Thursday 23 June 2016

Our Adventure Book: The Carnival Page


This has got to be one of my favourite pages because it has great memories from this day and because it's so bright and colourful.

I wanted a carnival themed page going here so I glued down a white page and then stuck red strips of paper along the page to create the common carnival bunting colours. Using photo corners I picked up I placed photos around the page, I love the pattern on the photo corners it blends well with the theme and gives more of a pop of colour. 
I kept the second page quite plain with the carnival brochure and a picture from the opening parade. Also adding in the label of the teddy himself one for me at the hook a duck stand. 

Tuesday 21 June 2016

Our Adventure Book: The Busy page


I was dedicating every page to an individual moment but I've been holding on to these wrist bands and pictures for awhile so I decided to just but then together with more memories from different days and work as I collect things.

The top of the page captures our adventure on our last night of college with a boat party a long with the wrists hands we wore that night.


The bottom of the page is an idea I got from my friend who made me a photo album using envelopes gluded together. We had a busy couple of fun days together so I wanted to remember what we got up to by giving each day an envelope. 

 
Each evenlope contains pictures and a note about what got up to on that day. 
This envelope is my favourite because i put in this little recycled gift bag containing pressed petals from the flower himself picked for me on that day. 


Saturday 18 June 2016

Our Adventure Book: The Beach page


A scrapbook is all about saving memories and one of them for us is our special day at the beach, just the two of us walking along the sand dunes, exploring an old church and finding a throne made from stones to sit in and watch then sea. 

There was many bautiful photos from this day but I decided to keep it focused on just the one so I printed a large copy of one (I print my photos using normal paper as they are going in the book anyway there's no need for photo paper)and made that he central piece. There was so many moments from this day that I didn't no how to express it on on page so I kept it simple with the picture and bus ticket from that day along with a note telling the story of what we got up to. Adding in a shell sticker and wooden butterfly topped it off nicely.




Thursday 16 June 2016

Our Adventure Book: The Movie page


From the beginging of plans for this scrapbook I always had in my mind keeping cinema tickets, it's a common date night and so easy to keep tickets to remind you of the movie and even the date you went. 

I used simple black card to make a pouch to slip the tickets into then used some white card and tip-ex (can use white paint either I don't no what notion I took to use this it was messy but I wanted it to be bright and standout) to mark it out like a movie clipboard.
I felt like the page was quite plain so added in popcorn using card and crepe paper. Was thinking of maybe adding pictures of other films we are on tv or DVDs at a later stage.

Monday 13 June 2016

How I scrapbook...


I hope it's not only me, but when I go into a shop and see the stationary aisle I get a flush of excitement, maybe it's how neatly arranged everything is or seeing all the possibilities to make things using this stuff whatever it is it's fair to say my collection for craft bits is building so I wanted to share what I use for scrapbooking.

I mainly get all my craft bits and bobs in pound shops as no.1 they're cheap and no.2 they surprisingly have a really nice selection and most of the time things you wouldn't find in other places. 


I came across these fun felt fabrics along with collecting old wrapping paper and crepe paper to use as backgrounds and layering on pages which obviously decorates the pages more and can help you make a theme.

stickers are a most as you need headings and notes its a colorful way of doing it. Also have the essentials of any crafting project, glue, scissors, gel pens and double sided tape. 

As I've said before pound shops are great to find little nacks and I found these gorgeous tiny wooden picture frames which will look lovely in any scrapbook along with some paper banners ( they have writing on them but I'm using the other side as they are colourful and shaped nicely, you could also make these yourself using card.  



Collecting random pieces to stick in the book is what real scrapbooking is about, the ideas are endless as you can see from some of my examples such as a gift tag, an old wooden flower that came off a bouquet, feathers and even birthday card. 
These photo corners are possibly the cutest thing I've found they come in all different colours and patterns and actually really add to the page making the picture stand out more. To be it looks like the washi tape you often see crafters using but I've never seen any of it around here. 

Sunday 12 June 2016

Our adventure book

We've all seen Up and dreamt of having our own adventure book with the person we love.
So bearing that in mind I've decided to make one for my boyfriend who also had the idea of making something to keep little tokens such as tickets from events and notes we've given eachother.  I'm going to post pages as I finish them so for now I'm leaving you with the cover and opening page. 






I kept both these pages quite simple as I felt that's all they needed to be. 

Wednesday 8 June 2016

Sumner is off to a bang

The town carnival has kicked summer off with a bang and over the past few days I've ticked off quite a few of my Summer bucket list goals. My boyfriend came to stay so we spent some amazing few days doing coupley things along with that I've been fostering baby blackbirds hand feeding them every haf hour so it's been a crazy rollercoaster of fun rolled into five days.
We also stayed out in a tent in the garden, did it up with lots of pillows, blankets and lights and had midnight snacks while playing some old school games.







It started with the carnival opening parade with big floats, music and dancers. It was great fun to watch and something different than the usual St Paticks day parade tractors through the town.

















Afterwards bae treated us to a takeout pizza which we had along the riverbank watching an amazing air stunt show which was incredible (and also a teeny bit scary).



We met up with an old school friend of mine and the three of us then went to the funfair. Walking around holding hands with my man all I could think about was Grease the movie and the funfair scene especially when himself wanted to win me a teddy on the hook a duck stand, treated us to candy floss and when we went on the bumping cars, I felt like we were in an iconic  80's movie where they had cute dates at the funfair.




Next day after helping paint the shed out on the farm we took to the hill and went up the field for a picnic. Again lying back on his chest with him stroking my hair and the sun beating down on us isolated in our own world in the middle of the field it felt like a movie scene. I'm so not used to all this cute couple things and every moment is so special I will never get used to it but will always be left with butterflies of happiness.


After coming back from the farm we took the dog up to the woods which was surprisingly empty, we were the only ones there on all the walks and lake areas. We took a refreshing dip in the lake which was so nice and cool we were tempted to go swimming, then after a nice walk around we had the idea of carving our initials into a tree to find another time. He went  in search of the perfect tree which he found as the sun shone on only one he said it was special then surprisingly he came up with the idea of keeping the stone we carved with beside the tree. It was such a special moment to be alone in a beautiful woods beside the lake with someone I love doing something so special.









Sunday brought my brother, his girlfriend and an old family friend to our house for a Barbecue. While mum was preparing the food the rest of us went up the village to a 1916 memorial garden opening. It was nice to see people dressed up in old clothes and a good crowd but we couldn't hack the speeches for more than half an hour and snuck off to the playground before meeting dad after he watched the opening on the way back home for a big (very big, never seen as much food) family BBQ.





















After everyone left and we rested in a food coma for awhile me and bae got dressed up and went into town and met another of my schoolfriends for a drink then watched a dance and fireworks display over the river. It was so incredible to see as we stood on the bridge over the water with our arms around eachother it felt as if the world stopped in those twenty minutes of fireworks as a huge crowd all looked skywards in amazement




For our last morning together for a little while we went to the town treasure hunt which was great fun figuring out the clues and going around all the places in town. Afterwards we got an ice cream and a subway to end the weekend perfectly.