Another new layout!

The scrapbooking blitz continues! This is a layout I did for a blog challenge here on Blogger. The theme was to do a layout on the worst thing about yourself. Here's mine:

And a close-up of the journalling:

I have to say...I'm really enjoying being able to upload pictures on here (in case it was blatantly obvious LOL).

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Weekend Scrappy Project #3

The third and final project in my scrap-happy blitz was the layout for the Faithbooking Friends challenge at scrapbook.com. The theme was peace, and there was a list of 10 or so verses to choose from to use on our layouts. In addition, we had to use a pocket and at least two tags. I put my title on one tag, and my journaling and the photo caption are on 4 other tags that I tied together with ribbon and put in the pocket. This layout came out really well, especially since it's a last-minute thing. I've been thinking about this layout all month, but have not been able to come up with any ideas on what to do. Finally, about a week or so ago, I got a glimmer of an idea, and thankfully it took off from there. I finally sat down today, chose my picture, papers and embellishments, made the pocket and tags and put the whole thing together. It only took a couple of hours from start to finish once I figured out what I was doing.

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Weekend Scrappy Project #2

The second project I worked on is my Words of Encouragement album. It's mostly encouraging Bible verse, with some quotes and song lyrics added in. The album is a Creative Memories navy and pink PicFolio Minutes album. So far, I've only done the title page and the end page for it, although I have all of the journalling cards made. I've also got the flower embellishments made for the next two pages. I really liked how these turned out, although apparently I wasn't paying attention when I made the journalling cards; I mounted all of the white cardstock textured side up (it was supposed to be textured side down so I would have a smooth writing surface - oops!). It's going to be a little challenging writing on the textured cardstock, but I'm always up for a challenge. You can't really see it very well on the title page, but the flower is pink cardstock mounted on navy blue cardstock, with a crystal brad in the center. The Bible verse card has two pink flowers layered together with the same crystal brad center. The verse cards are going to alternate colours: the next two are white-on-pink with navy flowers, then there'll be white-on navy with pink flowers as you see below. The positions of the flowers will also alternate so that the same two corners don't have all of the flowers in them. At the moment, I'm not sure if I have enough verses to fill all 23 cards, but we shall see.





























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Weekend Scrappy Project #1

For the first time in a very long time, I was able to get some scrapbooking done this weekend. I got two layouts done for my Words of Encouragement album and two for my Smile Book, as well as the peace layout for the Faithbooking Friends monthly layout challenge over at scrapbook.com. Not only that, but I figured out how to get my pictures off of my camera and onto my computer so that I can post them (yay me!).

This is the title page for my Smile Book (please excuse the poor picture quality - I'm not sure why this one turned out so fuzzy):

Initially, I had just the flowers and the letter stickers on the page, but the more I looked at it when I laid it out, the more I thought that it needed a little "something something". I was laying in bed one night not sleeping and staring at my closet shelf where my crafter's toolbox is (or rather I was staring at where I knew the shelf and the crafter's toolbox to be - it was dark after all) when it hit me: what I needed was ribbon! I think it turned out rather nicely, if I do say so myself!



This is the second page of my Smile Book:
The Pooh sticker was one of those things I bought just because I love Winnie the Pooh, and I knew that at some point I would find some use for it. When I started planning my Smile Book, I knew immediately that my Pooh sticker was going into it, and I new what I was going to do with it. Making the checkerboard background for him was a little dicey, but it came out alright in the end (and after I gave the whole thing a haircut to get rid the minute white edges that were left after I finished adhering all of those squares).

The third item in my Smile Book, which I don't have a picture of, is a dolphin postcard from Florida. When my dad first started working for ATI and Nortel, he was working in the Caribbean and used to fly in and out of Miami. On his first trip down there, he found the postcard, and bought it for me just because he knew I would like the dolphin picture. Behind each item in my Smile Book is a little journalling card telling about why each item is special to me and/or why it makes me happy. This is already turning into a fun project, and I've only done 3 pages of it! I'll be posting more pictures as I go along.

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Close encounters of the wild kind

One of the best things about living where I do is the abundance of wildlife. We regularly have deer and moose go through our yard, as well as rabbits, skunks, and porcupines. I used to occasionally see foxes along the old route I took to go to work. And even all the different birds. On Christmas Eve afternoon, I saw a bald eagle sitting in a tree as I was driving home from work.

Speaking of wildlife, about half an hour ago, three deer (a mama and two youngsters) came up out of the bushes on the other side of our driveway. They walked up the driveway, went down the road to the corner (we live in the SE corner of a four-way stop intersection), turned right and wandered down the road. Just a short way around the corner the road takes a turn; at that point we lost sight of them. I love living in the country!

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