Never say never...

Wanna know what that pic is besides a big mess? 

Yep, you guessed it. 

A stack of scrapbook pages.  People used to amaze me by saying they had iris containers full of pages or stacks of them waiting to go in albums. 

I never understood why they didn't put them away...

until now. 

A couple of mine need journaling or a date or some glossy accents to make sure something is stuck down. I have several empty albums, I just need to commit to one and load it up. 

Decisions, decisions.

After spending the morning cleaning up my scrappy corner a bit, I feel ready to tackle these last minute completions and then plan to add them to albums.  Wish me luck! 

Soooo....are you a stacker or do you put them away after finishing?

I'm thinking about seeing if I have one of those tiny, long shelves that has the little notch in it where I can prop up recent layouts and change them out periodically. 

What do you think?

Candy Break

Several of my scrappy pals and I have committed to complete 31 pages in May, and unfortunately I had only finished 2 as of early this morning.  Well, move over, Gloria, because I'm gaining on you.  I woke up this morning determined to create a page, and I actually scrapped my first layout for our Seattle vacation album from...ahem...2008.  Yeah, I've been putting it off and "saving" the pictures and products until I knew I could do them justice.  What do you think of my first creation for this album?

Here's a close-up of my satin bow...I love the poof satin ribbon gives a good bow.  I used my ATG gun to adhere this to the layout as well:

I like to bend and fold the edges of parts of my background paper and then ink them.  For this look, I did that and created a little rip about 1 1/2 inches into my paper.  I inked the edges, rolled them back and forth to make them soft and inked a bit more:

I inked the front side of this paper scrap and used my ATG tape gun to adhere it behind the tear:

All products besides the ink and pen are from Making Memories (mostly from the Passport line).  Thanks for stopping by to check out my vacation creation...hehehe that rhymed...anyhoo, I hope to have at least one or two more layouts to add to my total by Monday.  I'll keep you posted. ;o)