The lovely Michelle Jackson-Mogford has kindly agreed to bare her scrapbooking soul for the next installment of scrappy interviews. Take a step into her crazy colourful world...
Rosie:Do you have a favourite colour combination?
Michelle: I love all colour... no sorry not loud enough... I LOVE ALL COLOUR!!! Ah that’s better! I love all shades and tones of colour from dirty grungy colour to in your face bright! I especially love any colour combination that people shy away from and then say ‘I would never have thought of putting them together’ like fuchsia pink and lime green or purple and orange. I think sometimes people are scared of colour but all you have to do is look around and see all the crazy colour combinations nature puts together and celebrate them. My 3 year old niece recently argued with me that all fish are green so I took her to see some salmon trout in a lake so she could see the pink, purple and turquoise in the myriad of its colourings and of course the green! So really for me my favourite combination is the one that speaks in the right way for the piece of work I’m working on.
What’s on your desk right now?
Right now?... let me see... OK I have a twirly round office pen pot thingy full of tweezers, lolly sticks, pokey tools, glue pot nibs, a spoon, some embellies, paint brushes and a pen! A pile of foam pads and rolls of different tapes, blue tac, some scraps of card, 2 empty coffee cups and half a cup of cold coffee, my cutting mat, sketch book and pencil, a stapler, a remote control, my phone, a pink feather, a pot of tiny shells, a xmas bauble, some invisible thread, a mickey mouse clock a pile of cd roms and camera memory sticks, my computer, a piece of rock from the grand canyon, oh and my wedding photo! Quite tidy really!
What’s your most recent scrapbook purchase?
That would be my new A2 cutting mat I love it and a new steel ruler that is a full 12in long as I’ve been fighting with a 10in metal ruler for ages and it got plain annoying! (The metre long one I found is on my xmas list LOL) oh and a whole stash of BasicGrey papers which I have a little addiction to!
What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever done a layout about?
Hmmm... Now anybody that knows my work may be laughing at this question! Sometimes I worry myself with the ideas that fall out of my head! I have scrapped me dressed as a teabag and me having a nervous breakdown (not an actual one! it was a challenge to use a Rolling Stones song title and not to do the obvious I had to pick 19th Nervous Breakdown!) Another layout was to show my pride and joy which is my new toy... a scroll saw, I love it! (see above) And of course the LO that I was very proud to win the readers gallery with in the July issue of ScrapBook inspirations of me and my friends in a boat as the Jumblies! Oh and there was a challenge to scrap the a.b.c of something. Again I had to go left of centre and while brain storming with hubby we came up with the police alphabet, when he said C for Charlie I immediately thought of Charlie Brown, that tickled me a lot to be able to use a pic of him on a LO!, me being me though I then had to do the whole alphabet and had great fun with 26 1in squares of chipboard (boy are they small!) and googling images on the internet for each letter to go on them! (see layout below)
Scrapbooking or chocolate?
Well as I sit here polishing my halo having lost 64lbs to date and being only 4lbs from goal I have to say scrapbooking! However, if we were walking past the old fashioned sweet shop in Bourton on the water and you waved a bag of their most delicious chocolate ginger under my nose then resolve would be thrown in the river that runs through the town! But, of course, the most perfect answer is to take the bag of said choccy home, lock myself in my studio and munch away while scrapping to my heart's content LOL!
Thanks so much to Michelle for telling us a bit about her scrapping. If you'd like to nominate someone (or yourself) for a scrappy interview, drop me an email at scrapbookinspirations@futurenet.co.uk and we'll make it happen!
