Pages of My Book: chapter / 14 --- Precious

早いもので、2011年も最後の１か月になりました。今年最後のPages of my bookのお題を発表します。毎月１日に新しいwordとinspirationが発表されます。wordはタイトルや、その一部に使用されていればOKです。insprirationは、お題のイメージから受ける色・シチュエーションなど皆さんそれぞれ自由に捉えて下さってOKです。間違い、ということはありません！とにかく自由に、楽しく作品を作って下さいね！

今月のお題は、kaoriが担当しました。

---------------------- chapter / 14 ------ Precious --------------

一年の終わりに。
振り返ってみた時
思い浮かぶのは
とても大切なもの、ではないしょうか
あなたの大切なものは何ですか？
「precious」というwordとinpsiration boardから感じるイメージでページを綴ってください。

-----word+inspiration by kaori ------

今月のGuestは Karola Witczakさんをお迎えしました。

世界中に彼女のファンがいらっしゃいますよね！

My name is Karola Witczak. I am an absolutely addicted scrapbooking Mommy to Rose, wife to Martin, friend of our furry friends - Miki and Chili. I'm a little crazy woman, who is dedicated to my scrapbooking passion almost every day, for a few years now. I am constantly trying to develop my passion - in different ways and stepping on different paths - from digital scrapbooking 6 years ago, to an intensive exploration of the intricacies of traditional scrapbooking, constant learning and teaching others as a scrapbooking instructor. Currently I am working as a freelance designer for a large group of scrapbooking companies, shops, projects, challenge blogs and I'm proud ambassador of many top brands and initiatives in my country of Poland and abroad like a Prima, Pink Paislee, Melissa Frances, Glitz Design and others... Sometimes I design products for scrapbooking - it gives me lots of joy and satisfaction. I am proud and honored to being Creative Director and Product Designer in The ScrapCake company, so it's my full time job which I make at home. In everyday life I create a LO's, cards, albums, and other things not directly related to scrapbooking - such as notebooks, home decors.

It is hard to define my style, mostly my friends call it "Karola's style," and often hear that this is a soft, romantic, feminine, eclectic. I love shabby chic but with something modern. In most of my work you can usually see portraits of my daughter - I am absolutely in love with her face, and such pictures usually go to my Lo's and albums. Definitely I like all feminine, romantic themes, delicate, soft colors, I'm also dependent on the sewing machine, especially when I make cards. I love to add new things to my projects, but usually I have a big inspirations from patterned papers, flowers and interesting color palettes - I believe when I have a piece of paper I can create anything! Besides scrapbooking I love to cook, read (for the books I definitely spent much more money than for scrapbooking!), I'm a geek about thrillers and horrors in the books and films. I'm also a rock girl, but I love jazz and bossanova too, I love live music, coffee, and I am dependent on buying jeans and sneakers.

Thank you so much for inviting me to PMB as a GDT this month! It's a huge honour for me and the challenge is amazing, I hope you will love it!!