Today, I want to share a mini sketch book that I created to keep on hand for when inspiration strikes. Because according to Murphy's Law, when it hits me, I'm usually empty-handed, with nary a pad nor pen handy! :)
I created the album using
From the patterned paper, I fussycut the "Green with Envy" tag and removed the inner part, leaving a Polaroid-type frame. I then mounted it on a scrap piece of the reverse coordinating side of the Live In Colour Tags paper, after flicking it with my watercolours. The title was added and the whole thing was mounted onto the album cover. I wrapped it all with a satin ribbon and then embellished with flowers and butterflies (of course!), cut and punched from coordinating patterned papers.
The pencil holder was made by folding a short piece of elastic band around the pencil and sewing a loop. I then punched a circle from patterned paper and attached it to the mini doily. Using the loop as a guide, I cut a slit through both, using my craft knife. I fed the elastic loop through the doily/circle and then attached it all to the upper portion of my chipboard, centering it between the punched holes.
The pencil was made by stamping plain copy paper with turquoise ink and the A Little Bit Washi stamp set. It was cut to length and then wrapped around a mechanical pencil that was covered in double-sided tape. Easy peasy!
For the inside pages, I wanted pre-drawn squares to use when I am brainstorming sketches for the Sketchy Challenges for Canadian Scrapbooker magazine. Using Adobe Illustrator, I created the custom pages and printed them out. Once they were all trimmed down to size, I marked and punched the holes with the Cropodile and bound it all together with 1" binder rings.
Thanks for looking - hope you enjoyed my project!
Cheers,
Sue :)
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I am SO SAD as I write this blog post today! I am sitting here in my studio with my cats, gerbil, a box of Kleenex , and a bag of Reese Pieces. 
I remember the very first article that I wrote for the magazine. It was called Scrap Matters and it was in the Summer 2009 issue. After that article, I was so excited that I had a article in every issue of the Canadian Scrapbooker that came out until this past Spring. I loved thinking up new ideas and sending them to Jackie Ludlage to see what she thought of them. I would anxiously wait for an email back from her to see if she liked the idea or didn’t like it. I would then spend hours writing up the articles and creating artwork for them. I was thrilled when in January 2011, Jackie asked me if I wanted to actually be a ‘writer’ for the magazine. Before that time I had been doing the articles for her, not expecting or getting anything in return, because I loved designing, writing and interacting with people that also loved to create! It made me happy. 
I met a lot of WONDERFUL people and made a lot of AWESOME memories that I will always treasure! 
My four years of writing for Canadian Scrapbooker have been four wonderful and memorable years which I will cherish with lots of fond memories. I want to combine my love for teaching with my love for writing, and pursue this combined passion with other magazines which will allow that to happen. Since I can only be a writer for Canadian Scrapbooker, and not a teacher, I need to pursue different options which will allow me to dove tail my two passions together. Keep looking at this blog and company, 
We get into all kinds of mischief in my classes!!!!! *wink*
