keeping calm with Sarah

"Keep calm, smile and create beautiful things!"

It's been a very busy week so this tag is very much a message to myself!  I find smooching paint and ink around, colouring in and 'cutting and sticking' very relaxing but sometimes I really have to fight to find the time to do it.

But it's definitely worth it!  I feel better through the actual 'making', and can keep on enjoying my 'beautiful things' indefinitely :)

Stampotique Stamps used:

Keep Calm by Maria Sabina Raita

Starbird with Chick by Jo Capper-Sandon

Stampotique scraplings by Sarah

I just discovered scraplings!!  They seem to have been around a long time but they'd passed me by until now.

If you've not come across them either, they are the by-product of turning an A5 card into a square.  I love working 'small' so these were right up my street, especially since I added some pages using pamphlet stitch and turned them into mini books :)

Stampotique Stamps used

Carrot

Happy, happy

Abstract foliage

The 'fabulous' scrapling started out as a very plain one, with just the single word stamped on the front.  The idea was going to be to be very black and white on the outside, and full of colour inside (I colour copied some journal pages and trimmed them down to make pages)

It evolved a bit after I added the word 'smile' though!!

Stampotique stamps used

fabulous

keep calm

Let me know if you've made any scraplings recently, I'd love to see them!

Sarah