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ow there s going to be at least one familiar face at the party all you need do now is sign up or enter my giveaway for a free pass how to enter leave me a comment on this post making it clear you d like to win that s it or if you d like your name entered into the draw twice then also tell me which crafting supply you think would make a good party outfit or accessory for example is there a particular patterned paper you d like a dress made from or a kind of embellishment you could dangle from your ears edited to add i ll announce the winner asap after the closing date however please bear in mind that i ll need to be able to contact you if you win so if you need to leave an anonymous comment that s ok but please direct me to a blog twitter account or something so i know who you are and can let you know you ve won deadline for entries 08 00 uk time thursday 20th october 2011 note if you have already signed up to the pretty paper party you can still enter if you win shimelle will either refund your sign up fee or donate the pass to a friend of your choice the class itself began this morning but hey as with any good party it s okay to arrive fashionably late also the class has no deadlines everyone receives permanent access to all the class materials so anyone can rsvp to the party at any time good luck and if this class isn t for you please consider passing the details of the giveaway on to a friend i m going to go and get my party frock on julie posted by julie kirk at 10 56 77 comments labels shimelle shimelle com pretty paper party giveaway competition win special guest scrapbooking paper email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 15 october 2011 overheard it s ok the council make them from fairy pillows hi i thought it was about time i shared an overheard with you which i ll do any minute now but you should know i m trying to eek them out and ration them because my back catalogue is getting smaller my campus overheards are becoming quite rare an endangered species i don t know what i ve been doing wrong lately but i either need to start hanging around in more lectures and cafes on campus or i need to clean out my ears i ll see if i can do both over the next few weeks until which time here s one i heard earlier scene i was crossing the campus on 19 02 10 to be precise yes i do keep such detailed records thanks for asking behind a group of students discussing the frosty icy weather when one of them shared this male student i slipped and nutted our front door now at this point in his tale you might be thinking something along the lines of ouch nasty sounds like a lucky escape i wonder if it left a bruise but really there s no need to fret about the possibility of brain damage for as he went on but it s one of the council doors not a solid oak one so i didn t mind that much you know that phrase where there s no sense there s no feeling yeah that julie posted by julie kirk at 22 28 7 comments labels overheard conversations university campus friends doors email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 12 october 2011 purple phase purple with teal coral black hello hello it s a rainy old day here and i m wearing all black and brown so i m going to indulge in a splash of colour with today s palette and the project i made with it i m hoping to show that it is possible to use lilac in a non twee non cute manner it is possible i swear all you need is orange or coral if you want to be fancy about it which i do the inspiration for this scheme came from the seagull illustration i cut from a 1970s children s book the colours from each of the additional items i added were all taken from him i inked the edges of the lilac basic grey backing paper to reflect the colours on the wings but this meant the image blended in too well and was lost so i added the spotted paper in a deeper punchier shade the striped strip helped tie in the purple and teal shades the 7gypsies word sticker and jillibean baker s twine picked out the yellow in the beak and the bunting stickers by lilyb designs picked out all of the shades i d used and that all important shade of coral came from his legs and i repeated this with a little scrap of crocheted trimming in the ideal shade i love it when i find just the right thing to match so maybe next time a lilac card project or outfit feels in danger of straying into too cute territory try breaking up the cool shades with a lively touch of coral just think seagull card what could possibly go wrong i ve got another outfit post on it s way using similar shades as today s palette so i ll see you then julie posted by julie kirk at 16 37 9 comments labels purple phase blog series autumn purple colour palette combinations colours cardmaking greetings card seagull email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 10 october 2011 purple phase guest blogger sian fair hello you to kick off a new week in style i m thrilled to introduce you to purple phase s first guest blogger sian fair and as we re going to be kicking things off we could do worse than doing it in sian s boots trust me or scroll down if you don t i ll let her speak for herself guest post from sian this post comes to you courtesy of a pair of boots purple ones obviously i posted a picture of them on my blog and they caught julie s eye and she said maybe mmm sian s having a purple moment let s see what she thinks so i d better be honest let s get this right in the open i spent years loathing purple didn t like it at all until one day i spotted a felt bag sitting in a shop window i went back again and again and eventually i brought it home and when i looked at it carefully i started to see what it was telling me about purple it s rich and warm but it doesn t push itself forward it can be a backdrop a background for so many other different colours just look at the collection there is on my bag blues and green yellow and burgundy i saw the light i began choosing a purple piece and layering one of these colours on top then i swapped round and added purple accents to a different base and that s how i moved on from a bag to a pair of purple boots they re big boots but they go with almost anything sian thank you sian i love the layout especially the insight in the journaling into what you ve been wearing the boots with if you don t know sian s blog you ought to and you might also be interested to hear she s a design team member for scrap 365 a brand new scrapbooking magazine due for launch next month my next purple guest well she s not purple her project is will be here in a couple of weeks time and until then you re stuck with me i ll be back in a day or two see you soon julie posted by julie kirk at 10 18 14 comments labels purple phase blog series autumn purple colour palette combinations colours sian fair from high in the sky boots scrapbooking layout bag email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 7 october 2011 purple phase purple with pink red denim hi hi we re a couple of weeks into the purple phase now it s running until the end of november so i thought i d take two minutes to check how it s going so how s it going if you already like purple have you been tempted to try any of the colour combinations so far a few people have let me know about their blog posts and they ve now been pinned to the pinterest board show me yours if you didn t like purple before or you didn t think that you liked purple