Three Things : Creative Books (+ a giveaway)

Scrapbooking for me. I lose myself in it. It keeps me grounded. I love the entire process. SOmetimes its just cardstock, pictures, and words. Other times the pages are filled with embelishments. I love how I can do whatever I want. I love how our stories are on paper. I love how my family dives into my books. :)

Right now my favorite technique is sewing. It's a new thing for me but at the moment I'm enjoying combining different fabrics and other stuff into bags.

I love all things paper, well, except bills.
I haven't been doing much scrapping lately, I've been more focused on making cards. My cards are made mostly from scraps so it's also been a time for cleaning out and reorganizing. Thanks for sharing what inspires you.

I love scrapbooking & have been experimenting with digital elements. So fun!
Katrina :)

Hi Ali,
Currently, I am into colored pencils and markers. I've been doodling with them for a while.

I've been working at expanding my horizons outside of scrapbooking, my first love, and am finding so many wonderful things in the world of art!

My favourite 'technique', recently, seems to be experimenting with different ways of journalling on my LOs - painting titles/hand-writing in different fonts for titles/doodling text boxes for containing the journalling etc etc. It's the journalling that matters to me on my LOs (and will matter to people who look at them in the future) so I've really been spending time, concentrating, on coming up with different ways of presenting that.

I do mostly card making. My favorite thing these days are embossing folders that create wonderful texture. Texture is good.

Thank you for the offering the books! I am really bad and finishing things and usually am better when I go to a crop. During the past week I finished several projects at home - mini-books started in classes or kits that I had purchased. I finished the week with a class taught by Michelle Van Etten.

stamping. Congrats to you and your sister on the baby news. Hopefully the remaining of the pregnancy goes well (without the morning sickness...)

It's scrapbooking and stamping for me. That book looks amazing!

Right now I'm a very traditional scrapbooker and I rely mostly on patterned paper for creative impact. I just got a new computer yesterday and I can't wait to get into all of the digital goodies that are out there. :)

mine lately has been painting backgrounds with acrylic and stamps, inspired by paulette insall :)

i love scrapbooking and getting those pictures and journaling down for others. however, i think the thing that excites me the most is mixed media collages. i have started doing some and i love to just keep adding and playing.
thanks for the great giveaway!! how kind of you. have a great day, don't overwork yourself moving rooms around :)!!

The Techniques that I am into right now are playing with paint and Heidi Swapp masks. Also layering items like transparencies, Magic Mesh and stamped images.
Amber Osburn
California

I took a break from hand-stitching on my art quilted pieces, and am playing with a new art journal. LOVE trying different techniques on each spread.....and when the altered book is finished, it will become my journal for creative thoughts.

I haven't scrapbooked in months, 10 to be exact, when my 3rd child was born. My favorite medium is free time! This book could get me inspired to jump back in!

I'm all about rubber stamping these days. LOVE the little label clear stamps from KI Memories :-)

My husband and I just got back from Peace Corps and still feel like semi-nomadic people. So, while I'm literally itching to get my easel out of storage, I have to satisfy my creative energy with Photoshop and paper. I've been working on putting an album of our PC experience together. It's so great to re-live what we've just done so soon afterward, while the memories are still fresh! My favorite thing I've been doing is hybrid scrapbooking! I love it! It's so much more mess-free! :)

Love Kelly Rae's work. Would love the opportunity to have a copy. I am enjoying using vintage pieces on my scrapbook pages right now. Found some vintage old maid cards while hitting yard sales as well as vintage book pages. Love the texture they bring.

these days it is painting. i am starting back up after years of not painting since college... like riding a bike? not really...

I guess I'm a little boring ! but my favourite technique on my scrapbook pages is stamping/inking. Thanks for the chance to win!

I have really been loving expanding my hybrid scrapbooking techniques. I find great inspiration by looking through your techinques, as well as Jessica Sprague, and Donna Downey.

I have been simplifying my creative path. Taking the pressure off and adding photos in protective sleeves and scrapbooking the ones that tell the story. Living in the moment.......thanks for the opportunity to win a really neat book.

Right now, it's picnik.com. I love putting a creative touch on all of my family photos.