So Much Scrapping! {Scrap Sunday}

I am still busily working my way through all of the prompts from Shimelle's class Something From (Almost) Nothing and I'm crediting it with my rediscovered love for scrapbooking. It really has been inspirational.

As part of the class, there was an option to create a 'Celebrate Life' album and, along with each technique prompt, came a prompt for creating an album page. I didn't start working on my album straight away. Initially I wanted to focus on working through the techniques and finishing off some older pages, but I've now started work on my album and have completed a few more 6 x 12, horizontal pages.

My first page is my current favourite. (Don't you love how that happens? A new page always seems to hold your heart until the next one is finished.) It's a photograph of my university friend, Sarah, on our trip to Austrailia almost seven years ago. *Sigh*

It's quite detail heavy and took me two evenings to finish - because I hand sewed the rolled ribbons before adding them to the layout - but I think it's worth it. As I said, it's my current favourite!

This second page is a small list of some of things I am grateful for - the things that I want to celebrate and seems perfect for a summary page in my album. I mainly used scrap cardstock to complete the journalling and make the flowers, but added in a pleated ribbon to give the page a little bit of lift.

And lastly, a layout which has been forming in my head since late last year when I went with my folks to Ness Gardens. I managed to snap a few portraits of my parents and this one, of their almost matching trousers, socks and shoes, became a firm favourite. It makes me smile every time I look at it and deserves a place in my scrapbook album.

I pulled out all of my floral stamps and, using a brown distress ink, used up all of my small scraps of papers to make accents for the page. It was a lot of cutting out, but I love the autumnal effect and the lift it's given to an otherwise simple page.

So, that's it for this week, but since the class has been extended into April with bonus materials and challenges, I think you'll be seeing more scrapbooking.