LOAD 512 Day 19

Today's prompt: Pete/Repeat. As in:
Pete and Repeat were sitting in a boat. Pete fell out, who was left? Repeat!
Pete and Repeat were sitting.... etcetc.

In other words: repeat something from your previous LO: scraps, colours, topic, whatever.

A tough one for me. Yesterday I made a digi-page, so it's not like I had any scraps leftover.
I decided to print out the background paper on cardstock and used that as my starting point for picking out photos and other supplies.

Here's the result:

LOAD 512 Day 18

Today's subject for Five Senses Friday was "smell".
I took the obvious route and made a page about my favourite perfumes:

I didn't feel like cutting and pasting in my craft room today, so made my own digital template based on the sketch of day 13. I find that I like to mix things up occasionally and switch from traditional to hybrid to all-digi when the mood strikes me - it keeps this hobby interesting! I know I'll never go completely digi, but it's nice to do every once in a while.

LOAD 512 Day 17

Another round of Who Woulda Thunk Thursday! Today's topic: the cartoon connection.
Or: use a cartoon (printed or animated) as inspiration, for instance with regard to the colour scheme.

A few years ago I made a page for BPC's Design Your Life class by Cathy Zielske about a trip to Portugal where I forgot the key to my suitcase on my nightstand at home and my mother forced the lock by using a teaspoon. Her nickname for the rest of the trip was Teaspoon Lady ("Vrouwtje Theelepel"), after a 1980's cartoon character that had a magic teaspoon.

I was never really happy about the page, something always felt a bit "off" but I couldn't put my finger on it.
Then I had a brainwave today: an A4 redo with the same papers but in different proportions!

I scanned in the photos from my old page (they were from before the digital era...), omitted 2 of them and used a new image plucked from the internet of Mrs Pepperpot (which is the English name of Vrouwtje Theelepel).
And there you have it, a much more pleasing page (in my opinion anyway)

LOAD 512 Day 16

We're passed the halfway point - woohoo!

For today's Wicked Wednesday challenge we were asked to use someone else's journaling.
A tough one for me - I don't have a husband or kids whose stories I could tell, and I don't get much more than a "Wheeeek" out of my guinea pigs ;-)

Flipping through the photo pile on my desk, I came across this photo from my recent trip to Israel.

The photo is blurry since I took it through the window of the bus while driving. But it's a funny story: "The Banal Story of the Blue Banana", as told by our travel guide when someone asked why the bananas on the plantations we passed in the Jordan Valley were covered in blue plastic bags (for those of you who'd like to know: it's makes the fruit ripen more evenly and protects against pests... - not very exciting as the title already predicted).
I say that counts for the challenge!

LOAD 512 Day 15

Another Tough Topic Tuesday: scrapbook about conflict. This could be as serious or as playful as you wanted it to be.

2 Weeks in I'm starting to feel the scrapbook fatigue and I had trouble coming up with what to do for this challenge. In the end I made a page about my ongoing struggle of getting up in the morning and continuous failure to go to bed on time at night...
The photo was take a few weeks ago during Week of the Life (another project waiting to be completed...) and I decided to use the same design as on Day 12. For the 2nd day in a row, I used my Silhouette for diecutting - go me!

LOAD 512 Day 14

For this Manic Monday, we were given a 3-2-1-challenge: 3 embellishments, 2 pieces of paper and one photo.

I was so focussed on using a minimum of supplies, that I kinda overlooked the exact specifications: I used 4 photos instead of just the 1 and 3 pieces of cardstock instead of only 2...

Other than that, I used a date sticker, the packaging of a cling stamp for my journaling block (recycling!) and I dusted off my Silhouette for some diecutting (maple leaf + title)

LOAD 512 Day 13 | PLOAW Week 20

Today's Mother's Day and LOAD's 2nd Sketchy Sunday.
Lain provided a new sketch for today's challenge, which I flipped around again to get the ideas coming (this helps me to visualize the possibilities).

In the end I decided to stick with the original sketch and made a page about the similarities between my mom and me. I've done a mini-album a few years ago using the same photos and concept, but I liked the idea of having a page on this topic in my regular album as well.

It's a very simple page: just cardstock, 3 pieces of patterned paper, a printed title and handwritten journaling. For all those people who argue that scrapbooking is expensive: it really isn't. You can make a page as simple or as elaborate as you choose!

LOAD 512 Day 12

Today's challenge was to use trash. As in repurposed packaging, old photos, scraps etc.
Actually very similar to the PLOAW-chalenge for week 14...

Anyways, I went the obvious route and used strips of papers from my box of scraps:

The design is a lift of a page that Shimelle Laine did at 2Peas for National Scrapbook Day 2012. I just happened to view the video today and was inspired to use it as a starting point for my page.

LOAD 512 Day 11

Five-Senses-Friday again, and the topic for today's page is "touch".

I had difficulty coming up with something and ended up doing a page with an old (scanned) photo from my childhood of me playing in the mud.

The striped paper is actually from an Autumn line but I liked the vintage feel of it.

I also want to show the page that one of the other LOADsters, Danielle, did. It made me laugh because it's a bit naughty and nicely showcases the man candy that is Adam Levine of Maroon Five...
Gotta love a fit man with tatts! ;-)

LOAD 512 Day 10

Today's challenge was another original one: take your inspiration from a cereal box!

I used this All Bran box as inspiration and mimicked the blue swirl (the colour of which matched perfectly with the blue sky in my photos), the white background, the red letters and yellow accents.