Today's Project

This year we celebrate Groundhog Day for the first time after learning about it at the library and then doing a lapbook for it. As I was looking through DigiFree the other day there was the perfect Freebie for scrapping about our day. I decided to quick make up the page so that we could share a copy with our librarian at story time tomorrow. I used Template N More Template #50, LydianBT Font, Paper and Elements from Pixel Mischief Donna Rafferty Groundhog Day Freebie.

Project List

Here is a list of scrapping pictures I would like to complete in the next couple of years. I'm including 2008 on the list as it is already 2008 and I'm sure I won't have everything finished by the end of the year any way. P means I plan to do this as a regular paper album mostly likely 12x12. D means I plan for this to be a digital album most likely 8x8 either printed and inserted into an album or printed as a digital book. ? means I haven't decided for sure which type this album will be either because I haven't decided or because I'm going to give the kids a choice. Or H- Hybrid a mixture of paper pages and digital pages. I will try to update around the first of the month to see how I'm doing and to be accountable to my goals.

Must Do's:
Family 03,04,05, 06, 07, 08 ?
St. Augustine on going - P or H
Child #5 - 07, 08 P
Child #4 - 05, 06, 07, 08 P or ?
Child #3 - 05, 06, 07, 08 P or ?
Child #2 - 05, 06, 07 08 P or ?
Child #1 - Road trip to grad school P 06
Month in South Africa P 07
Month in China P 07
Highlights of the Luther Years including graduation D 06-07
Trip - My Trip to the Twin Cities 07 D
Family Trip to Twin Cities for Luther Graduation 08 D
School - 04, 05, 06, 07, 08 D

What I already accomplished this year is Child #5 - 06, 4x6 template digital thank you notes for Christmas, Family Christmas letter that when out in January, and 3 layouts for a layout swap.

Projects that I'm working on right now are the School 07, and Child #5 - 07. I figure I can have one digital and one paper project going on at a time. When I work on Challenges I'll try to use items needed for current projects.

Would like to do - An album highlight pictures of his whole life up to ordination in a couple of years using the worlds from Mark Harris - Find Your Wings song. D
An album of my late mother's poems with pictures of her and pictures that fit the pictures from the family album. D
A heritage album. D

Last year I had a goal of 507 pages and ended up doing close to 700. Completed projects included school 02, 03 - Child 2-3-4 02, 03, 04, Me 74-88, Wedding 88, Williamsburg Trip 2 Volumes 06, Child #5 - 05 - P
Book of Quotes and Photos for Child #1 D

My 1st Digital Layout

Testing out to see how this will work to publish layouts from Picasa to the blog. So for fun here is my fist digital layout that I did back in September. It featured an old photo of my daughter. I'm not sure where all the elements came from. I do know I was so excited that I had cut out my own star using the shape cutter. I used Photoshop Elemments 5.0.


Okay the Picsa image did not show up and my Photobucket one seems to be corrupted. I'll play around so more tomorrow but for now I've had enough.

Getting Started

I've had a blog for our homeschooling for a while but decided to start one specifically for my scrapping to help me accountable for my scrapbooking goals, projects, and learning. I have a goal of 808 pages in 2008. I plan to use both paper and digital scraping. I got a good start by participating in the LOAD Challenge on Big Picture Scrapbooking and finished the month of January with 99 layouts. Next time I'll try to list all the current projects on my to do list.