Weekend (and Monday) scrapping accomplishments

[jfugina]

More often than not, my process starts with pre-making page kits, or empty layouts from sketches or ALSB-like formulas. I want to play with paper, but I don't want the restriction of assembling the paper for any particular purpose. This means I wind up with a LOT of empty layouts that lay around for a very long time waiting for just the right photos to come along.

This weekend I started by pulling out a bunch of empty layouts I wanted to be rid of, then I went looking through nearly 5 years worth of photos trying to find something I could put on those pages. I finally submitted my photo order Saturday night, and on Sunday, I loaded up these layouts. Today I got out the alpha sticker drawer, and finished them up, along with a couple others from 6x6 sketches that still needed titles.

This was a second pass at one of the 6x6 class sketches, but not using any 6x6 stuff at all.

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Super old slab of Christmas paper that I wanted to use up, so I made a collection of pages with Simple Cut Creations. It's a lot like ALSB. It's a great way to go through a collection you have ridiculous amounts of.

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I made this using the last bit of scraps from a kit.

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This was another variation on one of the 6x6 sketches

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Another layout based on Simple Cut Creations.

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[jfugina]

But wait.. there's more.

Another layout from a Simple Cut Creation. I was looking to bash some Creative Memories Stash

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Another SCC. These layout formulas do call for embellishments, but I just didn't.

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Another SCC. Something I want to add about this though - I went to use some brown Thickers, and couldn't spell out a single word. I should just dump a bunch of these sticker sheet remnants in the trash, but I'm a hoarder. Then it dawned on me to see if I could cut thin craft foam with my sizzlet thin die alphabets - and it WORKED! Home-made Thicker-like letters without ever having a letter missing. I'm going to try to do more of that.

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Another SCC, but from a collection that came with embellishments.

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another SCC from that same collection.

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[jfugina]

Lastly, the double-page spreads.

A Scrapbook Generation kit. This is our last elementary school valentines making (from 2018), and I never take Valentines Day photos otherwise, so I don't have any idea what I'm going to do with the rest of these V-day themed layouts.

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This was such a fantastic trip. My girl scout troop had their Cadette-to-Senior "Bridging" ceremony at the Golden Gate Bridge. There are a gazillion pics from this trip, but I think I need to throw those into a quickie Walgreens digital photo book or it will never get done.

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Scrapbook Generation page kits. Now that we finally own a pool, I can use up those endless pool pages that SG sends each summer.

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This is a SG sketch (which I did not have enough photos to fill), using the last of an old summer/picnic Pink Paislee collection. I've had this empty layout forever. It was time to just use it up and make it work.

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Thanks for your perusal of my weekend rapid scrapping gallery! I have a stack of another dozen or so that I've pulled out into a stack, but next weekend starts our marathon marching competition set of weekends, so this is it for now. While I didn't create anything new this weekend, I got photos on pages, and I am really pleased with the sheer volume of what I got done this weekend.

[pamcook]

Julie.
Every single one is amazing. No one would ever know that you didn't make each page specifically for the photos you used. I'm so happy you had the time to complete all of them!

[jfugina]

Thank you Pam! I really want to give another plug to Simple Cut Creations. I found them on Pinterest, and purchased every cutting formula that I could find. The layouts all have fairly simple geometry, and it's very ALSB in nature, in that you start with 12-14 pieces of patterned paper and cardstock, and you use bits of each paper on multiple layouts. But there is a certain challenge to it, in that you need your patterned papers and solids to have enough contrast when layered on top of each other. So it can be a bit like a puzzle, and sometimes my brain needs that kind of problem-solving more than it needs free-form creativity.

[Debbie AZ]

Wow, you really were very productive! Great job on all of them.

[gwendols]

Well done!! I really like all of the layouts you made.

[katymjo]

What a productive weekend, Julie! You did a great job matching photos to your pre-made layouts.

[pbp908]

WOW! WTG, Julie!

[Monica]

Way to go, Julie! That's an amazing accomplishment!

[jmp1022]

Good lord, you were busy!

Great pages