Well this week sucked as far as my LOADing went! Hope your week was better.
That’s the way it goes sometimes though. I’ll admit there were a couple of prompts that had me stumped but I know I don’t have to follow them so I have no excuse for not creating a layout. Other than life getting in the way. Darn it!
Here are my efforts for this week and I’ll be back soon to show some other layouts that I made during (Inter)National Scrapbook Day which was last Saturday.
Day 8 – WTF? (Where’s The Food?)
What were YOU thinking it meant??
This was (Inter)National Scrapbook Day and I’d already created two layouts and a card so I was looking for a really simple design. I was in full “get ‘er done” mode! The prompt about food brought these funny pictures to mind of my girls inhaling two orders of macaroni and cheese and one order of french fries after a ski lesson. The only reason they got to eat the food from the cafeteria was because we had a massive credit at the mountain so they were taking full advantage of it!
I used the Live and Laugh word stickers from a recently purchased Simple Stories sheet (Life in Color) and then complimented them with similar looking letter stickers I found in my stash. As an accent detail – and to pick up on the tiny touch of turquoise in the journaling card at the far right – I used some of the punctuation points from my American Crafts letter stickers I got with my Shimelle haul.
I repeated the letter stickers and glitter accents in the bottom right corner to balance things out. The journaling runs across the bottom of the layout to mimic the title running across the top of the layout. The other stickers were from that same Simple Stories Life in Color sheet. Since I didn’t have an eighth photo, I used two 3×4 journaling cards to fill that gap. The sentiments seemed to fit well!
This double page came together very quickly and that’s what I needed at the time. It’s great to spend hours getting everything layered up just right, but sometimes you just need to slap down some photos, tell your story and add a few strips of paper so the page doesn’t feel too plain. Am I right?
Day 11 – Life is expensive, add it up!
I was the Featured Scrapper for this day – if you are interested in seeing the layout I made to inspire our LOADsters please click here.
Part of the reason I got a side-tracked from LOAD this past week was kids activities (there were a few emotional issues too but we won’t go into those!) One of those kids activities was my middle daughter’s very first (and hopefully only but we’ll see) dance competition. She’s been taking ballet at the same school with the same teacher since she was 4. We made it abundantly clear from the get go that we were not a “dance family” but a “soccer family” so her dance career would be limited to one dance class a year and NO COMPETITIONS! Famous last words! This year, instead of getting ready for their RAD (Royal Academy of Dance) exams, they were preparing for a competition. And they did really well!
The actual competition for them was on Saturday the 7th at which they received a High Gold mark (each dancer/group was marked on their own efforts not against their competitors) and won the Adjudicators Outstanding Performance trophy. We were thrilled and figured that was a pretty awesome achievement, end of story, right? How wrong we were! They were called back the following evening to participate in the Crystal Showdown Dance Off. Yes, pretty serious sounding! They did not win (but another group from our studio won the top prize of $500) but what an experience for my normally shy little girl!
I’m showing extra photos of this layout because of the pocket I created to store the program. Behind the program I put a photo of all the Dance Off competitors after the show, with the judges. I’m not worried about it not being seen as it’s superfluous to the story. The story is really about my daughter’s experience and that of her dance group, and those pictures ARE on the front.
I punched out a label shape from the same patterned paper I’d used to mat the photos on the front and this became a tab in the program to show where her dance was listed. The page before this was one of advertising so I attached the journaling block to it.
When you flip that page over you see my wrist band (yes, they forced us to PAY to watch our children compete – blood suckers!) leading down to her group’s listing.
Day 13 – How competitive are you?
I’m not very competitive but others in our family are (cough, cough, husband wouldn’t even let me win at cribbage on our honeymoon, cough, cough!) So I decided to scrapbook about Reason #2 that the wheels came off the LOAD train this week – the District Track Meet. All day in the sunshine tends to leave me drained and not wanting to do anything other than chill on the couch!
I am working on a post for Make It Monday that uses this design of adding lots and lots of paper strips to your background card stock so look out for that – it will have a process video too if I can get some peace and quiet to finish filming it! It’s something I’ve seen on YouTube and since I have a fairly large collection of strips and off cuts I thought it would be fun to try out. This version is red, yellow and blue to match those bright yellow school jerseys (why, oh why couldn’t we have nice blue ones?)
But I digress … My husband was a track star in high school so of course his girls have to be too. 🙂 Good thing for them they have inherited his speed genes! My eldest placed second in the 1200m and the 800m and her 4x100m relay team came in first thanks to her anchor leg. My middle daughter – who was experiencing this for the first time this year – placed third in the 4x100m relay and second in the 60m sprint. Both have qualified for Regionals which is this Thursday so I’m sure I’ll have more bright yellow jersey photos to scrapbook!
Well, that’s all I have for you today. Only three LOAD layouts this week feels like a pretty poor effort for me. But I will bounce back! Promise! I am the Featured Scrapper on Monday – guess I’ll have two posts that day – so see you then!
Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone!
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