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8 july 8 june 9 may 7 april 3 march 8 february 5 january 6 14 103 december 6 november 9 october 5 september 8 august 14 july 11 june 11 may 10 april 11 march 6 february 5 january 7 13 151 december 8 november 8 october 21 september 12 august 16 july 19 june 9 may 11 april 16 march 11 february 9 january 11 12 153 december 7 november 7 october 8 september 14 august 16 july 13 june 8 may 20 april 15 march 15 february 23 january 7 11 173 december 8 november 14 october 15 september 17 august 18 july 18 june 18 may 13 april 11 march 12 february 15 january 14 10 165 december 14 november 9 october 13 september 10 august 16 july 10 june 18 may 15 april 19 march 20 february 12 january 9 09 72 december 8 november 3 october 7 september 5 my favourite price ever the contrarian so erm maybe i forgot to say book binding and double entendre abound there s something in the air august 9 july 4 june 4 may 6 april 5 march 7 february 6 january 8 08 8 december 3 november 5 i m here to write make crack the funnies and share ideas and experiences you can make yourself at home there s tea in the pot life isn t about finding yourself life is about creating yourself george bernard shaw wednesday 30 september 2009 my favourite price my favourite price is quite likely the same as yours yep free there s nothing quite like getting something for nothing is there so i was more than happy to take home one of these sturdy 12x12 fitting canvas bags left over from some promotion and which my manager was giving away at work last week come to think of it though when i say it was something for nothing i was obliged to sit through two induction days at the time so maybe i paid for it in vital minutes of my life which i ll never get back and brain cells which died off somewhere amid the myriad power point presentations we were forced asked to sit through anyway when i mentioned to barbara my friend a colleague wonderful person all round who probably won t be reading this but on the off chance she s feeling especially brave with the internet today i ll say hello barbara when i mentioned to her that i was going to customise my bag she asked if i d do the same for her she even offered to pay which i was never going to allow so here s what i ve made for her the main floral fabric comes from the gams and garters kit from gauche alchemy rather than simply stitch it directly to the canvas bag i decided to make it into a handy front pocket i then decorated it with ribbons and fabric which i received in my stash swap with kirsty neale which i blogged here all of the buttons beads and bits sewn across the top of the pocket came from the lovely green mixed media colour kit from gauche alchemy s artfire shop then i added this little matroyshka doll button which is part of a new range of quirky embellishments from the crafty templates shop because she matched my other colours and patterns i added a few final touches such as a tab to attach a keyring etc from on the back and the ribbon on the handle i can t wait to give it to barbara to see what she thinks of it i m secretly hoping that as she moves around the campus she gets stopped by hoards of bag admirers asking where she got it from do you think it d be pushing the bounds of our friendship too far if i made up some business cards for her to hand out just in case i m now wondering what to do with my bag i m thinking paint and text but obviously you ll be the first to see it when i ve decided soon ish julie posted by julie kirk at 14 00 11 comments labels gauche alchemy kit colour kit email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 27 september 2009 ever the contrarian how s that for a declaration from someone who in her previous blog post revealed her new role as a design team member for a scrapbooking magazine yet fear ye not i have not been brainwashed into joining some manic layout burning 12x12 denying cult no anti scrapbook is actually the online class i m currently taking which is delivered by alisa burke a class she defines as being for anyone out there that is ready to do something outside the box with their photos and memories as someone who spends a large proportion of my life working with photos and memories i felt i ought to try something new add to my skills styles be open to new methods and most importantly start experimenting with some of my latest purchases somewhat subconsciously i ve been collecting a little haul of painting supplies recently i didn t really have this class in mind when i decided to invest in a few basics but now i have them this class seems like a perfect opportunity for me to get to play with them week 1 of the class has been geared around drawing togther the photos and memorabilia i want to scrap or i guess that should be anti scrap over the following weeks while doing this i ve been trying to think of an over all theme to focus on and the best i can come up with is things i ve never scrapped before and even that s going to be tricky over the last few years i ve scrapped steadily and sometimes manically and i always like to think of new topics to cover so really there s very few areas of my life i haven t touched upon at some point in my scrapbooking equally some of the events photos memories that remain un scrapped remain un scrapped for good reasons i know i share a lot but there s still a few things i keep to myself so i ve been thinking that maybe that could be my theme some of the things people might not know about me notice how that s subtley different from all of the things people might not know about me then again i may not stick to any theme at all i might approach the whole thing with a random willy nilly gung ho approach does that sound like a suitably anti scrapbook attitude to have whatever happens i can assure you of one thing i will without a shadow of a doubt at some point over the next four weeks manage to get paint on at least one inappropriate unintended surface item of clothing but then you knew that about me already didn t you posted by julie kirk at 18 39 4 comments labels online class alisa burke anti scrapbook paint email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 14 september 2009 so erm maybe i forgot to say i ve been wanting to tell you this for a while now but i couldn t now that i can i will then i ll be hiding no more secrets from you and we ll all live happily ever after ok ok then here goes there s a new scrapbook inspirations design team in town and don t you think that mrs first left third row down looks quite a lot like me that s because it is me and i m all very delighted and happy and kind of shy about it all really my other job title is reduced to a set of initials and now i can add si dt to that now before you start thinking that it s only you who i hide things from i can assure you that i can be equally as taciturn with my family case in point that s the latest issue of the magazine issue 58 october which will be in stores from the 18th of september inside there s a layout and some embellishments i created for the just the thing feature here s a tiny sneak peek of it now that cuuuute little face in the black and white photograph just happens to belong to my mam and i might just have kept the fact that i ve scrapped a photo of her as child and had it published in a magazine as little sort of surprise for her surprise sounds so much nicer than secret don t you think i m going to her house in a minute to show her her face