has anyone seen the movie 'crazy beautiful', where kirsten dunst's character makes this really cool 'scrappy' scrapbook, with polaroid pictures, and masking tape, and ripped bits of notepaper and postcards and stuff? i LOVE THAT SCRAPBOOK!
this is the way i started scrapbooking, ripping things out and taping or sticking them into a book or journal, doodling, doing whatever felt fun at the time - free from lots of scrapbook products and 'trendy stuff' (which i DO love, i just love my pages more when i use in moderation!). i love to come back to those basics, just making a scrapbook for my family using whatever i find or paint or stitch in there. imperfect photos. bad photos even. but ones that make me smile, that remind me of my life, and the stories we have, written in my own imperfect handwriting. this is the kind of thing i want to have shelves of when i am old :)
this is what *i* love doing, what makes it feel real to me. and i know and LOVE that everybody is different, everyone has their own taste and style and way of doing things that are never going to be exactly like anyone else. so when i teach a class, it just doesn't feel right to *me* to make something and get everyone to do it exactly the same. i like to show some of my favourite techniques and give everyone some fun things to play with, and let them create - and i have seen some of the most amazing ideas come from this, stuff that just blows me away - i love getting inspired from everyone who comes to my class!
so i am really looking forward to teaching my new class '12'...i am teaching in 3 times next month and i can't wait to see what happens in the classes! i will be sharing and demonstrating heaps of fun ways to use paint, and we will crank out 12 double pagers, a cover page and a funky album cover! i can't wait!
for the samples, i made 2 different albums - the idea is for the album to cover a year in your life, but it can really be anything at all ;)
i made one album for ivy's year of being 3, and one for our family adventures in 2006. i loved loved loved making these. no, they are not exactly autumn leaves book material, they are scrappy scrapbook pages - and i think those are my favourite kind! here are the pages from the 2 albums :)