My story is a simple one

This month's prompt at Point Blank Period was to

tell your story, use three photos, and put them in a grid or photo mosaic.

I've had this Basic Grey paper in my stash for over a year now. With three boys, I rarely get to play with pink. But the PBP challenges are all about me (or you, if you play along, too). That's what I love about them. This month, I haven't been able to make too many LO's, but I didn't want to miss the PBP challenge--it's a small way to create for myself and tell my story.

I've decided that every page I do in this album will contain a butterfly.

Title: my story is a simple one

Journaling reads: girl is born. girl grows up happy. girl meets boy. girl falls in love. girl marries boy. girl has babies. girl creates life. girl makes dreams come true.

So what's your story? Write it down. Make a LO. And post it at PBP.

Holiday Cards {day 21}

Snowflakes are punched from the clear backing sheet from stickers (I save these crazy things!). Love this punch--it cuts like butta. Brushed them with Mod Podge (which I like to call Modge Podge cause it's just funner to say) and sprinkled them with fine glitter. So simple.

Holiday Cards Day 20

I just picked up the Martha Stewart snowflake punch the other day, so these flakes are sure to be floating onto lots of cards to come. I've got some glitter ones drying as we speak. The background is stamped with SU! French Script in Kiwi Kiss, inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink, and spritzed with Tsukineko Walnut Ink. The letters are stamped and cut from red paper.

Holiday Cards Day 19

Day 19:

Quite possibly the simplest card ever: watercolor splotches of red swirled with watercolor crayons, and a simple stamped sentiment. Doesn't really get any easier than this.

Inspired by the end papers in a children's book we picked up from the library yesterday:

December Daily Progress

I think the most difficult part of this project is coming up with 31 unique numbers for the pages. I pulled number stamps & chipboard numbers from my stash, but then moved onto game pieces and other sources. In the coming weeks I will be on the lookout for numbers in my mail (think postage stamps from cards, and junk mail).

Here's what I have come up with so far:I will use a Dymo label maker for a couple, and will end up computer generating some, too.

I took photos of my pages so far to share, but I will spare you the boredom (they're not much to look at yet), and the lousy photos. Instead, here's a summary of what I am using:

• page protectors of various sizes and styles, trimmed down to fit (5x7, trading card, 8 1/2 x 8)
• patterned paper in my color scheme--add a decorative edge to jazz it up
• clear acetate (I cut them from some folders I had been saving), on one I will add a large scallop circle, on the other I painted circles using an empty Glue Dots roll as a stamp
• decorative file folder
• chipboard (see #23 above)
• solid card stock cut into shapes (a circle and bracket)
• a patterned paper bag from a store (one is from Panera. I cut it apart and folded one into a pocket, sewing along two edges). I'll also be using a Trader Joe's bag (I'm hoping their Christmas ones are in stores soon)
• envelopes in various sizes (I made some using templates from the Paper Source)
• patterned vellum
• old holiday cards (some of these need mounting)
• cardstock that's been stamped or embossed, folded, and stitched to create a pocket

Tomorrow's task: tackle the covers that will hold it all together. I'm thinking book board and rings, but we'll see...