it's whip-it-up wednesday, over on the pebbles blog. this is when you whip up a project, in 30 minutes or less. i decided to do a layout for my turn. not every layout has to take hours to create. i actually find it quite easy to do a layout in a short period of time. it's all about keeping it clean and simple.
i decided to create a christmas layout for my assignment. i havn't made a layout with joe's family in years. that sounds pretty bad, i know. lol! it wasn't intentional. we just never seem to have photo opps, when we finally do get together with them. last christmas, i made a point to get some photos before everyone left after our christmas dinner. not a lot. but a few photos, that show most of the family.
i was only working with five photos. so i just printed four of them at 3" x 4.5", and then our family photo at about 3.5" x 4.5". rough estimates, since i honestly don't remember what i printed them at. i suppose i could go measure the photos. but i'm so efficient, that the layout is already put in an album. lol! anyways. i lined up the four photos down one side of the white cardstock background, and the family shot off to the right side. adhered them right down. then i cut my pattern papers to fit around the photos. just built my layout around the photos.
now, pebbles doesn't have an actual christmas collection. but that didn't stop me. i used the pattern papers from the cats & dogs collection. that's what i really love about pebbles papers. the patterns are neutral enough (especially the B side of the papers), that you can really use them for anything.
i wanted to use the striped pattern paper, to tie in the colors from all the other elements on the layout. but this striped paper also had orange rows of color on it. so i did a little pleating with my paper strip, to hide the orange. all the spots you see a little folded area? there is orange in those folds. i used tiny glue dots, to hold the folded areas down.
then i added some letter stickers for my title, a strip of dotted ribbon, a green glittered chipboard flourish, and a few glittered candy dots. easy peasy. and seriously, this took less than 30 minutes. i should add that the journaling did take me an extra 10 minutes. lol! i would have hand journaled on a 30 minute page, but i didn't think it would stand out enough on the red pattern paper. i was well within my time limit, but when i went to print, the printer wasn't working and then it closed the program out and lost my journaling. ugh. had to retype it, and remember what i said and how i made it fit in that area. lol!
Love it! and as always- pop dots! :) You are truly one of my favorite inspirations!
Posted by: Yvonne | December 29, 2010 at 06:10 AM
love this and that it was quick and simple. I need to do this more on my layouts. Hoping to get more scrapping done this year.
Posted by: dawn | December 29, 2010 at 07:07 AM
LOVE! :o)
Posted by: Wendy Sue | December 29, 2010 at 08:17 AM
Love the look of this. It definitely looks festive to me.
Posted by: Laura T. | December 29, 2010 at 08:25 AM
What a great 30 min LO!! Love how you took out the orange!
Posted by: Kathy (krolski) | December 29, 2010 at 08:34 AM
Great LO! I never print my pictures in B&W. I'm going to have to lift this and give it a try.
I just have to tell you your blog is my favorite scrapper blog. The one I always open first when I go down my list of blogs to check out. Always new, fresh pages, great links to other blogs and contests and oh the inspiration. Thanks for always putting good stuff out there to inspire me!
Posted by: Monika Sham | December 29, 2010 at 08:35 AM
GREAT job! You were making me laugh with the extra 10 minutes doesn't that ALWAYS happen when you are trying to get something done in a time limit?! :)
Posted by: Diana | December 29, 2010 at 12:43 PM
you are a genious girl hiding those orange stipes and using non traditional paper! Sometimes I don't care for all the red and green typical stuff!
Sorry you lost the journaling...you should get a typewriter, maybe your mom has one ;)
Posted by: Carla | December 29, 2010 at 02:28 PM
Love the page! I don't think I have ever scrapped a page in 30 minutes or less. Even simple pages have me dragging my feet.
Posted by: Stefani | December 29, 2010 at 10:19 PM
super cute girlie! gosh, you are so on top of your layouts. im so behind.ugh.
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Posted by: danni p | December 29, 2010 at 10:56 PM
I cannot *believe* you made this page in under 30 minutes. I make pages simpler and they take me so much longer! I don't know how you did it!
Posted by: JoannaG | January 02, 2011 at 09:18 PM
I absolutely LOVE this LO!! It's great to see you scrap Christmas! Very cool to see how you used non-Christmas product for Christmas. And WAY TO GO on getting it done in only 30 mins!
Posted by: Sara Rossi | January 03, 2011 at 07:08 AM