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scrapbook | color inspiration

Good morning! Today I thought that we would create a layout with a little color inspiration from our January gallery, Decades.

 

When I go looking for color inspiration, I really just let my eyes wander and then note where they stop. Today my eye stopped right upon Jenny's layout. That pop of orange caught hold of me and wouldn't let go!

 

I was excited to put the colors into chips and then see what happens!

 

Here are the chips.

 

Let's see what we can do with it!

 

I opted for a simple stack of color and patterns with the former repeated in the title.

Thank you, Jenny, for inspiring my layout! It all began with you and that burst of orange!

I hope you enjoy it, too! Thank you for stopping!

scrapbook | reduce reuse recycle

Today we are going to be very hip to our decade and recycle an old layout. One of my favorite things about being digital is how easy it is to reuse old layouts. :)

 

I opened my scrapbook and grabbed the first layout that made me break into a smile. This is the lucky one!

 

 

I turned it around and shuffled the location of a few elements. This is what I ended up with. 

 

I am sort of in love with the blues. And those pictures of tiny Charlie are making me joyful to my toes. Adorable!

I hope you can find a layout that makes you happy and then make another that makes you just as happy! In record time as the design is all ready.

Until tomorrow!

click | send it to yourself

Today our goal is to make a quick layout from the picture you took most recently on your phone.

I have a very regimented system for the photos that come off my camera. But for those from my phone? Not so much. I try to download them somewhat regularly, but am not nearly as fastidious as I am with regular photos. So today, we are going to remedy that for one photo. Starting small to maximize success. :)

 

Here is the most recent photo from my phone.

Lavender brought me breakfast in bed and I am so happy that I had my phone next to my bed. (It's usually downstairs but I had my alarm set yesterday to get up for seminary.) 

I sent it to my email account so that I wouldn't have to take time to download anything, and then got to making a layout. Here it is.

It makes me so happy to have this documented. Nowadays many of my "moments" photos come from my phone. This is making think that I really need a system to keep up with them. What do you do? Please tell me!

write | snapshot snippets

Hello! This is our last week with our topic of Decades, so I put on my thinking cap and thought about some ways I could journal about decades. And I decided to do a photoless layout (as I have very few photos from my childhood) that made lists of snippets of my life at 10, 20, and 30. It was fun to think back and to remember things that were important to me at those times. 

I did take longer than scheduled to complete this layout, as I found myself googling old friends to see where they are now. (Which of course led down the abyss of internet time waste. Goodness. I am so pressed for time. Why do I let this happen??)

Here it is. I like it. And it was way fun. Hope you will try one, too!

 

Happy Monday!

Sunday Photo + Words

Sketchbook Saturday

Happy Saturday! We are so glad you are stopping by to share in another sketch from our June 2009 gallery, Why We Scrapbook. This week, we are sketching from one of our original founders, the always talented, Elizabeth Dillow. Here is her original layout, This is What I Do.

 

And here is the sketch it made.

 

Our first layout from Marnie maintains most of the elements of the original sketch, with the only change being the lower embellishment cluster being moved to the top.

 

The second layout is 12x12 with the center circle graph being transformed into a single circle and made smaller for increased white space. The title was also circled up to the topside to balance the cluster being moved downward.

 

Thank you for stopping by! Stay warm and enjoy the sketch!

Coming Home

 

Hi everyone! It's Aliza here sharing a layout that has been sitting on my desk, unfinished, for weeks and weeks. And even more weeks. I had the title, and the photo, and even the background paper ready to go since December. And then I went into high gear planning and preparing for my son's Bar Mitzvah. ( I tend to throw this tibit into coversation often.) Now that the Bar Mitzvah is finally a warm, fuzzy, pleasant memory, I can go back to every day living and crafting. 

Imagine my surprise when reading through this weeks blog posts, I came across Amy's opening paragraph from Monday: 

Yesterday at church I heard one of my friends griping about how much she hates January. “It’s cold and dreary and smoggy,” she was saying, “and you can’t do anything outside. You’re just stuck in your house.”

