Starting to scrap my holiday.

Yesterday Shimelle talked about how easy and exciting it is to scrap new photos and events....but can be much harder when we leave them til much later......I'm often guilty of that....so decided to start scrapping my holiday while it's all still fresh......sometimes I find 12 x 12 albums hard....they take so long....need so much work.....at Ally Pally I bought a bargain 11 x 8.5 album....I love this size.......big enough to put plenty on a page.......small enough to complete a page fairly quickly. The photos are the view from our holiday barn.......in the middle of nowhere......bliss.....I want to incorporate some of the techniques I use in cardmaking into my scrapbooking......so have added stamped fences [magnolia] and birds [Basic Grey]..........I rarely use my own handwriting..........as I hate it..........but think sometimes I should.......using a journaling block [Bo Bunny] made that much easier........but chickened out of writing the title........used a Sizzix alphabet.

Am really pleased at how enjoyable it was working on this size.

I almost forgot my really exciting news [well....exciting to me]........I was on the Magnolia site today...........and found I had won their last blog candy.........yaaaaaaaaaay..........I just can't wait to see what I've got.