I finished my mini album…

….for StacyJulian’s August gallery. This is such a smart way to handle all photos piling up. I can`t scrap them all and I am not able to keep them all in the computer. I just have to see them on print. Not all of them, but sometimes I just need to see the prints. Making mini albums this way is so much faster and simpler than making them from scratch.

How to do this? Just buy a cheap 4×6 single page album. Put the photos inside and put the text and the stash you want on the pages left blank. It is so simple and cute. I had my vacation photos from 1994 that I never put in an album. I picked a few and put inside the album and put the rest in the trash. Now it is done.

I painted the whith greyes cover...

The first paper I got ...a long time before I was able to use paper.

I used a text stamp when I hade few words to tell.

When there was nothing to say I used stamped letter.

With a long story I used the same stamp all the way down.

And for the fun...a little paint and stamps

Making new friends…

…baby Elin came home with this friend today;

Blood sucker....

 Ok…… So the ladybug probebly don`t like to be called a blood sucker……..the newspapers seems to affect my brain…..

 

I am so grateful I don’t have a dog anymore. She came home with those beasts all the time. The newspapers are full of horror stories of how sick you can get being bitten of those small ugly things. I bet grandma got that sucker out of baby Elin pretty fast.

I have been productive today. I have made all my cards for last week, and I have played with Ashley’s prompts.

 

Using glitter and tacky tape on the photo turned out great irl.

In my “Have more FUN” class we have closed the July chapter and moved on to August. Stacy Julian’s philosophy of being productive and creative speaks to me. I really like her ideas of making mini photo albums. I almost finished this week album challenge tonight, and I have started on my second. We were supposed to make only one, but I have a lot of envelopes with old pictures I want to do something with.

The weekend is definitely over. I have eaten the last ice cream from the freezer and there is no coffee left. I am saving the last cup to heat in the micro in the morning. There is no way I can wake up without coffee. And there is no reason to stay awake without coffee.

We spent some time on The Atlantic Road….

…photographing today. My nephew Tor was so kind to take me out there so I could use my camera somewhere outside my doorsteps. I had fun, but of all the photos taken, I only got a few that I was happy with. Among all the tourists at the Atlantic Road today I met this little happy guy;

A happy tourist on The Atlantic Road

 

One more happy tourist.

 

Tourist?...No, I think I know this guy....

 

Freedom Friday challenge was Tina Bennett’s to give. And what a fun challenge that was. I picked the only photo I was happy with today. Not because it was good but because I liked it.

Freedom Friday with Tia Bennet - front page.

...and the back...

Tomorrow I will read the small print in Barbaras lessons.

Kelli Crowe bonus idea….

…for “wacky Wednesday” was …..kind of special. My first thought was; ..no, I am not doing this one.  During the last week it has become clear to me that this girl love punches….but…hundreds of them? I really meant to skip this one. A few moments later I was …punching, and I am having a good time…punching….. I might be finished punching tomorrow…or, sometime before Christmas. 

Last night i finished Kelli’s bonus idea for “Funday Monday”. I have done something similar In “the becoming more” class, but this was meant to be a double 12×12. The punched photos was supposed to be 2×2 but my photos was to big, and I did not have a punch that size anyway. So my pages ended up being a little different, but that is okay. The photos I used was taken in July last year. Baby Kristian is 6 months old and is showing us a little personality for the first time. And grandpa is there with his camera. Actually I think there is two cameras involved.

When I ordered the prints from this happening i could not choose which one to order. So I did plan to make a mini album. Never got around to do that. We also had an accident with some ice cream eating. So I had to make two more pages.

When the ice cream fell grandma was there in a blink, grabbing the ice before it hit the ground and showing it into her mouth. So there was not any time to get cranky about this. Look at the boys face during the action.

Well, I better hit my bed. There is a lot more punching to do tomorrow. Also, I am a little exited to see what the next guest teacher on Stacy`s list have for us tomorrow.

I will have more FUN…

 

So, here is a part of what Stacy Julian said to my confusion about her Have more FUN class.: 

“I hope it is clear that for me, scrapbooking is NOT just a hobby or set of skills/techniques that I use to preserve pictures. Scrapbooking is the way I LIVE my life — it is the lens through which I am processing and sharing my experience as a human being. Scrapbooking and the creative process are to me, magical things that can teach you what is most important to you, before it’s too late.”

I knew it. I knew there was a message hidden in all this FUN stuff. I think one of the reasons I had a hard time taking in all this stuff is because this is how I do it already. When you start a new class you expect to learn something you don’t already know. Because all this is pretty new to me I don’t have any set way of doing it. I am ready to try anything. What I have learned in this short period of time is that; there is no right or wrong way to do this. And the most important thing is to enjoy doing it.

I finished my butterfly project. I got a cactus in my back trying to photographing this so you better like it. I may not survive, but the cactus did…

 

If you click on the frame you will see the pick……

I did a lot more today, but wordpress is having problems with uploading images so it will have to wait until they have solved their problems. While working with my pages I finished listening to my book. It is written by Anne B. Ragde and loosely translated it is called; a cold day in hell. If I should talk about the book I would say it was all about dogs and it was walking very close to porn. I enjoyed the listening.

