An interview and a Sketch

As I mentioned in last weeks post (and the week before I think) I had interviewed my son. He is 4 1/2 and I have often seen pages of interviews with children and thought what a great way to record some of their thoughts and favourite things. So now that he is old enough to answer the questions with some consistency we had our first interview. I hope I will remember to do this on a semi regular basis - maybe once a year. Below is the layout I created from the interview. I have used Bazzill Cardstock - Road Runner and White, American Crafts Metropolitan Chicago (great colours for boys), American Crafts white foam dacquiri thickers (which have just arrived back into stock) and RW Raspberry Whirl Alpha Stickers - Raven.



Also this week, I scrapped the Sketch Challenge from last weeks blog. Below is a reminder of the sketch and then my interpretation of it. I didn't want to cut down my photos too much so I made the page larger than I first imagined I would and moved the title into the bottom box rather than sitting below the patterned paper. Again I used the American Crafts Metropolitan Patterned Paper range, Bazzill Lily White and Whirlpool and Amercian crafts black dacquiri thickers. Emma joined me for the sketch challenge this week and her interpretation is 2nd. Thanks Emma for sending me your layout, I will email you your 20% store wide discount voucher.

Have a great week and if you are stopping by regularly to read the blog, please join as a follower so I know who you are and say hi by leaving a comment (click on the comment tag below) to let me know you were here.

Sketch Challenge

I had every intention of sharing a layout I had scrapped this week of my 4 year old and an interview I had with him recently. However, as the week goes by something usually goes wrong, and this week was no exception, I refilled my printer ink and now it's not working properly :( So that will layout will have to wait until next week.


Instead I have a sketch challenge for you and an older layout. I would love you to join me in using this sketch to create a layout this week. You can email your page to me at lee@rememberwhen.com.au. I will randomly choose someone's layout for a 20% discount voucher storewide and announce the person next Thursday.



Below is a layout I did at the getaway last year. It is very simple and thank you to Nicole for the layout. It is a lift from one of her pages scrapped on the weekend that was used by a number of people - one of the great things about scrapping with others :)


Have a great week and next week I will have the interview page finished and my interpretation of the sketch challenge.

Getaway

Well a busy week and no time for scrapping, so I thought I would share some layouts with you that I scrapped during the getaway last year.

July last year was the first Remember When Getaway since I took over the shop. I searched for accomodation that I thought would fit my image of what the getaway should be. Being an online store I don't know many of you, but many people I run in to who scrap have children and/ or very busy lives, so my goal was to find a place that would allow the weekend to be a real break. Peaceful and relaxing with nothing to do but scrap. So I found Noonaweena. My first reaction was the same as the girls who came on the weekend - 'Wow', 'It's Perfect', 'How long can we stay'.

So with accomodation sorted, I made sure all food would be taken care of (remember I said the only thing to do was scrap) and plenty of Bazzill was on hand...

and I was ready.

The weekend was a really enjoyable time, with a mixture of people who were brand new to scrapping through to those who had been scrapping for quite some time. The thing I love about all the people I meet through scrapbooking is how generous and friendly they are. With a group of people like this you are certainly never short for inspiration or ideas or someone to chat to. We scrapped for hours, late into the night (even though you knew you could keep scrapping the next day). There was plenty of space for everyone. So we set up on arrival and packed away reluctantly on the Sunday afternoon. There was time to squeeze in a couple of workshops and a few challenges, some freebies to give away and if you needed there was space to do your own thing as well (a bush walk, tennis, spa)

So if you would like some time to relax, meet new people and indulge yourself in someone else doing the cooking and unlimited scrapping make sure you book in to the March getaway. I would love to have you join me for the weekend. you can book through the website www.rememberwhen.com.au , by phone 0412 016 426 or emailing me at lee@rememberwhen.com.au.

Places are very limited in March so grab a friend (or 2) or just come by yourself and join me for a great weekend. I have never completed so many pages at once and below are a few of the pages I scrapped last July.

Next week I will be back with an interview I had with my 4 year old this week and a sketch challenge. Have a great week and I can't wait to hear from those of you who are keen to join me in March.

Using the January Pack

This week I pulled out the January Patterned Paper pack and scrapped a couple of layouts. The colours are great in these American crafts papers and the just the edge cardstock, and Bazzill tropical flowers co ordinated perfectly. I will definately be using the papers to do some more layouts very soon.

In the first layout I have used Bazzill cardstock with the Spring & Summer - Tea Cups paper. Along the bottom I added a strip of the Bazzill just the edge cardstock (Ruby Red) and a lasercut title. Most of the time I end up leaving my lasercuts raw - the way they come when you buy them, but I will soon be venturing out to see what else I can do with them. Often I use photos in my layouts that have been taken outside and at the beach so the raw feel and colour fits perfectly. I only used a title on this layout as I didn't have anything I really wanted to say, I just adore the photo.



The second layout I scrapped this week was again of my little girl (the colours in the pack didn't really suit Jake's photos - lol) and I chose a photo that is taken from a different perspective - behind. Most of the time we take photos from in front, with faces and smiles, but every now and again it's nice to step behind to take the photo. I challenge you this week to step behind your subjects and see what you come up with. If you feel like it please email me what you come up with as I would love to share some of them next week.

When I took this particular photo I was thinking about the curls. I have straight hair and so does everyone in my family. So when my son had curls when he was young it was all new to me. Unfortunately as his hair grew and we cut it the curls stopped growing back. Jaime has more curls than Jake did and hopefully if I don't have to cut them too much they will stay around for a bit longer.

Again I have used Bazzill cardstock and I found as I scrapped this week that Java really helped to ground the bright colours in the American Crafts papers. The American Crafts patterned paper is Spring & Summer - Saucer. I also cut out some of the butterflies from the Spring & Summer - English Garden patterned paper to use as embellishments. Again I used the Bazzill just the edge, but this time I cut the strip up and used the butterflies individually and a small left over piece for the tag in the right hand corner from the strip I used on the previous layout. This is the first I have really used the edge strips and they are great. Very versatile. Some of the packets are just pattern strips, but others such as the Ruby red have strips of butterflies and flowers that you can easily cut up and use individually as I did this time. The title is American Craft Thickers.



Because I have had so much fun using the January Patterned Papers I have decided to leave the January Pack Special on for another weekend, so grab one quickly before they run out. Also if you are oohing and ahhhing over the patterned papers that we are getting in, order a patterned paper subscription as they offer 10% off the retail of the papers and when you have received 12 packs the 13th one is complimentary.

Have a great week, go and stand behind your subjects for me and snap a few photos (don't forget to share them with me at lee@rememberwhen.com.au) and I will be back next Thursday. Please sign up as a follower and leave a comment below to let me know you stopped by.