Swapsies

Do you get together with friends and swap papers?  Talking to my friend Mell online, she was saying she didn't have anyone close to get together with, she suggested we do a Gelli paper swap.  We did a little pile of papers each and posted them, I received mine today and love, love, love all of them.

They were all wrapped up in this lovely file ..

Full of yummy papers ...

This is the full pile I received ...

and Charlie inspecting all of them!

I was inspired! I had to dash off to my craft house and use them!  Cutting parts and using some to stamp onto, these are the finished pages in my mini Moleskine journal ....

Stamped birdie onto the Gelli Paper

Stamped Flower on Gelli Paper

Circles cut from the Gelli Paper

Collage Gelli Papers and stamped bird

Thanks Mell for all your lovely papers, hope you like the one's I have posted to you.

Why not get together with friends and get some happy post!

Laughs, Mess and Inspiration - Just Scrapbooking

I have just returned from another weekend retreat with Just Scrapbooking held at the Hatton Court Hotel in the Cotswolds, as usual it was a weekend filled with lots of laughing, making new friends and great inspiration from Linda.  The only thing missing was my partner is crime, Alexa, who couldn't make this one!

There were 6 workshops over the weekend teaching a particular technique, we then incorporated this into our own layouts, the great thing with Linda's weekends are you are encouraged to develop your own creativity, you are not just given a kit and everyone makes exactly the same layout, everyone's were so different even though they were from the same technique.

We worked with the Gelli Plate, metal and fuseable fibre and film, these are some of the layouts.

The Group

The Hotel

The hand was made using a Henna hand template, the title was made with papers from the Gelli Plate.

Another Gelli Plate paper

A collage of all sorts!

Working with metal and fusiable fibres, also glass bead gel

Thanks Linda for a great weekend x