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I spent a lot of time in the craft room this weekend, mostly trying to get my photos organized. I had stuff that needed to be printed from 2015 to present, and I got all of that figured out and sent to Walgreens. After I got it all home, I went to sorting and trying to match prints to an inspiration piece (pre-made layout, a sticker sheet,or some other element that would be a starting point. With that done, I got to work. Here are my layouts from this weekend.

And some more...

Wow! You did some major damage here!! They are wonderful.

Great layouts, Julie. Love your bright summery colours.
Kathryn.

Yay Julie!

Thanks ladies! When I do an exercise like this, it forces me to acknowledge that I need to get more creative in my photography. I know I've said it before, but I need to take photos of more than just the special events. This weekend I picked out some of the ones I considered "quick" or "easy". But I suspect next weekend I'm going have a tougher time. I need to tackle birthdays and camping. No kidding. I've got about 8 November boy birthday layouts to do, and two girl birthday layouts to do (one of which is also November). Then there are at least 4 scout camping trips. If I tackle them together, maybe I can do a better job of making sure they don't all turn out exactly the same.

That said, I'm super excited for next weekend! It's a 3-day weekend, and we have no band, no scouts, no NOTHING all weekend! Woot!

Julie I love your scrapping energy! WTG!! Super LOs.

I am super impressed.

wow, Julie! Way to rock the layouts!

well done, I wish I could scrap that many layouts in one weekend. That is a good idea to pick one special supply for each group of photos. Perhaps doing that for all the Scouting and camping photos will help them not all look alike.

Marianne - a solid half of those were just sticking photos on to empty layouts that had already been assembled. And my layouts are hardly ever that complicated. Most come straight out of a sketch, and I'm just picking the papers that the sketch calls for and cutting and assembling per instructions.

I find that I enjoy executing processes more than just playing around with something until I like it. Not sure if that makes sense or not. But what I like most about scrapbooking is selecting the stuff for a layout, and then placing that stuff according to a sketch. It's more mechanical than creative, but it's the mechanical stuff that seems to relax me. But the result of working that way is that I can knock out a lot of layouts in a short amount of time. I also discovered back with ALSB, that I really love just creating empty layouts with no plans for them It helps me use up supplies that I otherwise wouldn't, and I tend to use the assembled layout more readily than I would the components if they were standalone.

Great layouts. You're on a roll.

You got a lot done Julie, wonderful layouts! Bet it feels good doing them - fun!

jfugina wrote:Marianne - a solid half of those were just sticking photos on to empty layouts that had already been assembled. And my layouts are hardly ever that complicated. Most come straight out of a sketch, and I'm just picking the papers that the sketch calls for and cutting and assembling per instructions.

I find that I enjoy executing processes more than just playing around with something until I like it. Not sure if that makes sense or not. But what I like most about scrapbooking is selecting the stuff for a layout, and then placing that stuff according to a sketch. It's more mechanical than creative, but it's the mechanical stuff that seems to relax me. But the result of working that way is that I can knock out a lot of layouts in a short amount of time. I also discovered back with ALSB, that I really love just creating empty layouts with no plans for them It helps me use up supplies that I otherwise wouldn't, and I tend to use the assembled layout more readily than I would the components if they were standalone.

However you do it, photos are off the phone or other device and are documented and the memory is recorded! So, it's a good thing!

great layouts Julie