Scrapbooking Made Simple

I love the BEACH! It's finally warming up enough to go to the beach. As we're only two blocks from the beach I take the kids there alot! But if we're going swimming I go to the man made lagoon as I don't have to worry about sea lice or jellyfish with the kids. The thing I like most about the weather warming us is the photo opportunities it presents. This layout was done with the photos of our last day at the beach (Autumn 2007) and now I can't wait for the Spring 2007 shots so I can experiment with this kit some more. This is a digikit so for once I don't need the shells. One of the things I love to do is walk up and down the beach with the kids finding little shells and pieces of coloured glass and I take a little bag and fill it with sand to take home. All of these items make perfect embellishments for my pages and best of all they're FREE! I think the beach is one of the best sources of free supplies. I have even found nylon netting and fishing line and o...

You know, I always say to new scrapbookers that they should view the world around them as a possible source of supplies and today was a perfect example of this. I was walking across the road when I saw a squashed bottle top. The bottle top has a snowflake on the top of it so I'm going to use it as a Christmas Page embellishment. I'd love to do a blue layout of something skiing related but as we don't get snow here I figure my chances are pretty slim of getting a snow photo anytime soon. Because it's been out in the elements for a while and obviously driven over it has a lovely "aged" effect..... So watch where you're walking.... you never know what FREE scrapbooking find you're missing out on... lol