Design Your Life: Week 7

The focus this week in my online scrapbooking class, Design Your Life, was emphasis and how to draw attention to the part of your scrapbook page that you want people to look at first.

Layout 1: Dave Ramsey Live

Another 11 x 8.5 single-page layout, but...shocker, this time I actually left it as one page. I did increase it to 12 x 12, but after this page in my printed Shutterfly book will be Cass and I's fall trip to Michigan, which will be more than 2 pages, so the first Michigan page will go opposite this page. Not how I normally like my pages to end up, but I'm accepting it as perfectly-imperfect and moving on.


Journaling Reads:
Yes, it’s totally blurry but I love this photo of Cass and I at Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover Live. Both of us in our scarves, handing my camera off to a stranger who offered to take our picture during the break. What a fun, nerdy, inspirational night! October 1, 2009

Layout 2: Indiana State Fair

So, I just have to say it...I'm totally in love with this layout. Like, weirdly in love with it. First, it has tons of photos, some of my favorite photos of the summer. Also, it's simple, and I'm definitely not an over-embellisher when it comes to my scrapbooking. But also, I love the story and it fit perfectly. I modified the template to make the photos larger and to give myself some major space for journaling. This is big for me, this much journaling. But I love the story, I still laugh out loud reading it back to myself, and I actually sat at the table and hand-wrote it out (something I learned from the Yesterday and Today class I took last fall: I have to hand-write my stories to make them feel like my "voice").






Journaling Reads:
I got up at 3am for these photos.
I got up at 3am, got ready, drove in the early-morning darkness to Cassandra’s house and walked up her steps...to find her house completely dark. I called her cell phone: RING, RING, RING... ”YOU’RE HERE AREN’T YOU?!”. She totally didn’t wake up. She let me in, rushed around getting ready, and we hurried off to the State Fairgrounds. As we were walking toward the infield, we saw a balloon in the air: ”OH NO!!”. We started running, and running, and running. We just made it to the infield as the rest of the balloons started lifting off one by one. So cool to see...and such a funny memory with my favorite cousin. :)

Layout 3: Eddie & Laura

This week's Real World Color layout was a one-page 11 x 8.5 layout, which I changed to a 12x12 two-page spread. The colors we were supposed to try to use were navy, turquoise, teal, cream, and orange. That was a lot of colors to fit on one page, but I did end up using them all except the navy. Then I picked my four favorite photos, added a title, date, and super short journaling, and called it good. Another memory scrapped!






Journaling Reads:
November 21, 2009. University of Indianapolis. Another wedding shot with Cass and Blaise.

Check back soon for the pics from Cass and I's trip to Michigan, and the crazy frost we've been having in central Indiana.