Welcome!!!
Here it is, my very first blog and my very first entry, wow! it has not been so hard.
I´m going to write here in English (although is not my native language) just to practice and learn, so sorry for all my mistakes and I´ll be grateful if anybody wants to correct my biggest ones...
Some months ago, I think it was around Christmas, I was searching podcasts for watching on my brand new iPod, thinking it would be a very funny and enjoyable way to improve my English and, searching for something related to design, I found one which was about "scrapbooking", something I had never heard before (now I´ve realized that here in Spain it almost doesn´t exists) and that I though it was a kind of graphic designed pages with photos or something like that, at first I didn´t know quite well what it was but don´t know why I found it attractive because I love photography. Then I surfed the web and found Ali Edwards´s blog, and then Two Peas in a Bucket and so on... and wow! that was fantastic, joining photography, journaling, paper and Art all in one, that was for me! So this is more or less how I´ve become a scrapbooking addict. Besides, I´m learning english (which was my first intention), new expressions and slang and I´m making a real effort not only to understand (something that I´ve accomplished quite well) but to write as correct as possible too, and best of all I´ve discovered "my hobby", I´m enjoying it so much... I don´t know if it is the newbie excitement (everything is new for me!) but the true is that actually I´m loving it (and I wish I will do for a long time...).
Now I´m also new in galleries, challenges, forums and blogging, something that never before interested me because I´m a quite shy person, but PJ told me about the "therapeutic" effect of scrapbooking in many aspects, I´ve been thinking about it and she´s right, so I´m going to try.
Well, this is what I´ve made (in "scrapping" terms) last week. This was my scrapbooking LO for "The Dares" Challenge #67#: "What era are you?". I chose the Sixties and here it is
Here it is, my very first blog and my very first entry, wow! it has not been so hard.
I´m going to write here in English (although is not my native language) just to practice and learn, so sorry for all my mistakes and I´ll be grateful if anybody wants to correct my biggest ones...
Some months ago, I think it was around Christmas, I was searching podcasts for watching on my brand new iPod, thinking it would be a very funny and enjoyable way to improve my English and, searching for something related to design, I found one which was about "scrapbooking", something I had never heard before (now I´ve realized that here in Spain it almost doesn´t exists) and that I though it was a kind of graphic designed pages with photos or something like that, at first I didn´t know quite well what it was but don´t know why I found it attractive because I love photography. Then I surfed the web and found Ali Edwards´s blog, and then Two Peas in a Bucket and so on... and wow! that was fantastic, joining photography, journaling, paper and Art all in one, that was for me! So this is more or less how I´ve become a scrapbooking addict. Besides, I´m learning english (which was my first intention), new expressions and slang and I´m making a real effort not only to understand (something that I´ve accomplished quite well) but to write as correct as possible too, and best of all I´ve discovered "my hobby", I´m enjoying it so much... I don´t know if it is the newbie excitement (everything is new for me!) but the true is that actually I´m loving it (and I wish I will do for a long time...).
Now I´m also new in galleries, challenges, forums and blogging, something that never before interested me because I´m a quite shy person, but PJ told me about the "therapeutic" effect of scrapbooking in many aspects, I´ve been thinking about it and she´s right, so I´m going to try.
Well, this is what I´ve made (in "scrapping" terms) last week. This was my scrapbooking LO for "The Dares" Challenge #67#: "What era are you?". I chose the Sixties and here it is
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Patterned papers: SEI
Stamps: MakingMemories, Heidi Swapp, KIMemories, CherryArte
Flowers: BasicGrey (Chipboard) and Heidi Swapp (Acrylic)
Minibrads: MakingMemories
Inks: Tsukineko, KI Memories
Journaling card: JSprague´s Beautifulofyou digikit
Others: Ribbons, buttons
It was my first 8.5x11 layout and my first "2 pages" layout as well, and great! I´ve loved it, although I like the square format, this one works nice and it´s very funny to try different ways...I´m still learning and want to learn more.
I´m very grateful to Ali Edwards, Noell and her Papperclipping podcast, PJ, Kristina Contes and some others that have showed me the best and most creative side of scrapbooking (not only the commercial one) and have provoked my interest.
All for today!
Hi Maria,
ResponderEliminarWell, I'm honored that I can be one of the first to read your blog!Thanks for the invitation!
I put 'you' right away in my favorites...
The blog is looking great, and your LO's too!! Love to see them!
Bye,
PJ
So happy you've started scrapbooking - your style is beautiful!
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