My Tribe

I hope everyone had a great holiday last week! Ours was very low key. But I'm still very happy to be home in Houston and off for the entire week! I have big plans to get some organizing done, do a bit of scrapbooking, some planning. It's gonna be good y'all.

I'll kick off by sharing a page from my Tell your Story Scrapbook Circle gallery. It's for the Lifting You challenge and you can read more about it over on the SBC blog.

I've had this "story" on my list for awhile now. There's was nothing in particular that sparked this memory for me, when I sat down to play with the kit. Really I think I just wanted to spend some time with these sweet faces for a bit of time. I miss everyone so much!

I lived with these people. I studied with them. I traveled with them. We spent so much time together in the year and half when we all lived in the same two cities. Sincerely, these were some of the best days of my life. And I just wanted to spend some time reliving those days.

Which really is the beauty of scrapbooking. It's not just taking the time to remember. It's almost like you're honoring the memory by documenting it. I love this hobby. It just makes me happy =)

cheers & besos,

Meta Layout

Ever have days when you just want to create for the sake of creating? I sat down at my scrapbook dish the other day, brand new Scrapbook Circle kit in my paws, and I just decided that I wanted to play. 

I've had scrapbooking style on the brain ever since (and of course before) the December style issue of Spark Magazine was published. So I wanted to make a page representing what I think my style is these days: graphic, colorful, textured, layered.

I used the September Scrapbook Circle sketch as my inspiration and literally plugged and played with it. I outlined where the items were meant to go. I sketched out my thought process and the elements of the page, and included the design speak to go along with it.

I'm calling this my "meta" layout. Since it's a scrapbook page about my scrapbook style highlighting and visualizing my scrapbooking style.

I've documented to much else about my life, why not my scrapbooking style along with it? 

So what do you think? Would you describe my style as graphic, colorful, textured and layered. I think that's me. But maybe you see something different. I'd love to hear if you agree...or even disagree!

Style is such an interesting thing and something I want to explore a bit more in 2016. Do you have a go-to style? Share in the comments what your staples are!

cheers & besos,

Birthday Cards

You guys, I feel so productive right now! I've been mentally patting my back since I made these cards. Wanna know why? I's because I sat down, thought up all of the wonderful ladies and gentlemen I might want to send a birthday card too, tallied that number up, sat down and made them! 

That's right, all of the birthday cards I need for the year are done! You can read more about them over on the Scrapbook Circle blog if you'd like. 

I have to say I'm pretty stoked about this! The only thing that's left is for me to write a little note and pop them in the mail.

GASP!! Just had a major thought: I should write out all of the addresses and add the stamps to the envelopes and then they'll really be ready to go! I take this as an action point and will get it done by the end of the year.

cheers & besos,