a couple more layouts...

Man - I love when ST has MSD or LOAD, I seem to actually get around to scrapbooking!  And boy, do I need to keep it up...I can't even begin to count the amount of pictures I have printed out that I need to do something with - and I don't even want to think about what is still on the computer to print out...I'd probably cry.  Then this morning, I started organizing/sorting paper trying to find something I remember having somewhere. Oh my goodness!!  I have more paper than I'll ever use. Which is why I haven't really bought any in a long time (except a little bit of girl stuff in the past few years and some Star Wars paper that we found this summer). So I'd better get back to that mess, errrr....project.

This was just a LO I was going to do because I had the pictures out thinking about the monochromatic LO (see below) and this paper was also on my table because I'd just found it and I thought they would go well together (and bagged the monochromatic idea for these pictures).
Then I realized I could use this for one of the monthly contests on Storytellers - an interesting/unusual combination of colors...which I thought this was because I've used maybe two of them together, but not all of them at once.
The PP is K&Co., CS is from Target (years ago - Marcella by K or something), the bright green ink I inked around that mats & journaling is Studio G from WM...and the pen is CM, i think. And I used my tab punch - love that punch.
Pictures are from last June at the trailer we lived in for 4 months and the kids and a friend playing croquet golf.

For the Feb 17 LOAD you were supposed to make a paper craft of some sort. I probably could've just done another LO, but wasn't sure, so I made this flower out of scraps from my photo mats. The button was from an old coat or something.
 

This was Feb 19 LOAD - monochromatic - so I went with pink & pictures of Grace from 2 years ago.
She'd snagged my shoes after church and did quite well walking in them....probably because her feet slid all the way to the toe and it wasn't too different from regular shoes :)
The main cardstock was Bazzill Basics (Cherries Jubilee, I think), the foam alphabets were Miss Elizabeth, the light pink CS was from a package from Costco, the brads were from Michaels or JoAnns, the little gems were the Dollar store and the journaling box & pen, and paper flowers, heart, & butterfly were all CM.
Grace really liked this one.

I DO remember how to Scrapbook :)

This is a Joshua layout - from an event last week :)
The paper is from Storytellers, the jouranling block, title strip, photo mat and alphabet stickers are all CM. The brad is from Joanns and the tag from walmart :)

I should've made a title for this and called it ROCKET MAN but I didn't think of that until I was downloading the pictures of the layout :) Another Nathaniel layout - from a week or two ago and a school project to build a rocket out of recyclables (they took them in to school).  The journaling block is CM, the paper is Bazzil? and the photo mats are CM.



I think I did most of this in July when I scrapbooked on my birthday - I found it all finished except for journaling in a paper storage container today when I was looking for some other paper...the textured CS is from Mrs. Grossman's I think - came with some free samples or something back in 2004 or 2005. The red CS is Bazzill, the title stickers are ones I've had since 2003 or 2004. The journaling block is from CM. This is one for Nathaniel's baby book...he was 6 days old.

Storytellers Club is doing their LayOut A Day challenge for February again (love when they do this!) and I'm finally getting a chance to scrapbook. This was for the challenge due today - a seasonal layout about any season but winter ;)
Grace swimming at Uncle Terry & Aunt Theresa's last July.
The paper is from Storytellers from several years ago, the stickers are from a prize I won during MSD about 5 years ago (maybe 6), the pink CS is from a big pack from Costco from at least 5 years ago.
So yep, all the supplies are older than Grace :)

Another LOAD challenge - this was for yesterday's - use punches (leaf punch on photo on upper left - and punched out leaves added to diecut on bottom right, and circle punch used for circles on the Brothers and Sibling Love photos)
Nathaniel at the pumpkin patch - October 2011.  This layout was awesome - I'd started it (mats cut, journaling block done, photos and paper all together!!) I don't know how long ago and it got put in a paper storage box and when I went to find some other paper yesterday I found this just needing some glue dots and ink (and I traded out two of the mats because they were just too dark).  Most of the supplies in this layout are older than Nathaniel...the background paper is from a DCWV stack that I bought when I first started scrapbooking in 2003...same with the Autumn diecut. The journaling block is from CM, I believe.



MSD...

Well, I didn't really get much done for MSD this year. Just so many other things going on this month. This is one that I did for "Italy" a few weeks back. I never got it posted on the Storytellers site because I never had time to take a picture of it until yesterday.

Joshua - two years ago - with a lemonade stand to raise money for our library to help with costs so it didn't close. He raised over $100. I used a Storytellers kit for this, but I'm not sure what year it was from. loved the bright summery colors :)

MSD 2012

It is that time again...time for May Scrapbooking Days on the Storytellers Club website. I haven't gotten as much done as I'd have liked since we just recently moved, but I'll put what I have gotten done up here...and hopefully get some of my other projects posted too.

This year's theme is Around the World...and each day is a different country. I've managed to "visit" Argentina, Switzerland and Italy.  Here are Switzerland and Argentina:

 For the Switzerland challenge, you were supposed to use neutrals...thinking of creams, whites, blacks, grays, tans...I totally thought of a heritage layout. 

So I did a baby picture of my great-grandmother...who was born in 1900. I just recently saw this picture in the past few months.

In addition to the picture, I used Bazzill cardstock, Creative Memories and Fiskars brown inks, some random strand of craft pearls that I found when moving and some old old eyelet/rick-rack stuff, oh and a handful of buttons out of my stash.  Not too sure if I like that collagey button look in the corner, some people do that so well, but I'm not sure I'm one of them.

The Argentina challenge required 2 of everything...I used Storytellers patterned cardstock, photo corners, and cutouts, scrap of Creative Memories patterned paper, acrylic water droplets from I can't remember because I've had them longer than Nathaniel has been around :), and two kinds of alphabet stickers from Provo Craft...Nathaniel having fun at the Primary swimming party last summer.