These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things....

Some of my favourite things in life are the colour pink and a black and white stripe. Fun Fact: I have an especially deep love for horizontial black and white striped shirts, I really can't resit them and have then in all the styles from singlets to jumpers and in all kinds of stripe variants....obsessed.

 So this is a card that is made up of a few of my favourite things, actually a lot of things becuase I do love black, white and pink as a colour story and like a magpie anything shiny and glittered will always have my heart. When I saw this Creative8 stencil at my LSS, I knew that it had to come home with me. I have never stencilled with black ink before but I love the finished look, I wil have to play again with using black with stencils.

 Speaking of favourite things, that striped paper.
Not only do I love a stripe but that particular stripe comes from a piece of really old pattern paper that I have been hoarding for a long while.
For those who are old timers in this hobby you might remember a little company called KI Memories and some collections they bought out under the Love, Elise brand. I LOVED these lines and I loved Elsie, her scrapbooking style was a bit different to mine but she wasd a breath of fresh air for me. She loved bold colours and patterns and in terms of age and lifestyle was more my lane. I still have a few sheets stashed away from her collections and I love being able to pull them out from time to time. Getting the maximum use out of your supplies makes me super happy and I love when I can pull out something that I have had for 15+ years and incorporate it with new supplies, that makes my heart happy.

A little big project called project life....

I haven't been posting much lately on here or any of my socials to be fair but I have been actively working on a 2021 Project Life album this year.
I have always wanted to tackle project life even if it was just once but I always found it too overwhelming or I was too disorganised to keep it going past January....yep 4 weeks was just too much for me 😂😂
This year I seem to have found a system that works and I have been keeping on top of it all.

The secret for me at least is a portable photo printer, who would have thought that all that photo editing and uploading to online or a machine in store and having to make the time to go into a store and then realising you have sized your photos all wrong and you have to start all over again could be an inspiration and creativity killer.

I bought a Canon Selphy at the start of Australias covid lockdowns starting last year because I figured that if I was at home a lot I would need some photos to scrapbook so I was going to use that time to craft my little heart out. I ended up not needing the Selphy because our lockdowns were so minimal where I am and I was able to work the whole time but I did start printing the odd photos here and there, that was when the realisation crept in that maybe this is exactly what I have been looking for to help me get started on that Project Life album that I tried to start 7 years ago and that never made it past January.