Well I seem to have neglected this poor little blog for a few weeks, but that's about to change. I've signed up for not one but TWO fantastic online classes starting in November.. foolish, maybe - but I couldn't resist either class.
It wasn't a hard job convincing myself to join in with Shimelle's new class 'Blogging for Scrapbookers' - I'm certainly in need of a mojo-boost as far as blogging goes. I'm hoping this class will unravel some of the mysteries of blog-writing and help me to customise and improve Paper Obsession.
And then I spotted a new class on Julie Kirk and Kirsty Neale's wonderful Copy + Paste blog - it's called 12 Days: A Copy + Paste Christmas. It promises masses of projects, downloads and tutorials 'designed to help you make the most of your creative supplies in the run-up to Christmas'.. not only lots of ideas for Christmas gifts but the projects can be adapted for other times of the year.
Meanwhile, I have rediscovered the joy of scrapping in 12x12 format, making plenty of cards and trying to catch up with various projects I've had on the go for ages. Here are my latest efforts...
This was in response to the Pencil Lines blog's Sketch 155, which I spotted on Shimelle's blog, here... Charlie and Harry just love playing 'peepo' in the shelters at Dulwich Park and looked so cute peeping through the windows.
I have used various ribbons and green sequin mesh on Bazzill brown and blue Dotted Swiss cardstock; the letters are Jillibean Soup's corrugated kraft alphas which I painted orange.
The bird was cut from orange felt using the Spellbinder Shapeabilities Bird set. I added a hand-cut wing and a blue button eye, then stuck it on an orange flower.
This next page shows the boys in the park on a sunny afternoon, running around and picking dandelion clocks. The low sunlight on the dandelions was beautiful, inspiring me to take loads of photos. The papers are from Cosmo Cricket's 'Earth Love' range. I made the photo collage in Picasa, Google's free photo-editing software.
Finally, here is a layout featuring the boys having a delicious grass salad in the garden last week. Harry would actually have eaten it, too, if I hadn't shouted 'Harry, no!!!' (after taking the photo, of course..). I stamped the orange cardstock with my new Hero Arts Designer Woodgrain stamp which I'm in LOVE with at the moment.
Here's a quick close-up to show the woodgrain:
And that's all for now.. I'll be back soon with more crafty bits and pieces to share. Sooner than last time, anyway, I promise!
