this during May already!

I took part in the (INTER)NATIONAL SCRAPBOOKING MONTH Chalenge over at Let’s Scrap (http://letsscrap.ning.com) and one of the challenges is to do a double page LO, using the sketch provided and scrap about yourself scrapping – you can check it out here : http://letsscrap.ning.com/forum/topics/insm12-6-scrap-yourself-scrapping 

The Sketch :

I hardly ever go to scrap groups nor scrap days or conventions, because I live in a little town in Namibia. So, I am the one teaching classes ;-) I also like to scrap with my daughter whenever we are together, but alas, that doesn’t happen very often. Other than scrapping with my DD, I prefer to scrap on my own, because I like to spread my stash out to pick and choose whatever I want ;-) . . . . ending up with a very untidy scrap roomLOL. I would never have done this LO out of my own! Now, Enikö got me out of bed very early on a PUBLIC HOLIDAY (4th of May 2012) so I could take a shower, get dressed and put lipstick on LOL - had to look pretty for the photos, don’t you think? I had to invade DH’s picture framing table, because my scrap table is stacked with half finished projects . I got the paparazzi to take pictures of me scrapping and after a photo shoot of 60 plus photos, these were the only ones I could really use :-(  It was late already and the light isn’t very good, so the photos are not fantastic!

Thank you Enikö - http://enikodelisle.typepad.com/enikos-playhouse - for a great sketch and challenge! I would never have done this LO out of my own!

Materials used:

Patterned Papers : My Mind’s Eye – Kraft.Funday

Alpha Stickers – On the coffee mug – SCRAPAHOLIC (Left Page)

Banner – The three tags on the Right Page

Brads – top left next to Swirly and also as flower centres – all black brads

Eyelets – Used in the Tags

Buttons – I sewed the 2^nd ME onto two chipboard buttons

Chipboard – (All from Enmarc Crafts South Africa : www.enmarc.co.za) Title, Flourishes, Large Photo Corners on the photos Left Page, Curly border across bottom of LO, Photo Frame middle Right Page

Flourishes or Scrolls : Chipboard Flourishes

Flowers : Can’t miss those

Inking : Almost everything

Matting : Behind 4 of the photos

Metal Clip : Used 3 – 2 on photos and 1 on a tag

Stick Pin – In the black ribbon knot and in the large yellow-cream flower, bottom right

Staples - ‘Mended’ my torn photos with staples

Stamping – Stamped the Chipboard flourishes

Twine – Used in the tag banner

Ribbon – Gold and black top right photo, narrow gold in tags and around mini bottle

A few close-ups

 Thank you for looking and please leave a little Love while you are here :-)