My Turn

Yesterday we celebrated National Scrapbook Day at Art Inspired, but unfortunately there was not a spot for me to sit and scrap. No worries, I have today. The kids always love a lazy video game and movie day and I get time in my scrap room to play. Yay!
I was excited at the idea to be able to create something today, but when I walked in my room, I remembered where I left off the last time I was in here. 
Remember that pile of layouts I had when I cleaned up my room? I had started putting them away and ran out of time that day. I left the scrap room and had not been back in.
Sad, huh? My poor room has been empty for almost 2 weeks.
I decided to pick up where I left off.
Putting away layouts might seem like an easy task... not really.
I am an "out of order" scrapper. I scrap whatever photos look fun at the time or go to pictures that I have ideas for. There were many times when I was creating for the Studio or Scrap for a Cure and had to go with the challenge or theme. In my pile I have  layouts for the 2005 album followed by some from 2009, followed by layouts for the girls school albums and then back to 2005.
Right now, I have 4 albums wide open on the floor, 2 on my desk and another 4 in the bookshelf. All of them are being pulled out, opened up and put away again. Needless to say, layout organization and put away in a descend sized task.

So far I have put away (in page protectors and in albums) 42 layouts. WooHoo!!
I am at the point now where I have layouts that were started and not finished. By the looks of them, these layouts were started about 2 or 3 YEARS ago. YIKES!
I'm sure it was been that long considering our store has been open a year, they are older than that. And I was using mostly SFAC kits for the 2 years before that.
Looking at these layouts, they most certainly needed some help.
B-O-R-I-N-G!!

For this one, you get 2 angles... I trimmed down the pattern paper and added a cardstock base to both, added the sticker alpha and shapes from Echo Park, and trim from my ribbon stash.

This one needed a lot of work... (the tan around the edge of the layout is my desk, not paper)

First I trimmed it down and added cardstock to the back.
Using the same Echo Park sticker sheet to add the title and snowflake decorations.
Added a little bit of bling "bulbs" to my tree, a little faux stitching and whooo-
Much better :)

 

I fixed 2 others but just put them right into the album.  I don't think any of them will ever rate as my "favorites" but they are better now that they are done-
Turns out I get to scrap a little bit today after all :)  Time for dinner...