Thursday 10 March 2011

Recording the Disaster

So the shelves fell down, all was chaos, the chaos began to assume some semblance of order...

Somewhere in amongst all that mess, I found my missing scrap-mojo!  Last Sunday I made two pages and last night I made the third page, that had been planned for the Sunday crop (I ran out of time - always happens).

My page to record the Event!


I just had to call it this...

The big photo lifts up, to reveal two little pictures beneath...

... and under that mini-book, there is a great space, where I will attach the story of my Disaster, when I have typed it out and printed it (still thinking how best to do this - paper, font etc).

I deliberately kept the design simple, having only the one large photo on the front and keeping the journalling out of sight too.  I wanted the layout to have impact, so the strong black ribbed cardstock and striped Basic Grey scrap paper were ideal.  The grey-blue patterned paper is just great with these other two papers - so glad I still had some of it left.

Another page to cover some of the scary holes on the wall above my desk!

Oh, and I finished the new Wedding Guest Book for my shop:


A Wedding Guest Album, with 40 pages of white cartridge paper; covers in Birds and Flowers design paper, with peach lined covers and peach art paper section wraps.  10-needle Coptic Binding, in Ivory and Dark Moss Green hand-waxed linen thread.

Progress is being made! I'm off to start the next Book!

11 comments:

  1. Very pretty album, but your "disaster" looked painful. Kudos to you for keeping it all positive:)

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  2. It's good to see you getting that layout done while it was all fresh in your mind. Scary stuff! And I have to agree that your cheerful attitude to the whole thing has made for very engaging reading.

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  3. Sorry for your disaster; love how it got your mojo going! I love the title and the stitching along the bottom.
    And the guest book is gorgeous!!! You seem to have really found a niche in that area. Good on you!
    Rinda

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  4. Beautiful album! Love the page too!

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  5. Well don. out of chaos comes beauty, as someone famous probably once said

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  6. That's such a pretty album ... Love your LO and the way the letters of the title are falling about too!

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  7. It definitely has impact - a great layout, Lizzie. Good for you for documenting it!

    The book has turned out just gorgeously well, too xx

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  8. Wow... I didn't know you had an etsy shop. Nice stuff! :) Are you going to be playing along with the next round of Blogging for Scrapbookers? :D Hope all is going well for you.

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  9. Very lovely wedding guest album. And isn't it nice that scrapping can help us keep our perspective about life's little mishaps.

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  10. Love the LO ~ a great story to record.

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  11. I love the page - but not the mess. I would have wept. What a disaster but so good that you recorded it too and that the disaster had a silver lining in revealing your scrapping mojo.

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