I'm Back!

After nearly two months, I am finally back to the blog, and with new pages to share. I guess after finishing the Disney album, I felt a little burned out on scrapping and needed a break. I started to get concerned, though, when a month had gone by and I still wasn't ready to do any new pages. That's not like me. Usually if a week goes by without working on something, I start getting a little itchy.

I have kept myself otherwise happily distracted. I've been doing a lot of reading lately. I also finished knitting two baby blankets and crocheting at least a dozen dishcloths. Whenever I do get around to scrapbooking 2012, though, it shouldn't take me as long. I realized I am hardly taking any pictures these days, and most of the ones I am taking are with my phone. I haven't printed any of my camera phone photos yet, but I'm curious to see how they turn out. A few weeks before Christmas, we upgraded to "fancy phones" and I am not sure whether to be amazed or sad that the resolution is higher on my camera phone than on my DSLR!

We do have some picture-taking occasions coming up, though. Aaron "graduates" from fifth grade on Tuesday night and Caleb crosses over to the next rank in Cub Scouts next weekend, so it's probably a good thing I spent some time this morning freeing up space on the memory card.

Here is what I've been working on over the past two weeks. Since I am back to working on the boys' albums again, I am up to my old tricks of doing duplicate layouts. If I have the same set of photos for both albums, why reinvent the wheel, right? Sometimes I'll even do both pages simultaneously, so it really is like killing two birds with one stone.

Doesn't get much simpler. I need to do pages like this sometimes to jump start the motivation. Ignore the big purple slashes. I was just trying to cover up the names and I am not a skilled editor.
Papers: Old stuff from my stash. I think the patterned is Scrap Book Wizard
Punch: Fiskars

Here's essentially doing the same page twice. I used slightly different papers, and rounded the corners on one of them so they're not completely identical.
Sketch: Sketch Savvy
Papers: DCWV
Stamps: PSX

Sketch: I thought I based it on one of Amy Alvis' sketches, but I couldn't find it. I have plenty of links to her blog here, though.
Paper: Paper Studio
Cricut Cartridge: Lyrical Letters

Papers: DCWV
Cricut Cartridge: George and Basic Shapes
Punch: EK Success

Sketch: Amy Alvis
Papers: DCWV
Cricut Cartridges: Mickey Font, Doodletype

Papers: DCWV
Cricut Cartridge: Lyrical Letters
I did both of these the same, only changing some of the journaling, so only posted the one.