The Venetian at Night

Managed to combine 2 challenges for this page!

The first is the Scrapfriendly Yahoo Group NSD Challenge #1

Include an OLD photo (s), papers & tools

Check, check & check!

These photos were taken in October 2004 about 5 months after I started scrapbooking. 

Yes, I'm still scrapping this trip.  To be fair I've put this project aside for a number of years for a number of reasons. A challenge is a challenge though and I knew these pics would be perfect.  It took longer than I thought to pick out the pics because when I was going through them - oh wow, I saved some horrid pics! Blurry, out of focus, dark - you name it. Those all went bye bye and now the pile is a lot more manageable!

I am so thankful I switched to a good digital camera after this trip. I've saved myself lots of $ in bad film pictures LOL! I also took the time to look through the pages I have done and this new page is done in similar fashion (well of course it is since I'm using ancient supplies!)  

The other challenge is for the May with May class - Day 3 was to make photo corners. So I took my old tools - decorative scissors if you couldn't tell (lol!) and used them on the photo corners. When I was looking through the album I saw that I used the deco scissors a lot then, I was surprised! I was creative with less supplies (who knew!)

In 7 years of papercrafting I have come a long ways in terms of style and supplies but I have realized that I still enjoy using the 'old' stuff which is good since I have lots!

Off to create some more!

May with May - Day 4

I used a sketch from Day 4 for the May with May class for this page. This is a wonderful class with a lot of different creative prompts - hoping to catch up on more of them throughout today.

It was a little outside of my box to draw the messy lines around the  photo mat but it was in the directions so I went with it LOL! The journaling reads Amber wanted to help Mike work on some computers.

TFL!  It's time for a lunch break!

Challenge Projects - Day 1

It's only Day 1 and I am loving the Layout a Day challenge and May with May class!

The LOAD prompt for today was to use the basics - photos, cardstock, patterned paper, journaling and a title. I was able to do this page in about 30 minutes and didn't use a sketch! I am so impressed with myself LOL! It was nice not fussing around trying to find the 'perfect' paper or embellishments. 

May's prompt for the May with May class was to complete a crafty project is 30 minutes or less. Now I could have taken the easy way out and used my LOAD page but nope, I'm all about getting crafty this month so I challenged myself to make a card!  I pulled out a stamp that's never seen ink (yay me!) and I used the paper & embellishments already on my desk from yesterday.

LOAD supplies - Bazzill cardstock, DCWV patterned paper (from the OLD stash!), Thickers, zig writer pen

Card supplies - Spring Birds stamp from Memory Box, MME Stella & Rose Hazel papers, Queen & Co pearls, copics (R32, R35, YG03, YG67, G20, BG13, BG23)

TFL!