An Unlikely Pair

Happy Friday!

Last week I enjoyed vacation time down in Florida with a great friend. 

This is the first layout I've created for my Florida album. 

The journaling reads:

Everyone knows I do NOT like dogs, making this photo of me smiling with the famous Ginger, Director of Pet Relations at the Muse Hotel, one of a kind.

Ginger was on vacation in Boca Raton just like me, getting ice cream at Kilwin's on Atlantic Ave, and she was too cute to ignore!

Have a great weekend!

my life work

Hi!everyone!
I feel glad tha tnew wonderful member's participation
and I was able to remain here!!!
I spend most time of my life on taking
scrapbooking and a photograph.
It is the thing which is very necessary for me.
It's my life work!!!

Thank you for looking!

Yuko

Scrapbooking Your Talents

Hello! I am thrilled to share in the creativity here at Scrap-Yourself. My post today is centered on a long love of mine: playing the violin and viola. I have wanted to scrapbook something about this dear hobby/talent of mine and I finally had an opportunity to do it (thank you Scrap-Yourself!!). 

To create this layout I blended a bit of digital and traditional elements. The photos, along with the title and botanical outline were printed using my wide-format printer. (I love that thing!) The font, called Champagne and Limousines, was found at dafont.com. The botanical element was a freebie that I found on the Internet ages ago. (Sorry I don't have the link for it.) Once I had everything printed it was time to start to really play. 

My favorite part of the scrapbooking process is getting to play with the paper and embellishments. There are just so many products out there that I want to use! To dress up my layout I used a combination of products from Studio Calico's February kit along with some supplies I had on hand. The music stamp (by Stampin' Up) went along perfectly with what I was trying to convey with the layout so I am glad I was able to incorporate it. 

After I had all my "pretties" where I wanted them, I got busy inserting my journaling. Journaling is a must when it comes to scrapbooking for me. My pages are never complete with a bit of my own words. Here is what the journaling reads:

I am so very grateful for the countless ways music has blessed my life! I started violin in 5th grade, and viola in 8th. What a wonderful journey this has been! I consider myself lucky to be the recipient of such a beautiful talent. 

Well, there you have it. And if you feel so inclined, give this a try: go and scrapbook about some of your own talents/other hobbies. I promise you won't regret it. :)

Just me....

Hello friends,

I am very proud of being a part of this amazing team and I'm SO excited to make my first Scrap Yourself post. Thanks SO much for havíng me, Chalese :-D

Firstly I would like to tell a little bit about myself.

I'm Kirsten and I live in the western part of Denmark. I'm happily married to Bernd, and we have two adult children. Scrapbooking has been my great passion during the last 5 years and today I can't live without spending time on the most wonderful hobby. I love to scrapbook because I'm able to combine things that I love to do; photographing, travelling and being creative.

IRL I'm a fulltime medical secretary at the hospital in Esbjerg, Denmark.

I asked people around me how they see me, luckily it was pretty much the same as I see myself, so my very first Scrap Yourself layout is my ABC, as I find it a good way of introducing myself.

Journaling: Arbejdsom = Hardworking, Beskeden = Modest, Claus's mor = Claus´s mother, Dynamisk = Dynamic, Egenrådig = Obstinate, Følsom = Sensitive, Godmodig = Good-natured, Humoristisk = Humerous, Internetafhængig = Addicted to the internet, Jannies*s mor = Jannie's mother, Kærlig = Loving, Loyal = Loyal, Munter = Cheerful, Naturlig = Natural, Omsorgsfuld = Considerate, Pålidelig = Reliable, Quinde = Woman, Rolig = Calm, Skytte = Sagittarius, Tænksom = Thoughtful, Utålmodig = Impatient, Venlig = Kind, Xeptionel = Ekseptionel, Ydmyg = Humble, Zulu-seer = Watching a TV-program called Zulu, Ærlig = Honest, Økonomisk = Economic, Åben = Open minded.

This is all for now, - I hope you some way feel inspired.

Hugs,
Kirsten

Flowers

Hi guys!!

This is my first post for the Scrap Yourself blog and I am SUPER excited to be here!! If you want to know more about me you can read my intro here or visit my blog here. Just wanted to give Chalese an extra special thanks for adding me to the team.

I LOVE to scrap about myself and document me, my thoughts and feelings. I know I would love to have these documentations and photos from my mother, so I assume my children, grandchildren and further generations will treasure these little stories and art too.

So for today I wanted to show you this layout using flowers in mind. I LOVE flowers, I HAVE to have fresh flowers in my house every week. They bring so much life and coziness into my home.

 I think flowers are so welcoming and pretty. Tulips are one of my favorite flowers and so I took this photo of me and scrapped it with the beautiful Basic Grey Curio chipboard.

Talk soon!! Happy creating!

xo Danielle

MANDY

Hello Friends!

I'm so proud to be a part of the "Scrap Yourself" design team!  It's really unbelievable and a special shout out to Chalese for picking me to be on the team!  The layout I created is called "Mandy".  I wanted to create something that shows my personal style and a few words to describe me.  I figured this layout would be a perfect "START"  for everyone to get to know a little bit about me.  My personal style is about accessorizing (hats, scarves, jewelry, belts, etc.).  This page has many accessory's so it definitely fits me.  I have a mysterious side with an off-beat sense of humor.  My son, husband and pets bring out the playful side in me and of course I have been artsy since childhood. What better place to bring out the artsy side in me!

Thank you for taking a look!  I'm glad you could stop by!

my creative tattoo

hi friends!! holy smokes ~ so ~ SoOoOooOo excited to be here and on the scrap yourself design team!!! seriously scrap yourself is the best place ever!!! chalese, thank you so much for adding me to the team. i needed to be here. true story. it feels so good to create, yes?? but we, {scrappers} are always, like, almost always on the back side of the camera, right?? so we deserve a little time in the lime light,,, if you ask me. think about it, if it werent for us and our cameras in the heat of the moment capturing these memories, our families would have nothing. so i say we deserve to be highlighted and im all in. i love it!!!

although i got this tattoo almost two years ago, i still love it like crazy,,, {i guess thats pretty good huh,,, you know, sense its not going anywhere},,, i love looking at it, and it does inspire me. and it was a fun moment when elsie highlighted my tattoo on the her blog, as well as the red velvet blog. the tattoo is in her handwriting,,, since the tattoo means so much to me and is such a big part of me, not that its a huge tattoo, but you know what i mean,,, anyway, i thought that this would be the perfect subject to start of my design team projects with. do you have any tattoos?? are they creative ones?? wed love to see them, especially scrapped!!!!

thanks again for having me,,, already cant wait for my next post!!!