Weekend Mojo!

Yay! I spent the entire weekend scrapbooking! Well, not the entire weekend, there was the occasional load of laundry, meals to cook, a couple movies watched and grocery shopping, but the rest of my free time was spent in the company of my scrappy mojo! I had been wanting to organize and purge my patterned papers (once again) and so Friday night I decided that would be the thing to do! I turned on the tunes, and set to work, purging enough old papers that I knew I'd never use, and going from 4 Cropper Hopper vertical holders down to 2 (of course this doesn't count the two that are dedicated to my Basic Grey collection, the one dedicated to my Sweetwater papers or the one that I have for miscellaneous things like transparencies, felt and fabric papers, cardstock stickers, vellum etc! Then, after purging, I re-organized! I had them by theme, you know like polka dots, stripes, florals etc..and it just wasn't working for me. I like my paper lines to be together and having divided them up into themes made finding coordinating papers very difficult, so, after the purge I put all the lines back together and then filed them all into alphabetical order within the holders! yes, I know, anal! But I will say that since then I've been on a scrapping frenzy! I also found papers that I had forgotten I had bought but really liked! So, my new commitment is to use up the stash I have and avoid spending needlessly on papers! I don't even want to think about the money I wasted on papers that I had to have because they were "hot" or cute and that realistically just are not my style! This is NOT to say that I won't be buying new papers at all, I'm just hoping to only purchase new papers when they will fit a specific layout I want to do, not cause it woos my by it's cuteness!

I also had fun Friday night while doing the organizing by playing some online bingo at another fabulous site I frequent, Scrap-Tastic and what's even better is, I won! It was a really nice way to spend a Friday evening, and I can't wait to do that again (the bingo, NOT the purging!)

So, after all this organizing, what do you do? Well, you scrap! On Saturday I spent the day working on a layout. I found in my cleaning a stash of Making Memories papers, the Noteworthy Collection, which I loved and so I decided to use them for my layout and they fit perfectly in my opinion! I used a black and white photo of Mandi (taken by Chris Jenkins), Bazzill cardstock Basic Grey chipboard which I painted brown then sanded and scruffed up, my Tim Holtz foam stamps, Making Memories paint, My Sentiments Exactly stamp, Brown Staz-on ink, Heidi Swapp bling, Prima florals, Hambly rub-ons, some miscellaneous buttons, and a cute little rustic wire picture hanger that I found when visiting my sister in Arizona at the fabulous Mystic Paper! I really like the way this turned out

On to Sunday! again, after the big clean I found some papers I had forgotten I bought and realized that they would go really well with this one picture I had taken of Miss Mandi at Halloween! The collection is the Rockstar collections from Die Cuts with a View. Miss Mandi was all dressed up in gothic rock style so this was perfect! I photoshopped the picture to remove a pumpkin and witch porch ornament thing I had, turned it black and white (to further enhance the gothic feel) and then scrapped it with the Rockstar paper, Bazzill cardstock, Tim Holtz Grungeboard alphabet which I painted with some Making Memories paint, attached some miscellanous twill which had these silver eyelet-y stud things in it and then to tie that together, I added three silver big eyelets to the bottom side of the layout (gotta love that Crop-a-Dile!)...I really like this one too! Maybe it's cause I just really like this picture of Mandi, I dunno!

There you have it! My weekends accomplishments! I'm happy that my scrapping mojo decided to hang out with me this weekend, it was a lot of fun! This week I'd love to scrap some more but alas, the house needs cleaned, and I better start to pack my stuff for my trip or I'm gonna be in big trouble come Saturday! My mojo might just have to hang out without me for a couple weeks, we'll see...

Until next time,
Blessings!