Picture Palooza

I cannot believe how many pictures I scrapped this weekend. 40 or more and that was just on Saturday, (laundry distracted me on Sunday).

Do you remember this stack of photos I was working on last week? 

Now it looks like this. Just a handful left.



All day on Saturday I worked on a mini album. I've made tons of minis but never one like this. I used a 4x6 photo album to scrap those 40+ pictures. At this point you're saying, "heck, I could scrap way over 40 pictures if all I did was throw them in an album". Well, it wasn't really like that. I used the photo as my background and scrapped a layout right on the picture.

I had so much fun playing with these pictures and selecting which ones to scrap. I even scrapped more than one picture on the same 4x6 page. (photo lesson learned this week - do not take pictures of layouts while they are in the page cover. Also need practice on removing unwanted backgrounds)

I wasn't real fond of the outside cover of the album I used so I just covered it with some of the leftover paper I used in the layouts. Then I added a chipboard title leftover from a K and Company summer themed sticker sheet along with the numbers for the year from a pack of Thickers. 











I like the look of tabbed pages and one of the kits I used had several pre-made ones that I glued on the outside of some of the page covers.



This was a super easy and quick project. It did take me several hours to complete but taking into consideration the number of photos I scrapped, I think I got a lot done in little time.

Happy Creating

Susan

Git R Done Part II

I've had a devil of a time taking pictures of anything. For the past two days it has been NOthING but rainy and cloudy. Sunny Florida has had no rays at all. (While my photography skills are getting better, poor lighting does not reflect that). Good thing though, the rainy weather has urged me along a little bit in my Git R Done project. I've finished several more pages as well as sorted a ton of summer vacation 2010 pictures.

When we vacation it's usually with our extended family so there's lots of people to photograph and lots of people with cameras. I always share my pictures with whomever we are vacationing with and they do the same, hence the tON of PICtURES.  Granted there is no way I can scrap all those pictures and I have no idea why I even processed some of them so lots will go in a small photo album and some will even get pitched, (what a waste of money). I hope to work on the small photo album over the weekend and maybe I'll have some of that to share the first part of the week.

I'm still using up some old kits that I've had around forever. Most of what I've been using is not high quality anything but I'm getting the pictures on the paper and into an album. My family is just happy to look at the reminders and don't care if I created a piece of art worthy of a museum display.

This is supposed to be a double layout but because the natural lighting has been so poor, I could not get one picture of both sides without losing more color than I already lost. Giving credit where it's due, this layout and the one below are from May Flaum sketches from one of her classes at Big Pictures Classes.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Creating

Susan