LOAD216 Day 24

Every Wednesday the theme of the prompt is culture; Today's prompt was sports.

For LO 1 I went with the sport of selfies, yes it is a sport to my oldest daughter! I scrap-lifted this pin I loved the texture the white on white provided. I will be doing this again very soon.

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I cut the #Selfie on my Cameo 15x and glued them together to make them thick like chipboard. I painted glue on 1/2 the word and dipped it in gold glitter. The journaling is tucked  behind the photo cluster, this might be my thing....

 Look at that texture, oh be still my heart.

For LO 2 I talk about running a bit though it is technically not about about a sport.....

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 I started with layering the papers behind the pictures and then floated that cluster around the page, not feeling it.  I knew what I wanted for a title and was thinking about the journaling voice when it came to me.....thought bubbles in Darby's voice. I put the picture facing out, she was staring at the door, laser focused and I wanted that to come across in the LO.

In the journaling a black dog is mentioned so I thought the black paper clip dog was a good fit.  I varied the height of the thought bubbles to give them depth.

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LOAD216 Day 23

Tuesday's prompts are Transportation and today it is boats. We are not boat people nor much of water people.

For LO 1 I used a sketch 472 from Scrapbook Challenges. I had pictures from the girl's begin to swim class last March.

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 They were so scared of the last date and the "test" they had to perform. But they stuck together and helped keep each other calm. Proud Momma moment for sure.

For LO 2 I went off prompt and used a picture my oldest daughter took of me while I was submitting my application for a sketch DT. Boy, was I a nervous wreck. 

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I used a paper that was full of quotes and cut them in strips and stacked them up the side, mixing in washi tape for color.  I wanted the title  to fade into the background so I used a Thicker in a similar color to the background paper. The journaling is tucked behind the photo cluster.

I needed the pep talk;)

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LOAD216 Day 22

The prompts for Mondays are color. and it is a flag from the featured scrappers country. Today is Luxembourg. It is another red white and blue flag so we are skipping that.

LO 1 is a 20 on the 20th thing but I messed up and did not take 20 pics on the 20th. I combined the 20th and 21st and am just calling it "20 things today."

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Due to the sheer number of pics I have on this page (20 at 2" x 2") there was not room for the list journaling so I took pics 3, 4, 8, 9 and cut the background paper on 3 side of them. Creating a flip up.

I allowed myself carte blanche as far as colors go. With so many pictures to deal with not much paper is going to show and it would be hard to have it coordinate with 20 color pictures taken all over the place and at all times of the day.

I decided to start with Thickers. My thoughts were: What color do I use least and in that color family which package have I not used at all. I went with Eclaire in cucumber. Then I went to paper pads that I rarely use, Studio Calico Lemon Lush. (I have 2, thanks to Tuesday Morning and their steep discounted paper pads. I went a bit mad and bought 1 of every style they had. I found after I was home that one of  the Lemon lush pads had a different cover taped on it so I got 2 of the same. 

Surprising the paper looks to be made to go with the Cucumber Thickers. I did mat it on white card stock so I could easily add the journaling. 

I did pop up one picture on every row with 3M foam tape but it really could have been a double layer  of foam to make the impact I was looking for.

I was on a roll and LO 2 was pretty quick. The hardest part was deciding what color to go with gold and black. Black & white picture are great at clearing the way to go wild with the color choices.

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I had these picture on my desk since the LOAD day 9. I printed extra and multiple sizes.

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PL week 6 & 7

Project Life is hard to keep up with during load. I got behind a bit but it was not that bad to catch up.

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 For week 7 I had to alter my over all LO a bit. I had too many "stories" and the 4x6 pocket needed to be used as 4x3. I just glued 3x4 cards to the back of the 4x6 from week 6.

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LOAD216 (later in the) Day 21

I was thinking today I would only do 1 LO, my son is home for winter break and family time is important to me but he had plans that took him far and wide.  I had the time. I took this sketch as my inspiration. 

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I had this picture of myself at 3 listening to my uncle's music and a very much alike one of Syd. I was not meaning it to look so soft but pink and grey really made it soft looking. I struggled with thicker choices, Cream was too pale, black was to bold, I did not have a pink the worked and my greys are limited. I used a charcoal grey with sparkle. The ampersand is a chipboard piece is from Maggie Holms Open Book.

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LOAD216 Day 21

Sunday the prompts are Food. I have decided today to skip this prompt and go another way.

I was looking through Pinterest for a sketch to use. I came across this one from Laura Whitaker from the October sketch challenge on the Stuck?! blog

I had the perfect background in mind. Remember the string heart Lo  I made in the 1st part of February. I had said that I wanted to try other shapes and a bit different way of doing it. This is the back ground that came out of that.

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First though I want to note that I am at the 1/2 way point of my goal to make 100 LO this year! It is only February!! The most I have gotten to in years past is 78.

Here is the detail shots. I did not have the letters in the sparkly font to spell "Star" so I used a star shape. Hubby did not read it as Rockstar reader" so maybe I failed there.

The back of the dictionary paper was a bright yellow so I folded it back and stitched it down.

I thought I would detail a bit more of  how I did the string star.

I sat in front of the TV and watch the most recent episode of Grey's Anatomy and cut 1/8" strips of yellow paper. It took 40 minutes and I cut way more than I needed too.  

I cut the star on the Silhouette from the Simple Stories black dictionary print. I switched to the current episode of the X Files and started laying them out. I glued the cut star to another sheet of black paper. I wanted the typed print to peek through the layer of  yellow paper.

I applied tape runner about 1/4" away from the finished star shape. I knew that I wanted to sew the top layer over the strips and wanted to save my sewing machine from a gluey needle mess. I laid them randomly this way and that.

At this point I was thinking it looked like a hot mess and maybe this was not going to work. X-files finished up just as I was thinking this. It took roughly  40 distracted minutes  to get to this point.

But I put the top layer over it and ahhh, that looks better. Notice all the strips left over. Yeah, I cut way too many. I can weave a small paper blanket with the left overs.

Here it is with the photo placed At this point I went to bed. was thinking this LO would be LOAD day 21 anyway. 

I sewed the top layer top the base, with white thread, catching all the strips of paper and firmly securing them down.  I used binder clips to hold the layers together while sewing.

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LOAD216 Day 20

Saturday's prompts are Geography.  I think "place" when searching for pictures to go with this prompt and came up with Hubby and Darby in their favorite weekend spot--Napping on the couch.

I used a sketch from Scrap Much blog Sketch-y Friday challenge. The sketch has the big ampersand and it worked perfect for this LO. 

I had just got my Scraptastic sale box in the mail with the December kit.  This paper from Kaitlin Sheaffer seemed to give this design the perfect spot to place the main items on. 

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I went through my entire font library on the Silhouette to find the "right" ampersand. I cut it in vellum twice and layered them together. I then sewed them together so give it a bit my visual weight. I used washi tape on the line of the paper to give it more of a base.

 LO 2 is a sketch from Paper Issues February sketch challenge.  

My poor Darby has been feeling so neglected this month because I have been spend so much time in my scraproom. She can't be in my scraproom as she is only 7 months old and likes to eat paper and chew on things still. In the evening she cuddles with me on the couch and has to be touching me, even is is just a paw. Last night it felt like she was holding me there . Poor thing.

The string heart is from Michael's, I only have 1 left in red, I really wish I had bought more than one package now.

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