Hi my name is Agnus and I’m a 38 year old mumma of 3 gorgeous boys who keep me on my toes and make life interesting the say the least ;) I have been scrapping for around 9 years and love capturing all the little moments that make up our daily lives and have become hooked on Project Life style of scrapping, although I still love to create 12x12 pages. My scrapping style is pretty simple and I have a bit of a weakness for patterned paper. I mainly use clean lines and layers and always try to keep my photos as the main focus on my pages. I like to finish things off with a bit of stitching and use embellishment clusters to help tell the story and often make my own embellishments to give my pages a hand made feel.

You can find me here:

My blog: www.a-place-in-my-dreams.blogpost.com

My handmade embellishments: https://www.facebook.com/pages/scrAp-this/296550770459993

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I’ve been a happy subscriber to the fabulous Polly! Pocket Life kits since the beginning and was very excited to have the chance to play with the gorgeous Passionfruit Souffle scrapbooking kit this month. I instantly fell in love with the beautiful combination of colours and patterns in this kit, and because I mainly scrap boy pages, I was very happy to see that even though the kit was filled with loads of pretty goodies it was still perfect for creating boy pages!

Happy Little Moments

For my first layout I wanted to capture a moment of my youngest son busy playing with his toys on our stairs. I love taking in the little details while he plays and couldn’t resist taking a photo of his perfect little feet :)

I really like the subtle detail of wood grain papers and often use them as a base for my layouts and thought the grey colours would make a good contrast against the bright diagonal paper. I added a few strips of the thin washi tape along side the pink stripe to help draw attention to the smaller photo. The star paper was too good to pass up and so I cut up a few pieces on the same angle as the diagonal stripe and stitched these in place.

You can’t go wrong with enamel dots and I really like how the white dots pop against the other colours. I also extended the star pattern by gluing on a few of the tiny sequin stars to the page.

I absolutely love the cool metal arrows included in the kit and used a simple cross stitch to secure them to the page. I also used some of the bakers twine in a similar cross technique to dress up the other arrow.

Our Family

My next layout features a snapshot of me with my family. I wanted a soft feel for my page and chose the confetti dots and coral stripe papers because they both have a nice creamy base and used a strip of the thin washi tape to anchor the two patterns together.

I couldn’t wait to use the gorgeous sparkly gold enamel dots and added a few drops of gold colour mist as well as some metallic gold stitching to tie it all in.

I cut our a simple heart form the square of yellow gingham and backed it with a vellum pocket filled with some of the tiny sequin stars to add some interest to my cluster.

The typewriter chipboard was a perfect accent to add near my journaling, and I used a Bohemian Typewriter font on my computer to print up my journaling - I cut the strips slightly wider on the bottom so I would have room to stitch them in place.

Say Cheese

Because I still had so many awesome products left over, I decided to create another layout. I really wanted to make use of the bold polka dot and the whimsical heart papers and combined the two for this page about my son and his cousins striking a pose for the camera.

I started this page by spraying a white cardstock base with a bit of seafoam coloured mist and stitched a 10” frame in the centre. Because I had already used the reverse side of the polka dot paper for my first layout, I used the cut out portion as a design element and filled in the missing section with the heart paper.

I used the Simple Stories stickers to help tell the story and also to add little pops of accent colour to create a flow across the page.

The little yellow tab sticker is attached to a small journaling card with all the details from the day. I used baby powder to get rid of the stickiness on the back of the sticker before attaching it onto the card and tucking it in behind the large heart square.

Thanks for taking the time to check out how I have used this awesome kit. I’d love to see how you have used your kits :)

Happy Saturday Polly lovelies! I am so excited about today, as it means that I will be on a weekend long scrapbooking retreat, Camp Paper Scissors, with some of my favourite ladies, including our Polly girls Carol and Kate!

I don’t know how many of you have been on a scrapbooking retreat but if you haven’t you must! It is such fun! I had been on a number of retreats with my friends, but last year when I went to Camp Paper Scissors it was the first time I had been on a retreat with people that I didn’t know. Not that it mattered because by the end of weekend I had made friends for life!

Today’s pocket scrapbooking and traditional layout both document last years’ Camp Paper Scissors. I decided to use all of the teal elements out of the Passionfruit Soufflé, Salted Caramel Icecream and the Peppermint Tea add-on. It was so great that we were able to use teal elements and raise money for Ovarian Cancer awareness through Polly!

The colours of the kits went perfectly with the coloured Instax film I used to document our time at Camp Paper Scissors. In addition to the kits, the only thing I added was some stamps designed by my fellow camper, Kellie Winnell.

First off I tackled my pocket pages. Now, in pulling together the supplies from the kit that I wanted to use I grabbed all of the teal elements from across the three kits, plus some of the transparencies that I felt conveyed the right sentiments about my time at the retreat. White and kraft cardstock were the bases of my pages.

The left hand side of the layout has pictures of me and my mess, along with my fellow campers. The Studio Calico alphas went perfectly and the transparencies mounted on kraft paper were great, and they had hints of blue and white. I then used teal ink and stamps to make an arrowed patterned paper to mount my photos on. Arrows were a great way to also tie the pages together - I am so in love with the silver arrow embellishments in both of the kit! They are too cute!

Camp Paper Scissors grew from the Project Life Australia Facebook Group and was the brainchild of Polly’s own Carol, and Michelle Stokes. It was a great chance for Project Lifers to come together with like-minded people and craft their hearts out! Carol and Michelle did an amazing job and had so many surprises for us – including videos from Amy Tan, Ali Edwards and Becky Higgins!! You should have heard the room scream; it was our version of rock stars!

I decided to use the Bo Bunny – Baby Bump – Miracle patterned paper as a base for the pages, including my traditional layout. You can see how I have used snippets of the paper across all of my pages. I’m sure you’ve noticed by now that I love using paper this way!

I love this layout and what it documents – Becky Higgins mentioned our retreat and us! Definite superstar moment! For this layout I got out my mist again and started with drops of ink, I then worked from there with my layers. By the way, how great are the wood grain enamel dots in the Salted Caramel Ice-cream kit that I peppered through my layouts? I think I need another 20 packets of them! Also, to keep the arrow theme going, I stitched a couple of arrows on the page too!

So, now you’ve seen how much fun we had at Camp Paper Scissors last year I can guarantee that as you are reading this we are having even more fun at this year’s camp! Now, going to a retreat is no small task – it is 2.5 days of intense scrapping! So, what do you take? The first few retreats I went on my answer was everything! But now, while I still have a car full, I am a bit more strategic in what I take!

In this photo are all of my supplies for camp. In my Raskog cart I have my washi, embellishments and stamps – essential items for all of my pages. In the blue trolley bag I have all of my papers and kits that I want to use – packed by collection or kit. In the tubs I have my Project Life core kits, tools (pens, adhesive, ink, scissors, cutter, cutting mat, grid paper), a natural light lamp, two containers of alphabet stickers and all my memorabilia for my pages. I also have my 2013 albums (which I just finished!!!) to show my fellow campers. To add into this before I go will be my Selphy to print my photos, my laptop and my snacks!

So that is what I take to a retreat now for the weekend and I know that I will use the majority of what I bring. Before I used to take the entire craft room just in case, now I take post-it’s to stick on my pages to remind me to add in things that I may have left behind.

Anyway, I hope that you have all enjoyed taking a look into what goes on at a retreat. Have a great weekend, I know I will be, I will be at Camp Paper Scissors with my gorgeous new friends! Lauren xx