Early Autumn Kit Round Up

Well, I have nearly used up all my Early Autumn kit from Noel Mignon. I have one full sheet of patterned paper and one of card and some bits and pieces. I will make something with them as I like to try and use them all up!

So here I am sharing what I have made this month with the kit. It was very 'autumnal'. However, by using the 'B' sides of the paper I have been able to use the kit for many different layouts, showing how versatile the kits can be.

This is a layout all about the trip Penny and I took on her birthday to see Pentatonix in concert. The library card holder was great for all the jouranlling.

This layout is with photos from June, on Father's Day. I used the white rub ons in a couple of places on this layout - they didn't go down particularly well and I ended up drawing bits in with a white pen!

I took LOADS of photos when we went on the Harry Potter Studio Tour for my birthday and I have hardly started to scrap them! I liked this layout by Becky Williams on the Noel Mignon blog and used it as inspiration for my layout.

I don't do much for Halloween, or have many autumnal photos these days - there were a lot more when the children were small! However, at work we celebrate Halloween with a pumpkin carving competition and dressing up, so I was able to document it and add the spider which I had had in my stash for ever and a day!

Now the next two layouts I simply LOVE! I knew when I opened the kit that I needed to find these photos of the children taken 20 odd years ago! I scanned them in and printed them out so I kept the originals. I really enjoyed scrapping these and they will go into the 'Ben and Penny when they were little' album!

I enjoyed fussy cutting the leaves out of the paper and sticking them down onto this layout. Great fun!

And then there are these two layouts which I have already shared with you!

So that is the end of this kit - well apart perhaps from a couple more with the scraps! I have already received the next kit and if you pop onto the blog you can see what I have received - the video is here. It is autumn related again, but I think I can use it all up using 'B' sides again!

Photo heavy post!

I’ve not had much time for scrapbooking – what with a trip to the Harry Potter Studio Tour, a birthday tea at my Mum and Dad’s and then on Sunday, after I’d done all the jobs which had piled up from not being at home on Saturday, it was TOO HOT to sit in the conservatory playing with paper! Instead I sat in the sunshine and read the Sunday papers, and I have to say it was wonderful!

So, have I got anything to share with you? Well, I could share the 80 odd photos I took at Harry Potter, but I won’t inflict those upon you! Well, not all of them! Here are a few: (I have made the files smaller so that this post will upload more easily!):

Penny outside the Studios

Harry's 'bedroom' under the stairs

Gryffindor uniform and table in the Great Hall

Ben looking at the 'leaky cauldron'

Ben, me and Penny standing in front of the Hogwarts gates

Gryffindor Common Room

Ben and me looking in the mirror or Erised

Hugh and me outside No 4 Privet Drive

Penny and Hugh drinking butterbeer

The four of us on the Hogwarts bridge

Aragog!

Diagon Alley

The model of Hogwarts

Inside the wand 'shop'

No doubt you will see many of these photos, plus others, appearing on layouts in the coming months!

 

There was an interesting discussion on the Paperclipping Round Table recently about taking photos versus just using your brain to remember the event and not using the camera as much. I did understand where they were coming from. On many occasions I have see the event through the viewfinder, rather than in ‘real life’ as I have been so busy capturing the event to be able to scrapbook it afterwards. So I went on the Tour with every intention of not taking as many photos as I usually would. I tried. I really tried! And actually, I think I probably didn’t take as many as I normally would have done. And I think that I enjoyed the experience more as I spent time interacting with Ben, Penny and Hugh, discussing the exhibits and really taking time to look at them. However, I still came away from the tour with 80 photos and took a further 20 at my parents.

And here are a few photos taken at my parents’ where I had a lovely afternoon tea after the tour:

My Dad and me

Ben and me

Me with Pippa (who is so much better now)

Me and my Mum

Finally, to finish, is this photo, which is quite true in this household!

So what do you do? Lots of photos and see the event through the viewfinder, or less photos and experience the event? I suppose the thing to do is to get the balance right for YOU. Everyone is different and every event requires a different approach. Let me know what your thoughts are.