The Story of Lucky and Buttercup

Hello, this weeks post is for a change not a poem but a short story. The inspiration for my short story, The Story of Lucky and Buttercup, came from a rabbit in a digital scrapbooking kit. I was looking to do a word only set of scrapbook pages for my monthly post, Scrapbook Diary, at the E-Scape and Scrap blog when Heather's (Algera Designs) latest kit came my way.One of the elements in her new kit, Peaceful, was this cute white rabbit who I instantly knew would be Lucky in my latest story! I couldn't leave out the chick and this became Buttercup.

The Story of Lucky and Buttercup by Natasha Forder

I have written a few 1000 word stories in the past, but this is the first time I've combined one with scrapbooking. I have used photos with my poems and compositions in the past, and more recently with scrapbooking, but stories have a lot more words to take into consideration!

I opted for a four page layout, a title page, two pages for the story and an end page and I think this worked well.

It's the first time I've let one of my stories loose in the wider world, so I was somewhat nervous about it. Especially as I had written it in a different style from usual. The conversation is from Lucky who likes to say a word or many in between the story narrative! The good news is that the feedback I've is that people have enjoyed reading the story. My stories were only ever aired in the past at Basingstoke Writers Circle where I used to attend and was chair for three years.

To catch up with, The Story of Lucky and Buttercup, go to MyScrapbookDiary page and scroll down to April 2014. Click on the scrapbook page and it will open larger in My Flickr. This page also links to all my posts for MyScrapbookDiary at E-Scape and Scrap.

Peaceful by Algera Designs can be purchased from E-Scape and Scrap.

Also check out Heather's post Past the Fence, which is a short story based on a great layout that she had created.

The Future...

Hello! I know it's been a while, but hopefully I will have more time for blogging from now on :) So a bit of catching up with stuff from the last few months that I'd like to share.

Back last year one of the Get Real Challenges at Real Life Scrapped was Future. It inspired me to write a poem. With the poem written I then created a background page to display it. The page was created from a number of my own photos. The butterfly was from one of my photos too, which I had already cut out and recoloured to match the page. Lastly I created the ribbon. It was another good excuse to combine lots of different creative stuff :)

The Future... © 2013 Natasha Forder

The Future

What is it that the future holds?

And where will it take me?

Will I soar like a bird, high in the sky?

Will I fly free to where my heart wants me to be?

But what if...

I fall hard to the ground

What if, my fear holds me down.

I grab hold of my fear

I won't let it take me

I won't let it hold me down, here on the ground

I will open my wings

I will fly, high in the sky

I will become all I always knew I would be.

By Natasha

© 2013 Natasha Forder