Ok so I have not been a good blogger being absent from the
blogosphere for over a year, however in that time I have managed to locate,
buy and renovate a house. I have been hard pressed to find time to play along
with Counterfeit Kits challenges and UKs challenges. I have managed from time to
time but when I did I had no time at all to blog about it. I was just happy
that I had enough time to scrap or play with my camera.
Last weekend my UKS friends all went to a retreat; being
in Australia I wasn’t able to attend. Mary was kind enough to post me her
sketch challenge which I mixed with the CFK jewellery challenge and have just completed.
I love to feature ephemera on my los and before the house move had a major sort out and placed all the ephemera I had saved over the years into envelopes in year order. I also wrote a list of the stories I wanted to tell using the ephemera. In October I have had a slightly different approach to making my CFK in that my friend Scrappy Sue came over a couple of weeks ago with a stack of papers she was disposing of, mostly old free papers from magazines. My kit this month is that pile of papers together with a box of bits and bobs I haven’t found time to pack away properly in my new craft studio and a happymail gift from my Sweet Marie in Canada which arrived this month.
It was simple once I had decided to tell the story
about my watch to find the receipt, jeweller’s business card and very out of
date warrantee card that I had saved in 1998 before I had even heard of scrap
booking!
Hidden journalling
Now whenever there’s a challenge I can check my note book and hopefully there will be some story just waiting to be scrapped and I’ll be on my way...
.Do you like to use ephemera on your
los? If so how do you organise it?
