Life at 509

Cute little scrapbook featured at Creating Keepsakes I think I will have to scraplift it for our house here in Florida! :)

Here it is:

Mini Book of the Month: Life at 509

by Erin Lincoln

Appeared In: October 2007

The "For Sale" sign has been pitched in the front yard, ads have been placed in the newspaper, and we've already started packing up the extras. But before we leave, I want to document my feelings about the only home my husband and I have ever known together.

There has been so many good memories and photos from within these four walls that it is hard to find a place to start. Why even try? When you can't make sense of it all, go with a more random approach. Every bit is meaningful, so it doesn't matter what you pick. Only that you start.

The Cover

I went through my album box and pulled out a 6x6 postbound album by Making Memories. To jazz up the cover, I covered a chipboard page from a Maya Roads house album and attached directly to the surface. It was easy to slice the pages out of the binding with a craft knife.

Front Page

Mark the passage of time with calendar stamps by Hero Arts, only there's no need to circle a specific month and day.

Random Snippets

In this house, Matt carried me over the threshold on our wedding night...we both turned 25 and 30...we brought home two kittens for the first time. I have a ton of these little random snippets of events in my head. I placed each one individually on a 4x2 inch piece of paper and topped with a patchwork house made with a Quickutz die.

Longer Stories

I don't think I'll ever forget being woken up in the middle of the night to find our bedroom flooded with light from above. We thought we were being abducted by aliens! When we shook off the last remants of sleep, we were relieved to learn it was only a helicopter on a search mission.

We still laugh about this and countless other funny stories that have originated at 509. I recorded my favorites in the album and used the text to cover up the body of a chipboard house-the same one I used for the cover. The mini-paned window was the first thing I designed by myself on the computer to be cut out on my Quickutz Silhouette. Worked great!

House Quote

We have a wall quote above our front door. It says, "Where we love is home. Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts". I'll always feel that way about 509, even long after we've moved.

I recorded the quote over two 6x12 pages to go in the album. Keeping with the patchwork theme created by the house die and the chipboard houses, I cut out the quote with my Silhouette from several sheets of patterned paper. The font is Georgia--one of my favorites!

Photos

Over half the pages in this album are missing photos! Remedied that situation with going through my photo boxes from my film days and digging out treasures from when we first moved in. Also printed out newer digital photos to help better represent the seven years we've lived here.

What memories I've recorded through snippets, photos, stories, and significant quotes don't begin to scratch the surface of what has happened here during the last seven years. But it's something! The rest will rise to the surface when I'm going through photos and other scrapbook pages. The combination of the two will keep 509 fresh in our mind for years to come.

Last Scrapper Standing 2: Challenge #1

Just wanted to keep this in case they yank it off the site like they did with the original dares a few weeks ago.

Alright kids - here we go!

Transparencies. Overlays. Acrylic. Right now, if it’s clear, people are using it. So our first Dare to you is to rock the transparencies. 8. On one page. That’s right, people. 8 clear elements on one page, no more no less. We are looking for fun, NEW, innovate ways of layering.

Your layout can be two pages, but no minibooks, no projects. Make sure all 8 overlays are visible and countable. Have fun and get creative with it!!!!

Extra info/rules:

1. Your entries will need to be posted by next Wednesday, midnight EST.

2. We will provide the details about WHERE and HOW to post them on Tuesday, September 25.

Ready? GO!

Fucking Neighborhood Politics

I really hate Westwood Neighborhood. Today, I arrived home to find a note post-ed (seriously, who leaves a post-it note and runs away?) stuck on the door with a message to my husband.

9/14
Marco Tomasi,
Please call me at (_) so that blah blah blah.

Seriously, what? Did you fail to see the very large terms and conditions letter that we submitted to the Homeowners Board several months ago that explained what we wanted to see happen and what you would have to agree to to get permission to touch our air conditioner unit that we have already paid for and have a warranty with?

Some of My Pages

Creating Keepsakes Challenge

Creating Keepsakes Random Challenge Generator

Your challenge is to create a layout using:

• Number of photos: four
  
• Type of layout: Winter
  
• Background: Text
  
• Embellishments/Accents: Rick rack
  
• Journaling style: sideways
  
• Color combinations: Monochromatic: green

our challenge is to create a layout using:

• Number of photos: four
  
• Type of layout: Story
  
• Background: Light
  
• Embellishments/Accents: 3 dimensional sticker
  
• Journaling style: computer mixed with stamps
  
• Color combinations: brown/green
  

Your challenge is to create a layout using:

• Number of photos: two
  
• Type of layout: Just the facts
  
• Background: Bright
  
• Embellishments/Accents: Change the color of an embellishment with paint or ink
  
• Journaling style: no black text
  
• Color combinations: cool
  

Your challenge is to create a layout using:

• Number of photos: six
  
• Type of layout: Photos from different events/periods
  
• Background: Specialty paper (vellum, embossed, handmade etc)
  
• Embellishments/Accents:

  Non alphabet stickers
  Embossed accent
  
• Journaling style: definition
  
• Color combinations: neutral with one bright accent color
  
• Sketch/Layout to scraplift: sketch3
  

Scrapjazz Challenges

Who are you? List all your "hats" or "titles" and then journal about the ones that are top priority for you.

Favorite Food

Favorite Restaurant

Lyrics to a song that changed you

My hometown

Something others would be surprised to know about me

Childhood toy

Favorite Color

Find out the meaning of a name to someone special to you

What freaks you out

One of my friends mentioned to me tonight that she is doing a a layout featuring her 10 favorite photos of the year....so I challenge whoever wants to participate and post their layout of their top 10 favorite photos on a layout....the layout can use more than 10 pictures....

The Challenge: Fly Your Freak Flag Scrap a picture of yourself during a time, event, or occasion when you were really busting loose! I mean a time when you were doing something or acting really out of the ordinary way that you normally act on a daily basis! I want to see those silly pics that someone took of you that hide at the bottom of your closet! Use colors in your lo that represent what your freak flag, to go along with the photo, would look like if you had your very own freak flag! Remember, it is important for everyone to fly their flag at least once in awhile! There is no deadline and no size specification!

Fun Layouts From the Weekend