Stuck?! March sketch challenge

The Stuck?! March Sketch was a bit of a challenge for me, but I guess that is why they call it a challenge, right?

Here is the sketch. I think it is the flowers that made it difficult for me but I think I figured it out.

I used a cut file from The cut Shoppe for the center circle element, it also took care of my title.  I used the Echo Park Creative Agenda line, it was on my desk still from the last LO and I felt it fit my subject.

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I took the sticky note she was writing on in the pictures and included it in pocket I created in the top left corner by the journaling. I used a clear Zig Wink of Stella marker on the title, it  is hard to see in the pictures but it adds a touch of glitter.

 I love the results and so glad I stuck it out to finished this LO.

Thank you for taking a look.

Let's get Sketchy 5th week Challenge

Let's get Sketchy 5th week Challenge is a sketch and a mood board challenge.

This is the mood board I loved the yummy colors and polka dots. It reminded me of Echo Parks Creative Agenda Line

Here is the sketch.

And my take on it:

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 I left the sketch main parts where they were but did rotate the picture. I added a tag for my Hubby to journal his feelings about his last trip to Hershey, PA. I did leave off the pink to go with a more manly page.

I added a subtitle on the bottom and stitch it down.

Thank you for taking a look.

The Studio Challenges February Sketch

Today I had the urge to play in my scraproom. I used a sketch from the Studio Challenge blog.

Here is the sketch:

Here is my take:

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I used the February Jo-Ann coupon calendar for the background. I thought it would make a great background from the first glance at it in December  when I purchased the calendar.  

Here are the close ups.

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LOAD216 The wrap up

58 LOs in 29 days!! I filled 2 temporary albums.

Here are the LO in numbers:

4 about Jake

4 about Meg

7 about Chloe

5 about Syd

9 about siblings

7 about Darby (our dog)

1 about Hubby

5 about me

3 about our love story

3 about people we love (non immediate family)

5 about places we go local and far

4 about holidays

1 about things we do

I loosely use Stacy Julian's Library of Memories method of scrapbook albums 

Please ignore the pile under the shelf, this angle is not one I see everyday. 

From Left to right:

Aqua Project life albums from Jan-Oct 2015 the current PL album sits on my table as I fill it each week.

Brown My latest LO album - it is currently empty as I put away all the LO from 2016 into their albums.

Gold striped album is for Our Fur Babies-  was just created today as too many were in the people we love album

1st red is all about me- It needs to be 2 albums and will soon be.

2nd red is all about Hubby- It needs to be 2 albums and will soon be.

3rd red is Our Love Story- Just created today as it was love and parent/child relationships, the parent/child relationship got moved into mine and Hubby's albums 

Brown album is Holidays & Everyday family life - not many are everyday life as PL takes care of those stories.

Light blue is Place & People we love - It will soon need to be separated and it is full.

Aqua album is the new Siblings album (all about the kids relationship with each other.)

1st green  the younger girl's relationship with each other. 

The next 8 are  2 albums for each child they need to be organized a bit but are working.

As you can see I have filled the lowest shelf to capacity with these albums. The self above is only slightly shorter in depth and the albums would hang off about a 1/2 inch. That would not bother me but the printers would also have to be shifted up which might be more problematic. 

I have briefly considered going to 8.5x11 for the smaller album sizes, it is not what I want to do but I will revisit that again. It would create much more scraps and I would have to be careful of the real estate on each page I would lose.

I could store some of them in the basement scraproom, I have the shelf space there but this would take them out of sight out of mind. The kids love to go through them often. 

So there it is as I scrapbook more I run into a space problem that many face. One day I will hand these over to my kids to deal with but until then I will need to find a solution. When I do I will share but for now I am taking it LO by LO.

Paper Issues Featured LO

I had a LO featured on Paper Issues. It was based on the February sketch.

Here is a look at is again. 

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I am always excited to see my LO on others blogs of Pinterest board. Thanks Paper Issues.

LOAD216 Day 29

Last day of LOAD216. Monday's prompts are color and today is the Germany flag: black red and gold.

I slept for 13 hours, got the girls off the school and then napped for 3 more hours. I then had to haul my stuff down to the scraproom and unpack before I could do my 2  LO today.  I completed these 2 in an hour. Wow, that was the fastest I have scrapped all month. 

For both LO's I used pictures of my son in his college colors of black and gold. Both from the same event, his 1st college meet. 

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I skipped the red in the first LO to go with my feelings of seeing him run in his new school colors. 

For LO 2 I added the red in and used a picture from  the meet warm ups. I am always stuck by how he looks straight into my camera at meets. I have a long zoom lens on my DSLR and yet he still find me and gives me his feelings in one look. This was the first time we had laid eyes on him in weeks.

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I hope to have a wrap up later today or tomorrow.

LOAD216 Day 28

Sunday's prompt is food and again I am off prompt. Today I stayed up until 3:30 this morning, slept a few hours and then finished up my second LO. I packed it all up and loaded my car. We took our son back to college. I returned home exhausted and eager to go to bed.  Over all it was a great weekend and I did not get anymore pages done than if I had stayed home but I am so glad I went.

LO 1 is a funny picture of my son. He is such an extrovert and is willing to mock himself. It is a trait of his that will make him a happy man one day.

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I used this sketch. I turned the pic B&W so I could pick any color to go with my LO. 

LO 2 was laying on my table when I went to bed at 3:30 am. I had nothing stuck down. I wanted to see if I still liked it when I woke up. I had 2 LO's in mind when I made this page, this one by Lisa Dickinson and this one by Eva Pizarro. They both used snowflakes to make  a tree.

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I got a few compliments and questions on my tree while at the crop. I cut 60 snowflakes on my Silhouette on 2 different green papers. 1 was green on both side which gave me 3 different colors of snowflakes. 

Thanks for looking