in print and now that you ve all learned about that before her in the revealing of secrets stakes i think that makes us all even now i ve got my copy already as i have a subscription and sometimes these are delivered earlier you can subscribe here if you are that way inclined so now that i ve fessed up come clean spilled the beans let the cat out of the bag and declared my intentions i lll be back to my regular exposing of myself in no time if you want to check out the other si design team members then here they are sam ball http scrappysam blogspot com kathy bridgwater www kathyb1971 blogspot com laura buckingham http www mmwwaahh211 blogspot com jo anne cavanagh www thecruetset blogspot com karen cole http redartscrapping blogspot com morag cutts http www scrapbook junkie blogspot com jane dean http seabreezes typepad com andrea gourley www andreagourley blogspot com chloe harp http cloclo1 blogspot com cheryl johnson http www feelgoodphotos co uk blog shimelle laine http www shimelle com helen miles http lovingthetraditional blogspot com anita mundt http anitamundt typepad com photography jen naulls http jensjourney1 blogspot com anne parry http anneparry blogspot com charlotte poole http www charlotte twinkletwinkle blogspot com mary anne walters ukscrappers co uk as to whether they all expose themselves regularly too well you ll just have to have a look for yourself thank you to those who ve already wished me well it s very much appreciated i ll be around again soon julie xx posted by julie kirk at 17 50 19 comments labels new design team scrapbook inspirations email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 9 september 2009 book binding and double entendre abound i ve been spending lots of time lately making mini books and as with anything i do for too long i start to get bored so i ve been looking into different ways to bind them and to add interest to the ones i ve already made using the straightforward book ring method such as this my friend hannah banana happens to love flamingos really love them really really love them in fact have a look here for documentary evidence of this fact see what i mean so i was delighted when upon opening my gauche alchemy pink parts mixed media colour kit i discovered the perfect item to add to my album cover a pink flamingo cocktail stirrer i attached it to my cover by stitching its legs to a 7gypsies pouch which in turn i adhered with a strong double sided tape the postal mark stamp was from studio calico i want this album to reflect both hannah s and my love for colours and patterns so i used green book rings rather than the usual silver despite this i still wanted to add interest to that slightly empty look of plain bookrings i ve often tied ribbon around them in the past but thought i d try something a bit different on this so now if i get through this next sentence without making some indelicate double entrendre well i ll deserve a medal here goes i again turned to my pink parts to bring an element of fun to the project stop it all of the plastic beads and charms came from the kit and simply slid onto the rings i love little plasticy things like these that little pink safety pin fair makes me swoon in its wonderfulness i find it all so reminiscent of an 80s childhood in fact i remember using lots of similar bits and bobs on a layout last year beneath which someone left the comment i wish i d saved all the little bits of plastic crap i had as a kid i believe that s what one would call a backhanded compliment no i punched the holes using my big bite no i m not bragging despite my party trick some years ago of being able to fit my fist in my mouth don t ask please the crop a dile big bite is a strong hole punching tool which pucnched easily through my double layered chipbard cover to decorate around my punched holes i first stamped with a fancy pants doodled flower design over the hole then heat embossed using a neon embossing powder in hot pink and if you know hannah you know that no other colour could be more appropriate lastly i added some eyelets to give a more finished finish if you see what i mean i didn t have enough of the papers i chose for my front cover to do the back as weel so i chose ones whose colour ways matched while the patterns clashed the overall effect reminds me of a patchwork quilt and that can never ever be a bad thing if you d like to see some of the pages inside my album then have a look here here and here if you have any other examples of interesting ways to bind mini books please do share and if you have any backhanded compliments about my work then feel free to leave me a comment below i have a broad mind and luckily i have the shoulders to match soon enough julie posted by julie kirk at 11 55 6 comments labels gauche alchemy colour kits pink hannahbanana mini book bookrings binding plastic email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 1 september 2009 there s something in the air it s september which means that all things autumnal and back to school are in the air and i m ambivalent about that for a start there s the fact that i much prefer warmth and sunshine to well to just about anything else that crispness which has crept into the air in the last few weeks while it has it s own fresh charm brings with it flashbacks or maybe flashforwards to dark evenings where i never feel like sitting and creating as much as i do while it s still light outside don t get me wrong there are lots of things i do like about the autumn such as settling down in front of sunday night comfort tv dramas and having an almost legitimate reason to buy new boots until those events are well and truly upon us ok ok so i admit that i ve already begun trying on boots it s never too early to equip oneself sartorially appropriately for an impending meteorological shift never until those events are upon us i m going to just hang on to every last possible t shirt but no cardigan moment that i can and as those colder days advance i ll be turning to photographs like these to bring a summery cheer to my days eating an icecream in whitby in july is the epitome of a traditional english summertime activity and therefore deserves to be scrapped it s another layout for my mini album recording the giddy adventures embarked upon by hannah and i i used a vintage magazine article from my gauche alchemy ball chain kit as the backdrop mainly because the colours matched those in the photos my journalling block was from the same kit lots of the embellishments the pearls gems pins play money came from my gauche alchemy pink mixed media colour kit sometimes in scrapping art choosing an outfit cooking you need to know when to stop adding ingredients before you spoil what it is you ve just spent precious energy putting together equally there are times when you need to ignore your inner minimalist and just keep adding more and more until the thing finally comes to life at least that s how i felt while making this page as i sat adding another element another patterned paper another rub on etc etc i m really pleased that i ended up liking it rather than wishing i d stopped several embellishments back however i had started the day by proclaiming i think i ve forgotten how to scrap so there was nowhere for my artistic self esteem to go but up after that or else i d have been hanging up my craft knife and seeking out another less scrapbooking shaped hobby i hope that today is the 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