Moving on

I finally finished three layouts and can move on to other projects. My Budapest album! I have been in Hungary in winter 2007, when I was pregnant. I got my pics developed soon after and stored them for the right time to scrapbook them. Well, my son will be two in March and my Budapest pics are still on my table. I guess the time finally came :)) I want to do an 8x8 minialbum, because the pictures are smaller than 4x6, i guess 3x5 and I have only 30 or them or so. I cut the paper into small squares and I plat to use the leftovers for Thanksgiving page.
But then I realized i bought at Michaels a cute little spiral bounded diary I wanted to use as a minialbum. It's flower shaped, but has a lot of space for the many pictures from Thanksgiving I have. Maybe I will just do a book, instead of layout, because Thanksgiving 2009 was my first! Memorable...
I am working on the living room carpet. Creative mess :) But I like it. I moved on, so proud of me :)

Keeping up with... me

Few days ago I bought new issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine and I was overwhelmed when I flipped trough the pages and saw all the beautiful pages I want to try to create myself. I took the magazine with some new scrapbooking supplies - we recently paid a visit to Michaels and I exchange serious money for new stamps and papers - to my studio and oops! I realized I have at least five pages they need to be completed.
I have two pages about Jr going fishing, I have one called All bundled up. The papers are cut, positioned on the page, but not glued. No journaling, no title. I have another fishing layout that needs title and journaling and I have one about me that I glued the papers wrong, so I need to start all over. And I should not forget about the Budapest album and the three pages about Jr that I have sketches for, but not finished pages?
A big oops is repeating itself in my head. I can not start anymore projets before I finish the ones they need to be finished...
Oh and did I say I have three writing deadlines on Monday and I want to paint Jr's room and do some early Valentines decorations for the dining room?
Don't you have some free time to borrow? :)

Making cards makes me...

... happy, calm and productive. Sometimes I spend days creating a layout and I think about it day and night, adding pictures, papers and embelishments. But when I make cards from scraps, I can make several cards within an hour! I never think about it twice, usually follow simple grid scheme, choose complementary color, few hearts or stamps and here I go.
This year I will spend the last days of each month creating cards from scraps I gathered during the month by scrapbooking. My plan is to use each piece of leftover paper to make a card. Then I can really consider myself a frugal scrapbooker, right? :) No waste at all.
And cards are more visible than my scrapbooks. I usually don't show my pages to everyone, because I feel that is just not appropriate. But cards I can send and people will see them, a little piece of my art. Making them happy. I love making others happy. Scrapbooking makes me happy, so we are all happy in the end. Love it! :)

Scraps of the scraps of the scraps

This year I decided to use every single scrap I have and make scrapbooks, cards and greetings from them. That's what it is scrapbooking about, right?
I started with bigger pieces from my DCVW Tahiti Beach Stack and made a cute layout using black and flower paper. Then I took the the scraps and made a card. And from the scraps of the scraps I made another card! They look kinda cute, but I still don't know, what should I do with them. I figured out that "4U" and "thinkin' of you" can be used anytime, but I really don't send cards just like that. Maybe I should start...
Scraps of the scraps of the scraps were really fun today. I am up for a cute but difficult layout to make tomorrow. The colors on it are really strong and I can't wait to finish it!
Good night for now. kumC