slowly catching up

and do I mean slowly!! It's taken me a few days to do this layout. Of course, I spend way more time watching tv than scrapping, shame on me. But you know... some things are worth waiting for. LOL

anyway, this is about my third and last CKU, Creating Keepsakes University, a scrapbook school. It was in Nashville in 2007. Our dorm (um, a group of like-minded gals) performed in front of hundreds of screaming wild women - only 3 dorms out of many are chosen for that, so it's quite an honor. The pics by page: dorm stuff, scrapbook "celebs," opryland hotel, and local Nashville sights.

I used my rockin' cool die cut machine, a Cricut Expression, to cut the letters for the title and to cut the orange/red/yellow swirlies. I only had one piece of that beautiful colorful paper, and the Cricut made it super easy for me to include some on all four pages of my layout. There's no way on earth I would have attempted to hand cut all of those letters, nonetheless the flourishes!

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scrap gal

Last week I did a couple more one-pagers. Nothing major, both are pretty simple.

The butt burner LO is pretty lumpy/bumpy, with buttons (which I like never use) and big brads, and those blue letters that are hard plastic or acrylic or something like that. Oh, and the sweet little paper clips that lead your eye into and out of the page - just a nice little touch.

I really like a few things about the concert LO: the colors pull from all three photos, which can be hard to do, the patterned paper looks kind of like it's pointing to the photos, and the black rub-on between the blue and the patterned papers looks kinda like a roughed up musical score.

I also like the fact that the colors in these two LOs are complementary, since they will be facing each other in the 2006 album. Yep, I'm still working on 2006, but I'm also working on 2007, 2008 and 2009 simultaneously! There was a year or two that I did a lot of work on mini albums, and didn't do much on my annual albums, so I'm "catching up."

lovin' this free time

I've been organizing photos, getting lots of pics printed, etc., and I have actually spent a little time scrapbooking too. Imagine that! LOL

Here are pics of some recent work:



The LO below is created using Little Yellow Bicycle products. Love their stuff - beautiful designs and colors, lots of cool embellishments. In this case, the frame and the Noel are hard transparencies with glitter, the left page is foil paper (the ornaments are reflective foil), the top red ornament, the green snowflake center on the right, and some other snowflakes are epoxy stickers. Their collections make it SO easy to pull a layout together!