Not Your Regularly Scheduled Programming

Tomorrow, I will not have a Project Life Tuesday posting. I will probably push it to Wednesday – why, you ask?

Well, I have a special surprise for you!

I am doing a swap of blog posting duties with two other very talented ladies. We have decided we’ll swap blog posts once a month (or thereabouts) and share some ideas and layouts on each other’s blogs.

So, tomorrow’s post will be brought to you courtesy of they very talented Kate at Liberty Cottage. I’ll be posting over on Helen’s blog: Furry Little Monster.

I hope you will take a few moments to check out all three blogs – I think you will like what you find!

Finally Finished: Journal Your Christmas

I finally sat down this weekend and finished the Journal Your Christmas album I’d started in December. I really enjoyed the project, I just got bogged down in holiday activities and finishing took a back seat to holiday fun. But, it is finished and I am pleased with my results. I’ll definitely be back next year for another round – now that I know what to expect, I’ll be better prepared, I hope.

Here are some of the most recently finished pages. You can see the rest in the JYC album – the link to which is located to the right of this posting.

Technorati Tags: Journal Your Christmas,December Daily,Scrapbooking,Christmas pictures

My Project Life

I’m starting my Project Life this weekend. I am looking forward to sitting down and putting the book together and getting my first few weeks of pictures in the pages. I am determined that this year I will stay more caught up than last year. So, I am hoping that I can sit down at least once a week (or once every two weeks) and get the pictures printed and the journaling done.

I thought I would share some of the pictures I’ve taken the last two weeks – they aren’t terribly exciting because we’ve had strep running amok in our house for the past few weeks. But that is part of what this project is about, right? Capturing everyday life in all it’s nuances. From the exciting to the mundane.

So, here are some of the shots:

Oh, and here is a great link to an article I read about making your Project Life/365 successful. Great ideas.

Scrap Weekly Challenge #4

The Scrap Weekly Challenge is posted over on our blog. If you haven't had a chance to check it out, click here and go see! This week's challenge is around the use of tags. Pretty clever, I think.

Hope to have my challenge layout posted soon.

Have a great day!

Another Template for You

Ok, SBC+ ladies… I have a mid-week goodie for you.

I thought I would share another template I have made.

Here’s the template:

And a page I created with it:

The papers and embellishments are CM’s Vintage Digital Power Palette
(except for the button – can’t remember where I got it from)

You can download the template from here.

I hope you enjoy and I would really like to see some of your pages! Post a link to your blog in my comments section!

A goodie for you

I had a little time this weekend to create a couple of templates. I thought I would share with you.

Here is the template:

The embellishment is from Creative Memoires’ Digital Freebies page. Have you downloaded any of theirs? Some of them are really nice. I especially like the flourishes that you can find there.

And here is the page I created with the template:

The paper and snowflakes are from Jen Allyson’s blog.

If you haven’t checked out her new digital scrapbooking store, you should. Design House Digital, it’s called. There is some beautiful stuff out there. I go browsing and I just want it all!

So, here is the template, if you’d like to download it to play with. (it’s for StoryBook Creator 3.0)

I’d love to see what you do with the page! Post a picture of your layout!

Coming Soon…

Just a quick note to let you know I will be hosting a few guest blog posts in the upcoming weeks.

Kate over at Liberty Cottage , Helen over at Furry Little Monster and I will be guest-posting on each other’s blogs in the coming months.

I thought I’d give you early notice so that you could check out their blogs – they are both so creative and I’m always inspired when I go for a little visit to their sites.

A Revelation

The other day, I had a revelation.

I am a digital scrapbooker.

Ha! Are you laughing?

I’m serious!

It dawned on me the other day as I was unpacking my recent shipment from Scrapping Simply. (which are beautiful page prints, by the way. Their printing services are awesome.)

