May the Fourth Be with You!

You have to forgive me for being a little late posting today.  I spent my evening at the Dallas Crafters Marathon, celebrating National Scrapbook Day, and because there was so much going on and so many old friends that I haven’t seen in a very long time, I didn’t get much done.  I had to complete my LOAD project, and what should have taken one hour wound up taking four.  I really like the end result, though.  What do you think?

The theme this year is “May the Fourth Be with You”, and when we went to dinner last night, we saw this wonderful Yoda drawing on the menu board.

I’m super excited about this National Scrapbook Day crop.  There are so many good friends here and we are having a great time.  One of these days I might actually manage to attend one as a participant instead of a worker!

Under the Knife

I’m just dropping in to pop out a quick blog post before packing for my National Scrapbook Day weekend with the Dallas Crafters Marathon.  I’m getting really excited about a whole weekend of cropping.  I really do get excited any time I can go crop away from home, and it’s always extra special to do it for a whole weekend with some really awesome ladies.  If you are in the Dallas area (or even if you’re not) check them out at DallasCraftersMarathon.com.  They generally meet once per month near the end of the month, but the April meet-up was moved one week later to take advantage of scrapbooker’s favorite holiday.

I’m a little bit disappointed that I won’t get to work on much of my own personal stuff this weekend.  I had planned to dig into one of my bigger scrapbooking projects like some of my cruise pages, but as it turned out, I got an order for one of my perpetual calendars last week, so I decided my time would more wisely be spent completing that so I can get it shipped out soon.  Besides, I have another weekend coming up when I go on retreat later this month.  So for this weekend, I’ll be finishing up the calendar, and if I complete that, I decided I would start on a Texas A&M calendar that I’ll donate to my Aggie Mom’s Club.  I’ve been meaning to make one for a long time, and this will be a good opportunity.

I will get to do at least some personal scrapbooking this weekend, too.  Since LOAD 513 is going on, I’ll need to complete a layout each day while I’m there.  I really don’t want to drag all my stuff with me just in case I might need it for one page, so I decided the next few layouts I do will have to be digital ones.  And as it just so happens, today’s layout is also digital because I didn't really know what I was going to do with the prompt “Knife” until 10:00 pm and I didn’t have any photos printed or anything. 

I really do like throwing an occasional digital page in with my other scrapbooking.  It adds interest to the book, and it allows me to try out some things that I just can’t do with paper.  I especially liked working with digital tonight, because I was in a hurry and I can see all my paper and supplies at a glance, and it’s very easy to put something down on the page and then remove it if I don’t like it.  It’s also nice to be able to resize something that’s just a little too big or too small. Best of all, the supply is not wasted because I used it, and I can use the same element over and over again in a lot of different ways.

Well, that's it for today.  I'll try to keep up with the posts over the weekend and hopefully I'll get to share with you some pictures of our National Scrapbook Day celebrations!

Elements of this layout were designed by Carrie Stephens, www.FishScraps.com, and from the Teal Tranquility collection at www.ComputerScrapbook.com.

White Out

Wow!  I can’t believe how time has flown!  It’s already time for LOAD again and I feel like I just got through with LOAD 213!

In case you don’t know what LOAD is, it stands for Layout-A-Day, a scrapbooking challenge to complete a layout every day for a whole month.  The challenge is hosted by Lain Ehman, and it’s a lot of fun!  It works a lot like my 365 Challenge – when we complete our layouts for the day, we upload them to the Flickr and share them with the LOAD group.  I often share them here with you as well.

May 1 was the first day of the LOAD 513 challenge, and our first prompt was “Mrs. White”.  Now where in the world did that come from, you might ask?  The theme of LOAD 513 is “Get a Clue!  Investigating the Mysteries of your Life”, and all the prompts are based on mysteries, including famous movie titles and even parts of the Clue game board.  So that’s how “Mrs. White” came to be the inspiration for a Texas A&M Aggie scrapbook page…really….

Obviously, I didn’t use the literal sense of the prompt, but I did focus on the “white” theme.  Now it’s time to start on the Day 2 page.  Lain already gave us our prompt; it was “Knife”, as in “Mrs. White, with the knife, in the….”  Hmmmm...wonder what I can do with that….