 

Today I have been…

….cutting butterflies. This week Kelly Crowe is teaching the Have more FUN class. She came up with this great idea for making a layout framed in a shadow box. We were to make the butterflies by punching them out of paper scrap. I never got around buying the shadow box. I remember them to be very expensive and I rather use the money for something else right now. And I could not find a small butterfly punch to buy on the internet. So what to do? It seemed such a fun idea so I looked for another way to do this project. I have had some frames of pressed paper for years without knowing what do make of them. So I started painting one last night. Thanks to the gesso I finally managed to buy, the acrylic paint behaved nicely and the frame survived the treatment. It did not survive last time I tried. Then I tried to emboss the poor thing. That did not work out so well…and I had to paint it all over again….

Kelly use to punch when she have a hard time finding inspiration. And when punching she is watching star trek. I found my scissors and some butterfly paper, put a book CD in the player and went to work. Lucky me found some paper that had butterflies. Since I enjoyed listen to the book reading the cutting took some time. And the result of that; I am not finished yet.

 

Stacy Julian gave us a download for us to colour. Me – I don’t have crayons. That is normal I think for a 47 year old without children. :) I hope….. Instead I used chalks. Because chalks I do have….We was supposed to write down our 8 principals of FUN. And since it is well known that I do have issues with having fun, I am not ready to show you me principals. I am not so sure I am ready to look at them myself. Anyway…now they are up on the wall so I can see and think them through.

This was kind of fun. Maybe I should buy some crayons…or maybe not. Well, I better find my bed. Tomorrow is another working Sunday. Hopefully the paint and the repaint are ready for some butterflies tomorrow night.

I am not having fun….

…and that makes me feel a little down. Taking a class called Have more Fun and not having fun at all makes me feel really stupid. Does that mean that I don’t get the message? Or does it mean that I had fun scrap booking before I started this class? What level of fun is it possible to reach while scrap booking?  I choose to believe that Stacy means that those who take scrapping too seriously to begin with should relax and have more fun. I am taking a few steps back and just lurk in the back. I am sure Stacy Julian has some idea of where she is taking us in this class.

I have to admit that I took my journal out for a walk today. And before I could regret it I had it stamped and in the mail addressed to myself. How fun is that?  I kept thinking; oh my…it is a thin line between being smart and crazy.

I finally finished uploading the wedding photos and sent them off to be printed. It took some time to do that. I almost gave up.  This fine Monday has not been my day. Funday Monday did not inspire me, I did not have glaze medium so I could make my card and I have a cold.

I did make this 6×9 page. I thought it was fitting in my Becoming more album. It is hard to tell why, but it did.

Wreck this journal…

…Stacy Julian added this project as a bonus to the Have more FUN class. I just had to order one from Amazon. I have been reading about this fun project before and was kind of intrigued with the whole thing. When it arrived today….well, I am not so sure anymore. Where is the fun in dragging a book in the mud? Or, how about slipping it into the bathtub? Every page has some stupid idea of what to do. OK, that is me – completely without humour. I am not worried, I will find someway to use it. I just haven’t decided if I want to join this crazy bunch of people wrecking their journal….

I started out carfully by putting it outside in wet grass for just a little moment.:)

I made one of the cards for my 52 card pick up class today. We made mosaic of paper scraps on contact paper. That was fun. Don’t think I will be doing much of that with the price of the contact paper. That was expensive, but fun to work with.

I have been working with the photos from the wedding today. It took forever to upload from the computer. I need to order some prints to work with. And I can not decide what pictures to use for the album without seeing them on print.  I will try again early tomorrow. It might have been a lot of traffic on the line.

I have a slight cold so I have been sleeping this afternoon. That is what you get, running around with little cloth – during late hours….

A mothers speech…

…

I felt inspired to make a page of my sister in law today. She made such an impression giving her speech in the wedding. While doing that she sent a LO around the table for all the guests to see. This was one of the first I made. The LO is showing a photo I took of Jan at three. I love this photo. It describes Jan so well.

Yesterday I bought a download of some digital work that Ali Edwards made. I like her clean style. I have never done anything digital before, and I don’t think I am ready for that yet. But, I thought this could be a nice frame for some wedding pages. I will make some mini albums and this could be easy and stylish.

It turned out a little dark, but it is not in real life. Here is a close up:

In my “Have more FUN” class today is Photo freedom Friday. Stacy Julian gave us a fun challenge this Friday. My page started out with a good plan – to be funny. As it often do, this one took on a life of its own. I just could not stop my self using Ali`s template. It was laying right in front of me and I just had to put it into work.  This one is showing baby Elin. She just came home from kindergarten, and she is on her way to see her grandmother. (For a bath ?)  I believe I have mentioned that she is attending a farming kindergarten?

I love this girl…dirty or not.

Are we having fun….

I have been thinking about that today. Stacy Julian “Have more fun” class have a fun concept I have trouble grasping. Bobble gum, piggy tales,funky colors, flip flops and summer season. Ok, that sounds fun. The only thing on this list I posses is bobble gum. Boy…do I have bubble gum. Summer fun…OK, for me summer is all about work…and work….and no flip flops. And I have no humor.

Anyway, I am enjoying myself with Stacy`s happy colors and good ideas. This first week we got to make a mini album using 4 PP`s and a ribbon.  I have to admit that I used 4 papers I was having trouble using, but I finished my mini album.

I am showing it up side down so you can see my cool tags.:) It says BOYS flying.

Even grandpa Ansgar loves to play. I have posted some more on my flicre.

In this class we got something called wacky Wednesday. I have no idea what that is all about. I just made a scrap lift and I have to admit that it`s nothing wacky about it….I hope.

I made another 12×12 and I am so happy about this one.  It is a little hard to understand that it is almost 30 years since I carried this boy up to the same alter. Someone have been doing something right for him to deserve this beautiful bride.