AT MY BEST...: 52 Week

52 Week Catch Up (2012) - Post #4

10:44 AM

I can now officially say that my 52 week album from 2012 is complete..... its all done!! While I am in the process of packing for the Scrapbooking Delights retreat this weekend, I am crossing another thing off the list. Don't worry, there are plenty more still to go.

Here are the last 3 pages to finish it off. Again using old kits.

Anyone that I am friends with will know that I didn't have photos for 2 of these pages, so I had to found a work around. The photos on the above layout are pulled from Google. I have made the below note on the back so that I will know that we had a great time, but forgot to visually document it.

I also had no photo for the next page, so a quick facebook page search and I was able to pull one that would work. The photo is extremely blurry, but it still documents the night.

And what would have been called 'week 53' to round out seeing in the new year.

I love the fact that this is now finished. Its a big project to take on and I did achieve it.... even if it is 2.5 years late!

See you on the flip side of the retreat weekend.

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52 Week Catch Up (2012) - Post #3

6:30 AM

Now that I am one more step closer to finishing this album, I thought I would share the next few pages that have been completed for my 52 week album from 2012.

I have been following my tips from the this post and getting in and getting it finished.

Here they are:

All are really simple layouts, but in the end creating masterpieces isn't the point here. You will also note that the embellishments are minimal so that the event/pictures are the focus.

I now only have 3 more layouts to go and this album is DONE! I'm so close now I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

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52 Week Catch Up (2012) - Post #2 - Words or Whatever

7:00 AM

If you follow the Words or Whatever facebook page you would have already seen this layout. It is another one in the 52 week album catch up saga, but as this gorgeous new release hit my table, I couldn't resist using it. It was the perfect touch on a page where there was very little space to use patterned papers due to featuring all of the photos from our wedding day.

I be able to feature the photos, and use so many of them, I have had to go back to bare bones simple here. So I have taken white cardstock as the base. The next layer on this is stamping with a script stamp. It takes away from having so much white space. I have then added a couple of paper doilies which I have misted in Heidi Swapp's Georgia Peach for a hint of colour.

From here I have added a bit of black and white washi tape to tie in the photos, then misted all of the chipboard hearts in gold. The Just Married title is WOW chipboard painted black, as is the WK49 down in the bottom left hand corner.

It was really hard to capture a whole day event like a wedding in a double 8.5x11 layout, but I am fairly happy that what I have here is a good reflection of the day for the purpose of the 52 week concept.

The products that Words or Whatever have to offer are perfect for every occasion and every style. I spent a bit of time thinking about it and then shuffling it all around. Sometimes that's what it takes to get it done.

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52 Week Catch Up (2012)

6:30 AM

While referring back to my post 2 weeks ago about getting things done (found here), I mentioned that I have been working really hard on getting my 52 week album from 2012 finished. Those that follow me on facebook would know that I am 3 pages off finishing it, and have 2 that I have no photos for, which I am working on how to handle this issue. None the less, yes, I am 3 pages off finishing!

I must say that when I started this process, it was more about getting it done so that I could move on with the next project. I can now say that I did sit back and decide that if I am going to do this, lets take to opportunity to relive these memories and make the most of remembering the fun that occurred that year.... It became a productive walk down a not so distant memory lane. I mean, we do need to look on the positive side of things here, and part of why we do what we do is so that we can look back on it, is it not?

I know there are a few of you out there that have indicated that going back and finishing old projects is now on your to do list too (which I am happy to have inspired you with), so I thought I would pull together a few tips for making this process as easy as possible for you.

1. Use old scraps and/or kits that you have laying around. I found that I actually had kits from that time still pulled together in my stash which made it really easy to finish off pages. The added benefit was that I was also reducing my stash! (justification for new product, right?)

2. Plan/Map out what dates/events are missing. I keep my diary every year so I was able to go through with a note book and work out what happened in those missing weeks so that I knew what to fill.

3. Work out which photos you are going to use for everything on your list at once. This way you only walk down memory lane on one occasion, not every time you need a single photo. This was a good time saver in the long run.

4. If you find a gap that you cant fill straight away on your list, leave it and come back to it later. There is no point wasting time on filling it when you can be working on the other items and thinking about it at the same time... Some of these missing events just needed a bit of time to think about them and how I was going to portray them.

So here is what I have been up to. 8.5x11 size was not easy to me at first. I have found that picking it up again was easy, as I wasn't trying to create masterpieces, just finish documenting the facts of a big year in our lives.

So that is where I am up for this blog post. You can see that most of these are pretty simple layouts but clearly tell the relevant story. And you can now also see how much I had to catch up on (here I was thinking that there was only a maximum of about 10 pages to complete)!! I can tell you it feels really good getting this project finished!!

I will be back to share more shortly.

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