Blog - tember Day 6 - Top Trends

Afternoon all. As I said in yesterday's post I shared earlier this morning I would be back with todays prompt.

So todays prompt was Favourite fashion trends, but instead I am going to share my favourite trends in the Scrapbooking world lately or some of the trends I avoid.

 
September 6th - Too Scrapbooking Trends 

The first one I can think of is Paper Doilies, I have seen many layouts with them. They even come is colours, polka dots and just plain white, which I like.

If you want to check out some gorgeous Layouts using paper doilies check out these creative ladies blogs to see their layouts.

Raquel Bowman - Blog

Michelle Stokes - Facebook Page

I have to say Raquel and Michelle inspire me a lot. I love the way there layouts turn out.

Layering under your photo in traditional pages has became a big thing. I know myself and Adele Toomey (Inkie Quill) love to use the basic and cheap Tissue Paper to add both texture and to build up the layers with scrapbook paper.

One of the huge trends right now is Gold Foil. I think nearly every new Scrapbooking collection has some sort of  foil, you can now even foil yourself with the Heidi Swapp Minc. 

Let me know in the comments below what your favourite Scrapbooking trends are at the moment. 

Lydia xxx 

Blog - tember Day 5 - Top 10 Songs

Hey blog readers. Yesterday's post is a bit late but petter late then never right??

So I am going to twerk the prompt from yesterday from putting my iTunes on shuffle and say the first top 10 songs that play to my favourite top 10 song at the moment. 

So let's start this off with number 1:

September 5th - Top 10 Songs

#1 - Troye Sivan - Wild

Now thanks to my friends I am now a fan of Troyes's songs. I even found a song that I did know that he sung that I like. 

#2 - Walk The Moon - Shut Up & Dance

I don't know why I love this song but I just do. It is one of my first songs I put on while scrapping. 

#3 - Rachel Platten - Fight Song

I LOVE this song. I think I know it off by heart. 

#4 - Vance Joy - Riptide 

I LOVE this song again. (I have a lot of favourite songs.) I know all the lyrics and love to sing this song. 

#5 - Keith Urban - Kiss Me

This song has been one of my favourites since I was little. I have always loved good Aussie country songs such as Keith Urban. 

#6 - Sam Smith - Like I Can 

Same as a few above, I just like this song. 

#7 - Taylor Swift - Style 

Same as Keith Urban, I have always loved Taylor Swift since the first day I heard 'Love Story' (which has been my all time favourite Taylor song. 

#8 - Conrad Sewell - Start Again

Love this song. (Funny how I like songs about love, that's the same as books) 

#9 - Lady Antebellum- I Did With You

Just another song I like about love. Also from one of my favourite movies at the moment. 

Last but not least. 

#10 - Sarah McLachlan - Ordinary Miracle 

I can tember singing this at a Christmas school concert maybe, but most of all from the most beautiful movie that every child has to see, Charlottes Web. 

So here you are, my top 10 songs I mostly listen too on a Saturday morning while scrapping at my desk with the beautiful morning sun coming through my bedroom window. 

 

I will be back this afternoon with todays prompt and I might even do a extra blog post of a 12x12 Traditional scrapbook layout I did for a mood board challenge.

 

I hope you all had a great day. 

Lydia xxx 

Blog - tember Day 4 - What Am I Passionate About?

Morning everyone, I am back here again, that right 4 days in a row. My goal this month is to do every challenge of the Blog - tember challenge.

Today I am sharing ...

September 4th - What I Am Passionate About?

Well I am sure most of you can guess what I am passionate about. That's right documenting the everyday.

I just love how easy scrapbooking is to document those precious moments in our lives. I love taking photos (although I haven't been taking many at all the last couple of weeks) to include in my weekly Project Life but also scrapping those random single photos in a single 12x12 layout.

In the past 1 1/2 years I have started really thinking about my scraping career I think I have found the way I scrapbook and that is printed my photos from my SD camera card and playing with paper, embellishment, paint, stamps and more. I just love the feel of the physical products and I don't think I would ever go to digital. My goal after I finish high school is to go to college to do Graphic Design, even if I do that I think I will still be a physical product girl, still playing with paper and glue.

 

I would love to hear a little about what you are passionate about, leave a comment below. 

 

Lydia xxx

Blog - tember Day 3 - Mood Board Describing My Blog

Morning all... I am hoping that I will get to post my Blog - tember prompts each morning around 8:00am Australian time, so keep a eye out here every morning (if in Oz).

Today I am going to describe my bog.

September 3rd -  Describing My Blog

 

Ok. I was going to do a Mood Board like the original prompt had but I had some difficulties doing that so I am just going to describe my blog in my own words.

