Skipping ahead to Assignment #4

Here’s my take on assignment aka sketch #4 for the Shimelle class I’m taking. Even though I am making very similar pages with the same sketch, I’m not worried. Here’s why - they will end up in vastly different books, the design is solid, I’m happy with them and the stories are getting told. So who cares!  I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them.

Some bonus work

Still steadily working on my class work from the class with Shimelle. But what I’ve found is that the class is encouraging me to do other pages too. Here’s a few pages I made last week “outside” of class.   super excited to get these photos and stories captured. For the first page, I had the large photo of the White House that I recycled from the actual project and then printed the small photo. It was a super easy page to do. The other pages use photos that are from the 2000’s.

Hope you are doing well in quarantine land. I’m struggling, but scrapbooking is helping.

Back to School - Turning in my Homework

Finally got a new rhythm to life here and making time to photograph and post my class layouts. I really should have told the kids I had school and assignments to turn in too.  Then they would surely get how important it was for mommy to do her homework.

Since this is a paid class by Shimelle, I will only be posting my work (not the sketches). But I do so encourage you to sign up. So happy with how things are going so far - gives me the push I need, a lovely and supportive community and great ideas!  Finding time for my favorite hobby and still trying to be gentle on myself. Progress is the new perfection - my new motto.

Here are two layouts based on the same sketch. Love how they turned out. Different and yet the same.

As you can tell I am going through random photos from several decades. Just doing whatever feels right. It’s so freeing to scrap what you are inspired by at the moment vs that pressure cooker feeling I used to put myself in about “staying caught up” because that, my friends, is a recipe for disaster and a sure fire way to crush my creativity.  Hope you’re well and crafting.