Just a Typical Friday with the Manhattan Scrapbookers
July 01, 2010
Many, many Friday nights you can find me scrapbooking on 26th St. thanks to this woman...
Cheryl transforms her office (a beautiful open space on the top floor of an old building) into a scrapper's dream. Everyone has plenty of space...
...and there's junk food galore...
...plus a table full of tools.
Besides the paper trimmer, box of paper scraps, and boxes of punches that you can see in the photo, there is a Cricut (and lots of cartridges), Cuttlebug (with lots of dies and embossing folders), stamps, ink, and even a huge pile of giveaways! People bring in the stuff they don't want anymore and leave it for you to grab. I've gotten everything from stamps to adhesive through the generosity of other scrappers.
Last Friday we even had margaritas!
We laugh, we talk, we scrap, we share, we gossip. It is one of my favorite places to be. And I've developed some wonderful friendships with women I never would have met otherwise.
The only negative of scrapping with the girls is that I don't get a whole heck of a lot done. I finished a layout-and-a-half on Friday night. I ended up coming home and finishing the second layout before I went to bed.
I like to bring kits when I go to crops. It just simplifies the whole packing thing, you know? I was working with the "Partly Sunny" kit from Studio Calico and it was giving me some trouble. So I decided to throw some paint down. That always makes things work better for me!
(By the way, see that blue tape? I always tape down my teflon craft sheet. It ensures that it doesn't move and that I can use the full surface all the way to the edges. Give it a try and you'll see what a difference it makes!)
Here's the final layout:
Check out the details:
You can see one of the leaves close up here. So the idea behind the leaves was that they change from green to
sort of fall colors. And that change is meant to tie in with the
title and the theme of the layout, but they're so hidden behind the
photos, I wonder if it reads. What do you think?
And all that handwritten journaling. I was inspired by my blog post on Friday about two-page layouts. (Is that weird to be inspired by your own blog post?) I noted how much journaling I had written on each of those layouts and I wanted to be better about telling the stories in full.
I took all of the photos with my computer. It's such an easy way to get lots of photos of yourself!
The title was stamped (love this storytime set) and then colored with watercolor paints and cut out.
This next layout makes me very happy.
It's one of the few that actually turned out the way I had imagined it would in my head. The details:
I used two colors of homemade glimmer mist (pink and red) and painted the title with watercolor paint. Then I fed the entire sheet of labels...
...into my typewriter and went to town! If I wasn't already in love with my typewriter I am now!
That little heart was covered with Ranger Distress Stickles and homemade glimmer mist. I love how dimensional the glitter is and the deep red color too!
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