30 Minute Thursday Challenge #9

This week's challenge was to do a monochromatic layout using the colour red.  It was a good challenge for me because I very rarely use red (except on Christmas layouts).   I grabbed my bag of red scraps and put even the smallest piece to use.  I was happy to use some scraps, like the scalloped piece of plaid, that I'd been saving for a v-e-r-y long time.  I even had the heart shape already, just waiting for a use.  Thank you, Lain for getting me out of my colour comfort zone!

30 Minute Thursday Challenge #8

The challenge this week was to do a layout about my favourite book and use journaling lines.  While, I do love the challenge of getting a layout done in 30 minutes, once I got into this one I decided that I had to sacrifice my time limit in order to do my journaling.  The story was too important for me not to write it all out.  So, this one took 45 minutes to complete.  

It’s my favourite because it’s really fun to read!  And the layout has journaling lines.  2 out of 3 isn’t bad – right?!  

Thanks for looking!

30 Minute Thursday Challenge #6

This week's challenge was to use:

1. Something that's been in your stash for a L-O-N-G time (special award to the oldest stash item used on a layout)

2. A wallet-sized photo (you can use more, but at least one photo of this size)

3. Your happy color!

My result...

The animal/insect stickers in the circle under the title are circa 1988.  They were part of my sticker collection from grade 6.  Probably not acid free but nothing a little Archival Mist can't neutralize.  

I had trouble deciding on my happiest, happy colour so I settled on using all 3...purple, blue and green :)

This was my first attempt at scanning and stitching my layout using PSE.  Thanks to a tutorial here.  I'd welcome any tips to get it looking a bit more seamless!  I couldn't figure out the eraser segment of the tutorial.

30 Minute Thursday Challenge #5

This weeks challenge was to use the following items: Orange and yellow (for the sun, duh), the letters "A" and "Z" somewhere (not necessarily together), extra credit for anyone whose photo includes a table (MESA -- get it???).   I had to look up what a table had to do with Mesa but I get it now :).  My kids chose to do "homework" one morning during our trip to Hawaii in September 2007.

30 Minute Thursday Challenge

The challenge went smoothly and I had 5 minutes to spare but getting this page posted for other's to view has not been a simple task!!  The Simple Scrapbooks website has me confused because no one else seems to have difficulties posting their layouts there but I certainly did.  So that's what has brought me here.  I hope this proves easy enough!!  Here's my layout: