Levant Crop

 Sandy Tompsett, Creative Memories Consultant, held another great crop at Levant this weekend.  I got a lot done.  I'm working on Project Life 2011 and decided to purchase a 2nd Project Life kit to get my 2010 photos into an album.  I'm having a lot of fun with this very different way of "scrapbooking" this type of album.  The good news I'm mostly finished through October 2010!  And hope to finish the rest next weekend at Anna Estus' crop in Kennedy.  Here's a general view of one half of the room.

In the next photo, Amber Smith, owner of the online store, Amber's Scrap Attic is helping a couple of croppers with her make'n take and answering a customer's question.
And in the last photo, Sandy Tompsett (standing, dressed in black) is talking with a couple of croppers. 
Just a reminder that this Tuesday is the One Little Word Blog Hop again.  Hope you'll stop back here for that.

One Little Word

 I've had an amazing weekend in my craft room - would like to call it a studio cause its more than just "crafts" but feel that sounds pretentious.  Anyway, I have been making lots of messes and having a blast.  So, I'm hoping I'll have plenty to post throughout this week.  Really trying to post regularly if not daily.  On the left are the pages for January for One Little Word.  You'll notice there are a variety of page protector sizes that Ali has us using.  They came in a pack like that from Pink Paisley (I double check that info) thru Scrapbook.com.  Back when I was using Creative Memories albums and page protectors I use to use a variety of sizes in those albums and then when I moved to Close To My Heart I got away from it and forgot about doing that.  The first page is 5 x 7 and the title page.  As you can see my word is Illuminate.  The 2nd page is a 9 pocket protector and includes a definition, a quote, a dictionary entry from an old dictionary, why I chose the word I did, synonyms, and a list of what I'm inviting into my life with this word.  Ali Edwards started One Little Word as an alternative to resolutions and its been an interesting journey so far and its only been a little over a week.  I have a little more to do on both of these pages.  On the other side of the title page I need to place a photo of myself.  On the 9 pocket page protector I have some blank cards that need some artwork but I'm waiting for the ideas to present themselves to me - I'm not rushing it. 

I wish you could see the gold tag and card better - I used 3 different Distress Inks (Tim Holtz's) on them and they have a suede look to them now.  I still need to add some art work to the card as I mentioned.  For right now I'm just enjoying the way it looks.

Paper Album

Here is a quick & easy gift idea. Have you noticed how often "quick & easy" appears in my projects? I've had these paper album kits for awhile & I knew what I wanted to do with them for a gift ideas - I just needed to get the photos developed (that took a lot longer than putting the album together. The paper album kit (Preppy Patterns) is from Creative Memories & while this one no longer appears to be available they have some other very cute ones on their website now. The kits include the paper album, matching papers & coordinating embellishments. I did add a vellum saying from Quick Quotes and a few other things I had already. The title was made from SnipIts. stickers from Tidbits. The ribbon on the front cover was already part of the album as was the round opening for the photo. The only cutting that was needed was for the photo mats. As I said it was really easy.