Which really is precisely the reason I sort of love January. It’s cold and dreary and smoggy, and no one expects you to get anything really productive done. What’s not to love about a month of staying home and getting other stuff done?

The love of staying home is the topic of this layout, and reading her words gave me just the kick I needed to finally type up some words, and glue everything down.

If you're a homebody like me, I say, celebrate that fact!

I hope ypu enjoy your weekend whether you choose to stay in or go out.  

 

Scrapbook | What a Difference Ten Years Makes

I loved Diane's post yesterday. Maybe it's the big hair (and I don't just mean Diane's!!) and maybe it was the nostalgia. But it got me thinking about times' past.

Combined with the overarching theme of decades, I went looking for a picture from 10 years ago and a recent one. Looking at them together, I got to dreaming about life ten years from now. I realized that the changes from the past ten years aren't going to hold a candle to those that are coming! Egad. I will admit that there might have been some crying attached to the making of this layout.

To help me keep the elements all organized, I made use of one of Crystal Wilkerson's page templates. I do like how it helped me with repeating elements and allowed the next ten years to have a place of prominence even though there are no photos.

I hope that this gives you an idea for documenting a decade of your life, too! You may want to keep some kleenex nearby if you choose to make your own. Creator beware!

Thank you for stopping! I hope you have a wonderful day!!

Scrapbook: A Blast From The Past

Since the gallery was about decades I thought it would be fun to scrapbook a photo from back when my husband and I were dating in the late 80's...big hair and all!

Life sure is easier without all those perms and big hair of the day, but I sure do miss those sweet carefree dating days. With Valentine's Day just around the corner I decided to use the photo to tell the story of what life was like for us when we were dating. How old we were, how we lived, what we ate, the things we were into. Things I wish I would know more about from my parents and grandparents.

I pulled out my pinked circle punch to create the fun grid and filled some in with love themed products. Those cute conversation hearts really remind me of my childhood.

My journaling is written on the tag and tucked behind the photo.

I hope you will take a look at your photos from decades past and take the time to remember some of those fun little details that seem to slip away.

 

Write: Layers of Memory

Yesterday at church I heard one of my friends griping about how much she hates January. “It’s cold and dreary and smoggy,” she was saying, “and you can’t do anything outside. You’re just stuck in your house.”

Which really is precisely the reason I sort of love January. It’s cold and dreary and smoggy, and no one expects you to get anything really productive done. What’s not to love about a month of staying home and getting other stuff done?

I tend to finish a ton of scrapbook layouts in January! And most of them are Christmas layouts, because I’m not one of those Super Scrapbookers who manages beautiful Christmases and December-Daily-style albums. All of which is to say: I hope you’ll bear with me while I share a Christmas layout:

 

It’s really just a standard Christmas layout: some red and green, some glittery embellishments (although, I confess, I love silvery glittery embellishments quite a bit). What I love about it—what I want to share—is the idea I had for the journaling.

While working on Christmas layouts, I’ve been thinking about how memory and holidays are so closely intertwined. You remember your kids when they were smaller, and you also remember yourself when you were young and experiencing that holiday. That idea infuses the stories I told on this layout. I wrote about how we used to always spend time with each of my grandmothers on Christmas, with lots of details about what happened there. Then I segued into my son’s experiences at his grandparents’ houses during Christmas. I included the addresses of all my grandparents in the story…I had to call my mom and my sister to figure them all out, but those conversations were full of details that sparked other layouts, too. (I wished, after I’d printed the journaling, that I’d also included my kids’ grandparents’ addresses, so I just wrote them in a note on the back of the layout.)

So here’s a little journaling challenge for you. When you are writing your stories, sometimes try to think backwards—remember something from  your childhood, or from when your child was younger, and connect it to the event (it doesn’t have to be a holiday) you’re writing about. Writing like this creates interesting, layered stories. It’s also an approach you can take when you’re stumped on what else you might write about.