ABC Challenge at SOS

A=  alphabet stickers
B=  buttons by Stampin' Up!; Blossom Soup papers by Jillibean
C=  cotton thread for buttons

Thank you, Shopping Our Stash, for providing inspiration for me to finally finish my daughter's 2005 scrapbook; yes, it only took me seven years!

My scrapbooking story/My Scrapbooking Mission!
Goals:

1. Work towards catching up on my scrapbooking.
2. Use old stash up.
3. Shrink the pile of partially completed layouts and work them into my scrapbook album.

I am primarily a card maker (more instant gratification), but a few months ago my daughter Kathryn asked me when I was going to make more scrapbook pages.  Kathryn loves looking at my scrapbooks.  In 2003 (when my twins were babies), I set aside every Wednesday for their grandparents to babysit and I spent the day scrapbooking!  I created a full 12x12 baby album for each of them.  I have made small 7x7 albums for each of them for ages two and three, and a small vacation album.  I started a 12x12 Christmas album and 12x12 school albums for each of them, but those have not been updated for 2005 and beyond *sigh*.  (Goal #1 - Work towards catching up!)

I also started one 12x12 scrapbook of both of them starting with my baby showers.  I scrapbooked chronologically and included a 2-page layout for every month plus birthdays and holidays, so by December 2003 it was a full album.  I started scrapbooking 2004 similarly (in a second album), but we moved from NC to VA, so the weekly babysitting/scrapbooking was over.  In August 2007 the girls went between grandparents for a couple of weeks before school started and I finished scrapbooking 2004.  At that point I gave myself permission to scrapbook whatever inspired me and worry about chronological order later on when I could fill in the gaps.  As a result I have a pile in my craft room of incomplete and completed layouts sprinkled over the years for 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2011 but most of 2005 was complete.  (Goal #3 - Shrink the pile!)

I realized I had every month and/or holiday represented in 2005 except for September 2005.  I searched through my 12x12 collections and scrapbooking kits, but I could not find any coordinating papers.  Then I began perusing my 6x6 pads...do you scrap with 6x6?  I usually save these for card making.  I liked how these Jillibean papers worked with the girls' pajamas.  Not my favorite layout, but done is better than perfect.  (Goal #2 - Use old stash!)

Onward to start scrapbooking 2006!  And this time it won't take 7 years :)

Happy Friday!