 

Every time I think of my blog I think of scrapbooking, paper, getting creative at my desk, photos, embellishments but most of all my readers who enjoy to read my blog and that I could be inspiring heaps out there to get creative and to document their everyday through scrapbooking.

 

I know that isn't much but that's all I can think of.  So to make my readers join in the conversation I would love to know how you would describe my blog to someone if who is just staring a creative blog . Let me know in the comments below.

 

Hope you have a great day.

 

Lydia jxxx

Blog-tember Day 2 - Ideal Day

Morning beautiful people. Well so far I have been here 2 days in a row yay yay!!!

So todays prompt for today is...

September 2nd - Ideal Day

Well my ideal day is pretty boring as I have SCHOOL! Although I love going to hang out with friends and the 2 days I have my favourite subjects - Art and Textiles (surprising hey?).

So lets do a quick 'Day In The Life Of Lydia'

7:00am - Wake up
7:20am - Get up and get dressed for school
7:30am - Pack bag for school
7:50am - Mainly searching Facebook or Instagram looking at my creative friend on there
7:55am - Shoes on and watching TV
8:15am - Out the door to catch the bus
8:40am - Arrive at school
9:00am - Form class
9:10am - First period
10:20am - Second period
11:30am - Morning tea
12:15pm - Third period
1:25pm - Lunch
1;55pm - Fourth period
3;05pm - HOME TIME!!
3;20pm - Catch bus home

And for the rest of the afternoon/night I am either doing homework searching Intagram again or CREATING!

So that is my ideal day. I am saw your ideal day is better than mine so let me know in the comments some of the things include in your ideal day.

I will be back tomorrow to share 'What I Am Passionate About'.

Lydia xxx

Blog-tember Day 1 - Introduction

Hey, hey hey...... yes I am back and this time I am hoping to stay in the blogging world for longer then one blog post.

This month I am going to participate in the awesome concept Bailey Robert came up with which is Blog-tember. This will be my first time participating and I cant wait to blog everyday with different prompts. These blog posts will be different to what I normally post but I have really wanted to share other things on my blog other than my creative side so this challenge is going to share things that I haven't shared before so I hope you enjoy taking a step into my life and to see what a 13 year old who loves to do creative things does when not sitting at my desk.

So here we go...

September 1st - Introduction

I haven't done a introduction before so this is one for everyone and to welcome any new readers of my blog.

I am Lydia Gibson a 13 year old (soon to be 14 on the 30th of September), I live a small country town in south-east Queensland, Australia. I love to create anything to do with scrapbooking/memory keeping, Project Life, mixed media, photography and lots more.

I have currently been one 2 design teams, the first being 'Project Life Junkies' Facebook group DT which was a total shock as I was so happy to share my talent at my age with others from around the world and the second design team I have been on is 'Deer & Fawn Designs' DT which has unfortunately closed recently. I have loved being on Design Teams and I am always looking for more call to apply for. So if you know of any calls please let me know as I would love to apply and share my work and to inspire others.

My blog is a place for me to share my creative side. I don't often get my albums out to anyone so on here I can do just that and  share with people from around the world.

 

I hope you enjoyed getting to know a little about me and I hope you pop in here again tomorrow as I share 'What My Ideal Day Is'.

Lydia xxx

Crate Paper - Craft Market Layout Share

Hi, hi all. Yes I know I have been away from the blog and I haven't kept up yet again, But I am here this morning to share some 12x12 layouts I have done with the beautiful Crate Paper 'Craft Market' collection which I picked up from the awesome Papertrenz store here in Queensland, Australia.

But first I want to share a few things.

- I have recently been doing a few Periscopes which I am loving as I can interact with my viewers as they comment. I plan on doing one today to share how I am going to make some Heidi Swapp Memory Dex cards so make sure you download the app and follow me @LydiaGi1010 to catch each of my live videos.

Ok lets share some of these pretty layouts.

Layout #1 - 'Goodbye Autumn'
So this was my first layout using the collection and I love it. I have to say this collection has all my favourite colours and all the gold foil and glitter, I just love it.

 
Close Ups -

 

 

 

Layout #2 - 'Wish'

I did this layout the same night as the first one so I ended up using the same paper as a border on both layouts. I also found that this collection I can use is really easily as I can work with the colours more.

 

 

Close Ups -

 

 

 

 

Layout #3 - 'Family LOVE'

I love how this layout turned out. At this point I ended up finally cutting into the 12x12 papers I got because they were so pretty.

Close Ups -

So that is all I am going to share today but I am sure I will be back tomorrow hopeful (fingers crossed) to share a few other layouts I did using this collection so far.

Make sure to go follow me on Periscope to be able to watch my video LIVE today.

Have a great day.
Lydia xxx