are you a convert yet have there been any palettes in particular you d consider trying anything seem wearable yet thanks to those who ve been in touch so far both here and on twitter this week the words i thought of you when i was playing with the purple mist were music to my ears as i m never quite sure who s reading listening so to find that out was just so much fun so was learning that a painting on a restaurant wall reminded someone of my colour palettes and how did i learn this she tweeted me while she was there having her lunch opposite the painting the whole scenario made me smile lots ok now all the fun stuff s out of the way it s time to move on to the all important business of convincing to you wear purple when i blogged the previous colour palette from a page in my journal the one with plum fuchsia cream it reminded me of a retro floral summery top i have so that was the starting point for today s combination hopefully it will show how the palettes can easily crossover from craft projects to outfits and vice versa so here it is i think i paid the grand sum of 1 for it in a sale at internacionale years ago i wanted to use it as a way to show an easy way to introduce purple to your wardrobe as part of a pattern mixed in with other more familiar colours and as a part of a very casual look it s certainly not particularly the easiest item to wear it s very bright very patterned and that little frill on the shoulder really distracts me and i probably wear it more in the winter than summer despite the palette and design feeling initially quite spring summery i m much more comfortable in it when i wear a cardigan over the top i find shades of purple are made much more wearable usable when paired with natural shades and neutrals so this charcoal brown cardigan feels like a good choice to tone things down imagine if i wore a matching lilac cardy with it it wouldn t be the same outfit it might be pretty but it wouldn t have the same relaxed casual feel and as for the jeans well they go with purple because they go with everything everything so i had my splash of colour and i added in some safe neutrals and or denim now what remember last time i extolled the virtues of balancing out colours in any scheme by repeating them well that s what i tried to do with the shoes top internacionale cardigan h m current season jeans primark shoes by converse so there we go another palette another outfit using purple another glimpse into both my wardrobe and my tiny back garden i ll be back on monday with the first of several posts created by guest bloggers so make sure you swing by to see sian fair s fabulous take on purple phase until then then julie posted by julie kirk at 02 00 5 comments labels purple phase blog series autumn purple colour palette combinations colours clothes outfit pink red denim cardigan converse email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 5 october 2011 journal lsned 25 30 hello september certainly went out in a blaze of glorious heat leaving me no excuse for not sitting at the garden table last saturday and not moving until my learn something new every day journal was finished it was a dirty job but you know i struggled through now here are the final fruits of my lsned labours sept 24 that s the page with the dr who reference which i blogged earlier this week here sept 25 look dry hands let me assure you that i am in fact a good driver it s just that james does 99 9 of the driving when we go out together so he doesn t often get chauffeured around he always used to find it hard to be a passenger but not so this time progress sept 26 seclusion while making these pages i stumbled across an interesting alternative to splashing white paint around i splash my white poster pen around instead i had a white sharpie poster paint pen which was running low on paint and i kept having to really shake it up i found that after doing this the poaint sometimes easily splattered out when i removed the lid so i started doing it on purpose shake it up remove lid flick the wrist as if you re from hogwarts result if you can t find a white sharpie pen then posca do a very similar version i have one it s the one i use properly sept 27 that s the page i made the from start to finish tutorial about which you ve already seen unless you haven t in which case it s here sept 28 just plain sad as the journaling says it s often the simplest words the ones we teach children that are the most appropriate to describe your feelings also feeling sad for someone else is often far worse than for yourself sept 29 sunny day philosophy unaccustomed as i am to extended periods of sunshine i made the most of those few incredibly sunny days we had last week and took lots of photos and started writing a tutorial and then my internet was cut off long story anyway i remembered shimelle s lsned prompt for that day re making time to fit in something nice making the effort to schedule in something you d look back and wish you d done so rather than stay home minus broadband and just do some crafting i went for a walk in the sunshine to visit my parents and an adorable 2 year old from my month in numbers post a few days ago and we collected leaves in a dumper truck and played with snailshells and toy cars which i don t think i d have done if i d stayed home sept 30 lucky shimelle had suggest we do a round up page you don t need to write reams but a few words to finish your book gives it that explanation to anyone who might read it while also reminding you of the feeling of finishing such a record of your life this month this year if you can remember back to when i was thinking about september s arrival you ll know i wasn t looking forward to it but while journaling the month i began to realise that i had nothing at all to complain about nothing i had days out with james i had interesting work i saw my family i had lovely online feedback i sat in the garden i had a much needed haircut and so for a final closing page i was right october it s only 4 days later and already you haven t been able to keep that weather up here s the finshed book slightly buckled and a smidge crinkly but mostly colourful and cheerful not bad qualities to aim for for the person who asked where i get ideas for my pages i thought i d quickly add in a few ideas i should say that this particular journal came from me taking learn something new every day a class delivered by shimelle laine while i didn t always follow the exact prompt for the day i would say that a mix of everything she covered eventually found its way on to my pages alternatively there s a new art journaling challenge each week over on ukstampers hosted by effie that anyone can join in with there are so many prompt challenge blogs out there if you have a search around emily falconbridge did a year of journal prompting for her 52q series which i absolutely loved the tiny journal pages i made in response to her prompts can all be found here and they remain some of the things i am most happy to have created and sometimes my ideas come from something that happened a photograph a feeling an interesting magazine clipping or phrase i come across if you have any interesting inspiration sites you d like to share feel free to leave a note in the comments i ll be back soon with another purple phase colour palette it s an outfit this time in a similar colour way as the post from earlier this week as for today i m 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