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Scrappin' Up!

I have to include a scrapbook page in this blog every now and then, because scrapbooking is my craft therapy - it's my selfish crafting that I do just for me.  It's creative, it's nostalgic, and it's a chance to share memories with my family which is an experience I treasure in itself.  The Badger Cub loves to look at scrapbooks (I think this is mainly based on the narcissistic thrill he gets from most of the pictures being of him!), and I love that this is something we can share. 

Below is some of our trip to London, pictured because I actually remembered to keep a ticket to include!

Au Revoir, Colour Challenge!

Shall we catch up on the colour challenges?  This is actually the last lot for this year's In Colour Challenge, and I'm proud to say that I have completed every challenge!  Yay!  It was nice to remember near the end of the challenge that it isn't just cards that can be made - I love this little tin, and I will be doing a class on tins in November, where we will be making different shapes and sizes of tin just in time for gift packaging for Christmas.  Handy, eh?

The final card below is actually not a colour challenge, but made with colours that I THOUGHT were included in the colour challenge.  I'm a muppet.  But I liked it anyway, so thought I'd include it!

The Longest Birthday Card Ever (possibly)

Ever made a concertina card?  I have, a few times, but never one this long!  Yep, that's the whole alphabet on there, colours in rainbow order, with "Happy 6th Birthday Freddie!" on the reverse. 

It folded up to about 3cm thick - that's not a box in the gold bow, it's just the card folded up, believe it or not!  Although I tried to pick it up off the floor and fold it up a number of times over Fred's birthday week it always ended up out again in a matter of minutes, so it's now been turned into an alphabet frieze on his wall.  Which is a better fate than I had expected it to have 😂

Badger vs Bear

Oh, this bear and I... We've had issues in the past, but he behaved reasonably well for this card, so I won't go into that just now.

I have been so taken with Hancrafted Creations' mini albums that I decided to try to come up with a smaller, quicker version that could be made in a class but still look really special.  This is what I came up with.  Each fold-out stage is shown in the pictures below, and I love the little extra details that the doilies add - they go really well with Mr Bear, I think!  The Share What You Love DSP also gives a vintage, slightly distressed look, which I think combines with the other elements to make a lovely shabby chic card for someone special.  And all those blank spaces?  Just right for little photos, messages, memories or mementos - just as long as they're reasonably flat, of course!

Autumn Days...

It's definitely autumn now, and I just can't get enough of these leaf skeleton stamps from the Rooted in Nature set.  They are just beautiful - so detailed and delicate, and perfect for adding either a motif or just a hint of texture.  They certainly don't shy away from anything in these colours, mind - layered over a Bokeh Dot background I think they really pop, and the sentiment and slightly distressed edges to the card set them off really nicely.

Oooh, I think a hot chocolate and a fuzzy jumper might be in order...

Sun, Sand and Scrapbooking

Another scrapbook page today, this time using up some old (but treasured!) DSP.  How sunny does this look?  Although I'll let you in on a secret - the weekend these pictures were taken was the weekend the heatwave finally broke, so we were lucky to get pics like this - but at the time I think we felt even luckier to get the rain.

Some people have Paris, but Mr Badger and I will always have Cleethorpes... 😆

Throwback... oh, wait...

Is it Thursday?  No?  OK, we'll scrap Throwback Thursday and do a Memory Monday instead.

This came up in my Facebook memories and it made me smile, because this is the card I designed for my very first ever class! Aw!  It's funny, but I look back on most of the cards I made early on and I cringe, but I actually really like this design, even though it was one of the first.  I guess the sentiment turned out to be a lucky charm for me: more than three years later I'm still here, still demonstrating, and still loving the stampin!