Thursday, July 8, 2010
Love your Pictures, Love your Pages class
I've been unable to find time to scrapbook for a while, hence my quiet blog also. Hoping that having signed up for Love your Pictures, Love your Pages at shimelle.com will be a bit of an inspiration to me - but I have already managed to start three days late!
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Ny favourite journalling techniques
I was looking over some of my previous posts, and which are my favourite journalling ideas that I have used again and again in my own scrapping.
The idea of using a kenning was a helpful one – and fun too.
What’s in a name? works for placenames as well as people’s names.
Why do you like this photo? Works for 99% of the photos I scrap. A question you can always ask and answer. And then no doubt other aspects of the photo will come to mind and before you know it you need a whole journalling page!
And I haven’t done this one again – text messages – but it was such a successful layout that I’m pretty sure I will soon! And that was one of the first layouts I had the idea for and THEN took the picture :)
The idea of using a kenning was a helpful one – and fun too.
What’s in a name? works for placenames as well as people’s names.
Why do you like this photo? Works for 99% of the photos I scrap. A question you can always ask and answer. And then no doubt other aspects of the photo will come to mind and before you know it you need a whole journalling page!
And I haven’t done this one again – text messages – but it was such a successful layout that I’m pretty sure I will soon! And that was one of the first layouts I had the idea for and THEN took the picture :)
Friday, June 20, 2008
Transform your face
Face of the Future
Upload a photo of a face and see it in a variety of transformations including as a younger or older person, painted by botticelli or modigliani - you can morph two faces together and other interesting tweaks!
Great for a "see into the future" layout?
Upload a photo of a face and see it in a variety of transformations including as a younger or older person, painted by botticelli or modigliani - you can morph two faces together and other interesting tweaks!
Great for a "see into the future" layout?
Sunday, May 11, 2008
When I feel overwhelmed
Whenever I feel overwhelmed - by clutter, or by things to do - so that my creativity starts to suffer (and worse, my sleep starts to suffer!) I ask myself this question:
What can I do that will give me the greatest sense of accomplishment today?
Sometimes it may be a creative thing - giving myself time to complete a layout or two, make a card, allow myself time to shuffle through my papers. Sometimes it's something very much more mundane: seeing the bottom of the washing basket, phoning up someone I've been putting off.
Still, however, I find sometimes things hang over me and worry me more than once. It's silly to let that go on - recent examples have been getting round to applying for a passport, finding my birth certificate that I'd lost in the overflowing paperwork pile...
But when I finally received my new passport, and when I found the birth certificate (in the box of papers I had already thrown away, then decided to look through one more time!) I DIDN'T feel a sense of accomplishment. Despite the disproportionate stress not doing the task had caused, I didn't feel all that much better when I completed it... it was just high time! And what gives me the greatest sense of accomplishment? Clear kitchen surfaces, a dining room table clear of the usual flotsam and jetsam of family life and ready for a meal to be laid (or a creative session to start), a clean loo.... have I become a housewife in my middle age????? !!!
No - I still HATE housework with a passion. I just like the results. It was great when I could afford a cleaner, because every Thursday evening the family knuckled down and tidied up (which they would never do just for me!) before the cleaners came on Friday, and every Friday I sat in a clean and tidy house, without even cooking to do because we also had Friday as takeaway night. And the whole weekend stretched ahead with the house tidy so we could do useful family things and not chores. Maybe I really need to find the money for that again - in fact - that's a great incentive for making my new business work - if the business brings in money I spend my time doing what I want to do and hire someone else to do the housework!
My grandmother used to say "What every woman needs is a wife..."
She was right. (Think about it)
Or maybe: "Every scrapper should have a cleaner!"
What do you think?
Sometimes it may be a creative thing - giving myself time to complete a layout or two, make a card, allow myself time to shuffle through my papers. Sometimes it's something very much more mundane: seeing the bottom of the washing basket, phoning up someone I've been putting off.
Still, however, I find sometimes things hang over me and worry me more than once. It's silly to let that go on - recent examples have been getting round to applying for a passport, finding my birth certificate that I'd lost in the overflowing paperwork pile...
But when I finally received my new passport, and when I found the birth certificate (in the box of papers I had already thrown away, then decided to look through one more time!) I DIDN'T feel a sense of accomplishment. Despite the disproportionate stress not doing the task had caused, I didn't feel all that much better when I completed it... it was just high time! And what gives me the greatest sense of accomplishment? Clear kitchen surfaces, a dining room table clear of the usual flotsam and jetsam of family life and ready for a meal to be laid (or a creative session to start), a clean loo.... have I become a housewife in my middle age????? !!!
No - I still HATE housework with a passion. I just like the results. It was great when I could afford a cleaner, because every Thursday evening the family knuckled down and tidied up (which they would never do just for me!) before the cleaners came on Friday, and every Friday I sat in a clean and tidy house, without even cooking to do because we also had Friday as takeaway night. And the whole weekend stretched ahead with the house tidy so we could do useful family things and not chores. Maybe I really need to find the money for that again - in fact - that's a great incentive for making my new business work - if the business brings in money I spend my time doing what I want to do and hire someone else to do the housework!
My grandmother used to say "What every woman needs is a wife..."
She was right. (Think about it)
Or maybe: "Every scrapper should have a cleaner!"
What do you think?
Friday, May 9, 2008
New ways to display photos?
Get your photo, logo or picture on an abundance of different items.
Try
moo.com (interesting stickerbooks, customisations for greetings cards and the like)
or
orangehedgehog.co.uk (including a thermochromic mug that you put a pic on which is only visible when full of hot drink...)
Try
moo.com (interesting stickerbooks, customisations for greetings cards and the like)
or
orangehedgehog.co.uk (including a thermochromic mug that you put a pic on which is only visible when full of hot drink...)
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Scrappers' links
A couple more helpful blogs this time.
Sketches and more:
http://www.littlebookofsketches.blogspot.com/
Craft Robo GSDs and more (in German)
http://meinekleinescrapwelt.blogspot.com/
Sketches and more:
http://www.littlebookofsketches.blogspot.com/
Craft Robo GSDs and more (in German)
http://meinekleinescrapwelt.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Titles with double meanings
I've been musing on titles that are not quite puns, as they don't have the obvious humour, but nevertheless have more than one meaning:
- It's a walk in the park
- It’s all relative
- What A star! (for someone who's scored well at GCSE)
- Hair today
- Calendar Girl
- Hold the front page!
- Picture perfect
- Hair raising
- Top Gear
- Circle
- Marry together
- Rules of engagement
- Laws
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