Tammy James

I am so pleased to bring you a few words from this very talented scrapper. Her blog girlswarebluetoo is truly inspiring. So please read what she has to say and have a look at her work.


I started Scrapping around two years ago.
For my first mothers day my partner bought me an Album and a handful of family themed embellishments and a wonderful card which said , amongst other things, I thought you could make a 'me and my mum' Scrapbook.
I looked at the album and thought this is not what I know a 'scrapbook' to be. I hopped on line to see if I could find any information and a wonderful world of galleries and Forums opened up to me. I looked long and hard at things I saw on line and the next day I went to my LSS and bought I piece of PP 1 piece of CS and a fiskars template. I used an old newspaper as a cutting mat and created my first page.
I have never looked back.
Scrapping allows me to indulge so many of my creative pursuits in one place, I always have something on my desk, I really feel that it helps to keep me sane.
I am a solitary Scrapper I have never been to a class and don't have any friends locally that I scrap with most of my Scrappy friends I have met online and they are in other states.
I love trying out new products but don't feel that I am fickle when following trends I will only buy or use something if it genuinely appeals to me.
On my pages I like to test the boundaries of colour by often putting together strong or unusual combinations. My two biggest inspiration sources are Children's clothing and nature but I do find that something can jump out at me from anywhere at all.
I use a lot of Maya Road and Heidi Swapp products, in both cases I think that the people behind the name or brand are amazing, which definitely influences my decision to use their products.
People that I find inspiring in the Scrapping world are sometimes not those that would be most obvious. I am not drawn to someone because of their 'name' and sometimes might not even like their scrap style but still find them inspiring though their energy, philosophy or attitude. I am lucky to be able to call some of the people most inspiring my friends and these friendships have been formed through blogging.
I think it's is really important to have fun with it and don't think about or apply 'rules' to what you are doing, accept idiosyncrasies and imperfections in a page as a part of it, Accept the beauty that lies in the imperfection and originality of what you do.



Regards,
Tammy James.