25.4.12

PLOAW Week 15

Yes, I'm a bit behind with PLOAW - in fact, I feel like I'm pretty much behind with everything... *sigh*
Nonetheless, here's my page for the week 15 challenge, which was to use a quote in your title or journaling.
My title ("Where did it go wrong?") was more or less our catch phrase when my cousin and I visited London a few weeks ago. We didn't experience any major problems (thankfully), but a couple of things went differently than planned - thus eliciting the phrase "Where did it go wrong??" on more than one occassion...


The title almost became a self-fulfilling prophecy: my title letters did not stand out sufficiently and seemed to disappear on the background paper. I tried to adjust it by spraying the background with mist and wiping clean the letters (they're plastic, so the spray mist did not hold). Don't know if I'm entirely happy with it, but at least I'm not entirely unhappy with it ;-)

In other news: so far I'm keeping up with taking my daily pictures for Week in the Life. I'll probably work on the pages during next month's LOAD.

18.4.12

Coming up: Ella´s Spring Training & LOAD 512

In addition to Week in the Life, Spring Training starts at Ella Publishing next week.





And May is also approaching fast, which means another round of LOAD!



All in all, busy crafty times ahead!

16.4.12

Week in the Life 2012



It should be obvious by now that I´m a big fan of Ali Edwards. So when she announced that she would be doing her annual Week in the Life project later this month, I was somewhat excited.

Somewhat excited, yes. I followed her example last year and that project is still unfinished... Sure, I took all the photos, made all the notes, adapted the templates, and selected and printed my choice of pictures, but as usual struggled with the final journaling. Let´s face it, doing this project is a lot of work. And since I´m somewhat lacking any creative mojo at the moment, a new time-consuming project is the last thing I need, especially since I still have a bunch of unfinished projects awaiting my attention.

And still... there´s this nagging in the back of my head. Because I did enjoy the time I spent on this last year. My colleagues at work really got into it too, snapping pictures left, right and center! Some of those everyday pictures I took then are my favorites ever, and I´ve used several on other projetcs since then as well.

So, as of yet, I´m undecided. Fortunately I still have a few nights to sleep on it :-)

Meanwhile, Designer Digitals were having an interesting sale this weekend: 30% off on all their templates and paper packs (and 20% off their latest releases). I figured I´d better be prepared if I´m contemplating doing Week in the Life, so I got some new templates:

useful addition for both Week in the Life and Project Life

nice format with many possibilities

will need some tweaking, but I like the format

Whether I decide to do Week in the Life this year or not, at least I´ll have a choice of resources at my disposal - that is always a good thing, right?

11.4.12

PLOAW Week 14

The challenge for week 14 was to use non-scrapbooking materials such as packaging, brochures, clothing tags etc.
On a recent trip to London, my cousin and I visited not one but TWO Hummingbird Bakery-shops. Of course we took a bunch of photos of us sampling the goods, and I used one of the shop´s paper bags on my scrapbooking page.