Count Your Blessings Crop Fri, Sat, & SUNDAY prompts

Beautiful examples, and such fun prompts grammadee . Thank you! Hoping to play. I have to work Fri., Sat., Sun. as does my hubby too. Hopefully I can play a tiny bit. Hubby got up at 4 a.m. so I am going to play for an hour before I start workin'.

And as far as what I am lovin' right now--working in my small 6x9 album. I am trying to get a vacation album done. SO many pictures that I don't think it will ever happen. I have to really pick and choose and NOT do my normal "fancy pages."

Wrapping up my WFH day, hopping over to NSBR for the US election results and then start digging into my memory planner that needs some catching up!

grammadee - I am so excited to get to work in these challenges! What a great theme for the weekend! And you examples are amazing! You did a lot of prep work! Wow!

Patter - I am working my way through 2019 using Shannan’s Pages templates. I went through and dropped my photos in for each week. Then I print (I made mine 9x12) and embellish. I really like how it looks! Here are a couple of my pages I did using her templates.

lynnek those pages are AMAZING. I just bought some templates to play with. I love the idea. I want to make some gift albums too. This may be the faster way to do my vacation photos. Hmmm? And love the idea of adding some real embellishments--hybrid. Perfect! Thanks for the idea and sharing your beautiful pages.

grammadee, that's funny. No worries. And yes, PJs are wonderful today!

I've been playing with transparencies, acetate and page protectors for my DD album. I like the results so far! It might not be used, but it feels good to just play. The 4x6 size is perfect for me. I tend to have perfection paralysis and 4x6 is so much more manageable. I'll post a photo if I can figure out how to do that. 

Too many pictures is also my problem. I'm cheering you on, Patter !  

Good morning! Thanks for tagging me. I am *just* getting into everything again after about a 15 year break. 😂 I still have all my stuff. I knew I would want to do it again when the time was right for me. anyway, I decided to jump all in and have a few projects going and ones to start:

Memory planner: I like the idea of these and have everything ready for this for 2021. Except I’m excited to start now so I think I am going to turn the extra front pages into Nov-Dec 2020 as a bonus.

Bible journal/gratitude journal: started this 11/1.

Project life: I did dip my toe into project life a few years back for a hot minute and then stopped so I will start that up again with various pictures I have backlogged.

I’m at work right now but plan to spend some time today and Saturday and Sunday on my projects. Thanks for the prompts!

Great cards grammadee.
I hope ti make some card tonight after work.

Spent some time tonight with DD17 talking about how we both struggle with perfectionism getting in the way of our creative endeavors and in other areas of our lives. I think we're both at crossroads and we're ready to embrace new perspectives and take new approaches. Give ourselves permission to be messy and to make bad art. It was a really good conversation that came at the end of a really rough week, with a lot of work coming due as her first quarter was closing. She's feeling optimistic about next quarter, and I'm feeling optimistic too for the first time in awhile.

Then we watched videos while I tore up paper bags to prep them for a paper bag album.

I'm hoping to get some time tomorrow evening to work on my Christmas cards a little more.

I actually don't know what I'm going to do with them yet, but it will involve the Gelli plate I'm giving myself as a holiday gift.

I've diagnosed myself as having an aversion to bound books and expensive materials - I get paralyzed - what if it doesn't look like how I want it to look?  so I decided to try to use mostly recycled materials and to work on papers before they're bound into a book. I think that by doing those two things I can be more free to just play and experiment, and I only have to keep the pages I like.

Welcome back paget, and thank you grammadee.

Good morning to all you peas! We figured we'd keep all the posts in 1 thread, and I think grammadee will copy my prompts (here) into the opening post for easy access.

I am as lacking in mojo as many of you, and really want to up my game today.
So while I have created prompts...
I have not personally played with them yet!

Link your weekend creations to this thread so we can see what you accomplish! (whether you are playing with prompts or not).

I was also toying with opening up a google hangout later today - a couple of hours of company? If anyone is scrapping and would join me, let me know, because I don't want to sit with an open link all by myself If you have a time that would work for you, shout it out, and we can try to entice more peas to join us.

