Crunchtime!

As you may hve guessed, I have been devoting most of my time to scrapbooking my daughter's past few months. I have been working until 4 am or later, but i am still not going to get it done in time! I have been taking so long to do each page because I want them to look awesome. Well, they do! My husband came home from work yesterday and said, "What did you do all day?" and I said,"Scrapbooked." There is a new pack of paper that I have been using called, groovy girl. They have them for boys as well. I am really into using paper on every page and letter stickers. I like all the stickers that you can see through, too! They are so cool.

Tip of the Day: I ordered books from the library on scrapbooking page ideas and tips and one thing I read really stuck out to me. It said that when you are in a time of zero scrapbooking creativity, revert back to the comfy favorites that get the pages completed. Use ideas that you have used before, just change the colors. For me, I can look back years in my books and copy page ideas that I have used in the past. Chances are that no one is going to sit and look through all 8 albums of Jaelyn in one sitting! Even if they do, they probably wo'nt be concentrating on them as much as I was as I created them. Another good tip is to not be such a perfectionist! No one is going to get out a ruler when they look at the albums you make! Things I notice and pages I am never satisfied with, don't seem to bother other people.

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Planning my pages

Ok, now that I realized that I wanted to have the album to show at my daughter's birthday party, I have been working on getting it done. First, I had to find all of the envelopes of pictures. Then I had to put them into order. Next, I had to write down little notes to myself on the envelopes, such as "don't forget the Easter 8x10!" So that when I'm actually scrapping those pages, I can remember. My next step is to lay out the pictures on pages. Sometimes, I actually sketch little boxes on scrap paper. The little boxes stand for a page, and I have them in twos, just like an open page spread.I then write what I am going to put on each page in the boxes, that way I can make doubly sure that I haven't planned incorrectly! Finally, I'm able to scrapbook!
I have only completed a half of a page! So, I'd better get going!

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Satisfaction, (a hey hey hey!) that's what I say!

I just have to tell you that I have completed the 10th grader's album at last! I absolutely love the last couple of pages that I finished on Friday, but best of is the satisfaction of completion! I have already laid out my pages for the cruise album and I'm just waiting on 2 more rolls of film. I think I am going to be using a larger size album for our cruise because i wanted to try something a little different! I haven't done an album for myself for so long, and I'm feeling a littel selfish about doing the cruise before catching up on my daughter's. Especially with her birthday party coming up a week from now. I usually like to have her albums out to show everyone, and I don't think I could possibly catch up at this point! (Although I now feel very compelled to try!) I wish I would have realized this before now!

Tip of the Day: I just did a 2 page spread of kids playing on a backyard swingset. I wrote monkeying around, putting this title in the middle of the page, with "monkey" on one page and "around" on the facing page. I used some cute monkey stickers and bananas to embellish the letter stickers I used, and I was done. One monkey held the "m" in Monkey and the other hung out by the last letter of around. I used the bananas to curve around the "o and e". It wasn't totally an original idea, but it was pretty cute!

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Do you want to hear about my cruise!?!

I'm back from my cruise! I have never seen waters that blue, snorkled in the ocean, found conch shells as big as my head nor eaten quite as much as I did in this one week before! I took pictures of everything! I took pictures of our cabin door, the food, the dessert tables, each and every towel animal left for us, the lizard in Mexico that was as large as my foot, the cars driving on the wrong side of the road in Grand Cayman, the goofy looking Banyan trees in Key West and the ship from every angle! I have a head full of memories and notes scribbled on the back of any scrap of paper I could find. I have decided that I am doing my cruise pictures before anything else, once the 10th grader's 3rd album is done! I just can't wait to hold the pictures in my hands and create pages that will remind me of my vacation forever!

Work it, Baby!

It seems that I don't work on my scrapbooks when I'm really working the business end of scrapbooking! I had a busy last week! I had a Unit Meeting, where our little group of consultants get together and learn how to better our business. We usually get to talk about how our business is doing as well. I was able to bring 2 of my 3 consultants! The very next night, I had a get together, as we call them, and it was a big group. It was hard to talk over everyone, so I ended up just skipping the whole presentation and my sales suffered for it. It was a fun group of girls though. I took one of my new consultants to this and she made a short story card along with everyone else, since she hasn't really scrapped before. On Friday, I had an awesome class, and one of my other consultants was able to come with me. She was really helpful, totaling the orders, and lots of other things, It would have taken me so much longer without her help. At this class, I went through most of the presentation, and it made a big difference! There were several people new to scrapping, and I swear the hostess should be a consultant! She was so good at telling people how much better our cutting system was, she was incredible!!! It was a big help that she was there and showed her excitement in the product.
My door is always open to scrapbookers, even if I have company! I had a neighbor drop in for pages and protectors yesterday. I am going to try to finish the 10th grader's album by Wednesday evening, that's my goal! I'll let you know if I do! Can you believe I took 5 rolls of film in April? How much do you want to bet I'll take more than that in just my first 2 weeks of May?!

Tip of the Day: Out of Ideas?! Creative Memories has pages and pages of ideas for free at their website. Poke around a little, and you will be able to focus on a certain theme and look through the actual pages others have done!

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