Wednesday, February 19, 2014

50 Week Layout Challenge, weeks 1-5 and 2014 in 2014

I am really, really behind on posting things, partly because I haven't done a whole lot of scrapping lately :(  
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A couple of the layouts from the Tennessee album I worked on during our crop in November still need journaling, but I think I'm going to photograph and post them anyway.

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PL 2013--I'm behind. I still kept taking pictures and writing everything down, but otherwise, until the January crop I hadn't worked on it since August. I have a few layouts mostly done, but I really need to make myself work on it.

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PL2014--I wasn't even sure I was going to do it again this year, but I stumbled on a Youtube video that showed what is turning out to be a pretty easy way to stay caught up with it. I am current on photo printing and journaling through last week.

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2014 in 2014--one of the challenges on the message board is to use 2014 things in 2014. At first it sounds hard, but then you consider that you count everything. How I'm choosing to count:

1 point for each piece of pattern paper
1 point for each embellishment (i.e. 5 enamel dots = 5 points)
1 point for each alpha type (one alpha sticker set = 1 point, 2 sets =2 points, etc.)
1 point for each Silhouette cut
1 point for each stamp set
1 point for each punch
1 point for each sketch
etc

What I'm not counting
cardstock
paper scraps

new product does not count against me and purging/selling items does not help me

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50 week layout challenge

Several of us kicked in $15 each to join the challenge of creating a layout every week for 50 weeks. There is over $600 up for grabs last time I paid attention, plus weekly prizes (which I've already won one of). Each person gets up to 5 "passes" where you can delay posting your layout for a week if you are out of town or ill or whatever. So far I haven't used any.

Week #1
This is the only layout I've done so far from my last Studio Calico kit. I jus can't get excited to use kits right now. (11 points)

Week #2
Our Greek Festival adventure. The little dancing guys on the bottom of the right page are cut from two copies of wallet photos. (18 points)

Week #3
Still not entirely pleased with how this one turned out. (16 points)


Week #4
I bought this Carta Bella paper kit at Hobby Lobby just to use with these pictures. (21 points)

Week #5
Pretty pleased with this one. (20 points). Home is cut from the Silhouette using the free Pacifico font.


2014 in 2014 total: 250/2014 (includes some PL spreads I've been working on)