Elsabelle
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Post by Elsabelle on May 1, 2016 16:26:39 GMT
Welcome to the first day of our May 2016 Tell Your Story Challenge! Everyone is welcome to join in as much or as little as your circumstances allow. Today’s challenge is to take a photo of daily life. It could be your daily cup of Joe/tea/Bloody Mary, your kids eating breakfast before school, getting ready for work, workout, chores, watching Dr. Phil, a memorable text, etc. Anything that’s a constant in your life – especially one that may change later so you'll want to document it now. Feel free to share your daily life photo with the rest of us if you’d like. Seeing other people’s pictures and projects are so motivating and encourage more people to join in. Some may take part in the challenge and some will be working on their own goals. That’s OK! Just as long as you’re scrapping more this month! Thanks again to grammadee for helping us all with this challenge. She’ll be taking over the daily threads tomorrow. Just in case she can’t post the thread every day she might appreciate having a few volunteers who can do this for her once or twice. Send her a message if you’d like to volunteer. Come back and share what you accomplished today. |
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Post by Linda on May 1, 2016 19:22:11 GMT
Thank you Elsabelle for starting today's thread! I need to think a little on the photo challenge... I am scrapbooking today though...nothing I want to share publicly due to photos of other people's kids Layout #1 "JROTC Awards Ceremony - 2 pg layout - very simple layout with just cardstock, and 8 photos Layout #2 "Winning" - 2 pg layout - patterned paper (probably Recollections), cardstock, and Thickers white foam letters, and 6 photos Layout #3 "Team Columbia" - 2 pg layout - patterned paper (from Vintage Nation stack), OLD Karen Foster sticker, cardstock, and 5 photos Hopefully I can get some more done later... |
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Post by Elsabelle on May 1, 2016 19:38:54 GMT
I've been wasting time looking for sketches when I should have just chosen paper and gotten started. My next set of pictures is a month in review type with 24 small square pictures. It'll be a bit of a challenge to fit them all because I scrap 8.5x11. I guess that's why I'm hesitating. I need to just pick paper and go! Linda, great job on getting so much done today. |
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Post by Elsabelle on May 1, 2016 21:08:13 GMT
OK, now I'm on a roll. I've got pictures and paper adhered to two layouts and I'm going to type up my journaling. Anyone else scrapping today besides Linda and me?
I still need to take a daily life picture! Funny how things can be part of a routine but I still can't think of one on the spot.
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Post by Linda on May 1, 2016 22:18:42 GMT
Thanks Elsabelle - I'm scrapping 8.5x11" as well. Good job getting started! Two layouts is great. Only got one more done but hopefully I can squeeze in some more time after dinner. Layout #4 2 pg layout "Falling Snow" - cardstock, Soft Spoken sticker, die cut snowflakes, 1 photo (screen shot of weather map) and newspaper clippings |
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Post by texasjen on May 1, 2016 23:47:03 GMT
Wow - great job ladies! No scrapping here yet. DS age 6 has been sick all weekend, yet surprisingly energetic (despite us both being up half the night with him coughing!). We're also stuck inside with snow, so we're watching some Scooby Doo right now.  On the plus side, I got to visit an actual scrapbook store on Friday, when I took DS to a museum on the other side of town. It's an hour away (the closest one to me), so I've only been once before. I didn't spend as long as I would by myself, but it was fun to actually be in a SB store and see new papers in person! And I picked up a few new papers to play with this month. |
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Post by LisaDV on May 1, 2016 23:51:27 GMT
I took photos today, but not of routine things but definitely life things.
I've been working on albums. I sorted all the layouts by which album set. Then took the everyday family life album ones and sorted by years. Pre-2009 I took my printed photos and put them in 6-up pocket pages for storage and so they'd be there for scrapping. Now I'm pulling those photos out that I've already made a page on as those were the photos that didn't make the cut. and I'm putting in cards and such as separators between different sets of photos. Deciding which to pull for different albums or for a scrapbook layout. It's a lot bigger task than I had originally thought it would be. I've cleared 3 pocket pages, I have 6 pocket pages complete with cards and still am at the beginning of my first album which really starts 2006. (Everything else was in their ds & dd albums for prior).
