Lately I have decided not to give away every single thing I create!
I have been wanting to keep a journal for many years but am uninspired by a blank book from a store... so I thought I would use us some supplies and just have a bit of a free for all more 3-dimensional journal... no rules attached kind of thing... and it seems to be working and I'm really enjoying it. I used the basis of my inspiration from a catalog I love called Anthropologie. They have a line of wallpaper I fell in love with... so I recreated the b/w cover with my kind of spin on their design using two stamps I happened to have (hardly own any) and a black pen and doodled on some white cardstock. Had some paint and bits and pieces of embellishments of course hanging around the studio as well as some lace I picked up years ago with the idea of doing 'something' with it. Here is the 4 x 6 book so far.
Ooh and I have been making recycled enveloped from an art book someone was going to throw away. How can you throw out a Gauguin book? Sure it wasn't in the best of shape but I tore out the pages and opened up every size of envelope I could scavenge around the house and retraced them and glued them. (Had to keep Gauguin's nude prints out I'm afraid for US Post Office, as they might be not be too impressed. That would be half the book!) I'll hand give those ones to friends!
And I'm totally inspired to really get my teeth into digital scrapbooking and have been downloading lots of stuff online and starting the learning curve.