Year in Review...

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and here's the last of them...it is surely much easier to do these throughout the year...LOL

Sunny August :

September :

October... he may look 'cool' in his shades, but really, after eye surgery those shades were really necessary!) The month wordart I found on Rina's blog.

and the last one for today is November : this time I got the wordart on Kimmi's blog




I'm pretty pleased to have finished the year up. Now I plan to add individual pages for specific events or maybe some nature shots, however the main points of the year are documented and I`m not going to stress over doing the extras RIGHT NOW!
I'm off to write a letter, and hopefully get to some more scrapping later. Gypsy Couture has a new kit coming out tomorrow and I would really like to work with it!

And more Year in Review

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I'm pleased with how these are turning out! I must say though : I'd like to think these are quick to do, but they really aren't. I get all carried away finding interesting elements to plop on the, and then I remember to keep it simple is better for these kinds of LO`s....hehe. And of course I keep finding so many pictures! Especially in the summer when we tend to take many more pictures than in the colder months (at least it seems to be that way)

For the May Page I used the template found on Rina's blog. I just had too many pictures to show. Those interesting coloured paper pieces behind the pictures are from the template's shapes. Very nice indeed. I decided to keep everything else really simple as the LO was plenty busy enough already...

The June page is a Quick Page to which I just added a few pictures (as I was saying...) but I found it beautifully suited to the task. It left me ample room for 'rambling' and I love the colours! I think Marilynne (who made the QP did an excellent job! Thank you ;-) )

Now about the soft toys and my guys...they are amazing with those 'animals', born puppeteers, I keep telling them. It does help that the stuffies have lots of 'character' to start with of course...

I bit hotch potch, this one. I thought I would save myself time and use multi frames by Cathy Krenek. The frames are fine...but I'm not sure I like the way I worked with them. But that is the way it is going to stay...I'm not changing it (I think)

I dug through my stash of freebies for papers and found a pile of ones really suited those these kinds of LO's. That was fun, digging through the old goodies (and a great opportunity to delete, delete, delete the unwanted/ no longer needed stuff!)

8 done and 4 to go.

While I was making a card last night, I just fell in love with this one kit ('I Dreamed of Poppies' by Bren Boone) all over again, and made an impromptu LO. I'm so glad to hear Bren will be returning to designing soon. (Edited to add : I see this is already avaialable over in Bren's new store HERE )

well, I do have 4 more reviews to make....
Have a good week!

Year in Review : More LO's

I'm on a roll and hope to keep the momentum up! 6 down, 6 to go...I'll give you 3 more for today : (click on the images for credits please!)

and December...well I had the pictures right there and the Quick Page (from Rina's blog - see this post) and so I decided to just go ahead and make it, and post it! Past is past right? ;-)

I have one page to check for spelling and 6 to go.

Wishing you a GOOD 2010 (that reminds me of what the beavers told the kids in Narnia (Lion, Witch & Wardrobe) about Aslan : He isn't safe, but he is good....may your year be good.

A Year in Review

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I only waited till the end of the year to do monthly LO's...trust me to make life difficult for myself LOL. Truth is I wasn't sure that I wanted to do it...I tried a daily picture/ weekly LO for 3 months...but in the end decided this was probably as realistic as I should try to be. ( I LOVED the daily picture idea, but I got so involved I didn't get anything else done. Maybe one day when I'm all caught up, right....? ROFLOL

So I headed on over to Kimberly Stewart's Royal Court blog and Rina Kroes' Reluctant Recluse blog and grabbed the Quick Pages and templates from there (One month the Quick Page is on one blog with the template for the page on the other blog, next month, it is the other way round.) I found them under 'digital freebies' on Rina's blog and on Kimmi's I just went by the months and scrolled till I found what I was looking for. The downloads for March are not working. I'll see if we can get that sorted out.

Here are my pages for January and February 2009. Please click on the images to go to the galleries for full listings of products used.

For January I used the Quick Page on Kimmi's blog (plus a few added bits)

For February I used the template for the February page instead, as I needed something cold and snowy. The February Quick Page is beautiful and I will be using it for sure...

I'll be back with more pages asap. Meantime Gypsy Couture is releasing some great Project 365 stuff tomorrow. I got my LO's ready and waiting...see you then!