Simple Things - Inspiration

I'm a little behind with this project ( again!) but I am still LOVING it!!
Here are my Inspiration tag and sleeve:







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Simple Things

The new prompt for the Simple Things project is up on the It's a Creative World blog!
The word for March is HONESTY
Hmmmmmmmmmm, thats a tricky one, and very poignant for me at the moment. I can't wait to get started!

I'm really happy that they showed my tag book on their blog again :0)

Simple Things - its all a matter of TIME

The prompt for February's Simple Things project was TIME.  In keeping with the prompt, I've taken rather a long time to do it, but here it finally is, and I'm really happy with it!!

 

I'm really looking forward to seeing what the team there created when the March prompt is set later in the month!

Simple Things...

This month's prompt is up over on It's a Creative World. This month its TIME! I can't wait to get started on this as I have had lots of thoughts about it already!
In was really pleased when I read through the post as they have mentioned my project on there and even put some photos and a link to here! I'm really proud!! You can see it (and all the lovely things the DT have created over there) by clicking here!

Scrap Weekly and Simplicity

This month's word for the Simple Things project was SIMPLICITY and this weeks Scrap Weekly challenge was to use tags in your scrapping.  I've been a little behind with my projects and decided to embrace the term of the month and link these two projects this week.
The word, simplicity and all its values, really does hit me straight in the heart. Despite all the things I do, crave for, love and enjoy. The simple things really are those that truly matter!!
I have decided to use a photograph taken on the month of the prompt to signify each word.  This month I used a lovely shot of the statue that stands outside my Craft Shed. It looked so lovely coated in snow, and the statue itself speaks to me of the simplicity of true and unconditional love.

As my Simple Things project is a tag book the Photo and journalling are actually tucked away inside the main 'page'.

I already LOVE this tag book!!

Tonight I have been a busy bee!!!

Well, I popped on here earlier to make a list of things I really really hoped to achieve tonight never dreaming that I would actually complete it. But I am a stubborn thing when I get my mind set on something so I sat at the table and refused to move until I had completed covers for my two new projects.

THIS IS WHY I SCRAPBOOK...
I am going to do this as a concertina-style mini book. I tried this technique once before and absolutely adored every minute of making the book.  As I am working from limited supplies (my main stash being in my poor little frozen Craft Retreat at the bottom of the garden) I have completed the cover but it still needs to be glued to mountboard to make it nice and sturdy.  I need to construct the concertina pages too but that is easy to do and I should get that done by Tuesday :0)

SIMPLE THINGS (from It's a Creative World)

As I have embarked on far more projects that are sanely possible (but I'm still going to try and do them all) I decided that this recent one that I read about today, would have to be a smaller style.  I decided to follow the theme closely and am using a very simple thing as the basis for a tag book - the humble loo roll!!!!!

I have made loo roll tag books before since reading about the idea in a mag.  They are fun to make and really lovely and tactile once completed!

Here is the cover.  The down side of this format is that the book gets REALLY bulky - hence the huge amount of string I have left on the binding!!

Well, thats it for me. I'm at my Crystal class tomorrow so no scrapping to me - at least until the evening ;0)

A little note for myself...

I keep taking on more and more projects!!! I just feel so inspired creatively by everyones ideas and just wanrt to be involved! I wonder whether I'll still be so obsessed in a few months time!!

By the end of today I want to have:

• Sketched out my cover for "This is why I scrapbook"
• Decided on a SIMPLE format to follow for "Simple Things"
• Started my cover for "This is why I scrapbook"
• Organised my project diary and calendar to include weekly projects and monthly 'deadlines'
• Started the next Sookie Stackhouse book (trashy but fun!!!!!)