Scraptastic! Feb Portfolio.

Oh dear, I've been terrible at keeping you up to date on my life lately. It hasn't been all bad, I've still been keeping up to date with reading and commenting your posts, but you must be sick of having to reply to me on the same post you commented last. (Erica! Sorry) ANYWAY, moving on to the reason I haven't been posting. My scrapping mojo is back and I have busted out a few layouts this week for my SSD Portfolio :) Thought I'd do a little sharesies - would love your feedback.


Can't take complete credit with this one; the task entailed lifting one of Leslie Coltrain's layouts. Btw, 'scrap lifting' comes from the term 'shop lifting' but unlike it's origin isn't frowned upon in the scrapbooking society. It pretty much means taking inspiration from a page you've seen and crediting them. Task 1 in each monthly portfolio is always a lift and it's great to get the mojo flowing. I chose to use my favourite photo from The Big Day Out... yes, that's how close I got to Ms Lily Allen!


I took these photos when we were staying at David's parents' in Perth, knowing that they would make for a cute page :) Alot of the prompts his month were about love, it being Valentine's Day and all that, and this one asked for you to create a page using your favourite song lyrics. I used my favourite Nada Surf line; "To make a mountain of your life is just a choice" :)


Every month there is also 5 prompts for something called the 'Book of Me'. You have to pick 3 of them and it's my favourite section. I try to make them all look the same as I might actually print it out at the end of the year and use it as a coffee book. Does that sound vain? Oh well. Here we had to scrap our favourite colour, I also 'lifted' Mary's work in order to complete another challenge - two birds with one stone! Woo!


I was actually super proud of this one. I originally started with just the top half, but thought it needed a little extra, so I added some titling and that little cluster on the left. I suck at clustering, I'm more a graphic sort of girl than one who favours lots of layers, but I'm slowly getting the hang of it. My favourite designer even commented it saying she loved it. Head swelling!


This one is my latest so far. Yet another 'Book of Me' task. I used an amazing mask to get all those different shapes so I didn't have to cut them up etc. I used the same alpha and page collection (but just different placement) to continue the theme. I had a lot of fun making this one, but it seriously took me forever to be happy with it. What can I say, I'm a Virgo. Hehe.

Anyway, thanks for reading all that. Just wanted to do a bit of showing off. Regular programming will resume tomorrow, and by regular I don't mean non existent. Click each image for a bigger version and full credits :)