OK, now for prompts for today. Confession: I skipped "K". It's my favourite letter (my initial) but in the scrapbook world it doesn't go far

J
J - JOY! Whichever holiday season you wish to consider from Thanksgiving to New Years, write a quick list of 5 small things you think of that bring you JOY! Not the "reason for the season" things. Just bits of the party that you find most jolly and joyful.
Mine are: 1. twinkling lights 2. candles 3. baking 4. decorations 5. the smell of a real tree. Now, incorporate one or more of these into your project. You could do a layout about one or more of your joy-bringers, or you could use a representation of them on a card or other project - like I could use an ink "glow" of a candle behind my sentiment on a card front. Or die-cut lights, or an ornament!

J - JEWELS! I'm sure most of us have some bling - new or old - in our stash. I have old sticky back crystals, but I'm more impressed with the new jewels you can buy, like Pink Fresh or Studio Katie (the iridescent snow jewels are beautiful!). Whichever you choose, get one on a project somewhere.

J - JOURNALING! To meet this prompt you can either journal at least 50 words on your page. OR share your list of 5 small items that bring you JOY! OR write a heartfelt personal note inside a card for sending.

L

L - LOVE. So many holidays revolve around love. Include the word LOVE on the page or card, although it doesn't have to be in the title - it can be in your journaling or on an embellishment.

L - LAYERS. Create at least 3 distinct layers on your page, whether it be double-matting your photo or creating a layered up cluster. The background page doesn't count, it's level 0!

L - LETTERS. A mixed up mash up of letters that is! Use at least 3 different lettering types on your page - different fonts, different stickers, different thickers, different stamps.

M

M - ME - how often are we left out of the holidays? We are cooking, cleaning, shopping, and documenting! Put yourself into the picture - literally - there must be photographic evidence of YOU on your project, but it doesn't have to be a holiday related project.

M - Mixed Media - inks, paints, mists, markers, coloured pencils, gesso, gelatos, watercolours, pastes - use one, use a bunch.

M - MOOD BOARD Play with this mood board! I see Christmas, Spring and Summer all playing together in this.
mood board by kirstendrew, on Flickr

N

N - NUMBERS - How many holiday dinners? How many gifts? How much money? How much snow? How many covid cases? How many netflix series/seasons/shows? There are a lot of interesting numbers these days and your challenge is to find one and document it. Or, highlight a NUMBER(S) on your project (must be in the title or dominantly featured on your page).

N - NAVY - one of my favourite colours.

N - NEW YEAR - full of sparkle and promise - so use glitter or sequins or shiny things on your project, create a New Years card or layout, or create a layout about your hopes (and fears) for the future (near or far).

O

O - OLD - What is OLD in your world? Do you have traditions your can document, antiques you cherish, recipes passed down through generations, or elderly family to document? Or do you want to talk about feeling OLD? Or use really OLD supplies in your project? Go for it!

O - ORANGE. One of my least used colours I'm sure, but such a pop. Pumpkins anyone?

O - OUTLINE - outline your page/card or elements therein, by stitching, framing, or pen doodling.


P

P - PLANNING - A layout about preparations for holidays, trips, school. A page in your planner. A layout featuring a list. Or use office supplies on a page/card.

P - PATTERNED PAPER! Use at least 3 patterned papers on your project

P - PARALLEL PRODUCTION - ie - a SKETCH! Start with this sketch:
sketch count your blessings crop by kirstendrew, on Flickr

Q

Q - Question - Make your title or card sentiment in the form of a question. Ask a question and then answer it in your journaling. Or just use a question mark on your project.

Q - aQUA - either the colour, or water in your pictures or represented on your project

Q - quadrants - a grid layout or element (eg. photos in a grid arrangement, a grid on a tag) 2x2, 3x3, 4x4 etc.

R

R - Reliable - What in your life is a solid foundation? A person? A place? A hobby? Religion? What in your holidays makes you feel like you are in familiar secure territory? A no-fail food? An annual party? A stocking that has survived since childhood? Or in scrappy terms, SCRAPLIFT yourself - use a card or layout that you thought turned out wonderfully, and use it for inspiration again! Please share both with us

R - Rainbow - use an arc or an actual rainbow on your project, or use 4 or more Colours.

R - Ripping - tear an edge, even if you use a ruler because you want it straight

Just getting myself ready to play! A few of these prompts are already speaking to me so hopefully my mojo will cooperate.

Thanks to all the organizers for putting your time and talent into this!