Hello April! In my area, April is a time of unpredictable weather, my Mom’s birthday, and Spring soccer. Our family has been very busy this month, and I hope your April is shaping up in a fun kind of busy too.
March at my house was busy as well. We have two birthdays in March, so the whole month is filled with party planning and cake. My youngest daughter is the last birthday of the year in our little family, so she has a lot of ideas on how we spend her special day. She wanted a purple Pegasus unicorn horse birthday with puppy plates and rainbow streamers, and a piñata.
I ran my first official 5k this month and we dusted off our camp trailer for our first Spring camping trip as well. In addition, this protective Mom finally let her Kindergartner ride the bus home from school, and it started in March. With a lot to talk a lot of photos to take, it was fun going through my files to choose the photos to use for my March layout.
First, here’s the March sketch Becky created:
This is what I came up with:
Supplies: Bazzill kraft cardstock, Studio Calico patterned paper, stamp, button and stitch rubons, October Afternoon patterned paper, Doodlebug frills, Maya Road sheer calendar, jute ).
The wonderful thing about Project 12 is that this is YOUR challenge. You are doing the record keeping for your life. This challenge is about documenting your life, without monitoring the details. Becky Fleck has designed sketches to help you with this challenge, but you don’t have to use them. This challenge is about telling YOUR story.
With that said, I wanted to highlight a couple of creations that were submitted this month. Be sure to check out the Facebook gallery for March, as well as those from previous submissions, because there is a wealth of inspiration there. Check out the Facebook gallery here.
I told you I had two birthdays in March, my husband’s and my youngest daughter Payton’s birthday, so when I saw Mica’s layout, I smiled, because I can relate. Her daughter turned 16, and with such a big milestone, I can understand why it occupied all thoughts in the month of March:
I like how she followed the general design of the sketch but added themed appropriate embellishments and made some of her photos a bit larger than the sketch to tell her story. In using the photos, I like how she grouped the cake eating photos and separated them from the others with the journaling box.
I really liked the color palette and and use of black on this one by Tami:
The flowers she created for this layout are gorgeous, I love the black flourishes, and that little owl is perfect right there next to her title. I also like the photos she chose to do in color vs. the black and white photos on this layout.
I have one more project I wanted to share with you this month. Michelle is doing a Project 12 layout, but in addition she’s been making some really fun calendar pages to compliment her layouts every month. I think they are so fun and wish I had thought of this before the year started. I wanted to share what she did for March here:
Thank you so much for participating in Project 12! I love sharing this adventure with you and I hope you are happy with how your albums are coming along, and how easy it is to document your life this way. I have to tell you…we’ve been so busy that I had to go through my March photos in order to work on my journaling. Only a month later, I had already forgotten some of the details, which is one reason this project is so important to me.
Want to increase your chances of being highlighted on the blog? Get good clear photos of your projects. Here’s a tip. This is what I do:
- Turn off your flash so you don’t get glare on your photos or shiny embellishments.
- Lay your layout on the floor next to a window on a nice day when you are getting good natural a indirect light.
- Place your layout on a white sheet, foam core, or white cardstock.
- Stand directly over your layout and look down to take your photo. Watch the edges of your layout on the bottom, and on one side as you look through your camera lens so you can angle yourself to be directly over it. This will help your layout look square when you look at your photo later.
If you linked your project in time or sent it to us at ideas@scrapbookandcards.com, you were entered in a random drawing for a prize. This month the prize was a fun prize pack of Thicker alphas from American Crafts! The winner from my blog was Loretta: http://artfulyogicreations.blogspot.com/2010/04/project-12-march.html and the winner from those linked to the SCT blog or submitted for the Facebook album is Jennifer: http://www.amillionmemories.com/forum/viewlayout.php?id=17438
Congratulations ladies! We'll be in touch with the winners this week and you will be enjoying those Thickers soon!
As April winds to a close, let’s take a peek again at the April sketch:
Don't forget to link up your April sketches TO THIS POST by May 20th or send them to us at ideas@scrapbookandcards.com.
And as you plan ahead for all the fun adventures you will experience in May, this is what the next sketch will look like:
Don’t forget to link your May layouts when you finished to TODAY's post (yes, right here!) by June 20th for a chance to win, and link to Davinie’s May 1 blog post for a second chance to win. Want to know what you are playing for this time? A great prize package from We R Memory Keepers! They have shared their newest line 72 & Sunny with us to give to you!
Enjoy the rest of your month! I’ll see you back here on May 29th with the next winner, and the next sketch. Just remember to link your April sketches to this post by May 20!
~ Davinie
