Welcome back to LOAD!
Many of you know that means that I’ll be featuring lots of scrapbook
layouts over the next month or so, but if you’re new to this blog, you may not
know what that’s all about. LOAD is a
cute acronym for Layout A Day, a
month-long online workshop and challenge hosted by Lain Ehman of True
Scrap. I’ve been participating in LOAD a
couple of times a year since 2012 and I have so much fun and learn so much
about myself and scrapbooking that I just have to share! So for the next 31 days or so (with a few
pauses for some other cool stuff), you’ll get to see all my crafty LOAD
creations!
Each day, Lain sends us an email with a video and a
prompt. The video is where Lain goes
into detail about the prompt. Sometimes
she will share her reasoning, or give you some ideas on how you can utilize the
prompt, and she always provides an
example made by either herself or one of her helpers. As a participant, I generally use the prompt
to make my page (although I’m not required to do so), and then post it to the
LOAD Flickr page. Sharing our layouts in
the Flickr gallery is great because we can see what some of the other 500+
scrappers are doing and get a lot of great
ideas. I usually keep a log of all the
prompts along with some notes and ideas for future pages using that same
prompt. It’s a great way to kick-start
my creativity, and the prompts have directed me to do some really insightful
pages that I probably would never have thought about doing.
Some LOADs I have more time on my hands than others, but
this particular May, I have been busier than a centipede at a toe counting
contest, so I apologize in advance if any of my pages are not up to my usual
muster. May 1st was no
exception because I was on my way out of town to visit my son at college, and
being the first day of LOAD 514, I was a bit challenged to get something done
quickly before I left. But I’ve found
that even on my rushed days, there’s still time to scrapbook if I plan
carefully. You can, too!
For Day 1, Lain chose the prompt “In the News”, and I knew I
did not want to work on something elaborate, so I went to my stack of “projects
in progress” and pulled out my son’s college album. I’ll talk more about my projects in progress
stack in a later post, but for now all you need to know is that I had a bunch
of pictures already printed up, paper and embellishments were all together and
I just did some quick computer journaling to round it all out. I selected this particular story and photo
because it was something I knew I could journal quickly, it didn’t require a
lot of fancy embellishments, and all my supplies were right there together. The page went together super fast, and
technically it is still in the theme of “In the News” – it was a news-worthy
event and I used the newsprint patterned paper as one of my layers.
Thanks for dropping by today. Come back tomorrow to see what I did with the
theme “If These Walls Could Talk.”
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