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A Special Christmas Gift

tonysfrenchgirl — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:28:17 +0000

I am working on Shimelle Laine’s Journal Your Christmas project this month. I have some catching up to do but i’m not too worried about it. Being December, there are lots of things to do and i’m determined not to stress about the project. One of the things i wanted to get done is a mini-book for my best girl friend Rachel. Kind of a thank-you for being my friend thing. I am happy with how it turned out even if it has a few design flaws. I had forgotten to scan the pages in before i gave it to her, so i had her bring it back over to my house so i could quickly shoot pictures of it. I’m happy to say that she loved it.

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A Special Christmas Gift

tonysfrenchgirl — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:35:42 +0000

Been Scrapping, Just Not Writing

tonysfrenchgirl — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:16:04 +0000

This has become a rather bad habit. I think i need to get a bit more organized. When i do have a few moments, i scrap. That leaves zero time for blogging about it. Was just listening to Peppermint Grandberg talking about the same thing on The Digi Show. I know it’s not uncommon for life to get so busy that things like scrapbooking get left for last. And i know that i need to start scheduling in both scrapbooking time and time to blog.

So, I am going to reach back and post some of the stuff i have gotten done scrapbook-wise. And just maybe, i can get caught up to what i’m doing this month.

I managed to only get a couple of pages done during the week for Your Story Matters.

I have saved the prompts and plan on finishing at some point in time. This just isn’t the month to be doing it. Too much going on scrap-wise in December, but i will speak to that later.

My mother- and sister-in-law both participated in YSM. Their albums are done! Interesting how different people can take the same prompts and come out with completely different layouts. I always enjoy looking at what others have done. And i try not to compare my work to someone else’s; it’s not a beauty contest, it’s memory keeping. If I liked a completed layout before i saw what others had done online, i should like it just as much afterward.

Enough waxing philosophic for today. It’s time to go get some scrapping done!

OMG!

tonysfrenchgirl — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:25:08 +0000

I knew it had been a while, but, Oh man! has that many months passed already?!

Life…has a way of making mush of the best laid plans.

I have been scrapbooking some, though. Just not posting. I have spent more time organizing than actual scrapping. I had a “scrappy do” list for the summer and expected to get a lot more scrapbooking and posting done. I think I might have crossed only one item off that list, maybe two. But I’m super happy with the shelf and baskets I got for my supplies! The colors make me happy.

My First Scrapbooking Class

tonysfrenchgirl — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 02:19:06 +0000

I finally got to teach my first scrapbooking class on Thursday night. It was a mini-book class. I only had 3 students, but they seemed to have a good time. One student had never used anything other than stickers as embellishments before and was thrilled to learn how to apply flowers and ribbon. She was very happy with the result. Wish I could have gotten some photographs of the event.

Two Hour Mini Book

tonysfrenchgirl — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:51:42 +0000

So I was totally inspired by Noell’s Paperclipping Premium video that talks about how to make a mini-book in two hours. I thought it would be the perfect way to document the weekend we went camping in October 2010. It was my DH’s first outing since his heart bypass surgery, so it was a very special weekend. I love Noell’s concept of task batching and I am really happy with the way the mini-book turned out.

iScrapped

tonysfrenchgirl — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:16:28 +0000

Been working on a number of projects even though I haven’t blogged. This week I took part in Stacy Julian’s class “iScrap”. Got the photo pages done.

I went...

I wonder...

: I believe…

I used some bright colors on some of the pages; something I generally have not felt comfortable doing. I like the results.
Still have to get to the journaling pages. Okay, I’m a bit behind the class timeline, but I’m getting it done.

Yikes!

tonysfrenchgirl — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 04:53:01 +0000

I committed to teach two scrapbooking classes through Community Ed! Time to get my ducks in a row and prepare. Gotta make samples of the mini books the classes will be making.

If it feels good…

tonysfrenchgirl — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 01:10:08 +0000

It feels good to get another layout done, even if it has nothing to do with the LOAD challenges for October or the “Me: the Abridged Version” class. I got inspired by one of the last layouts that May Flaum posted for the “Use Your Stash” class and figured I could knock out some more of those taekwondo pictures that have needed to be scrapped (for a number of years!).

Now I need to get busy cutting the patterned paper for the MetAv class, so I don’t get too far behind.

Last Chance Layouts

tonysfrenchgirl — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:59:12 +0000

Week 4 of May Flaum’s “Use Your Stash” class is coming to a close. I have been working so much on Cathy Zielske’s “Me: the Abridged Version” that I haven’t completed a layout for May’s class in over a week. But, I managed to get two last layouts done and uploaded. Now I feel better. I should probably take only one class at a time from now on.

I’m discovering that it is not all that easy to find photographs for some of my journal entries that I wrote for Cathy’s class. I wasn’t thinking about pictures, just what I could write about for each letter of the alphabet. Thank goodness for the Yahoo image search engine!