Hello - Just wanted to let you in on a secret. One of the fastest selling products in the UK at the moment are Pricking Templates. What are they? Well, they are metal precision grids which allow you to create stunning pricked images on paper. I guess if you are innovative you could use them on Polymer Clay and other materials. I love the border template which is so quintessentially Parchment Craft and the butterflies are amazing. So if you find some stash them under your jumper and use in the privacy of your own crafty den! Enjoy.
Everyone's got their own addictions. Mine used to be shoes. I have an entire basement room full of boxes of heels that I bought in a former life. (Now I much prefer flats and flip flops - weather permitting.) However, cnce I was out of school and had a place of my own, I developed a different addiction: Before and Afters. It's really become quite a problem. Along with my shoe stash in the basement, there is now a 6 foot long buffet waiting to be made over, a set of directors chairs that just need a fresh coat of paint, and more than a handful of misc. frames and decorative accessories just waiting for their day of glory. All of these were pieces I discovered in a "before" condition...and they're just waiting to be made into "afters".
Kristin's challenge this week felt like it had been written for me! A scrapbook page is the perfect way to document a before and after project! I chose to focus this page on our bathroom - which we completely renovated before we moved into our house in '06.
Because the colors in the pictures were so different, I kept the rest of the colors on the page to a minimum. The letter stickers are from a "letter sticker book" by American Crafts. Gotta love how many letters you get in those packs!
What sort of Before and Afters have you scrapped about lately? A new haircut? A clean room? Come over to the gallery and share your finished projects!
It’s 60 degrees here in Cincinnati and the daffodils are starting to bloom, which means spring has officially sprung! Spring always gets me excited about the idea of cleaning and organizing (but, I’ll admit, not the motivation to actually do it) and doing lots of improvement projects around the house. It also makes me thirst for fresh, bright colors.
All of this got me thinking about the photos I have of a recent room makeover--we transformed my husband’s bachelor-pad gray walls into an oasis of grassy green delight. With all the work we’ve doing, I’ve amassed a collection of "after" photos (and a few "befores"), with no plans to do anything with them. I definitely never thought to scrap them…until now.
So, that’s this week’s challenge: Great a layout about a "before and after." Your page can be about a room makeover, like mine, or about a style makeover, or even about a life makeover (like life before and after getting married). The rules are up to you! All we ask is that you share your creations in the Weekly Challenge photo gallery.
I hope you don't mind if I digress from S+P today. The other weekend, I had a funny moment whilst watching the England V Scotland rugby match on TV. My mother handed to me my old French Knitter, recently found in an old box, started with pink wool. She had started to get my daughter interested in knitting (as my Nanna did before her). Well I stared at it completely bemused by this familiar thing and then it all rushed back to me. By the time England had been defeated by Scotland I had a fine rhythm. I cannot begin to explain my determination to see the pink fluffy worm begin to appear. However when it did the nostalgia put an impressive smile on my face. Now I need some ideas what to do with it! Have a great weekend!
