scrap.

today there is this little event on twopeasinabucket.com with tons of challenges and prizes and stuff. so i am trying to do a couple of them. i am going to post my layouts here [in this post] as i make them. partly because i want to post them and partly because this is the easiest way to resize them. :]

this first one was for an embellishment challenge. i had fun just randomly adding things and not thinking too much about what i was doing. that is so nice once in a while.

this next one was for a challange to use the creating keepsakes random challenge generator. i didn't even know that the generator existed, but i will probably use it more often now if i am struggling to figure out what to add to my pages. it's a crappy photo, but i love the content of it. :]

next, when i was going to post that second one, i saw this challenge had just been posted and ended in 50 minutes. i am a slow scrapper, so generally that is not enough time... but i decided to try to just put something together. the challenge was to use only cardstock, fabric, staples, and stamps... so that really limited me and made it easier to get it done so soon. i've had a couple of these fabric samples that i picked up a while ago and haven't used sitting on my messy desk plus random photos everywhere, so i picked the blue fabric [knowing already that i wanted the red for later.] and this old photo of andrew and me and got that first page done in about 20 minutes.
ack. but i had to re-do it. i don't know. it was just bothering me. it wasn't what i wanted it to be, so i fixed it and added my journaling and now i'm super happy with it. :] oh and it really is 8.5x11 but my scanner does this thing where it automatically crops whatever it scans and for some reason, it doesn't seem to think that the other inch or so on the right side is important. it's just white, so after 10 scans and trying to trick it with various things, i gave up. :-/

this one is my last one for the day. it is for a monochromatic challenge. i love making pages like this. i find it so easy to keep adding and adding. i need to make more of them. by the way... i didn't photoshop the photo or anything. i just came out like that from the lighting in the restraunt. i love it!