Getting Work Done

Well, nearly had this whole post done and accidently bumped the touchpad mouse on my computer. It is now disabled, I hope, since it deleted the entire post. :(. Anyway, I was saying that today I have been clearing off my desk. My husband is getting stuff ready to build my counter while I'm up at school later today working in my room for a while and then working at the Fall Festival at the Kindergarten booth. So, I spent a good bit of today organizing and trimming my photos that were already printed. Now all I have to do is pull out the bag of pictures I want to scrap and get busy--at least for a few layouts! Now on to the fun stuff. These are the layouts I've done over the last several days. 

The first is another senior photo shoot picture by Laura May. Archie is on the back of an old work pickup in front of the old stables. If you look closely, you can see part of the word Stables on the sign behind him. I used several ribbons and some dried flower embellishments I have had in my drawer for years. The quotation is: Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, "I will simply be." Henry David Thoreau.

The next layout has two more photos by Laura May. She played with the focus on these giving one a sharp focus and the other a soft focus. I loved the bird on the background paper and found the cardstock sticker in my embellishment file. The epoxy stickers were there as well. They say, Sing, Play, Experience, Happiness (if you read that together, it's almost a sentence.) I used Tim Holtz distress tissue tape for the stripe. 

These reflection pictures amazing. There was little wind and the reflections were so clear. Laura had such fun with them. I had to laugh while doing the layout. The reflections were so clear, I nearly stuck a picture on upside down. The layout is based on a Pinterest sketch. The sticker says: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. I had to use at least one Prima flower in this album, but Archie, I promise it does have music notes on it. 

Blizzard Band is a two page layout of pictures I took throughout Archie's senior year. The large shot is the trombone section. I used ribbon for the left border and under the smaller pictures. I used some scraps for the patterned paper at the top. I had one last snowflake brad in a set of brads, so I used it. At some point during Archie's senior year, I found a chipboard mini-album that was snowflaked shaped, so I snatched it up, knowing our school mascot is the Blizzard. (We live in Winters, remember.) The outline for the cover seemed to just fit around the snowflake brad, so I inked it Blizzard Blue and then wallpapered two other pages of the album with some more paper. I used one for a journaling spot and the other for part of the title. The journaling reads: Archie was active in band all during school. His senior year he was section leader. He was asked to perform in a brass ensemble with Mr. and Mrs. Mooney and another student for the Veteran's Day program. He had a solo during marching season, as well.