Another from the Baker's Dozen

This was definitely my favorite of the two classes I took last month. This page comes from Sketch 9. The ribbon is from an American Crafts pack my 6yo found at Target. Interesting little tidbit I discovered: The black Uniball Signo gel pen loses a little ink when you erase pencil lines. That's good to know for future pages when really black journaling is what I want. In this case, a softer ink doesn't compete with the black rubons. Nice!



More pages will be coming. Things got crazy last month with Cub Scout Day Camp and my kids' first camping trip and other totally scrap-worthy activities. So I'm going to keep chipping away at these pages in between taking more pictures and having more summer fun.

A couple more pages

I was given a crop night as my birthday present, so here are a few of the pages I made. The others are missing tidbits, so I'm waiting to post them in their fully completed glory.

The birthday pages are not from any of the sketch classes. I put together 3 class pages in the same amount of time this took (which makes me think hard about incorporating more sketches instead of starting from scratch -- triple the productivity!). I have been struggling with the photo placement on these for awhile. My daughter really wanted her butterfly cake on the page, but it was on a bright foil background and clashed with all the other photos and papers. I bugged my fellow scrappers and store employees for ideas and someone recommended cutting it out. That made a world of difference. The little trail coming from the butterfly is part of a big crystal swoosh by Prima. It is much sparklier and pretty in real life. So's the entire layout. I tried scanning at a high resolution and still got those dark photos and garish colors. Maybe my scanner is ageing badly. I hope not.




This is from the Baker's Dozen class. I am really enjoying the concept of the class. Put decorative supplies in 12 little egg cartons and mix them with the dozen or so photo collections that you've put together. The pages come together quickly and not because you are lowering your standards!

This is my daughter with my dad. There were some funny photos leading up to this one, but his reaction to her finger placement is a hoot.



I have 4 more class pages that are nearly ready to post, so there will be more soon. Just this week, I will get 5 new sketches/assignments in the classes. Funny how just a little bit of direction can get your mind moving. I am happy to get these done!

What's this? Our hero made a LO?!

Yes, yes, I did. It's based on the Baker's Dozen class currently going on at Big Picture Scrapbooking. I signed up for it in a fit of insanity, but it looks like it will pay off. Page #2 is already prepped and ready for assembly, but I'm going to go to bed and finish it tomorrow.

The Sketch 101 class is going well. I've got photos selected and printed for the first 2 sketches, but this page looked like more fun. My daughter selected the patterned paper. Strangely enough, it's what I had sitting to use on Page #2, so you'll be seeing reruns tomorrow. At least it's a different kid in that picture. :)

My Summer Vacation

involves this:


I waffled and debated about joining this and finally decided to do it. I like interacting with people in online classes, but I wasn't sure I felt like going along with the sketches. I am full of scrappy ideas lately (a direct result of cleaning out my scrap cupboard and finding tons of cute older pictures) and I don't want to put aside those ideas because the photos don't fit the assigned sketch. I'll see how it goes. I'll post the results here.

One leftover finished

This is from the NSD crop. I finally got a title I was happy with. It's simple, but very appropriate, especially since my son's car did terribly in the actual racing. He didn't care. He clapped and cheered for each race. He was a great sport the whole night. I was impressed.

It's really on a cream colored background, but my scanner read it as white. The paper is from a Close To My Heart pack that's a couple of years old.

I made $45 at the garage sale!

I'm good with that. I have more space on my bookshelves and I find myself looking more critically at the stuff that is occupying my space. Since the big ticket items didn't sell, I'm going to list them on Ebay this week. I was rarin' to do it Monday morning, but then I realized that the auctions would be ending on Memorial Day. I think Wednesday is more feasible.

I did pick up some fun things at the sale, but for the most part, they were items I'd decided I needed. The fact that I found them for cheap was a pure bonus. So it's not like garbage in, garbage out, and that makes me happy.

I still haven't gotten back to the pages I started on NSD, but that's okay. Now that school's out, I have been taking my scrap bag with me to work on while my son is at Cub Scouts. I should be able to get some good work done this afternoon. As is so often the case, I am plenty motivated, but other obligations prevent me from getting to my fun stuff.

What I'm doing tomorrow

Anxiously hoping my stuff goes bye-bye!

My fabulous LSS is having their first ever garage sale. As it turns out, it will be my first ever time selling off scrappy stuff. I tend to be careful about what I buy so I hang on to it forever. Sometimes I find it wasn't quite what I wanted, but I keep it around in the hopes that I will:
A) discover a use for it, or
B) it will become fantastic if I just wait long enough.

Ever since they announced the sale, I've been looking for things that I could pass along. Too many of my idea books fell into category B -- now they are priced and sitting at the store waiting to inspire somebody else. I can't wait to see how many head off to new homes. The fact that I'm getting store credit is pretty spiffy, too!