Hmmm, I'm really not so good at this blogging thing... When I last wrote, I had finally started on my 'Explore' Shimelle class... I didn't get any further than that (yet)... Shimelle had another class coming up which I'd been reading other people's comments about - and they were all EXCITED!
Learn Something New Everyday (LSNED) is a Shimelle class that runs each year, in September (when the kids in the Northern hemisphere go back to school)... It's a chance for Shimelle fans to 'go back to school' too and start learning something new every day...
Well, I was hesitant, I loved the first Shimelle class I took - participated in the 'live' running via the forum, reading other people's blogs, etc... But since then had signed up for 2 that I hadn't managed to join into 'live' and hadn't completed (luckily the class fees are really reasonable!!). But, at the last minute, I decided to sign up for LSNED - and in the process 'dobbed' two girlfriends and my step-mum in for it as well... I figured it'd promote a little bit of the camaraderie and sharing that we have when we scrap together (when I live in the same country as them) even though we're so far away these days...
So far - I have managed to jot myself a note each day on my learning - into my iphone notes app, so that I can remember what the day taught me. Last weekend I sat and read about what everyone was up to in the forum - how they'd gone about deciding on what format of book, cards, etc to use and what their front covers looked like. And then I got into making my own... And I got my lessons in for the first few days... Yesterday, really my first chance to scrap again - I got back into it, and before dinner had all of my lessons for the week into my book... I'm really liking the class - I need to get some photos developed to go onto some of the pages (not every page has a photo though - only where they belong with the lesson) - but other than that - I'm keeping up, and liking my book and it's style and the class...
Here's what it looks like so far:
So, there's what it's looking like so far - apologies for my inability to line up the photos properly in blogger (but that might keep me here all day - and there's scrapping to do!). I have made a 6" x 12" book from chipboard covers and kraft cardstock for the days - I have a Tim Holtz kraft relief pad that every second page is from - and then the alternate pages are plain cardstock. In hindsight, I probably would have done each page from the Tim Holtz book, but never mind! Something else learned!
The papers are all from the Bo Bonny 'Gabrielle' line as I had the whole pack and had hardly used any, I thought it'd be nice to have everything matching. I am also using the book to take myself somewhat out of my comfort zone - for those of you who have been reading along - I can't bring myself to do single pages in my scrapbooks, each of them (except at the beginning and end of a book - where truthfully, there's mostly nothing!) are double pages. I just like opening up the book and what I'm looking at is all matching... With LSNED I've done different pages for each (but am helping my anal-retentiveness cope by having the same colour scheme throughout!).
So, that's all for now - I'll try to keep updating as the book is coming together...
