These last few months have been busy with homeschool and homeschool co-op with my youngest, plus spending time with my oldest, taking him to his new job and teaching him to drive in the process. I also signed up as a Stampin' Up consultant, which has been such a fun time! (more on this later)
We just took a ten day Spring Break, in which I took the opportunity to go through my scrap stash and purge many things that hadn't been used for eons, and probably wouldn't ever get used. I grouped what I planned to keep by collection, so it would be easier to grab a sleeve of product and finish a layout when I only had a few minutes. Needless to say since reorganizing, scrapping has been more fun, and over the Break, I finished MANY layouts, cards and pocket scrapbooking pages! (Videos coming soon to my YouTube channel!)
For this post, I wanted to share two layouts that I completed yesterday for the Make it Monday sketch challenges over at The Memory Nest blog. (You can find the challenges on the right margin of Leslie's blog)
The first sketch is this one for Make it Monday # 35.
The next sketch is for Make it Monday #36:
Again for this layout, I grabbed one of my sleeves with what I had left of the 2010 Little Yellow Bicycle's "Twig"collection. Once I started to follow the design, I remembered this photo and the page took on a different twist. The back layers are probably the only original item from the sketch, but I am happy with how this turned out.
In addition to the collection paper and embellishment sheet, I added the chipboard title phrases from K & Company.
There is still time to take part of these challenges, where you could win a gift certificate from The Memory Nest store.
I hope this post will inspire you to get out those old collections and use them up!
