30-Minute Thursday!

It's that time of the week again...

30-Minute Thursday!

Note: Objects on the screen are straighter than they appear.

This page started with the paper. I love this paper! It's from Reminisce, and for some reason it just makes me smile. I had a sheet of it sitting on my table, and when I pulled my photos out to start leafing through for some, I came up with these two. It's a little busy, but I think that by separating the pattern from the photos, it makes it work. At least that is my story and I am sticking to it!

So... I don't like to use straight PP for the background of the page, so I grabbed some blue cardstock that helped dilute the pattern as well as pull in the blues in the photos.

Once the PP was mounted on the background cardstock, I went with a straightforward photo placement, again because the background pattern is so busy already. Next, I wanted to mount the photos on cardstock to give them a little "breathing room," so I picked an off-white for that. I needed a little something to pull in the blue, so I found the Doodlebug paper frill in my stash and slapped that on there.

The embellishments were a bit harder. SIMPLE was the key -- nothing to make the page any busier than it is already. I am not one to use many pre-printed cardstock tags, but this one that said "Dad & Me" was perfect. I mounted that, used the coordinating "boys" circles (that I mounted on slightly larger pieces of pink cardstock), wrote my journaling, and voila! Finis!

YOUR CHALLENGE: use a pre-printed embellishment, something with a word or quote or...??

Last week's winner... Heather M! Heather, send me your address so I can get you some goodies.

Our other participants did a wonderful job...

Amy (scroll down)

Sockiepuppetsmom

Ingunn

Stephanie

Jen McG

Nicole

Melita

Kylie

Comments

[Mary c]

Foiled again! I DID get the TAG LO done. That's something! And I did do it in 30 minutes (I'm not sure how that happened). But it was not an old photo unless 15 minutes is old.
Sorry Lain. :(

[Nicole]

Wow, you're on top of things! I usually get the Thursday challenge on Friday. Either you're early or I'm late!

I'll see if I can carve some time (about 30 minutes, heh) out later today to do this. I have some awesome patterned paper that I've been "saving". :)

Great LO btw!

[Nicole]

Oh, and Congrats Heather M! Yay!

[sockiepuppets mom]

Yay Heather M. Very cute LO! I'm off to do mine:)

[sockiepuppets mom]

I'm done! Yay ME:) This has been such a great way to get me scrapping again. Thank you!

http://justussyessam.blogspot.com/2007/11/scraphappy-thurs-30-min-challenge.html

[Christel]

WOo Hoo great page!!! On the other side bought me a Knitting for dummies book!!!

[melita]

Thanks for another great challenge Lain and for the goodies from the first challenge! Got them in the mail late yesterday! =)

[Kylie]

http://hrncirsinghana.blogspot.com/2007/11/30-minute-thursday-again-and-on-friday.html
Here's mine for this week. I'm getting them done closer to the first Thursday now:).

I'm having difficulty with my scanner, so there's lots of black space on my pages and they're getting to be lopsided (this one IS lopsided, but most of mine aren't). I'm trying to figure out what to do to fix it, but for the time being, know that my pages aren't actually this lopsided:).

[Nicole]

Done!

http://canadacole.typepad.com/superfluous_fluff/2007/11/oh-scrappy-day.html

It's the second one. The first one was inspired by Marnie Flores. Does this mean it's been a Simple week? :)

[Jess]

Here is mine for the week. Finally figured out what to do with the great pictures of my mine and I!! :) Thanks Lain!!

http://www.scrapbook.com/myplace/index.php?mod=galleries&u=212709&m=view&id=1133857