It is no secret amongst my friends and the Aussie Scrap Source DT that I am a huge fan of BasicGrey. But few of them will know that it was through BasicGrey that I actually met Cheryl and first heard of Aussie Scrap Source. I was working in my friends scrapbooking store and saw an ad for BasicGrey paper and the phone number of the company that was going to bring it to Australia. I rang and spoke to Cheryl , trying to get a date out of her as to when it would arrive. I don’t think I hounded her too much before it finally arrived but she may well have a different story! And the rest as they say is history…
I think I have paper from every BasicGrey collection right back to the beginning. I hate the thought that they have discontinued a lot of the earlier lines and I wont be able to get the papers any more. It makes me want to buy a collection pack of each from somewhere and just keep it all new. Sad really. I have 3 Cropper Hopper Vertical Storage files filled only with my BG paper, all separated into individual collections.
Some of the collections I love and some I am not as fussed on but I love that the plains are distressed and so versatile. They will match so many of the other paper lines around. I think my all-time favourite so far is Stella Ruby but I think the new Two Scoops range may just become my new favourite.
I scrapped a couple of Christmas layouts using the BG Christmas lines. I love that these papers don’t look traditionally Christmassy and that they can be used for other types of layouts as well as for Christmas ones.
OMG! How mean can a big sister be? Jesse honestly thought that if he didn’t get his letter to Santa in on time then he was not going to be able to get anything on his list, but instead be stuck with all the ‘crap’ that no-one else wanted. No wonder he looks so sad.
BasicGrey Fruitcake and Blitzen Papers, Blitzen Letter Stickers, Undressed Chipboard Mini Monos topped with Fruitcake Mini Monograms, and carolees tiny letter stickers.
Seriously, these are some of the many things the kitties have left under our Christmas Tree this year. Luckily (well unluckily with the cockroaches) Raph brings them in so gently that they are unharmed and we are left to scramble around the lounge-room catching them and taking them back outside b4 they are played with a little too roughly.
The kitties think we erect the tree just for them. Every Christmas they are crawling under it and climbing in it before it is even up properly. The fact that we decorate it with lovely shiny things for them to pull off and play with is just an added bonus. We can’t even put the presents under the tree too early as Raph pulls the tags off and chews them up.
I have used BasicGrey Fruitcake paper teamed with a dark brown from the Stella Ruby range, Carolees tiny stickers, Queen & Co Brads and Arctic Frog Alpha Stickers. Nothing fancy but a memory of some of the presents the Kitties like to give us.
