I decided to set a goal for scrapbooking this summer: five one-page
layouts a week. I also decided to try 8 1/2 by 11 layouts for random
photographs that aren’t part of a themed scrapbook. I came too late to
scrapbooking to deal with chronological scrapbooks, so I’ve finished
scrapbooks on our southwest trip, our annual vacations on Kiawah, a
favorites album, a mini-album on an afternoon at the Atlanta Botanical
Gardens during a Dale Chihuly exhibition, and a couple of paperbag
albums. So here are a few of my first layouts for the summer. I’m
having a bit of trouble taking photos of the layouts. Maybe the scanner
would be better but it’s not hooked up to my iBook. The Faces layout is
a blatant scraplift from Cathy Zielske’s wonderful book Clean and Simple Scrapbooking.
My eyes are drawn to her layouts in every idea book or magazine where
she is featured. Clean and simple is a goal, but I’m finding it doesn’t
necessarily mean easier or faster, although scraplifting does help.
I’ve finished nine layouts this week!
