Saturday and Scrapbooking

I have not attend any scrapbooking class for an extremely long time. I think the last one I attended was last year. Therefore, I decided to attend one at Laines on Saturday. I was late for the class and I was soooo embarrassed. Fortunately, I was quite fast and did not delay the class too badly. I miss my train and was 10 minutes late. Sigh... ...

We did three layouts for the "Botanics" class. My goodness, all the fellow mates had pictures ready for the class. I could not find any suitable ones!!! I have been ramaging through for days before the class but I just could not find any suitable ones!!! I think I am going to take one year to complete the layouts or until I can find suitable photos!!!

I did not realise that the layouts will quite "family" related. Most of the fellow scrapbookers had pictures of their children or their family or with their husbands and so on and so forth. I seriously need to look for appropriate picutres soon. If not, I think it will be quite interesting for me to find out how I am going to use the layouts using "non-family" related pictures.

Since I am on the topic of scrapbooking, let me see what I have. In summary, yes, summary only, these are what I have ever since I started scrapbooking in 2006:

1. Cardstocks - 5 packets of AC stacks, amounting to 300 pieces and another 100-200 pieces loose sheets in another bag
2. Patterned Papers - More than 400 pieces
3. Rubber stamps - 6 wood mounted and 2 unmounted
4. Clear stamps - Cannot remember but I have less than 15 sets, regardless of sizes
5. Stamps (similar to clear but not exactly clear) - Less than 10 sets
6. Foam stamps - 5 sets, all from Making Memories
7. Inks - Less than 20 in total
8. Paints - Between 20 to 26
9. Alpha Chipboard - Less than 8 sets
10. 1 Zutter Bind-It-All
11. Making Memories Instant Setter
12. Less than 10 blank albums of various sizes
13. Pens - Less than 20, various sizes and colours
14. Adhesives - 4 tubes of 3M Tacky, 2 tubes of K and Co, 1 small and 1 medium sized Plaid Matt Mod Podge, 1 big bottle of Plaid Royal Coat, and 6 glue tape and refills
15. Stickers - less than 30, of various sizes and themes and materials
16. 1 Paper trimmer
17. Prima Flowers - 2 bottles, 1 small bucket and 2 small sugar jar
18. and others... ...

Yes, like many fellow scrappers, I have bought more than I can scrap. I am happy to say that of all the purchases, I have only had one "wrong" purchase. I bought a second hand squeeze from a fellow scrapper. Currently, I am still no into diecuts, hence, I let it go at S$10.00 and I was glad that a fellow scrapper decided to adopt it. It was a good tool, except that I am not into it at the moment.

Does that mean that I do not scrap at all? Not really. The only problem is that I am more into mini albums. Just this year alone, I have already made 1 accordin album, 7 mini albums and 2 mini mini albums. The 2 mini mini albums were made from mini mini album kits. My friend gave the mini mini album kits to me as present but the theme was not to my liking. So, I did the album and gave to my friend and explained that the theme was not really the style I enjoy working with.

As for layout, I have only completed one. There are three still pending completion from the class which I attended on Saturday.

So, the question is, will I ever use up my materials? I suppose I can use up the materials.

After graduation next year, when I have most of the time devoted to scrapbooking, I am sure the papers will be used up much faster. Besides, I already have some projects planned for 2009:

1. Love Album
2. Wedding Guest book
3. Wedding Album
4. Baby Scans Album
5. Baby "Growing" Album
6. Baby Scans Album

And guess what? All the above albums are intended presents for my friends!!!

Will I be doing anything for myself? I suppose so. I have plans for the following 2009 scrapbooking projects:

1. Calender, featuring Mayday (I have one featuring Petr Cech, goalkeeper of Chelsea FC for 2008)
2. A 12"x6" album featuring Chelsea FC
3. Complete 2 mini albums for Stuffy Ni and Fadi (Agnes and Xiu had already gotten their long over due mini albums)
4. 1 12" by 12" album of my Uni days in Melbourne (wow! this is going to be a huge project for me!!! That is 20 layouts in all!!! Faintz... ...)
5. One mini album featuring all the concerts I attended in 2008
6. Cards

I suppose with my current materials, even if I do not shop for more supplies from today onwards, there should be more than enough. But then again, being so addicted to the supplies, I will still get more materials, except, lesser. Yes, I have not been buying loads these days. I only shop when there is really a great bargain for the items that interest me.

I need to save up for a European trip. Hope that by 2009 or 2010, I can travel to England, Ireland, Germany, Czech Rep, France, Spain and many others.

Alright, I am going to read up. Need to complete the write up soon. I have been sleeping too much on Saturday and Sunday.