Scrapping Again

Despite the fact that I adore scrapbooking, ever since I purchased Scrapdango just about 7 months ago, I have been consumed with the business side of things rather than the creative side of things. By the time I have time to scrap after taking care of forum stuff and making sure I have everything I need for kits and putting them together and shipping them out, I just don't have the energy or the inspiration to do anything creative for myself. My scrappin' mojo definitely took a long spring and summer vacation. Although slow in getting back into things, I hope that it has returned and will stick around for awhile. I already posted the tray that I made for our friends that moved, but here are a few layouts I've done in recent weeks. A couple of them were for examples I had to do for Scrapdango's School's In contest challenges and the Back to School one was using this month's Scrapdango spice kit, which good for me is already sold out.

This first layout is my favorite that I have made in a long time. I scraplifted a layout by Kerryn on Scrapdango because all her layouts just amaze me in how she can get so much stuff on her layouts without making it look crowded or detracting from her photos. I do not usually put that much stuff on my layouts, but I have to say I love how this one turned out. Meine Liebchen means "My Sweethearts" in German.

I wasn't as thrilled with this one because I think it does need more stuff on it, but it's done and I already have Owen's back to school photos for this year scrapped.

This next layout is another departure for me. I don't usually do such bold, graphic layouts, but I wanted to play with my new Glimmer Mist, which seems to be all the rage, and I have always wanted to use the lyrics from the song, "Seasons of Love," from the musical, Rent.

525,600 minutes. 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes. How do you measure, measure a year? I think that pretty much sums up how we should remember each year.

I hope that I will have more layouts to post soon. I guess one advantage of the weather taking a big downturn is that I'll hopefully be more motivated just to stay inside and scrap.