I used to scrapbook.........

I remember loving it, I remember messy tables and floors from paper off cuts. I remember colourful pages, beautiful photos and the fun of being involved in lots of online forums. Over the last couple of years somewhere in the middle of a lot of pain and upheaval in my life I stopped. I stopped the forums, cutting paper, taking photos, painting and enjoying my hobby. I don't know when exactly it happened I just know that it happened. The last few weeks I have found myself looking at the blogs of scrapbookers that inspired me in the past, pulling out photos that I took moons ago and new ones from my recent wedding. I feel settled enough in my heart and soul to take up this hobby once more, to just let me flow onto the pages again, to not let my old self doubts come back and cripple me.
 Here is a page I did last week, it is of my youngest daughter I completed to enter in a challenge site a fiend had on facebook. You needed to be inspired by this mood board at Scrap Around the World

The colours are what captured my attention, I love using kraft and the beautiful deep gold just seemed so close to my Kraft, the mustards and teals are divine. The spotted spray of the picture in the left hand corner had me playing with my mists.

I have always had issues with photographing my pages, I must remember to research the best way to take photos of scrapbooking pages.

Here is one of my youngest son too which Is for a sketch challenge that the same friend shared. Thanks Kim.

Sketches with a twist

I am hoping that this is all the beginning of my scrapbooking adventure. Fingers crossed.