This weekend I tackled the large, enormous pile of unorganized chaos in our spare room. It had become my throw all in between coming and going. There was luggage galore, piles of stuff I wanted to give away(which found its way to the church thrift store today) new scrap booking stuff I had purchased this summer(which totally got used last night) and just lots of odd and ends including some items that need to be shipped(which I dipped into yesterday) I can proudly say that yes you can now walk through that room and I can access things so much better then before. After all was said and done, I sat down and scrap booked.
Last weekend Shimelle Laine had a scrap booking event all weekend on her blog, I however was upstate and was unable to play along. She left the challenges up till midnight last night, so I choose three and finished three layouts with some spring/summer photos that have been laying around.
The first challenge that caught my eye was the "grid it up" challenge. With a grid plan you can do anything. You can use different small photos to create your grid, or like I did just small pieces of paper and embellishments!
This was a picture from this past May when I visited the Brooklyn Botanical gardens with Kara Haupt and Amy Tan. I had never been there before and have always wanted to go. It was my last outing with Kara before she went back home and Amy had been visiting from CA so it worked out perfectly. If you are ever in NY(Brooklyn) be sure to check this place out. It is quite relaxing and beautiful, and there are a heck of a lot of photo opportunities!
Next up I wanted to do the "from the heart" challenge. I decided to use tiny pictures of me and my boyfriend, and ones of just me or him. In the past Studio Calico kit I received some of the Sassafras "sunshine broadcast" paper which is probably one of my favorites by them. I loved that instagram sort of paper, its perfect for a background piece and it just makes everything look good.
I do heart us, we are definitely two peas in a pod. We always have tons of inside jokes, silly dances and voices, we enjoy the same music and some of the same movies. I would say that we make a good pair. I like how this one turned out, I used a dollar stamp from Michaels to stamp those frames which I then stuck the pictures into. Very easy, very simple but cute!
And last but not least I tried out the "starting point" challenge. This is out of the norm for me, all that patterned paper, no regular white cardstock or kraft background. I am not quite sure how I felt about it all, but I like how it turned out.
This past August 2nd(not July, I messed up on the date on the layout) We finally got to see Sufjan Stevens in concert in Brooklyn. Me and Will have been fan's of his for years, but whenever his tickets go on sale they sell out super fast. My friend Sara who is also a fan of his was on top of those tickets as soon as the presale was released and well we finally got them. To say Sara is over the moon with him is an understatement, so as you can expect she was beyond excited(as were we) I loved this picture I snapped of her at the show which was held outdoors. It was a really nice night of good music and good people!
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