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Inspire Me Thursday – Doors

Kirsten — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:08:19 +0000

Once again, I have been challenged by Inspire Me Thursday – had to think for a long time about this one.

I decided I’m not very good at painting actual doors so this is a doorway:

Inspire Me Thursday – Wallpaper

Kirsten — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:57:51 +0000

I am going to try to do something for all the Inspire Me Thursday topics… so far I’m not doing too badly but I think the topics have been easy ones for me!

This week’s creative prompt is Wallpaper…

“Look to your own favorite papered walls for inspiration of pattern and color… use wallpaper scraps in your art… design your own desktop wallpaper… or perhaps feature wallpaper somehow in an illustration, painting, collage or sketch.”

This was a great topic for me – immediately I thought of some scrapbook pages I started years ago (and I mean years – I think it’s 3 or 4). Every time I looked at the page in my Vanderkyl (mum’s side) heritage album, I thought to myself “I’d better finish that page one day”. This Inspire Me Thursday prompt was just the kick-in-the-butt I needed to get it done. Click on the thumbnails for a closer look…

I was going for a “pictures hanging on the wall” look. Let me know what you think!

Scrapping Camp

Kirsten — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:29:57 +0000

If you didn’t already think I was enough of a nerd, than this should convince you:

I just got back from a weekend getaway, scrapbooking from Friday afternoon until Sunday afternoon. As always on scrapping camp I had a fantastic time, even if I am a little exhausted (I really need a weekend to get over my weekend!)

Just to prove I didn’t spend all of my time gossiping and eating chocolate, I am uploading some of the things I have done – just click on the thumbnails to view bigger versions of the pictures.

The following pages are ones I did for classes. I really enjoy doing this sort of thing because it gets me out of my comfort zone and gives me a chance to try something new. I did all of these pages for the baby album I am making for Jules and Dan.

The next few layouts are ones I came up with all on my own:

The next pics are the little “off the page” projects we did (we did two others but I haven’t finished those yet). We each had to decorate a puzzle piece, and they were all put together to make one big puzzle. We voted on our favourites and I was thrilled to win a prize for my little puzzle piece! The other challenges were to decorate a wooden bag (which I have turned into a pen holder) and make a card from a template sketch.

Wow all these tiny pictures seem like so little for so many hours of work!