More classwork featuring layouts of the 70's and 80's

Still loving this Shimelle sketch class - start with a sketch. As those of you who are following along know, I am doing the class at my own pace and out of order and it feels really good. Giving yourself permission to adjust or pick your own speed is such a gift. Here are my layouts for sketches #6 and #10 plus a little something of my own design.  

As I have been working on the Wyoming Trek Album (Girl Scout trip in the 80's) I have also pulled out the photo boxes from the 70's and 80's and grabbed a few photos to work with. I do love a good current project, but mixing in the older photos is so enjoyable. My kids find it hilarious and my mom and brother enjoy seeing photos from the "family archives" get a little attention.  

First up - two more layouts for the Trek Album. Both with the same sketch but they will be far enough apart in the album that it won't matter.  

I have been saving these three photos since I first saw sketch #10. I am also pleased to say that I used an entire sheet of Jenni Bowlin Studio red border stickers on this layout. Talk about satisfying! Currently, struggling with what to do with the creme and brown letter stickers that won't stay stuck down. Gotta fix that before I get this page in the album. 

Here are four random photos my mother took one evening. Such a sweet window into our life. It reminds me of my time when my kiddos were little. Love that you can see the pack n play and the baby gate in the pictures plus all of the cool 70's decor.   

For this last layout, I used supplies I had gathered for the July recipe from the For the Love of Homemade Kits on Redefined Creative. It really helped me use some older supplies and things I would not have normally put together. I have been working on several pages made with the supplies from this kit. Those will post soon. I did not take a photo of the kit before I started using it - but I pulled a lot of things and have been working away. Giving myself permission to pull out other things if I need them, but have been focusing on using what is on the table. It is has been really fun and has cost me nothing!

Still Working on the Wyoming Trek Album

In the midst of all of this crazy and the class I’m taking, I am still trying to chip away at the 80’s Wyoming Trek album for my Cadette Girl Scout Troop.  This double page LO has been sitting on my desk for months and months and it’s finally finished. It ended up just being two single pages using the same supplies, but it will work in the album! 

 

I am super excited to get these two finished and to have another story recorded.  I have pulled out some other photos and plan to use the Shimelle class to help get them complete.  Progress over perfection!  

Workspace Wednesday - what I've been up to . . .

So today marks the last day of my thirties. Tomorrow (Lord willing) I turn 40.

Whew. Deep breaths. Ok, I'm good.

To celebrate - the hubby planned a little party this weekend. Here's a hint - think 80's birthday party.  That post will follow next week.

In the meantime - here's what I have been up to when I haven't been sorting, starring and editing nearly 1000 photos from our Greece trip - I have over 5000 (don't judge, there were a lot of cameras and people on that two week trip!).  They arrived last night and I have managed to get them sorted by date - remind me why photos can't arrive from the printer in the same order that I had them on my desktop????  Anyway, the four day retreat is next week and I am sooooooo ready.

First up - a little warm up with some older supplies I was forcing myself to use. This came together quickly. Those metal circles are finally all used up. Yeah!  I seem to be on a bit of a monochromatic theme the last month or so (more later in this post).

And back to the 1989 Girl Scout Trip to Wyoming book. Here is the progress:

Made fast work of this with the help of a pocket page and the travel collection from Shimelle.

And more from the other side of the pocket:

One of y all time fav photos. All I can say is "Jill - you rock!"

Popped these two photos on this layout that was mostly done from the mixed media class I took from Nicole Harper at CKC last month.

I had fun with this one - got to layer lots of stuff!  Here's a close up.

Yes, I cut up that pretty sheet of paper to emphasis the going, going, going, gone theme. I think it worked as I intended.  Yet again, monochromatic.  

And just for fun - a few tags with the most recent Cocoa Daisy kit stamps. I cannot take the credit - while I came up with the design, Elsie did most of the stamping.

Ok - off to see what else I can get done before I pack up for the retreat.

That Trip I Took . . . 26 Years Ago

With the help of a challenge from the Stash Bash class over at Simple Scrapper, I stumbled (and I say stumbled as it was purely happenstance that I scrapped this picture that ended up being a lovely potential title page for an album?) into starting a long overdue album project.  The pictures and memorabilia have been hanging out since 1989 just waiting for me to have the time to sort and scrap them.  And here we are (clearing throat) 26 years later.  Not sure how it has been that long ago that I took an amazing two week trip with my Cadette Girl Scout troop.  The main purpose was to attend a session on the last year that GSUSA owned a piece of land that we referred to as National Center West.  

So what is making this possible?  A few things:

  I have the time - well, sort of - I guess I should say, I am making the time 

  The pictures (both mine and my mother's) are all together (she is helping me sort them)

  We saved the itinerary - so I have a great guide to follow

  Someone - I assume Patty Adams wrote a summary of the trip - day by day - of which I have a copy

  A random challenge led me to this photo and here we go!  

  My most recent Cocoa Daisy kit is totally working for this album so I hardly have to pick any supplies which is really helping.  

Let's get started - here is the page I created for the challenge - it screams title page, right?

So I used a sketch from July on the Simple Scrapper Site to create this two pager.  

The photos aren't amazing, but I am just keeping them to document the who and the changes in nearly 30 years.

I am even including photos I had that lead up to the trip.  We had to raise a lot of money!

I would like to mention that I have had those pink circles and that cupcake embellishment longer than I care to remember - yeah for finally finding a home for them. 

A random one off photo.  But I love it because it is a picture of the meeting space, the girls in my troop and provides a snapshot into our middle school selves.  

This one might look a little blank - it is - as I want my mother to journal on this one since these are her tickets. I added one in with photo corners cause reading the back is hilarious. It shows that you could still smoke in designated spaces in the airport and lots of other funny changes in travel since then.

I have a photo of both of my kids first plane rides and now I have mine in the books too. They were about 2 and 7 - I was 13!

These photos also remind me of what a good "documenter" my own mother is.  Love that she captured the ticket counter and inside the plane.

So glad to have this story told of the blue bags (I totally still have mine).  Love it.

As you can see - I am ten pages in to a two week trip and I am loving every minute of it. Maybe it is that it has been so long ago or that my own daughter is now in scouts, who knows but I am excited to keep working on this project.  I'm thinking a troop reunion is in order!  

Note to self for future trips - keep itineraries, keep rosters of who went so you can remember names, and ask friends for help remembering things.  All of this is really helping me.