I got a little behind while I was traveling during part of February, but I caught up to finish my 29 layouts for the month! I actually did 30 pages, as this last one was a 2-page layout! We had a great time, and it is so much fun to see the pages everyone was creating and uploading each day to our Flickr.com group. Congratulations to everyone — you’re each and everyone a star!
Here’s my last layout, showing all the pages I did for the month.
We are having a great time over at LayoutADay.com during the LOAD212 Past Perfect challenge! Each day of February Lain Ehmann is providing a prompt for a scrapbook page. You can either play along or just do your own thing for a page for the day. It is fun to see how many interpretations there are for each day’s prompt! It wouldn’t be fair for me to tell you the prompt, but I’ll share my page with you!
This page was actually made on my birthday, so it was kind of fun to do a page like this! It seems like everywhere I’ve turned in the past few months, there is someone else urging us to scrapbook about our own story! I hope you’ll work on your story about yourself! Why not create a page with several pictures of yourself over time?
Where is a place you have many happy memories of? We often hear something about going to our “happy place” and here is one of mine:
Digi kit: Ever After by Krystal Hartley
Journaling reads: Daddy built my playhouse when I was very young and it was originally furnished with a little cupboard, stove, table and chairs. I even remember the tablecloth and napkins Mother made. When we moved to the country, the playhouse was brought along! This little house holds untold hours of make believe, and every time I remember playing in it or see a picture, it brings a smile and fond memories. Here is Kloe playing in it. She is our third generation to enjoy the magic of my playhouse!
Do you have a favorite place from your past or the present? Create a page, don’t for the journaling, and share it!
If you are a scrapbooker, you are probably documenting special moments of your family and friends. How often are you including your own story in those pages? Probably not as often as you should!
YOUR story is important — the good and the bad, happy and sad. It’s all about your life. There is so much I wish I knew about other people in my family from previous generations. Just a glimpse into their lives would be interesting. If you are fortunate enough to have some family heritage pictures, do you know who the people are in the pictures, or any little stories about them? In the end, it’s the stories and the pictures that are important.
Made with digi kit Waiting for the Sun by Stephanie Ogren
If you run across a picture that has a little bit of a back story, why not get that down on paper with the picture? It doesn’t matter if the pictures are perfect. An imperfect picture is better than no picture if that’s all you have!
Here is a page I made from the first day’s prompt for the LayOutaDay challenge that tells about our wedding cake. It’s not a photographer’s shot of the cake, it’s a picture of the cake while still on the kitchen table. I had been taking cake decorating lessons during the year before we got married, and a special wedding cake class. From making all the icing for my classes, I had ended up burning up the motors in both my mom’s hand mixer, as well as my future mother-in-laws! By the time it was time to make the wedding cake, I had to use my grandmother’s stand mixer.
I had never seen or heard of anything other than white wedding cake, but I wanted our to taste good and I decided to make it a spice cake. Not sure if there are any superstitions about the flavor of your wedding cake, but it seems to be good luck, as we have been married now for 35 years!
What pictures do you have that remind you of an untold story?
Have you ever sat down to scrapbook with your pictures at hand and just had a big blank page staring back at you, not saying anything? It just lies there in silence! It gives you no guidance or direction, and just waits for you to get to started with pictures, journaling and embellishments. You keep moving things around, but you just can’t bring yourself to commit those items to the page by actually using adhesive — that is such a permanent commitment! Oh how too familiar this is to many scrapbookers.
The first time I worked on an 8×8 album was a liberating feeling. It took so little time to complete an entire album! When we made some little 6×6 albums, they were just a breeze. There just wasn’t enough space to worry about putting so many things on a page. It was just quick and simple.
When I ran across the concept of progressive scrapbook pages, it just made so much sense! If you aren’t familiar with the concept, here it is. You start with a small size, say 6×6 and use that as your page to complete. Then you lay that on an 8.5×11 page and complete that. Finally, you lay it on a 12×12 page and finish it off! By breaking up the space with the different sizes, you have automatically created quite a bit of balance and variety to your page.
Even doing the reverse can be helpful! Lay out your 12×12 then place a piece of 8.5×11 on next, and then a 6×6 It can break up enough space to give you an idea of something you’d like to do!
Here is a basic page I’ve done to give you the idea. The finished size is 12×12, but you can see where the 8.5×11 patterned paper is, and the 6×6 that is layered on top of that!