Archive for August, 2007
The ‘Design Collective’ has a New Member
I have some exciting news to share.
I am now part of the Team at the Design Collective.
I am so trilled and honoured to have been invited to join such a talented team of designers. Its a little mind blowing if I am being honest.
I am very excited and very committed to keeping the up the standard [...]Welcome to the all new Design Recollections
Well I have put all my eggs into one basket and here I am at the webspace and web address I have owned for 18 months and done nothing with. I thought it was about time I stop paying for my blog separately to this space and get myself set up on here.
This has not [...]First Day & Honors
Today my girl started High School. Its been a long road getting her prepared for this day but it was worth it as she left smiling and happy The thought of this reduced her to tears, yesterday she drove me nuts shouting out loud every hour or so - TOMORROW I BECOME A FIRST YEAR Bless her! I [...]
Scottish Scrapping Weekend
[ Friday, October 5, 2007 to Sunday, October 7, 2007. ] An Economy Scrapping Weekend Trial in Central Scotland. If this one goes well there may be more Eco Weekends in Scotland ;)
Purple
Well I have now complete the last page from my latest BPS Class ‘The Colour of your World”. Anyone reading this blog regualry will know how much I have enjoyed doing this class, I shall be sorry to see it come to an end. This is Purple.
This page has a base background layer of resist painting [...]Design Collective Subscriptions
[ Friday, August 31, 2007 12:01 am to Monday, September 3, 2007 11:00 pm. ] We’re now taking payments for the September classes via bank transfers/cheques. For details please email accounts.designcollective@googlemail.comAll payments need to clear by 31st August, in time for the September classes. Therefore, please ensure that cheques reach us by 24th August at the latest and that bank transfers are sent by 24th August. All current subscribers are able to make a payment [...]
Brown
It took me over a week to get to a colour photocopier to complete this class but that I did at the end of this week.
The class was based on using Omni gel over a colour copy of a photograph and then wetting the paper and rubbing it away. This I did but had to [...]Ten Favourites
This album is my final offering for the time being based on the recent class from Shimelle. This time I chose 10 of my favourite photographs from this year, there are many more but these were the first ones I thought of or came across.Not all technically brilliant but my personal favourites regardless.Its a 6 [...]
A Family Tradition
All families have them and mine is no different. I blogged a while back about our Adoption Day celebrations and I was in such a foul mood yesterday I dropped all notions of housework & chores and scrapped my way into a (slightly) better frame of mind.
It has always been out ‘Tradition’ to try to [...]More Green
Red and Green should never be seen, except on an Irish Dancing Queen.
Not in my world it doesn’t!”Green more than any other colour is symbolic of nature”How true I thought. Green always invokes images of rolling fields, vast trees and bushes of great splendor. Colours often do that, stir a image of association. Possible: Brown = [...]Green
Another colour page for my album based on BPS class - The Colour of your World. I do love green but it is only when you sit down to do a colour bases class such as this and pull out all your green cardstock, paper and ribbons together do you really get a feel for how [...]
Finished Another
Well I got back to it and finished this Fatherhood album as part of the recent classes from her “Worth a Thousand Words’ I thought I really had to finish what I started before I start something new and its been sitting here staring at me for well over a week now half done.I scanned [...]
Monday
Start of a new week and despite not feeling that great still and having a stupid finger injury I am going to get my act together today and get some scrapping done later. I have felt like a part of me is missing over this last week! I am off to the surgery to get [...]
Back Soon….
Sorry for the lack of updates but I have been unwell since Tuesday and I have a few issues now with a family member which are me causing upset and I need to sort out. I will take a few days off from blogging and be back blogging and crafting in my usual frame of mind [...]
