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.

 
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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.

 

 

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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.

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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

I AM BACK !!! 12x12 Layout Share Monday - #3 - "Scrappy Friends", "Much Love For Autumn" & "Anzac Day"

Oh my, Oh my..... I haven't blogged since the end of the school holidays. But I am back and determined to get blog posts ready in advance so they are ready to post before school.

Ok dokey, time for some 12x12 Layout shares.

First up is
Layout #1 - "Scrappy Friends"
I really like how this layout came together with my go to packaging technique with gelatos and the beautiful bright colours from the Amy Tan "Stitched" collection.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

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Layout #2 - "Much Love For Autumn"

Love, love, love how this layout came out. It is definitely a very, very different layout for me. For this layout I used Inkie Quill's Home made kit, in which you make  a kit from products in your stash to use up some of those goodies that are waiting for your attention. Also when I did this layout I had watched one of Adele's videos in whish she had used lots of circles on one of her layouts and that is where I got the inspiration from.

 

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 And last layout for today......
Layout #3 - "Anzac Day"
This is a simple layout for me, but I like it. It was just a photo of a sunset from Anzac this year. I also did some mixed media with my go to packaging technique again and some texture paste.

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Thanks to all of my new viewers. I really hope I can I can share and inspire you all.

Have a lovely start to your week and I will make sure I am back on Thursday (hopefully if I can find a technique to share) for Technique Thursday.

Lydia xxx

12x12 Layout Share Monday - #2 - "Saturday", "I Wear Flowers In My Hair" & "Westmar Sunset"

Morning All. Today I am going to share 3 12x12 layouts. I still have another 3 layouts for next week that were in my pile to share, then I will get onto sharing layouts I have just done using the beautiful Crate Paper 'Craft Market'.

      

Layout #1 - "Saturday"
This layout I really like how it came together. I have to say this is a little different then what I normally do but I like it.

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Layout #2 - "I Wear Flowers In My Hair"
Love, love, love how this turned out. I really wanted to get my mixed media on and I sure did that. I really don't know how many time I have scraped this photo hahaha.

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This little technique I just tried, I didn't know how it would turn out but I like it. I did some splatters then got a straw and blew them to make this cool affect.

& Layout #3 - "Westmar Sunset"
This layout is very different then what I normally do, but I like it. I have to say this is a very bright layout for me.

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I hope you all have a lovely start to your week.
Lydia xxx