Thanks to my visit to Ally Pally the other week, I have discovered a new craft, decopatch! So I decided that I'd buy myself some papers in a rainbow of colours and use them to cover a chipboard mini album I bought at Ally Pally, and I'll fill the album with pictures from our forthcoming holiday in Cornwall (I'm thinking of using black & white photos). It's not quite finished yet,I was playing with buttons and ribbons earlier to see what combination to use, and even though I am the first to admit that I have a bit of a button problem, I don't have quite enough of the ones I want to use (I'm one yellow button short!)! I shall have to raid Judy's stash to see if she has the one I need! I also need some thin orange ribbon. Decopatch has been easy to do - I have done some in the odd 30mins here and there during the daytime, yes even while the kids have been around, and in the evenings too while watching TV. As well as the mini album I'm also working on some chipboard bunting which I've done decopatch on one side, and I'm planning use decopatch to decorate a chipboard christmas tree as my "off the page" project for the Scrap Cafe retreat crop in 3 weeks time.
Playing with the button layout ...
... and ribbons too ...
... and all the pages
Now I mentioned above the Scrap Cafe retreat in 3 weeks time. I'm not actually staying over, the hotel it's at is just 2 minutes drive away (3 if the traffic lights are on red!), but it's a Friday evening to Sunday evening of scrapbooking and crafting, so I'll be using our house as a hotel that weekend and listerally just sleeping here. We've been given a list of hints for the challenges over the weekend, and as well as the "off the page" challenge, another challenge is to make our name badge as there will be lots of people there (and I only know 2 or 3!). As we are away from next weekend I decided to make my badge today while I have a bit of time. I've stuck with the rainbow theme, and enjoyed playing with the Sew Easy tool I bought yesterday in Hobbycraft. The letters are plain white letters which I coloured in with pens of the appropriate rainbow colours. I'm pleased with how this has turned out :)
