LOAD 512 Day 29

The end is nigh!

Our last Tough Topic Tuesday was themed "Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day".


A difficult one for me. I feel like I've done my share of tough pages these last few weeks, and didn't feel like doing one yet again. So I went in the completely opposite direction and made a page about something that makes me happy instead: my favourite season of the year, Spring! ;-)

The background is made up of patterned paper squares in similar shades of green (the scan shows it to be more yellow-ish than it actually is). I ran our of e's so I 'mutilated' some a's for my title - can you tell??


I like the freshness of this page - love the patchwork effect!

LOAD 512 Day 28

Manic Monday: Grab & Go!
In other words, don't give it too much thought, just go with the first thing that catches your attention.

Flipping through my stack of photos, I came across these unscrapped ones from our 2008 trip to the US East coast. I really liked the pretty sky against the silhouet of the Washington Monument, so I decided to enlarge that to a full A4 size. As with most of my layouts about that trip, I used a red, white and blue colour scheme.

LOAD 512 Day 27

Our last Sketchy Sunday of the month!

I did my usual flipping around to get the format I liked, added a few extra photos and changed it into a 2-page spread.

Since the subject is all the churches I visited in Israel, I went with a traditional colour scheme: the blue and ochre are supposed to mimic the Royal blue (purper) and gold used in Medieval Christian art.

I'm very happy with how this page turned out!   

LOAD 512 Day 26

Today's challenge was to scraplift yourself, i.e. use elements from a previous page on a new page.

I had a leftover strip of cupcake paper from yesterday, and took that as my starting point. In addition, last year's bakesale (and the resulting sore arm from having to use a handmixer several days in a row...), sparked my indulgence in getting the gorgeous Kitchen Aid mixer I had been coveting for years, so I let that be the subject of today's page.

LOAD 512 Day 25

We're counting down, people! Less than a week left to go!

Five Senses Friday again, and this time it's 'taste'. And 'taste' = 'food', so I made a page about last year's bakesale at work. I spent 4 night it the kitchen whipping up several kinds of cakes and cupcakes, as did other colleagues. We managed to raise a few 100 Euros for the World Food Program!

LOAD 512 Day 24

For today, another round of Who Woulda Thunk Thursday, we had to make a page featuring an overheard conversation. One of the suggestions that Lain gave was to use your pets' sounds, and with a couple of critters running around, it was a natural choice to go with that.

I used the same basic sketch as 2 days ago, flipped around.
I had to get a bit creative with my title letters: I didn't have any e's left, so I altered 3 a's... Shhhh - don't tell!

On a side note - isn't Amber's little face looking up completely adorable??
I love all my babies, but I have a particularly soft spot for her ;-)

LOAD 512 Day 23 | December Daily 2011 Day 22 + 23

Today's challenge was to scrapbook a page half the size of what you'd normally use (so 6x12 if you'd normally scrap 12x12, or, in my case, A5 i/o A4)

My December Daily album is still a work in progress, and probably will be for some time to come - odds are I won't be finished until December comes around!

Anyways, since my December Daily album is close to A5-format, I made not one but two photocollages.  

Still have to do the righthand sides with the journaling, but for now, I'm calling it good!

LOAD 512 Day 22

Today's LOAD-challenge was a tough one: journal from the perspective of an inanimate object (!).
Since I haven't been very active in bringing my own lunch to work lately, I decided to make a page about my bento boxes and how neglected they must feel ;-)

The design is from a sketch via Studio Calico I saw on Pinterest earlier today:

LOAD 512 Day 21 | PLOAW Week 21

Wow - 3 weeks in already! I must admit that scrapbook fatigue is lurking, but I'm taking it one day at a time...

For this Manic Monday {whoa oooh whoa*}, our challenge was 5-5-5: spend 5 minutes on picking photos, 5 minutes on chosing papers and 5 minutes on journaling your story. You could spend more time on completing the page, but the idea was to 'grab 'n' go'.

I don't know if I quite managed that (I had to reprint the photo 'cause it got damaged and then had to recut the mat as well...), but all in all it's a pretty quick page for me.

This week's PLOAW-challenge was to use contrast. I used big & small in the title and dark & light in the background paper and photomat. I guess you could also consider the photo itself to show dark/light contrast.

* Manic Monday - the Bangles

LOAD 512 Day 20

The 3rd Sketchy Sunday of this month. I did my usual "flipping around" to kick-off the brainstorming:

Not too many options this time since the sketch is fairly symmetrical to begin with.

Since I've been doing mostly single pages lately, I decided to turn this into a double-page spread. I rummaged through my old travel photos and found these 5  that I'd kept together for a work-themed page.

I store most of my papers by colour, but have a few theme-trays on certain topics such as 'travel'. This paper conveniently was in my 'Asia'-pile, and I teamed it up with a neutral kraft cardstock that matches the browns in the photos.
I wanted to print the journaling on a sticker instead of writing it by hand, but despite several test runs, it came out skewed anyway. Since I only had one of these stickers I decided to use it anyway - it's hard for a self-confessed OCD-er, but I'm trying to embrace imperfection! {thank you Ali Edwards}