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Monday Layout Challenge: A Day in the Life

We are back for another great Monday Layout Challenge, and this one is all about you. Scrapbook a layout all about a day in your life. I am really excited to present the details of today’s challenge: Your layout challenge for this week is to take a good hard look into your typical day. Choose a weekend day or a weekday. Scrapbook about the details of getting up, getting ready for work and coming home. Scrapbook about getting kids up in the morning, breakfast on the table, lunches prepared for school and getting the kids on the bus. Scrapbook about … Continue reading →

Monday Photo Challenge: The Great Outdoors

These photo challenges have gotten me motivated to look around me and capture much more with my camera. In fact, last weeks challenge I have 187 photographs to sort through and see if any are good or not. Each Monday, I post a challenge that you can choose to do, or you can choose not to do. It is up to you. My hope is that when you do the photo challenges, it is getting you to think outside the box, and obviously to take more photographs. The purpose of the challenges are to get you to play around with … Continue reading →

Monday Layout Challenge – Song Lyrics

We are back for another great Monday Layout Challenge, and this one is a fun one. I had a blast with last week’s challenge, and actually got about ten layouts done using some of my old stuff. It was great, and I found a whole bunch of new things to do with some of it. I will be putting articles up on that later. Did you use some of your old tools and make new layouts with them? Tell me if you found a new way to use something. I am really excited to present today’s today’s challenge: Your challenge … Continue reading →

Monday Photo Challenge – Up Close and Personal

I am thoroughly addicted to close-up photography. I love filling the entire frame with the subject, eliminating distracting background and really highlighting my subject matter. Each Monday, I post a challenge that you can choose to do, or you can choose not to do. It is up to you. My hope is that when you do the photo challenges, it is getting you to think outside the box, and obviously to take more photographs. I want you to truly play with your camera, get to know it better. I want you to try out new angles, lighting techniques and more. … Continue reading →

Monday Layout Challenge – School Layouts and More

Recently I realized that I hadn’t done many scrapbooking pages on my children’s school activities. I have the photographs, the layouts just haven’t been created. So I challenged myself to get to work on those. And I’m not just doing traditional pages, I am branching out, or if you will “stepping outside the box” a bit and trying to find some unique perspectives. I just want the layouts to make the photographs really be the focus as well as trying to complete layouts that are different than the norm. This week’s challenge for all of you, is to pull out … Continue reading →

Monday Layout Challenge: 30 Minute Layout

Scrapbooker’s often get into a rut when it comes to specific pictures. They envision this amazing layout, and the inspiration to create it just never comes. My hopes with the Monday challenges are that you get the pictures out of the boxes and onto the pages and not put so much focus on elaborate layouts. Today’s challenge is to create a layout in which you spend no more than 30 minutes on it. In order to create a layout in 30 minutes, it might be easier for you to use a sketch or scraplift from a message board. This is … Continue reading →

Monday Photo Challenge – A Glimpse of a Historic Landmark

I have decided to post a challenge each Monday that you can do, or you can not do. My hopes in the photo challenges are to get you thinking outside the box, and taking more pictures. I want to you to try out new angles, lighting techniques and more. If there is something you would like to see, or something that you are wanting to learn or see examples of, that I might be able to incorporate into a challenge, let me know. Most of the photographs that I show will be recent, with the exception of a few that … Continue reading →

Monday Photo Challenge – View From the Top

I am completely aware that today is not Monday and it is Saturday, but due to the fact that I just decided to start this idea in August and was going to post in on Wednesday but forgot, today is our first photo challenge. The next one will be this coming Monday. I have decided to post a challenge each Monday that you can do, or you can not do. My hopes in the photo challenges are to get you thinking outside the box, and taking more pictures. I want to you to try out new angles, lighting techniques and … Continue reading →

Making Monday: My Day

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Mondays get a bad rap. In fact, Monday’s bad rap is so bad that it is the day more children miss school than any other and the day more employees miss work than any other – whether they are really ill or not. The simple fact is – Monday is a huge let down after the weekend. We see it as the day that the fun stops and the work begins. This isn’t just based in reality – I run a home-based business. I set my own hours. I work for clients and myself. I write here and share my … Continue reading →