Monday Made: Starting scrapbooking...

I mentioned that I attended my first scrapbooking class last Friday, and we got started on our first piece of work during the class.  However, I only finished the piece yesterday night, since I thought there were a hundred things wrong with it, and wanted to add this and that and make all sorts of adjustments.

Anyway, I enjoyed the class, yet found it bewildering in some aspects.  It was enjoyable since its a rarity to have time to just sit down and craft for a few hours when you have kids to take care of.  We got to learn about the various tools we could use, as well as all the stuff you can stick to embellish your work (before this class, the only "brad" I knew was half of the Brangelina couple!).  We also got to go "shopping" in the shop to pick out the papers and lettering we wanted to work with.  This was the part that got bewildering.  We were told to match the colours in our photos to the papers we used, and there were so many choices, so I wandered around rather lost since I had so many I wanted to choose! I also spent a long time shuffling the stuff around to determine the layout (and to make things harder, I had chosen a round piece of patterned paper, and I had no idea how to fit the stuff around it...).

I had wanted a more "boyish" theme to fit the photos, and tried to stay away from the more girly stuff like flowers.  So I was advised to add buttons... and I tried cutting out clouds from some leftover white paper, and using distress ink at the sides for fun:

Then I went digging around the box containing punches, and found the leaf and bird punches, and started adding birds and leaves, and I found a felt flower detail in the box of embellishments.  It was so pretty, yet not too pinky-poo that I caved in about my "no flowers rule", and ended up sticking some flowers too!

Since I've read on various sites about the importance of journalling, I added a little note to remind me where the photos were taken... just in case I should see this when I'm old and senile next time...

So this is the finished product:

Supplies: Patterned paper (Studio Basics Hooray Circle);
Felt Detail Embellishment: Lace (American Crafts);
Black Embellished Butterfly (Jenni Bowlin)
Thickers: Jewelry Box (American Crafts);
Cardstock Alphabets: Chocolate (Pink Paislee);
Jewel Brads (American Crafts):
Buttons (Brand wasn't stated).

What can I say?  I think I'm hooked! :)