The end of week one

Another digi page. This one has cute products from Heather Ann Designs. I have other Halloween photos partially cropped, but I'm still waffling about color choices, so finishing this oldy but goodie up seemed like the smarter move.

And Day 6

This is the school page that I cut letters for on Friday. My daughter picked her own patterned paper and a different color of cardstock than what I wanted. The more I involve the kids in the design of their pages, the more I have to smile and bite holes in my tongue. I think I was able to pull it together enough and she will always have the pleasure of knowing it was exactly what she wanted. I'm going to put her class picture on an opposing page, but there's really no point posting it on the web since I would have to wipe out all those cute little faces. Just trust me that it will be the same color background and maybe a photo corner or two out of the green print. Picturing it in your mind yet? Okay, great.



BTW, yesterday's and today's pages were both ones that I started mulling over earlier in the week. I am happy to note that I have not done anything more for any other pages. So I guess I've dropped out of my "come up with way more ideas than you can execute" funk. Whew!

Day 5

I posted this over at the Big Picture gallery, then fell asleep while watching a really cool special about winter at Yellowstone Park and forgot about posting over here. So, here's yesterdays' layout. The picture design was a scraplift of someone else's page in the class, but it's taken me forever to figure out how to gussy it up a bit. Finally, I came up with the terribly avant garde technique of dotting little circles with my ZIG writer. It broke up the overly linear look and goes with the purple stripes on the alpha stickers. That's the first time I have ever used both the fine and broad points of a ZIG marker on a page. I feel so talented!

Still going

This one's a digital page that I made using a template from Sarah Van Dyke. The papers and embellishment are from Ursula Schneider. The font is called English and must have been a freebie because it didn't have any initials at the beginning of the name.

You might think that I am losing steam because I'm slapping together digital pages, but you would be wrong. :) Today I pulled out my little Xyron PCS and cut letters for a school page, rooted through embellishments looking for something pool-oriented and put together a kit for a Halloween page. Hmm, I guess that means I'm ready for 3 pages on Day 4 of the challenge. Wasn't this what I wanted to avoid? Oh well, I am sure that after school starts back up again, I will be too deep in the throes of chemistry or pathophysiology to think much about scrapbooking choices. Those pre-thought-out pages will come in mighty handy around the 25th!

Third time is a charm

I'm starting to get a little frightened. Yesterday I set aside the page I was working on to do something completely different. Today I put aside 2 LOs to make this one. Does this mean I will go through 29 perfectly good ideas and partially completed pages before I make one from scratch on January 31st? I hope not! I guess I'm dealing with some bottled up creativity because I keep having ideas I like. This usually happens when I haven't had time to scrap. I feel like my ideas are contents under pressure.

Woohoo #2!

I had a page in mind that used the scraps from yesterday's page. But it just wasn't coming together for me. This afternoon, as I helped my daughter knit a scarf on my knitting machine, I tried getting some macro shots of it. They came out well, so by the time I had kids tucked in and was ready to scrap, there was no way I was fussing with that 4th of July LO! Here's what I did instead:



The font is MB Buttercream from Melissa Baxter at Scrapbook-Bytes.com and the little flower brads are from Hobby Lobby. I have really gotten into Hobby Lobby's store brand embellishments this year. They are reasonably priced and unique.

I've got my photos cropped and ready for tomorrow's page. I'm starting to get kinda buzzed about how much I'm accomplishing. :)

A Layout a Day?

I really like Big Picture Scrapbooking classes. I've only taken the small classes that don't require a huge commitment, but I've gained something from all of them. I also hang onto the PDF handouts and pull them out when I'm needing a little kick in the behind.

Still, I mostly ignored their Get a LOAD of this! class ad because it seemed completely nutto. I start school in 12 days and that means no more scrapping until May. Then I decided to join the class (it's free!) and check it out. And I'm hooked. I went through my scrapbook bag and tallied all the pages I have planned. There are nearly 30 there, so I decided I'd give this a shot.

The teacher is very casual about it and says that previously started pages are fair game. So in that spirit, here's what I finished for Day 1:



I used a sketch from CTMH's Cherish book and Doodlebug papers. The font is PC Youngstuff.