These are a few of my...

Favorite things? Create a layout about YOUR favorite things (people or places count too). Tied up with strings if you like! Then post by next Monday!! I can't wait to see what your favorite things are... brown paper packages? Now that song will be stuck in my head.
:)ali

A Week In My Life

You can view a slide show of all seven pages from this challenge here: http://picasaweb.google.com/alicia.willeford/AWeekInMyLife#. In retrospect, it would have been more efficient to do a page each day rather than doing it all at once. Like, I would have realized that I was almost out of ink half way through the week rather than Sunday night when I tried to print our all my photos. Also, my 11-year old thinks I am totally narcissistic... so I should have mentioned the project before he saw all the shots I took of myself like I am my own personal paparazzi. Whatever, I rock! This was really a great project, it had me looking at my daily routine with a new perspective. If you haven't tried it yet, you should!

Early Challenge Post

I am posting this week's challenge early so you have time to mentally prepare if you are interested in following along. Ali Edwards is doing A Week In the Life, based on classes that she taught at CKC over the years. This is not an official class, but just something she is doing on her blog for the fun of it. The link with all the particulars is: http://aliedwards.typepad.com/_a_/2008/09/weekend-creat-3.html. The idea is to gather photos, receipts/ephemera and thoughts every day (ish) and create an album or layout that uses some of those items. It's kind of like a time capsule of your week to be included, or not, in your albums. How fun will this be?? I hope you are as excited as I am to do this week's challenge!!

Imperfect Photos

This was a fun layout to do, although I may have gotten carried away with the bubble roller stamp! I feel like my style may be evolving somewhat!! I used the white glaze pen on the buttons, a Creative Memories Brown thin tip marker to journal and hand draw my imperfect frames and used pop dots to elevate my word blocks.

summer 2008

At last!! Here is my 2 page layout of a condensed version of our summer!!

Unrelated Challenge - Off Page

I found this video link off of Donna Downey's website/blog a couple of weeks ago... http://www.donnadowney.com/. There is a free video download on her site on how to make an art journal out of newspaper and I was so inspired to get out of my normal route of scrapping that I made my own! The video however, fails to mention how many glue sticks you will go through... let's just say after eight I stopped counting and I had to go out and buy more! I spent at least ten hours from start to finish, but I made a total of 15 pages and I still have about half of that left for another album... there was a bit of downtime waiting for paint to dry, but this was so AMAZING!
You can view my whole album at http://picasaweb.google.com/alicia.willeford/ArtJournal2008#

Imperfect Photos

We all have them, we may have printed them out against our better judgement... it couldn't really be 'that' blurry, right????? Or (pre-digital) we didn't know truly how bad it was. My 11-year calls them the 'blurs of inexperience', the trial and error shots where you go, 'huh' what is that?

I am calling for you to out your questionable photography skills and create a layout about them, or the moment they capture, however fuzzy it may have been. This could even be from your latest vacation or trip to the mall, whatever... underexposed, blurry, overexposed... embrace your imperfect moments!

Supply List

I hadn't really thought about what I was going to scrap for this challenge, so I ended up doing this the old-fashioned way (for me anyway), photos first, supplies second. This is simple scrapbooking at it's best, use what you have and get it done. Everything else follows!
My supplies:
One Punch:Marvy Corner Punch... notched edges
One Stamp: Always Remember (Melissa Frances Acrylic)
One Embellishment: Experiment Tag (Daily Dose, My Mind's Eye).

Supply List

In keeping with packing our kids off to school this week with their new supplies here is your supply list:
One Punch
One Stamp
One Embellishment (your choice)
Fortunately, these don't have to be *new* because I am certain we all have these in our stash! So, get to work and don't be late! It's a brand new school year!
:)ali

Color Combo & Me Layout (Psychedelic!)

Whoa!! Lime green & fuschia! Striking color combo. OK, so, this, too is a bit of a cheater layout, because (even though it IS NEW!), I combined the color combo challenge with the describe yourself in one sentence layout. I realize that I didn't really construct a sentence in the layout, but it's the same idea, right??

End of Summer Layout

OK.... I think I am really excited for the school year to start since this is the first year Kieryn will be in school all day and Meghan starts preschool. What will I do with myself for those 5 hours of me time every week??? I don't know but I sure am anxious to try out the new schedule!!!

Of course, part of me is bummed because it means that our schedule gets more rigid, the rain will eventually come, and a part of me will be a little sad that Kieryn is going to be gone all day.

To celebrate summer create a 2 page layout that shows off all your summer highlights!! What a great way to get all your summer scrapping summarized in one page!!!!

Color Combo

Okay, so I lied to Lori... I didn't use an old layout! But this one is all digital and took as long as one of Jillybean's layouts, you kinda lose track of time when doing it digi-style! And, this is way busier than I would normally do so it definately fits the out of the box premise! Plus... isn't he cute?!

Color Combo Challenge

Ok, this is kind of a cheater layout, because it is one that I did last year, but it's done in one of the color combos on the list (orange & light blue) and since I'm feeling a bit pressured because I'm behind on the challenges, I thought I would throw this one in!!

Finally a post! Here is my monochromatic with a punch of color + who I am defined layout all in one.

My journaling reads: Jill: n; a/k/a mom, wife, friend, scrapbooker, daughter, sister...{nickname; jillybean} Currently undefinable. A period of uncertainty, unsure of what adventure is coming my way but excited to get started. I just need to open my eyes and be open to the possibilities.

Photoless Memory

This challenge provided me an opportunity to journal/scrapbook some old memories feelings regarding Tucker's diagnosis of PKU. Very therapeutic!

Color Combos

This week create a layout using one of the following color combinations, try picking colors that you wouldn't normally try and see what you come up with!

dark teal/orange/spring green
cherry red/teal
orange/light blue
orange/red/bright green
magenta/lime green
mango/lavender/sea blue

NO photo necessary

SO, really I didn't know what I wanted or could do for this challenge, but I like the end result. It's totally funky and whimsical, and a complete departure from my normal style. I had thought that Jillybean just hated me since she posted this nearly impossible challenge, but now I think she is a genius because I am so out of the box on this one! Thanks Jilly!

Defined

Yeppers, I am late and completely digital this time! And I am okay with that now! I don't even know what I am going to do for the unphotographed memories... that almost seems impossible to fathom!!

Splash of Color layout

My boy in blue jeans! I never thought I would see the day.

New Challenge - Better Late than Never.

Scrap a layout about a memory that doesn't have corresponding photos.

(I have a layout post coming soon...since I have just gotten back from my trip to MN and didn't do any scrapping while I was there I thought I would combine the last 2 challenges into one layout.)