Once again, my week got away from me. I'm pretty sure the month of January got away from me, just like the month of December did. Lol. The last two months have been a crazy blur. Between work, scrapbook work, the holidays, winter break, school, soccer, band, etc, we never seem to know if we're coming or going. Luckily we are finishing a few things up that will free up a bit more time in our days. Give us a little breathing room. We're all playing catch up and getting things back on track. As best we can.
As seen in the January/February 2013 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine. Copyright Creative Crafts Group. Posted with prior permission from the publisher.
I realized I hadn't gotten around to sharing this Creating Keepsakes layout yet. I was asked to create a two page layout, incorporating Facebook status posts into my journaling. What seems like ages ago, I used to occasionally do these "Facebook Style Randomness" posts on my blog, where I would round up a bunch of my status updates and put them all together in one post. It was a way to catch up on little odds and ends in my life, for those of you that aren't on Facebook.
So when I got this assignment, it was easy enough to pull up just those posts, and find one that would work on a layout. I looked for a post where I had a decent number of status updates to pull from. I also made sure that I would have photos to support several of the status updates.
I was working on this layout right after Summer CHA, so I picked out several of the Bella Blvd patterned papers that we were coming out with at that time. I choose papers from the birthday collections and the fall collection, along with some of the new buttons.
I chose to print all of my journaling (or my Facebook status updates, I should say) and my photos in squares, since I was going with a grid design on my two page spread. I created text boxes in my word document and copied my updates into the boxes, formatting them to fit.
I had a few of these photos in my blog post to go with the updates, and some of the updates I had to find photos for.
I also added digital frames around the text squares. Don't ask me what frame, because I honestly don't remember. I made this layout forever ago.
See that little wood grain Facebook logo? By the time I had all of my status updates printed out and my photos printed out, I ended up with one empty spot on my grid. So I thought a Facebook logo would be nice to add in there. But the usual dark blue one you see wasn't going to work. I just googled "brown facebook logo" and ended up with tons of them to chose from.
I guess it is true. If you can't google it, it doesn't exist!
What a great layout to showcase all the 'snippets' of your life at the time.
I love all the details you put into all of your layouts..Another one for the FAV folder Laura.
I am doing Lain Ehmann's LOAD challenge right now and one of your layouts inspired me for one of Lain's prompts and I posted your blog and you as my inspiration. Thank you!
Posted by: Janet | February 08, 2013 at 08:18 AM
Great layout! It's amazing how beautiful you can make a grid layout look. And a 2pg grid layout? Wow!
Posted by: SandraA | February 08, 2013 at 08:29 AM
Love this!! I don't share as much on FB anymore but I'd like to do something like this with Instagram, I think....hmmmm
Posted by: Sara Rossi | February 08, 2013 at 09:02 PM
Way cool page idea! :)
Posted by: Kathy Martin | February 09, 2013 at 04:18 AM
Great LO! I love the title (looks corrugated, but I have a feeling it's just a striped chipboard design.)
I am so into using the internet for hybrid scrapping! It's such a fantastic tool, along with a good printer, to make scrapbooking more fun when what you need isn't sold in any store!
TFS and have a great weekend! I hope the breakneck pace lets up for you soon!
Posted by: Ruth G | February 09, 2013 at 10:42 AM
I LOVE this idea for a layout!
Posted by: Jakki | February 10, 2013 at 05:58 AM
LOVE this Laura .... such a great layout :)))
Posted by: Jennifer Edwardson | February 11, 2013 at 11:30 AM