Monday 18 July 2011

Explore

Explore is a brand new course by Shimelle.  I love doing Shimelle's courses and usually start with a flourish and then tail off and sometimes don't finish.  However, this one WILL be different.  I aim to finish this class.

So, drum roll for day one.  Today's task was to make a playbook which could be of any size but I followed Shimelle's example and made a 6"x4" notebook.  I used black and grey cardstock and some patterned paper in similar colours.  We also needed to take a photo of ourselves!

The cover

 The pages
 The other sides
 The photo of me which I cropped to put in the notebook

And the journaling:

Explore ~ day one ~ 18th July 2001

Today is the first day of Explore - a new class with Shimelle and one I propose to finish.

I rarely appear in my scrapbooks or minibooks because I am the one behind the camera.  I really dislike having photos taken of me - I usually look like a rabbit caught in the headlights!  And an added difficulty in taking pictures in the mirror is that we only have 2 full length mirrors and they are in awkward places.

Currently I have committed myself to several online courses which enable me to take part in a variety of creative expressions.   Most of this is art journaling rather than scrapbooking.  I love to take photos but tend to take landscapes or photos of street furniture or parts of houses rather than people.  These don’t lend themselves to being put on a layout.

I signed up for the class because I love Shimelle’s classes , it sounded exciting, and I got a discount!

14 comments:

  1. Goodness aren't you quick of the mark, I haven't opened the email yet lol. But so excited after seeing what you done :,)

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  2. Well done Bernice, so quick off the mark! The SP actually looks great and I love your playbook, the colours are yummy!

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  3. Love the colours you've chosen for your playbook and that's a great self portrait. Hope you're encouraged to appear more in your scrapbook pages!

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  4. Love your colour palate, hope you enjoy the class.

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  5. First off the blocks methinks?!! Love your co;our pallette & your self portrait is lovely...like you I'm a good starter in Shimelle's classes but often fall behind...but hey!! it's all about the taking part!! Like you I aim to finish this one, so I'm off to finish my Play Book & will be blogging later!! :)

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  6. You are quick too, love you book

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  7. Wow, that was fast! Looks great though, well done on the self portrait too.

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  8. Love your book and great self portarit too

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  9. love the book and the photo

    Jane http://nannyjanes.blogspot.com/

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  10. Fabby! Can't wait to c the rest!

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  11. You have done a wonderful job and so now I am inspired to go look for papers for my playbook :) p.s. Your photo is great!!

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