Black and White Page

Yesterday I managed to spend the whole day in the craft room. Making some new products for Scrapbookerry.

Here is a sneaky peak at something that I have started to make, it is not yet finished but thought I would let you have a little look first.

I loved making this page and love the black and white of the page, including the fabric flowers on the page.

Creative Connections CRAFTfest

So it is that time of the year again, the Creative Connections CRAFTfest is happening again in June. This time CRAFTfest is running from the 9th June until the 16th June, all day every day for a whole week.

So if you sell crafts why not pop on over and sign up, registration ends the 25th May so you still have time go to www.craftfest-events.com to register. Registration if £5.00 and joining the Creative Connections website at www.creative-connections.ning.com is completely free.

If you love crafts, then come along for the event to do your shopping from the comfort of your own home, and your own sofa!

Toilet Roll Album

I have been having a little play this past week with some new albums and different colours. I have seen some toilet roll albums around the internet on and off for years. But have never really had an opportunity to make one as I have a son who steals toilet rolls to paint as soon as he sees them. So there are never any free in our house.

This week I managed to hide a few and get making the albums.

Father’s Day Pages

Just a quick blog today.

I have been thinking of some new items to add to the stuff I make for quite a while and yesterday I started making some of the new products.

Here is just a small snippet of what one thing looks like, not yet completely finished but very nearly there.

Craft, Craft, Craft

Today I am having a long overdue day sat in the craft room crafty. I haven’t been in here for a long time and am really looking forward to it I have written a list of things that I want to make, and have a plan of action for the whole day.

I have lots of things I want to do this week and blogged about them all at the beginning of the week, coming back to work has meant that lots of things are up in the air. So I am chasing loose ends and starting new things, will finishing off old things. But that means not a lot of crafting. Today that is going to be different.

I have new products I want to make, new ideas, and new plans. Today is Action day. 

Dad’s Birthday Card

While I have been off work it was my Father’s Birthday and this year it was a big one the big 60! So I decided that this year I would make his own card.

Even Beyonce’s Doing It

So I never imagined that at the beginning of the year I would be having a near on five month break from working. But with injury, sickness, the loss of our baby and Mr L being in hospital that is how it has ended up. It has been a hideous start to the year, but I am now slowly getting back into working on Scrapbookerry and I am excited about it.

I have been doing a lot of planning and have a lot of new ideas, so there will be lots of tweaking and questions to be answered by you the readers, customers and fans of Scrapbookerry.

This week I am tweaking, and updating the website, the Facebook page, and my shops. I am going to be updating all the products on my WOW Thank You store, re opening my MISI store and sorting out a few other social media pages, Google plus and Linked In for instance. By the end of the week, you will be able to find Scrapbookerry every where. So please keep your eyes peeled for all the updates that are happening. If you have any suggestions that you think would help Scrapbookerry or you would like to see us do then please do leave them in the comments below.

Just to prove how good scrapbooking is, it is reported that even Beyonce is making a scrapbook for her daughter Blue Ivy!

Guest Post: Emma Collins Her Story

I am handing over the blog today to Emma Collins, who is a fantastic crafter and managing the Creativity Club. I will pass over and let her explain her story to you.

My name is Emma and I’m a 28-year-old happily married wife to one very supportive husband, an exhausted mummy to two very adorable and demanding little girls and a very passionate and motivated manager at docrafts®.

The Weeks Plans

I have a few plans this week and they mainly involve work and Scrapbookerry. It has taken a long time to get back to the point of working, and back to the point of being excited about working. But after just a couple of days I am literally raring to go.

This is mainly after a very exciting conversation last night on Twitter, that has led to an ultimate new project for Scrapbookerry. It is a project that I have been thinking about for a long time, but one that I have to admit has been put off and off. If I am totally honest it is the reason I started Scrapbookerry in the first place so I am 100% excited to launch this area of the business. It is going to take a lot of work, a lot of planning and a lot of working with others to get the process, and the project just right. But I am so excited to be finally on this journey and I can not wait to be able to tell you more and more about it. So please keep your eyes peeled. 

Creative Connections Monthly Craft Challenge

Last month Creative Connections launched a new item on their site, the Monthly Craft Challenge. After all they are a craft community so it made complete sense to have a craft challenge running and I am very lucky to be one of the design team.

The first month was launched in February and was a roaring success. The rules of the challenge are very simple, the challenge is launched on the first of the month in the evening, and you have until midnight on the last day of the month to post your challenge entries. You can combine your challenge entry with another challenge, and you can also make something that you will later sell. You can even post two projects to the challenge, the only hard and fast rule is that the project you make needs to be a new project, and no back linking to previous projects and you have to be a member of Creative Connections to participate.