Hello,
Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #596, where our lovely Bobby has selected *Harvest* as this week's word prompt. Fruits, vegetables, flowers, field crops...what will you harvest for this theme?
A new month brings new changes to Just Us Girls. First, we're sad to bid "see you later* to teammate, Maria Levin, who has been designing since 2009. We wish you all the best as you delve into other facets of creativity. Second, we're delighted to welcome Elizabeth Stewart, from papersweetness.blogspot.com to the team. Her “10 minute immersions into creativity” are guaranteed to inspire. Third, we're delighted to have Claire Apostoloff joining us as our August Guest Designer. Lots of inspiration happening today over on the blog!
Okay...so I have fallen head-over-heels for the Elizabeth Craft Designs Planner Essentials collection and the wide variety of journals/albums that I've seen using them. At present, I have no plans to journal or create albums (not a photographer; not that interested in having pictures printed), but I *DO* have plans to play with pretty papers! What started this was the little seed of an idea to create Advent Calendar journals (sort of like December Dailies, which I've never done) for my niece and nephew this year. The seed has started to grow...and so has my ECD collection.
That said...I need to practice my journal/album skills before diving into the Advent project, so I decided to do so with this challenge. Below are a few pages of my 'playing around' with a variety of the dies and a patterned paper collection from Mintay, called Country Fair. This ticks all the boxes for me: lovely vegetable-and-floral papers, pretty backgrounds (the pink woodgrain...swoon!), delightful chipboard stickers and a WHOLE lot of die-cutting/assembling. What I'll do with these pages, who knows. But...I've decided it's all about the process and for now, that's enough.
Here's what I have so far...still a work in progress.
I can't even tell you how much fun I had putting these pages, even if several were 'left as is' because the images did all the work. Next on the list: getting an actual journal to put these in!
Thank you for wandering through my babbling-and-photo-heavy post! Turning the stage over to you!
Looking forward to seeing how Harvest inspires you!
11 comments:
Weel, these are just beautiful, Carol. That paper is gorgeous. If gardening were this pretty, I'd be all over it! LOL What a lovely journal these pages will make. I think its wonderful that you are delving into another side of your creativity. Hope you play and play and have loads of fun with it. Hugs!
Carol... the papers are gorgeous! I would be addicted as well. I am so hoping you will share the advent journals as they take shape. What a wonderful gift idea! Thank you for the warm welcome! I am truly looking forward to working with you on JUGS.
You can tell you are enjoying these beautiful papers! Well done!
This is such a wonderful "work in progress"! Beautiful journal pages and excellent *practice* for advent calendar journals.
I squealed when I saw these pages Carol! They are just so gorgeous. You know, I don't have time for scrapbooking or journalling but I was clearing out an old box the other day and found two tiny scrapbooks I'd once made. One was about Christmas and one was about my birthday. There were twelve tiny pages with a photo on each and three or four lines of writing about each. I looked at them for hours and will treasure them for ever! Sorry about writing you a novel but I thought it might encourage you to personalise those beautiful pages and put them in a journal! Vicky x
I can see why you were smitten with this line of products, Carol. The images are so well done and coordinated. I can't wait to see how these develop into Advent journals.
WOW! You have been dabbling in all sorts of paper crafts! These are all terrific! Please keep us up to date on this new journey! Well done my friend!
Oh- lovely!!!
I'm gobsmacked Carol with what you have done here. Absolutey amazing and simply fabulous and no doubt so much fun. Really love your new project and look forward to seeing the next steps you take.
This is such an awesome collection for a planting journal! Beautiful papers and I love all of the tags. The front page looks so cool like a potting shed door. Love this!
Wow! What an amazing project! I would love to see the next steps.
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