SMASH!!

So its Wednesday and time for What's on your Workdesk, led by the amazing Julia ... (grab yourself a cuppa ... going to be a long post this one!! I have Smash stash from K and Co ... been itching to get my hands on this since I found it on you tube ... and now I have it in my hot little hands!!It has taken over my crafting space ... and suddenly I am tidier ... not that i am overly messy!

Now I confess to having dabbled with Scrapbooking, but to be honest I am a slap, stick and paste kind of person ... just like those scrapbooks we all kept as children, roughly cut articles and photos with captions.  I struggle with layouts and embellishments, as as a cardmaker primarily, all my pages end up looking like cards!!! The fab thing about SMASH is I can do the kind of scrapbooking I feel comfortable with!!!
So this is what I got ...

The Eco green smash book and a mini folio book (more on that later!), pockets. tabs. clips, labels, jotting pads ... lots of yumminess ready to play with. I have decided that I am going to dedicate this book (yes I will be ordering more LOL!!) to crafting.
Here's my intro page ...

And now for the pages I have started so far ...

Stamping onto the page, doodling, sticking in tag, tape, a glassen butterfly, died flowers, filmstrip and a crackle painted grungeboard heart. The tag was made for the page but the flowers and heart are all bits I have kept from play sessions ... not perhaps good enough for a card ... but fab for a SMASH book!

I love this tag, made it using rusty hinge, vintage photo and aged mahogany DIs, a TH flourish mask and a smattering of tattered leather glimmer mist.  I painted over the masked area with glitter glam from Tattered Angels ... LOVE this stuff!!

I just want to stroke that died flower!!
As well having a slight obsession with the Man himself, I also LOVE my glimmer mists, and Tattered Angels screens ... so need a page for them!

Its very much work in progress - tag created using a screen and mists, spritzed flowers, and plays with mixing colours ...Again these bits and bobs are all from play sessions, and trial gos before doing the real thing ... very rarely get it right 1st time LOL!!

Isn't that flower fab ... I pressed the cardstock into the waste from spraying the flowers, so I got the petal mask, and its been glitter glamed. A technique I am going to do again.

And another page .. pretty much finished .. I have blocked out some of my doodling as it is very personal.  Love this Sassy, Amelia, and stamped her directly onto the page and added the inspirational quote from Amelia Earhart that I love. Also added a couple of sentiment stamps that have meaning to me.
Got a gingham page and a colour page and a my style page all with bits and bobs ready to smash in ...
And the mini folio book is going in my handbag .. so I can record days out, trips, just 'those' times with the girls as and when they happen ... don't need to try to remember what they said ... got my book to hand!
Hope you're not too bored ... have a fab Wednesday!