>A scrapbook page

>I know, I know… it’s been a long time since I posted. Life just gets busy, and so I just haven’t gotten around to it. I also know I promised pictures of the newly planted flower beds – but I also haven’t gotten around to that. One of these days I will!

For now, I will post this latest scrapbook page I did. I actually took the layout from Valerie’s sketch blog, and used Sketch #48. Another sketch blog that I found that I really like too, is called Stuck! – and I’ll probably be using that one quite a bit too! This page is significant because it means that I’m finally finished scrapbooking my wedding! I have a few pages that need a little fixing up here and there, but it’s mostly finished! It only took me 5 years!! Haha. As much as I enjoy scrapbooking, I admit, I’m ready to scrapbook anything besides my wedding pictures! I bought a couple of new scrapbooks at Costco the other day – and am looking foward to filling those up.

It’s not the favorite page I ever made, and these pictures aren’t the greatest… especially the reflection of the flash on the first picture… but oh well… it’ll have to do!

>A fun manilla folder album

>I love to scrapbook and make cards. I don’t always take much time for it – but I still love it! Most often, I find my ideas online from other creative people who share their projects… just so you don’t think I have all these wonderful ideas on my own. For this project, I wanted to give a family that we babysat for a few days a little memory book of our time there. I was looking through the Taylored Expressions blog, and found this idea. You can find the instructions here. Each section has a pocket in it, and inside the pocket, I put a few pictures. Some are just single matted pictures, but for the “nice” and “silly” girls sections, I used little accordian-folded strips of paper with several pictures on them. It’s an easy way to tuck lots of pictures into a small space! I marked each item that could be slid out of a pocket with a little piece of ribbon. I had a lot of fun with this project… I’ll for sure be making one of these again sometime!

>Reorganization…

> A little while ago, I decided it was HIGH time I create a little more order with my scrapbooking supplies. I took some ideas from friends organization systems, and set out to buy another shelving unit (I already had one of the white ones) and some extra baskets. This is what I came up with! It was fun to arrange it all! My paper is now organized in a way that I can find it easily. The solids are arranged by color, and the rest is arranged by pattern (dots, flowers, stripes, plaids, etc.). I was pretty excited by how it all turned out!