30-Minute Thursday!

Happy Thanksgiving! But surely you can steal 30 minutes while the turkey is cooking and the boys are watching football to create a little page... :)

The most time-intensive part of this whole layout was finding the numbers that looked good! I started with the photos. None of them was particularly terrific on its own, so I decided to use all three together. When pictures are so similar, I like to position them in a straight line. It just makes more sense somehow. I wanted the one of Callie looking straight on to be the focus, so I knew I wanted to tilt it.

Because she's wearing an orange shirt, I didn't want to ignore the orange... but I also didn't want to do a Halloween page (even though she was helping carve pumpkins when these pics were taken). So I went with the green background and then went through my stash of patterned paper to find something with green and orange... this Paper Salon paper was perfect!

Once the two pictures on the left were adhered, I went to the tilted pic. I wanted a little "something" to call it out more, so in came the photo mat... and since I scallop whenever possible, I scalloped the mat. It also helps break up all the straight lines on the LO.

Next was the title -- I loved the idea of counting how many days old Callie is. I originally intended to include a journaling list of all the things she's accomplished in 1143 days... but that idea went out the window when I couldn't fit it in. So I dug numbers out of my stash (this took the longest!) and then added the words.

The page needed something on the lower part to balance it, and I decided a little splash of orange would be good. I stamped the date, stuck it on the page, and added the bling because you can never go wrong with a little bling. Rounded the corners and I was done. :)

Your challenge: Do a page using numbers! Winners from last week... I have received a couple of requests to extend the contest one day because of the holiday... so I will! Winners tomorrow! Now go eat.

Comments

[Leslie]

Very inspiring & Happy Turkey Day!

[Nicole]

I love it! Very clean, BH-esque page. :)You should totally save that journalling idea, it's too awesome! I may even have to borrow it. :)

Enjoy your turkey and trimmings!

[bcre8uv]

You rock! I love the title concept - very "Pushing Daisies", even though you probably don't watch that since you are sans TV and all. Love the scalloped photo mat, too.

~T.

[Kylie]

http://hrncirsinghana.blogspot.com/2007/11/30-minute-thursday_23.html

Here's this week's. It's all digital, which is scary...but I had to clear out all my scrapbook stuff to have people over for Thanksgiving (I only have a desk in the corner of my living room - from IKEA - and I had to close it up to make the house look clean:).

[sockiepuppetsmom]

Bummer, I'm not home:( Super cute idea, I always have 3 or 4 pictures that are the same. I'm going to try this when I get home next week.

[Ragan]

Hi. I hope that you had a terrific turkey day. That is the cutest page. I finally got some scrapbooking supplies. I wonder how long it will take me to do something with them.

[Etta]

Here's mine:

http://jboysmommy.blogspot.com/2007/11/easy-as-123_24.html.

You'll have to scroll down to the end of the post to see the LO. The post tells the more detailed story behind the page, with additional pictures.

Thanks for the inspiration. I love doing these, when I have 30 minutes to spare!

[Etta]

For some reason that link isn't working. I think it is the period I accidentally put at the end. Try this:

http://jboysmommy.blogspot.com/2007/11/easy-as-123_24.html

[alexandra sirugue-mac leod]

hi there i'm posting my page on the S.S Readers' Gallery hoping that it will work?!

thank you for those terrific challenges!!

asm

[alexandra s.m.]

let's try this:

www.simplescrapbooksmag.com/readers'gallery

i hope it works?!

thanks

asm