Common place book and Creative Journaling

Hi there lovelies,

You might think that I am just another scrapbooker or cardmaker, but I am actually more of a journaler. I make lists since forever and I love writing things down. Combining that with my memory keeping and cardmaking skills, just makes more sense to me. Since starting to use Travel Notebooks, my whole outlook on memory keeping has changed and grown. 

This process is so liberating and very therapeutic. For me as an artist, it is important to have an outlet for my emotions, my ideas and my art. Travel Notebooks and notebooks, in general, can give that to me. For any creative temperament, having a system is important to make sense of all the creativity bouncing about in your brain. It can help you direct it all and channel it in the right direction. 

Some ideas:

1. Painting your own covers instead of decorating with paper. 

2. The commonplace book idea:

2.1 What is the "Commonplace book"?

Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. Such books are essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces are used by readers, writers, students, and scholars as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they have learned. Each commonplace book is unique to its creator's particular interests.  Read what Wikipedia says here. 

More info here on benefits to the commonplace book - Accidental Creative 

2.2 Why keep a Commonplace book"? I found this post insightful 

2.3 How to set up and manage your "commonplace book"? This is a practical article. 

Click on this link to gain a visual idea from Pinterest of the commonplace book. 

Here is an example of my creative commonplace book. 

Keeping this type of notebook is a highly personal experience and will be different for everybody. How you keep this book, what you put in it and develop it over time, needs to be a choice and a commitment if you want something real come from it.

Let this article be an encouragement and motivation to you. I hope it sparks something new in your life as it did in mine. It can really mean a lot to your personal growth and your creative development.

'Till next time!

Making new Travel Notebooks

Hi there lovelies,

I am making more Travel Notebooks using the Hadeda Garden collection and the new butterfly Cute Cuts we have released over at Ivytree Studio.

Just love these butterflies. They make any project so pretty.

Till next time!

Be a brave girl double layout

Hi there lovelies,

The Finesse collection just keeps on giving. I loved making this colourful and decorative layout. I think what I love the most when scrapbooking is just going with the flow. It doesn't have to be perfect or perfectly straight all the time. It doesn't have to impress but to me it does have to be arty and colourful and fun. 

Selecting elements from this variety collection is so easy. There is a lot to choose from. 

I only used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the silhouette lady. I used a flower punch to punch all the flowers. I shaped them and glued them with a hot glue gun. I designed the large paper flower by hand and cut it by hand. I love adding original elements like that to my projects. I also added some store bought flowers I had in my stash. 

 
I created these 3D dimensional honeycomb elements using the cuts from the collection, adding them to sturdy white cardstock for the base and foam squares between the sandwich and adhered it to the layout using craft glue.

Products used: Paper from the Finesse Collection by Ivytree Studio

'Till next time!

Document Life single layout

Hi there lovelies,

Sharing another layout using the Finesse Collection.

In this layout, I used a lot of the border cuts available in the Simply Pretty collection colour matched to the Finesse Collection. I also used chipboard from this collection's kit. 

I loved creating the simple paper flowers. I cut basic flowers out of white cardstock using my Silhouette Cameo and layered them. Some I kept white and others I sprayed the centres with a purple spray. I used my glue gun to drop enough glue in the centres until it formed a little dome. I then coloured it with Vegas Gold All purpose ink and some with blue metallic paint (Dala brand). I created some texture in some of the centres using silicone beads. 

Products used:

Paper from the Finesse Collection by Ivytree Studio

White cardstock

Glue sticks for a glue gun

Inks and paint

Silicone beads and seed beads

'Till next time!