Tiny Books and Bags on a Scrapbook Page with Suse Fish
Welcome to February! This month I’ll be working with a collection kit focus for the Best of Both Worlds series, sharing a look at how my album strategy panned out over the last year, and I’m happy to continue to share the work of talented guest artists from all over the world. Today we go to a little island with an interesting flag to meet a crafty lady with a love of layers and a particular colour palette. Please welcome Suse Fish! – Shimelle
There’s something really lovely about the tween stage, isn’t there? That super-sweet bit after Care Bears, but before boys. I often remind myself to be a little more like my girl at this age: when a bottle of vanilla body spray or a pair of fluffy llama socks bring so much joy and there’s nothing more fun than making cupcakes and decorating each one in a different rainbow colour.
I wanted to capture something of that simple joy in this layout and had the idea to have things dangling from the page, like the colourful keyrings from Kitty’s backpack. Of course, I’d struggle to get this one in a page protector, so it’ll go on the wall instead, but I’m so happy with how it turned out.
I’m kind of obsessed with mini things and at the moment, really love making pint-sized travellers notebooks and mini albums. I decided it would be fun to make a teeny-tiny version of Bea Valint’s gorgeous acetate bag, then pop a miniature planner in it. I’m wishing now that I’d had a tiny pencil to go in there too…
My motto with scrapbooking is, “Why not?” I love taking things that probably shouldn’t go on a scrapbook page and working out how to tuck them in there. The fun is in the playfulness for me and I know that I need to lighten up whenever I start making pages that are a bit too involved or labour-intensive in an attempt to be impressive!
The photo is one of my very favourites. My lass isn’t so keen on having her photo taken, so I actually had to pay her for this photoshoot (oh yes, she’s canny) but she’d just dyed her hair pink and looked so fab that I had to get at least a few shots.
I hope you fancy having a go at a page like this. Just layer up lots of white elements behind your pic, thread a piece of elastic for your ‘charm line’ and most important of all: keep everything wonderfully scruffy and ruffled!
| Suse Fish lives on the Isle of Man with her minister hubby, daughter Kitty and two Ragdoll cats. She spends her time scrapbooking and putting things back where they came from. You can follow her work on her Instagram. |
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