It dawned on me as I was unpacking the forty-six pages I had scrapped (digitally) since September. FORTY-SIX pages! As I counted the pages, I realized that I have never scrapped that many pages traditionally in a four month period of time (except maybe before the kids were born) other than at a retreat. FORTY-SIX pages!!

I thought, WOW! So, in addition to being mess-free, apparently, for me, digital is also inspiring me to scrap more.

I am going to a crop tomorrow night with a friend and I don’t have that much that is waiting to be done. And, I’m thinking I may just take it easy on my back and take the ole laptop and scrap digitally at the crop. How cool is that?

So, while I have been operating under the idea that I was still a paper scrapbooker who was dabbling in some digital, I think I must change my perception of myself.

I am a digital scrapbooker. (she pauses to let the concept sink in to her brain)

Who knew?

Technorati Tags: scrapbooking,digital scrapbooking,scrapping simply

2010 Scrapbook Resolutions

I have said before, I don’t make new year’s resolutions.

And I don’t intend to this year, either. I have some general goals, but they are not things that are related to the new year, or that have begun at the start of the new year. They are ongoing. I prefer longer-range goals and usually set mine at 5 year increments… like where do I want to be in 5 years? Stuff like that.

Anyway.

I read a very interesting blog post today on the Scrapbook Update blog. May Flaum was posting the things she resolves to use in her scrapbooks in 2010. That got me to thinking and I decided to document the things I intend to do in 2010 that are scrapbook related. They are not resolutions, but rather intentions… 🙂 Semantics, I know, but it makes me happy.

So here goes:

Use up my existing stash of papers, stickers, and embellishments.
I want to try to whittle my stash down – and at the same time resist as much as I can the nifty new stuff that comes out on the market. Normally, this is a very difficult thing for me to do. I am a “gotta have it all” kind of gal. But, what I have realized, is that I kinda do have it all. And, I need to quit purchasing and start using. Along those lines is my next intention:
Remember to use my embossing tools more often – and my glitter – and my stamps – and all those other cool tools I have.
More stuff I bought that I thought was cool. And I love using it, but I never remember to. So, I’m going to try to remember to incorporate some more of the fluffy stuff on my pages in the future.
Scrapbook every single week.
Whether it is a digital, hybrid, or traditional page (or, hopefully, more than one page) I am planning to set aside time each week to do a little of what makes me happy. It’s not about “catching up” but more about doing what I love and remembering to focus a little time on my hobby each week.
Challenge myself to try new things and learn new techniques.
If you have looked at our Scrap Weekly in 2010 blog, you know that this one is already in progress. I am participating in the weekly challenges and will be contributing challenges there several times during the year. I have never really gotten into challenges before but I want to step outside my usual scrapbooking habits and style and learn some new things this year.
I am also taking Cathy Z’s Design Your Life class on Big Picture Scrapbooking. I am hoping this will help spread my horizons a bit – once I actually get around to starting the class (cough, cough). I am also hoping to re-start or start anew a 365 project using Becky Higgins’ Project Life kit. I got mine in the mail today – it is sooo pretty. I can’t wait to use it. I am thinking it will become my “chronological” album which will allow me to:
Scrap more moments and memories and less events.
I am really going to push myself this year to get away from the traditional yearly albums I have done for the past, oh, fifteen years. I am going to have a family album, the Project Life album, and then, well, I don’t know. I am re-reading Stacy Julian’s book Photo Freedom.
I am thinking I may try to tackle her Library of Memories concept. Up till now it has seemed rather daunting. But, with my move away from chronological albums, it seems like something that will really free up my scrapping mojo. There is a class over at Big Picture that is being offered in the spring, but I’ll have to see if I am ready for another class after the Design Your Life one.
Try some hybrid pages.
So far, I have either done digital or traditional, but I haven’t mixed the two. I have to ask myself “why?” and I don’t really know. Other than the fact that the PC is downstairs and the scrap spot is upstairs. Not a good enough reason. So, it is time to start mixing things up a bit.