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Post by grammadee on May 2, 2016 0:05:55 GMT
Thanks Elsabelle for getting this started! I have had a busy crafty weekend, and just got home this afternoon. justjac and I headed up to Edmonton Friday evening, and arrived at a LSS in time to "meet & greet" Dyan Reavely from Ranger and Dylusions fame. Did a bit of scappy shopping in the store while there. Saturday was a full day in class with Dyan... We did art journal backgrounds: with ink in the morning and paint in the afternoon. Followed by more scrappy shopping. This morning we hit Costco before heading home. The photo that I have to share is a quick page I put together for LOAD over at Scrap Happy. I have decided to go with a Sn@p album with 6x8" pages for this adventure. Their prompt today was to document the everyday as well. I had no time or energy to print photos--or look for ones I have on hand--so I put together my page to represent what for me is an everyday experience that I relish. I NEED coffee in the morning. Need it, I say!  LoAD516 Day one by Gramma Dee, on Flickr I actually got to meet one of my May goals and use some artsy technique on this page, using one of the art journal backgrounds I created during the class on Friday! |
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Post by Linda on May 2, 2016 1:36:32 GMT
grammadee - sounds like a great day - love the page! LisaDV - sounds like a BIG project - good luck! texasjen - hope your DS feels better soon! Layout #5 - 1 pg layout "Cadet PFC" - all cardstock, just 1 photo, I colourblocked my background
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Elsabelle
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Post by Elsabelle on May 2, 2016 2:15:23 GMT
Wow - great job ladies! No scrapping here yet. DS age 6 has been sick all weekend, yet surprisingly energetic (despite us both being up half the night with him coughing!). We're also stuck inside with snow, so we're watching some Scooby Doo right now. On the plus side, I got to visit an actual scrapbook store on Friday, when I took DS to a museum on the other side of town. It's an hour away (the closest one to me), so I've only been once before. I didn't spend as long as I would by myself, but it was fun to actually be in a SB store and see new papers in person! And I picked up a few new papers to play with this month. Sorry to hear the little guy is sick. Glad you got to go to a LSS, though. It's so fun to see everything in person. I took photos today, but not of routine things but definitely life things. I've been working on albums. I sorted all the layouts by which album set. Then took the everyday family life album ones and sorted by years. Pre-2009 I took my printed photos and put them in 6-up pocket pages for storage and so they'd be there for scrapping. Now I'm pulling those photos out that I've already made a page on as those were the photos that didn't make the cut. and I'm putting in cards and such as separators between different sets of photos. Deciding which to pull for different albums or for a scrapbook layout. It's a lot bigger task than I had originally thought it would be. I've cleared 3 pocket pages, I have 6 pocket pages complete with cards and still am at the beginning of my first album which really starts 2006. (Everything else was in their ds & dd albums for prior). That does sound like quite a lot of work. You're very productive today! grammadee , you're very welcome. It sounds like you had a fun day! Linda , you're quite productive, too!  I'm working on paper for layout #4 today. I just stopped for dinner and I need to get back to scrapping before DH gets me sucked into his superhero movie marathon. I will not watch Iron Man 2!!! Well... I might. No, I need to get more scrapping done! |
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Post by Linda on May 2, 2016 2:25:11 GMT
Elsabelle - woohoo! great job! I'm done for tonight. I updated my spreadsheet for 2016 and ordered photos from March and some of April (they'll be in tomorrow) - 81 photos!
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Post by Elsabelle on May 2, 2016 3:28:42 GMT
I'm almost done for the night. I've done paper, pictures, and most of the embellishing for 6 layouts. I've been looking forward to using the On Trend 2 supplies I recently got from Peachy Cheap and I have the perfect pictures for it. Maybe I'll work on one or two of those layouts before I get to bed. It was a good scrappy day. |
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Post by grammadee on May 2, 2016 3:40:27 GMT
I'm almost done for the night. I've done paper, pictures, and most of the embellishing for 6 layouts. I've been looking forward to using the On Trend 2 supplies I recently got from Peachy Cheap and I have the perfect pictures for it. Maybe I'll work on one or two of those layouts before I get to bed. It was a good scrappy day. Wow!!! Six pages! WTG!
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Post by justjac on May 2, 2016 4:26:30 GMT
Here is my page for LOAD May 1st.  |
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Post by Linda on May 2, 2016 10:44:17 GMT
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Post by LisaDV on May 2, 2016 11:36:47 GMT
texasjen, hope your ds feels better soon. It's no fun when our kids are sick. linda and Elsabelle, you two are cranking them out already. grammadee and justjac, wonderful layouts. I'll make it to the gallery some time this week to leave you love.
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Post by grammadee on May 2, 2016 14:26:35 GMT
Here is my page for LOAD May 1st. Love what you did with those Day-in-the-life photos! |
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Post by Elsabelle on May 2, 2016 17:13:42 GMT
I didn't do much more than move some papers around last night after I said I wanted to use On Trend 2. It got late and I got tired. There's always this afternoon! grammadee, your layout made me miss my morning coffee. I had to quit about a year ago because it was causing too many problems for me. Insomnia, heartburn, GERD. I've found that I can drink black tea, though, and that has turned into its own morning ritual, this time with my daughters. We drink tea and start our morning together and we love that time. I have pictures of it but I haven't scrapped it yet. Thanks for the inspiration to do that. |
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Post by crystalb on May 3, 2016 12:32:23 GMT
I didn't get any scrapping done but I did make 2 teacher gifts, planned two more and got a graduation card done May 1 and 2. Today May 3 I hope to get some quick easy Mothers Day cards done, since the kids made four things for each of the moms! I need to mail them priority tomorrow!
If you knew me this is HUGE as I don't like doing cards at all!
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