My new scrapbooking blog!

I have been scrapbooking for a number of years and really have evolved from using only Creative Memories page kits to doing more of my own thing.  It helps that I have a couple of friends that are really into scrapbooking... well buying scrapbooking stuff at least!

For this layout I took the only picture of me from this whole year (one of my kids took it) and scrapbooked it with the wonderful Simple Stories line. I wasn't really all that crazy about this line initially, but once I got it home I found it went with absolutely everything and was really easy to work with. I cannot believe I used two whole pristine papers to do this layout!  Usually I am a pretty frugal scrapbooker, but I loved the dimension that the two papers gave the page.

This is the new little girl line from Echo Park which I should have bought more of since I love it and it goes so well with everything my girls wear! And this is the first time I used the Tim Holz tissue tape to cover chipboard! It doesn't really absorb the ink that well, which is actually a good thing, since otherwise the colour would turn out too intense.
I also used the Sook Wang tape sheets to make the die cuts and glitter them with Okotoks' own Craft & Glitz glitter (buy Canadian, eh!) I met Liz, the owner, recently when she came to my LSS (local scrapbooking store) and opened my eyes to the amazing world of fine glitter. Did you know you should rub it in again after you have rubbed it and shaken off the excess the first time? It really brings out the glitter's dimensional properties! Go figure!