Scrapbooking update

As of late I have become more inspired to scrapbook. I think it partly had to do with taking part in my 12 Days of Christmas scrapbooking class and partly because I wanted a craft project to due, but couldn't come up with one, so scrapbooked instead. I haven't really done any of the layouts for my class yet because none of my Christmas photos have arrived, but in preparing for the class and reading the classroom blogs, I have stumbled onto other blogs/websites with layout ideas and sketches that have helped me come up with some new layouts. I had been feeling like all the pages I made looked a like, and struggling for new ideas, but after hours of surfing the internet on my ipad (which is much more fun than on an actual computer) I am newly inspired and have made quite a few different/new layouts. Here are the pages I have done recently.

This first one I love and did this morning. It was vaguely based on a layout sketch I found online, but I added the two little pictures at the bottom instead of just having one picture like the sketch showed. You probably can't tell from the picture but everything is sparkly/glittery, which I know isn't manly but I love it. Also, I wanted to put dapper, dude, but didn't have enough d's so Zane it was.

 This is the long awaited page of Zane's first Zoo trip. Really that day we just saw the goats, but Zane loved it. It was one of the first times we went out and about after he could walk. I know you aren't suppose to take the pictures of the layouts with them in their plastic sleeves, but for some reason both of these pages fought going in the sleeves so I wasn't about to take them out. You get the idea. I used three different boarders on the bottom which I really liked and again got the idea originally from a sketch but add more pictures/changed a view things around to accommodate more vertical pictures.

 This is Zane's heart birthday page and I came up with all the design myself, but these two pages took me pretty much all day, well all the free time I had in a day. This is what prompted me to try to find some new inspiration. I think it tuned out good, but took all together too long and I was not really enjoying it by the end of the day.

 I have done a few Christmas pages, because I just couldn't resist starting to get to use my huge stash of Christmas goodies I collected for my class.

 Again, should have taken this page out of the sleeve, but basically I am too lazy. This is Zaney in his holiday apron, which he wore a lot during all our baking. I loved the ginger bread on the page. Yes, there is a lot of bedazzlement on this page as well, but that is how it came, and I like some bling.

 This is another one of those pictures that I have had out, trying to figure out a good layout for, since I took it last February. I finally gave up, found a one picture layout sketch to copy, and made myself not over think it. I sat down and did this one in maybe ten minutes. Turns out I love how it turned out just as much as the layout I spent all day on, there is a lesson there some where.

 This one was literally an exact replica of a layout I found online using the paper set Abbey got me for Christmas. I love the set of paper and wish I had more of the papers/stickers in it. After the "Remember this"note it says 'Your Mama loves and then the big you' if you were wondering what that the 'you' was all about. Strangely I made this while Zach and I were watching a show about drug dealing so vaguely have that memory associated with it, which is odd.

 Lastly I did very simple pages containing this and last year's Christmas cards. I love the pages that come looking like they are already two pieces of paper. You really just get to add the fun stuff.

That's it, my scrapbooking update. Not sure anyone cares, but I thought Abbey and mom might like to see my new pages. Zach doesn't get too excited about them, but does pretend to care when I say "Look at my new fun page."