Today I decided to go ahead and do another blog challenge, this one from The Paper Girls.  The challenge just required that cute animals somehow be involved in the layout, design, photos etc.

I recently brought photos from back home here to school and I found photos of me feeding a giraffe!  I definitely think that qualifies as a cute animal!  I used materials from my mom and my aunt who recently went to a scrapbooking convention and won some prizes.  I'm so lucky that they bequeath me with their loot occasionally.

Decided to try a page with more pictures today as a personal challenge for myself.  I think I made the page interesting with as little space as I had.  It was a quick build but I rather like it!

Today I decided to stay on my challenge roll with scrapbooking and have opted to attempt the current Pixels and Paper challenge.  This month's inspiration photo was the following image:

For some reason, when I looked at this, it reminded me of Girl Scouts.  I wasn't ever that great of one but the women and the craftiness of the image reminded me of one of the few memories I have of being a Girl Scout where we had to make secret Santa gifts by hand. I remember making a clay flower pot picture frame with flowers and birds not unlike the ones in the inspiration photo.  I dug up some pictures that were taken when I became a Girl Scout instead of a Brownie although I'm not entirely positive that is what is actually happening in the photos.  Either way I enjoyed making the page and using the way the different blues and greens made the reds pop out like in the photo.

Got back around to doing more scrapbooking now that my classes are over for the semester.  This time I thought I'd try one of the Scrap Our Stash challenges again.  I'm usually not very good at the ones where you use items that spell out a word so I haven't thought about participating in them as much but this time since I have extra time to kill I forced myself to do one.

The challenge was to use the letters in "emboss" and make a page using elements and such with those letters.  I came up with:

E- Embellished Flowers
M- Memories, Family, and Yummy words
B- Bellflower Paper Edger Scissors
O- Orange Cardstock
S- Stickers
S- Stamped Flowers

It's not the most creative use of the letters but I'm just proud I got even that far,

Here is my page:

I decided to do another 8" x 8" page for another challenge today.  This one was for a Pixels and Paper Challenge.  We were given the following image and asked to make a page inspired by it.

From this image I was most inspired by the dark silhouette of the bike against the blue sky.  I didn't have many out door photos so i chose one that was taken when I did a play for children at my church during something called Fam Jam in high school.  I felt like the perfect thing to silhouette would be a stained glass window so I took an exacto knife and free-cut the window out of black glittery paper.  Because the page is so physically small, I didn't want to weigh it down with too many more embellishments.

Once again, I fell behind on scrapbooking but this weekend was a much needed break from the last where I was touring with my college's Children's Theatre Tour.  I got to play a secret princess and the little kids were awesome!

I decided to do a Challenge YOUrself challenge.  The challenge was to do a page that featured one of your daily blessings and while this was difficult since I don't have too many pictures here at college with me, I did have this one of my mother and I when I was (very clearly) a baby.  My mother is definitely the biggest daily blessing I have and she gets a lot of phone calls.

I did the page for an 8" x 8" album and used papers and elements that my lovely Aunt recently gave to me.

Even though I'm a day late to enter the contest, I decided to try one of The Paper Girls challenges.  It was a wine-themed challenge and was really fun.

I decided to scrap pictures from one of my friend's 21st birthdays in keeping with the alcohol theme and also used the wine color and circles to mimic the tops of glasses.  I really like the glittery-ness and enjoy the way it turned out.