Thursday, August 27, 2009

Jap Scrap!

Hurrah, I'm getting on with my Japanese Scrapping!!
I'm loving using bright colours to match with the brightness of my Tokyo pics (Kyoto pics are
much more historic and subdued!) Something Japan is full of (and you probably already have
worked this out!) is vending machines! They are on EVERY street, including in residential zones! It's like you never have to go to the shop, just step out your door and vend yourself a coke and go back in to watch TV. Amazing! On Mt Kachi Kachi there was even a hot food vending machine (I was perplexed as to whether the food sits inside cooking forever- hello Clostridium!- or if it's snap cooked when you vend?! We never found out cos I wasn't brave enough to try it!) The machines were so handy cos we walked so much and were always parched! The toy vending machines were fun too, they dispensed toys in big capsule balls or they even dispensed character stationary! The OLD on this page is the number lace cardstock, the orange lettering stickers, PP and the arrow rub on :)

Then I cracked out another Japanese Scrap page, woo hoo! Man I am killing that AC arrow paper, I've used it on at least 3 Japanese LO's now! This is one of Will's impromptu pics of me on the street in Akihabara. Last time I was in the US I spent all the time behind the camera and hardly got in any pics at all, there is only 1 or 2 of me in NY and they're not that scrapworthy! That's why this pic means so much to me, cos here I am, in front of those cool Jap signs, the only non-asian on the street, with a big bag of shopping and my vended coke zero, in the middle of Tokyo. I am really there!! Now, if only I can teach Will how to not cut my feet off in the pic too :) How do you like the new Kaisercraft Loire Valley range (the bird die cut circle at bottom left)? I think it suits Japanese pages quite well! The OLD on this page is the black textured paper, the rub ons and all those Alphabet rub ons! Yay to be using them up again!
:) C

1 comment:

Yvette Adams said...

I love the photo of you! Well done Will! (apart from the overenthusiastic cropping) :P

I love the Kaiser diecut! It goes perfectly with the Japanese layout!

WV: socautic
How Will's mum says our cousin-in-law's name. :D