My Sort of Early Valentine Page

Hi everyone,

I just finished working on another Pop & Colours 2 workshop (this time by Riikka Kovsin!) and I retrospectively realized I made a very Valentine-y page so hence my title :)

This is another photo of my youngest on her second birthday. I'm feeling sentimental because her third birthday is just a few months away and I want her toddlerhood to last a little longer.... She's such a love bug full of big hellos and hugs. She is also very princess-y through and through....loves the color pink, dresses, shiny shoes (so not me!). I speak to her exclusively in Korean and she still managed to pick up the word 'princess' very early on!

Here's some close ups:

And you know what? It's been a while but I'm also going to happily join in a scrap challenge! Scrap Around The World has this eye catching, gorgeous mood board up:

Hearts and pinks, totally inspirational for February and suits my little girl perfectly :) 

Well Hello There....! For Pop & Colours 2

Hi everyone,

Hope your weekend treated you well. My is coming to an end but I had a nice quiet one to spend with family...always nice!

I've got another page I made for the Pop & Colours 2 class. This one is totally different in style from my first page...more whimsical. The workshop was taught by Corrie Jones who has this fun, come what may, bright style that I admire. I tried to bring that fun feel here.

This workshop reminded me to bust the sewing machine out more....loved it!

And I mustn't forget my acrylic paints. I've got lots of mediums to color with and I'd really been into watercolors (which I still am) but my poor acrylics have sat in the back row for a while....to the front you go!

Digging through my old stash of embellies was a feel good moment too. There's so much new stuff out there but there's many little treasures I already have so I must remember to look.

And by the way, I think I need several more sheets of this awfully cute SODAlicious paper, Hey You. I love the little doodled peeps :)

Cheers!

Taking Classes and a Tutorial

Hi everyone,

I'm never really good at publicly declaring any major goals at the beginning of a new year. Maybe I'm a little worried that once I say it to the world I'll "have" to make good on them.....ha! So maybe I'll start with some doable, more attainable goals and build up from there.

Well this year I want to make sure I carve out some more time for me to create. I want to make more pages, I want to take more classes, try new techniques, get my hands covered with medium, know what I mean?

To that end I signed up for an online line class called Pop & Colours 2 put on by Shirel Studio.

Here's my first page. The uber talented Georgia Heald put up the first video and I had so much fun trying out her version. When it comes to layering with the photos, I'm a big chicken...bock, bock. Give me mediums to layer, no prob but then comes the time to put the photo down and layer.....and the poultry comes out ;) So for this lesson I just said "aw heck" and kept on adding stuff until I got this. Big smile. I'm very happy.

I used papers from 7 Dots Studio: Messy Head and Love is the Air....

And speaking of learning new things, I have a tutorial up at Scrap Friends on using chalk pastels. Remember this page?

I give a step by step on how to make that background! So head over there and check it out!