Design Your Life: Week 4

This past Thursday started week 5 in my Design Your Life online scrapbooking class. I'm determined to get caught up on this class today with my other class starting next Thursday too, so the Week 5 layouts will be up shortly. For now, week 4, the second week focusing on Repetition.

Layout 1: Remember This


Again, I duplicated the template to create a two-page spread. Since I normally have my books printed into Shutterfly books, I'm not much of a one-page scrapbooker.


Now that I post this, I'm thinking I might move the clusters of pictures and white background on both sides in closer to the middle. We'll see... When bound into Shutterfly books you loose 1/8" - 1/4" in the middle to the gutter anyway.




Journaling Reads:
DATE: March 1, 2009 - Some of Norm's friends from college came up for Mole's birthday party and stayed at our house. We had a good time catching up with them. Jacob and Ashley brought Olivia along and we had so much fun playing with her...and of course I had to take a few pictures!

Layout 2 - Real World Color Layout: Labor Day Weekend


This is the Real World Color layout, where Cathy gave us a color palette to work from: light green, dark green, orange, red, and brown. You can see I didn't use all of them because it looked too busy trying to get all those colors on my layout with all the pictures I squeezed in, but I like how it turned out. I always struggle with putting embellishments on my pages, but I love the little button flower and "HOOT" button I put on this one (both freebies found on the internet).






Journaling Reads:
As usual, we spent Labor Day Weekend at Raccoon Lake for a few days of camping, boating, and relaxing in the water. It was so nice to sit around the fire, visit with family and friends, play hillbilly golf and cornhole, eat smores, and relax. Although it was only the beginning of September, it was beginning to really look like fall.

This year Oscar got to go along, his first trip away from home. We walked all around the campground and the trails and around the boat ramp. The first night was a disaster with him barking about every 30 minutes outside the camper, but after that we covered his cage up with beach towels at night and he slept like a baby. He was such a good boy.

The last night Moody, Betty Jo, Mary, Jeremy, Paxton, and my dad and Jenny joined us for supper. We had a good time playing games and sitting around the fire. It was such a relaxing weekend!

Week 5 coming up!