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LOAD Day 5 || Planning Ahead
You know how I said no excuses this month? Well, I actually have an excuse. A reason, more exactly. I knew going into the month that I might be heading to my sister’s during my kids’ winter break. I...
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And a Week Later…
How is it that it’s already a week since the last post? I guess five days of packing and unpacking can really mess up your schedule! Let’s see, what’s been done since then? Just two layouts. The day...
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Still Trucking Along
Wow! I thought this month was going to be all about how you can make scrapbooking a priority in your life, even when life gets hectic. And then I had an unexpected trip to NYC, and everything’s been...
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Some Days Just Make You Happy
This. This page. This is why I do LOAD: This page started with the photos. I love these glorious, hovering in mid-air pictures. They aren’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but they really...
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LOAD’s Not Over Yet!
Yesterday was pretty productive. I did a little writing for a class I’m working on for you, and I made these three pages during Lain Ehmann’s monthly Scrapbook Improv. ( I followed the prompts and...
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Finding the Time
One of the biggest complaints/excuses out there about why people choose not to scrapbook is that they just don’t have the time. There’s this perception that scrapbooking and memory keeping in general...
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The Benefits of Dabbling
You may not have realized this yet, but I’m a big fan of ignoring the “rules” of scrapbooking. One of the hardest rules for new scrapbookers, and even well-seasoned scrapbookers, to learn to ignore is...
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Blast from the Past: Scrapbooking without photos. And a few tangents along...
The kids are on spring break and we’re off to visit relatives this week. Here’s an old post for you from 2010. A very LONG post. So grab your favorite cuppa, and enjoy! I thought today might be a good...
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Pocket Pages to the Rescue!
Earlier this week, you saw the picture-less spread about my trip to Jamaica, and read the whole long story about why I didn’t have any pictures. But then, I found them. And printed them. And used them....
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Where to Find Inspiration
For many scrapbookers, the hardest part of creating a scrapbook page is the act of getting started. Just sitting down with paper and pen and photos can be very daunting at times. One of the easiest...
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A Moment of Reflection
This blog has been up and running for two years now. How cool is that? In the past two years, I’ve published 236 posts. That’s an average of a post every three days. Not too shabby. The most popular...
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Exciting things on the way!
There are so many fun things heading our way. First up, on January 31st is the next True Scrap production, Truth Scrap! This one day online, live event will focus on the hows and whys of scrapbooking...
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It’s Alive!
Won’t you please welcome to the world The Beginner’s Guide to Scrapbooking! This is a strictly for beginner’s book! Really! It breaks down the page creation process into simple steps, with three common...
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LOAD and Scrapbooking
For the month of February, we’re going to be doing some intensive scrapbooking. I’m participating in this month’s Layout a Day Challenge, and I thought I could use this month’s challenges to show you...
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Off on a Tangent
Ideas are flying fast and furiously here, with the prompts Lain has been supplying. Today’s prompt was based on the children’s book, Goodnight Moon. The first thought that occurred to me was that there...
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Playing with Alpha Stickers
Today’s prompt was to use different size fonts, as inspired by children’s book design. Since there wasn’t a topic suggested, I went with a topic I’d thought about based on one of the earlier prompts:...
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Photo-free!
Today’s prompt was based on The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. It’s a great kids story that builds up a sequence throughout the book. The most famous building sequence that I can think of, that...
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Starting with Color
Thursday’s prompt was to start with color; red, black, white, and pink to be specific. With that in mind I started thumbing thru some recently printed pictures, and came across this one: This is one of...
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Football Fan
Yesterday’s prompt was to use a book title as a starting point. Specifically, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst I was having a bit of trouble with coming up...
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Celebrating a Friend
Yesterday I went off prompt. Between being busy and having kids home and in my hair, there was not going to be any deep and meaningful stories told. Instead I finished up a happy and fun page: This...
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