Okay, so I started a post on Father’s Day that was going to
include the next three layouts for LOAD 512.
Coincidentally, they were all pages themed for men. And of course, I never got them posted. So here’s three masculine layouts from LOAD,
and a bonus ½ page:
Day 20: Sketchy Sunday
For Load 512, every Sunday is Sketchy Sunday and our
challenge is to work from a sketch. I
work from sketches all the time and have become pretty adept at transfiguring
them into something entirely different.
This layout isn’t entirely
different, but I did make a few changes.
This is a very simple layout for me.
I didn’t use a lot of embellishments or paper. I wanted the focus to be the photos.
Day 21: 5-5-5
This challenge was
a little harder, though. I’ve mentioned
before that I’m not a very fast scrapbooker.
That’s one of the reasons I like doing LOAD, because it forces me to
make decisions and get the page put together quicker than I might if I weren’t
tryng to beat the clock. This time we
had 5 minutes to choose the photos, 5 minutes to choose the products, and 5
minutes to journal. I am very pleased to
say I managed to do exactly that – barely.
Lain had some great tips for helping us break that speed barrier,
including using song lyrics or lists for journaling and using kits for product
selections. I did us parts of a kit for
my products – they went perfectly with the photos.
Day 22: Inanimate Object's POV
The suggestion for this page came from the messy girl
herself. When my daughter was little,
she would carry-on whole conversations with herself while she rode in the back
of the car. She had lots of different
and very distinct voices and it was all we could do to keep from just busting
out laughing at some of the things that came out of her mouth. She could imitate just about anyone, and she
was quite the little comedian. So when I
needed to do an inanimate object page, her messy room was a total no
brainer. I love doing stuff like this
because not only does it put a little levity into our scrapbooks, which makes
them more interesting for others to read, but I also love creating that little
glimpse of our personal lives so that we can look back on it with fond
memories. It’s not enough to just have
some pictures of her messy room with a block of journaling that says it’s
messy. That doesn’t tell us anything
about the person that Christen is (was), but by making fun of her messy nature
in this way, you can really see just what kind of personality she really does
have.
Day 23: Half-Sized Page
I thought I’d throw in one more for today so that I can keep
the next set together (you’ll see why in my next post). This challenge was actually something I had
just asked another scrapbooker about a few days before – half-sized pages. One of the bloggers from LOAD adds a lot of
12x6 page layouts to her albums. This
half-sized format is perfect for those times when you have a little bit that
needs to be scrapbooked, but you don’t want to make a whole page out of
it. I don’t know how many times I have
scrapbooked a page only to find some random photo or piece of memorabilia
MONTHS later after it’s much too late to add it to the already existing
page. I don’t want to change a layout
that I’m perfectly happy with to make it fit, nor do I want to make a whole
12x12 page out of it. Making a half page
is a great idea and you can add it between the existing pages. I was really excited to try this format when
it popped up as the challenge – it worked perfectly for this page at the end of
my cruise. Oh, and you can purchase the 12x6 page protectors at Scrapbook.com
Next up: some more Pete and Repeat...sort of....
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