Oh no... not ANOTHER scrapping blog...

I’ve been meaning to find time to do this for what seems like forever. The trouble is, I spend almost all my available time planning, purchasing and then playing with paper and the associated embellies that I have put off the sharing part of it … until now.

So here I am, and what scrap blog would be complete without a tiny ‘who do I think I am’ in a scrap related, overshare kind of way before I start loading photos and talking about my latest greatest scrap find.

Well, it all started with a magazine… (ok, I can see eyes rolling already… stay with me now) and I honestly couldn’t tell you which one because in the ensuing 10 years since then my life has gone topsy turvy in lots of good and bad ways. I started scrapping in 2000 and have been a total addict ever since. Living hundreds of miles in any direction from capital cities at the time made it all the more challenging, so I started out learning all I could from magazines that cost me a small fortune brought in from the US.

Sadly, I only started taking photos of my kids/family/pets from a scrappers perspective from then on, so much of their early years are confined to ‘event’ shots… birthdays, weddings, the obligatory family Christmas shot, etc,… And of course, it was a pre-digital age so they’re all on film which I’m finding costly to convert ( when I actually find the negatives, after moving to the sunshiny end of Australia).
But, such was ( and still is) my enthusiasm for photography, I thankfully have more photos that I could ever possibly scrap in a life time already so the hardest part of the process remains the choice of photos.

Ok… well, I’ll put it out there… I’m a stuff scrapper… I like loads and loads of ‘stuff’ on a page… and the more it sparkles and glimmers and shines, the happier I am. And bucket loads of colour… I struggle with monotone…
Amongst my ‘scrapping family’ I am well known for wanting to always add a bit more bling… White space just makes me fidget.
I hate stitching with a passion, but weirdly, its on the great majority of my LO‘s… so I suffer for the cause.

Since moving to the shiny part of Australia a few years back, the very first friends in my new state were my scrapping family. And this needs to be said… You guys ROCK!!!

I’ve taught scrapbooking classes in two states now and have the honour of being on the My Scrappin’ Shop Design Team, there isn’t a day that passes when I don’t think, talk or do something scrap related, so I can’t see this obsession going away any time soon.

I plan to add lots more 'stuff' to the blog as time permits... the first being a new header... mostly because my penchant for embellishments doesn't end with scrapbooking. ;)

So without further ado… thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the scrap journey with me from where ever you are in the world. Feel free to leave comments, feedback is the only way I’ll know I’ve got it right or not.



Lisa