Halloween in July?

I've recently started making things for Halloween off Pin interest, it became a bit obsessive. Halloween is slowly starting  off over here so we don't have access to all the really nice decorations that are available over in the states so we have no choice but to D.I.Y it. the recent trend is to decorate a tree for Halloween which I plan to do after all that Christmas tree spends way too much time in the cupboard.

 

 

there will be more Halloween craftiness here in October.

Great Yarmouth: it really is Great

 

the seaside is a good topic to create a smash page on because you collect loads of odds and ends to add to your book. its also full of bright colours and fun which matches in with a lot of smash products.

 

fun photos are a great source of smash book material as they are already decorated. I used up some old alpha stickers and used Papermania All Aboard paper scraps of this page. the all aboard range has lots of things that you can cut out and stick in a journal. I've been using K&CO products as well but Amy Tangerine has now brought out a range of smash products. you can get loads of free pintables of pin interest if your trying to save money or are like me and like to jam as much as possible in to your pages. here is a link to my pin interest board to get you started http://pinterest.com/katie20121/smashbooking/ http://pinterest.com/katie20121/smash-printables/

Devon and Poole Smash Book

hi just got back from my fortnights holiday to Devon and Dorset, the weather was all over the place as usual. so instead of trying to cram all the bits and bobs I've collected over the past 2 weeks into a scrapbook, I crammed them into my travel journal which has become my traveling scrapbook.

 I've added a map of all the sites we've stayed at over the years and kept all of out site passes. we had to keep these on us to show security when ever entering the campsite.

 Torquay is one of my favourite seaside resorts and each year we discover something new.

 it rained often during our holiday but we carried on regardless sometimes we got soaked.

 I made this pocket by cutting across an a5 envelope and adhering it to the page with washi tape.

A random act of creativity

 my second batch of smash pages and its another random bunch.  I kept coming  across Grumpy cat memes across the net and found most of them hilarious. a Meme being "an idea, behaviour, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture."^{[ Wikipedia.} 

 ive been interesting in space stuff since school and found it ironic that after all these years of trying to travel around space we discover that it is lethal to humans.

 I started creating list pages about books, movies and tv shows and there will probably be a few more to come. I'm leaning more towards paranormal shows  and the Science fiction genre at the moment. I used washi tape to create a mini book where I can record lists of movies iv watched this year.

and finally a place to hide secrets. I just trimmed some scrapbook paper to A5 size and covered the edges with washi tape to make a flap so I could hide personal journaling.

my first smash book

I decided to create a smash book after coming across them on Pin interest. for mine I used a note book with a chipboard cover and just used it as a diary with photos and printouts stuck into it.

 I started my book in may and back dated from new year it doesn't have to be in order you can create a smash book about anything. mine started as a year book but its become a book full of random things I find interesting or cleaver.

 cats always make interesting topic especially mine as they are always into mischief its like i have a bunch of  toddlers in the house as I cant leave anything around without it being thrown all over the place.

 I started competing in scrapbook challenges in may and I dedicate a couple of pages to this so I can keep track of which ones I've entered and when the winners are announced.

Timmy and his mishaps are going to feature in my books oftern.

Goodbye old New Street Station

with the redevelopment of  New Street station almost finished I decided to document what the old one used to look like. I'm not one of those train spotter types its just that I have been commuting from here since my college years and its the end of an era. its also an end to that ugly embarrassment  that is the first thing visitors used to see when entering Birmingham.

 I used one of the maps that was being handed out so that people could find the train station as a background and stuck some photos in.