Paperclipping Festival

On the 22.June Noell is hosting the Paperclipping Fastivale over at paperclipping.com . Its a showcase of LOs created after beeing inspired by one of the Paperclipping video tutorials, and I would highly recomend you guys to pay her a visit, and maybe become a member of Paperclipping! At first I became a member to support Noell and Izzy, and not so much for the videos, but after watching them I can truly see a difference in how I approach scrapbooking. 

So, if you still haven´t discovered Paperclipping, now is clearly the time! I have fallen in love :-) Noell (and Izzy) has great video tutorials, but to me, the most fantastic thing is their Paperclipping Roundtable podcast. They have also just started The Paperclipping Digi Show, and that is just as great! As I spend most of my time in my studio, either scrapping, blogging or bloghopping I´ve been listening to PRT and PSD several times a day. They have become my crop friends!

What I love about Noells style of scrapping, and the video tutorials, is that its so adaptable to different styles. (And she´s thought me how to use all those fab Hambly transparencies and rubons I keep buying but never use..)

For this LO about me it´s easy to see how I´ve picked up tips from Noell. The episodes that come to mind are these:

• Paperclipping 25: Layering embellishments
• Paperclipping 97: Embellishments in action

I made this page for one of the challenges over at ACOTs NSD crop. We had to use a photo of ourself, and an Eigthies color scheme.

I didn´t journal on this page, because I thought my choise of title said it all: "I like going against the grains" The title describes how I don´t always go the expected way, do the expected thing,  make the expected choice, and I´m very happy with it :-)

Materials used:

• Cardstock:Core´dination (CoreImpressions:Cosmo Cricket neutrals collection)(Core Couture)
• Embelishments:Hambly rubons, butterfly (unknown), pearls from stash
• Punch: Martha Stewart Around The Corner Layered Arch
• Other:My Little Shoebox Mini Alpabet stickers in Kiss, sandpaper