Scrapbook Week- Using Scraps

  I found this layout idea from something I had saved years ago.  I thought it was a great way to use up scraps.  I punched lots of 1 1/2 inch squares.  Now, that the punch is retired you could use the layered squares framelits to cut your squares. 

  I am thinking I will put some of the pictures from our family reunion on these pages.  The page on the left will be perfect for the family group picture we take each year.

  Come back tomorrow to see the final layout for the week.

UFO (Unfinished Object) Completed

The front cover with some of the cute stickers that came with the kit.

     Do you set goals for yourself at the start of each new year?  I really enjoy doing that.  I have decided that 2014 will be the year of finishing my UFO's (unfinished objects).  I have even purchase a This and That journal to record each finished project as I finish it.  With each picture I will tell the story about starting and finishing the object.  Here is my first completely finished UFO.

   1. This was the October My Paper Pumpkin kit.  At first I thought Oh No a mini scrapbook, a little out of my comfort zone.  Then I thought a perfect little book to record a small trip.

2. I decided that the 2013 Convention would be a great small trip to record in this little book, and if I got right on it, the trip was not too long ago and my memory would be fresh. (July 2013)

3. I found pictures from convention and had them developed at the local Walgreen store and finally yesterday sat down to do the book.  It was so easy and so much fun to do.  It brought back the memories of convention and the fun I had with my stamping friends.

A favorite layout of the eating area at the Riverton campus of Stampin'Up!

  And now I feel so good having one completed UFO for 2014.  I will get this picture developed and put in my This and That journal and get started on project number 2.

  Paper Pumpkin is a great way to get cards, or mini projects completed is a short amount of time.  And if you subscribe from now until February 10 you will receive a set free set of markers in your first kit.  If you dropped and want to try it again, you will not have to receive the first kit all over again, you will start back up with the current kit.  Wait till you see what I made with the December Paper Pumpkin Kit.

Wednesday Wow-Flat Armadillo

    My niece, Kathy, teaches school in San Antonio. She has her students send out flat Armadillos to people all over.  This is the one that I received. I had such fun taking this Armadillo all over Jacksonville to some of the unique places in our city.  I took pictures at each spot and then created a scrapbook to send back to the anonymous named student( who forgot to sign the letter and the back of the Armadillo) that sent the Armadillo to me. I used some of my non-Stampin'Up! scrapbook paper on the pages since it is an 8 by 8 scrapbook.

 

 

 

 

 

 

     It was fun thinking of places I wanted the student to see in our town, and made me realize how easy it is to make simple scrapbooks that record memories of things and places that are dear to us.  Not every scrapbook page has to be a masterpiece.  This will be mailed off today.  I can't wait to hear the reaction of the student to the trip to Jacksonville.