Scrap Room Makeover

Last month I posted the before pics of my scrapping space. Well, it's time to show you some progress. While this is not The Grand Unveiling, it is some of the things that have influenced my decisions on this journey.

Might I say, I was inspired by these:

The teal colour, the haphazard numbers, the white...

The doodled birdie ...

The colour scheme of red, teal and white (and a dash of pink?) ...

(Lynne Marie's Matilda kit) and all that whimsey without clutter ...

My object was to declutter, air-ise and lighten up so I enjoyed working in here. Or even just being in here. And it worked.

First up, a new lick o' paint.

It's Dulux's Half Seafoam.

My favourite things to look across the room and see are:

My wooden initial. Can't explain why.

Unfortunately, when I was drilling the shelves, I dropped the monogram and it broke. Talk about heart-broken! Will have to trek to Bed, Bath n' Table to get another, if they still have them. Either that, or invest in some more super glue.

My white words: inspire, create, laugh. These words make me happy and make me willing to share my joy thru scrapping.

My new shelves. Cheap as chips, painted gloss white during a wonderful late-night session with my 5-year-old (who helped tremendously). Still need to touch up metal parts with seafoam paint.

I picked up the fake foliage at Target. Love homewares at Target. The shelves will be used for quick-grab stuff, like my cameras and camcorder and iPod etc. Stuff that needs to be out of reach of 2yo fingers but easy to grab in a hurry.

To be Continued ....

  

Welcome back Chickies!

Katharyn here with another Friday Freebie template to keep you scrapping happily and easily throughout your weekend!

I've made a pretty simple looking template, but wait until you see what some of the other Creative Team members did with it! Amazing! It's always a buzz to see how differently layouts turn out when they all began with the same thing. 

Grab it here.

And here's my take on it, using the Oh So Sassy kit, released this week at The Digi Chick.

 

Here's Kristin's, using the Oh So Studious kit.

 

Leila's, also with Oh So Studious.

 

And Trina's, using my own personnal favourite Jennifer Fox Design kit, Lil Dude.

 

Well, I hope this has perked up your scrappy mojo for the weekend. Enjoy!

If you want to return the love, leave us a comment at the end of this post - we'll send good creative vibes your way.  

Friday Freebie: LT 009

Whoa. Nothing exciting to report here. Had a lovely birthday and Mother's Day. Thank you for all your well wishes. And a great big hug and pat of appreciation to all the other mums out there who devote countless hours to their families, all just for the love of it. You are awesome people. Remember that next time you feel taken for granted, ok?

Just a quick note to let you know my Friday Freebie layered template will be available to download from Jennifer Fox's blog here, on their Friday (our Saturday - I think they are about 12 hours or so behind us). (DOWNLOAD LINK EXPIRED)

It looks like this.

And I've made this layout Sticky Girl to sample it, using Jennifer Fox Designs' "Oh So Sassy" kit, available May 13.

And it will be packaged up like this:

Make sure to leave some love. We know you're out there.....!