Neglected

A few things have reduced my scrapping:

1. lack of photos
2. closet cleaning
3. prepping for publication in a couple places (Woot!)
4. getting ready for Derick business travels

As a result of these "impediments," I haven't used last month's Studio Calico kit much recently. Which is bad, since the new kit comes out this weekend. So I needed to get to work. Irrationally, I like to have used up much of my past kit before I get started on the new one.

Here's three I did these past few days:

This one came together quickly. I used all the blues and browns I could find to scrap about my boys' love of waterfalls. I get it--I loved them too. I almost put the papers in a downward fashion, but it was too literal, so I made it horizontal.

This one is for The Color Room--I am not a pink gal and ignored the last time I saw pink (I think it had purple too, so I can be forgiven, I think). This time I went all out--little girl explosion all over the page. Two weeks ago 2 peas had a sale on Jenni Bowlin Chipboard, and I got them all, thinking to use them as misting masks. And so I did. I loved journaling on the inside of the mask; it added a nice definition.

This is the Sketchy Thursdays sketch for the week. I challenged myself to use the summery kit on a Thanksgiving LO. I think it worked. I added some extra fancy Prima flowers, and I did some typical stitching.

BTW, this LO shows another trick of mine for bad photos--print them small. One of the most helpful things I've done as a scrapper is create wallet photo templates on a 4x6 document to make it easy to print smaller photos. I use them again and again, as You'll see sometime later this week.

Another things this week? Like, how old I feel after cleaning out my closets and rediscovering relics from my youth....