Welcome 2014

I feel like 2014 will be a good year, don’t you? I hope to get lots accomplished this year in all aspects of my life, not just scrapbooking.

Have you chosen your word for 2014 yet? Are you taking Ali’s class? I am not registered for the class, but I have chosen my word, and I am going to try to be aware of it and incorporate it into my life. My word for 2014……..

One litte word 2014

I feel I can use that word in lots of areas, not just physically stronger, but mentally as well. I sometimes use the weakest excuses really, for not doing something, and I need to be a little stronger about that.

I am using that word in my scrapbooking as well. Not falling to the “pressures” of the latest and greatest, to really think if I need something or not, to try to be a little more creative and if I fail, that’s ok. Also to use up my stash. I have product from years ago, I mean years, and I think, well I can’t post a pic of that now! But once the page is in my album, who will know if I did it in 2014 or 2009? Maybe it was brand new product then, maybe I made the page then, who knows, but when you flip through the book, you can’t tell the date it was made – well other than technique give aways lol.

I will be posting some layouts using older product in the next little while, as well as a new “system” I’m trying out. My version of batch scrapbooking. I will post lots of pics so you can try it too if you like.

I hope 2014 is a wonderful year for you. I wish you all the best and if you have chosen your word, do share! Perhaps we can do something together here along this line to keep ourselves inspired.

Merry Christmas

A very merry Christmas to you all. I hope you have a wonderful holiday and all the best for 2014.
Have you chosen your word yet? Are you doing the class? I am not doing Ali’s class but I have chosen my word. I’m going to choose “Stronger” for 2014. I will have some posts about this in the New Year.
2014 will hold some new ideas for this blog as well, but we will get through the Christmas season first.
Have a safe and happy holiday to all of you!!

A double pager

Did a double page layout this time, I seem to need it when I’m doing soccer pictures, I just take so many! I also don’t really like to cut my pictures down too much, sticking with a 4×6 generally, however, a few of these were trimmed down to fit. Here is the general layout.

All Star team

Then here is the left side a little closer.

left page

And here is the right hand side.

right side

I am still using up some really old stash items. One of them is this metal embellishment but I still like it, and wanted to use it, so I did. I hope you are doing that too, we will talk more about this in 2014, I have some stash using ideas.

close up

Then this picture which shows the drops of mist I used on the layout. They added a bit of colour but also gave the subtle feeling of mud spraying during a soccer game.

droplets

I am happy to get some more pictures scrapped. I plan to do even more next year!

One last layout

Well I managed to get in one more layout using my November kit from CFC. I am so happy that I got these all done, and I have to say creating the kit is really working for me. I have tried page kits in the past, in fact I still have a bunch of them made up…. sitting there….. still in baggies….you get the idea. Yet this monthly kit idea really seems to work, I’m as surprised as you lol. So here is my last layout with this kit.

one last layout

I did end up having to add some black cardstock to make this layout stand out as I thought the colours were just to “beige” without it. I think the black just makes it pop a little more.
A super big thank you to CFC for letting me be their guest designer for November, so much fun, such a talented group of ladies, a fabulous site that I really do recommend you try out. They are doing something a little different for December but will be back with kits again in January. Be sure to check out the December challenges there!