the MotherLOAD - Day 26 | The Final Day!

YESSSS! I did it!
I completed 26 scrapbook pages in 26 days - I'm pooped! ;-)

Today's prompt was to make a page using your own unique style that you've identified over the course of the MotherLOAD.

Here's my page:

So why is this page typically me?
- I used a neutral cardstock base.
- I used multiple photos.
- I used a very clean, linear design.
- I used small doses of patterned paper.
- I hand-journaled.
- I used minimal embellishments (only alpha stickers for the title).
- I used an A4 format.

Can I just say that I totally love how this LO turned out?? And I didn't even use a sketch!

the MotherLOAD - Day 25

Today's prompt was to scraplift a page you made earlier this month.

I already 'recycled' several pages during this LOAD, with all the redo's I did and also with my car pages.
However, here's another take on the sketch from day 11:

A field of beautiful purple heather behind the Texel dunes.


BTW, only one more day of LOAD to go! Woohoo!

the MotherLOAD - Day 24

Today's prompt: be inspired by music and use a song title or lyrics on your page.

Here's my LO:

I made a page about a visit to a Build-a-Bear store and used lyrics from an Elvis song.

the MotherLOAD - Day 23

Today's challenge: use numbers.

I had considered a page about my tattoos for a while, so this was the perfect opportunity to go ahead an do it.

the MotherLOAD - Day 22

Today's challenge was to scrapbook an ending, in the broadest meaning of the word.
It could be the ending of a book or film, of a friendschip, or a certain stage in life...

I scrapbooked photos of my different graduation ceremonies (secondary school, American highschool (as exchange student), vocational school and college), the 'endings' within my school career so to speak.

the MotherLOAD - Day 21 | Ella's Bootcamp - Day 3

Today's ML challenge was another 'blast from the past' - using a shaped photo, which was very hip and happening in the early days of modern scrapbooking (now not so much, haha)

I made a page about last year's World Cup Soccer, which caused severe Orange fever at work ;-)

Incidentally, one of today's 'drills' at Ella's Bootcamp focused on using grids when designing a page.

Though I based this LO on a Pagemaps sketch, it also incorporates a grid.

the MotherLOAD - Day 20 | Ella's Bootcamp Day 2

Today's ML challenge was to scrapbook an emotion.
I made a page about something that evokes an emotion instead: my grandparents' copy of the Mona Lisa that I inherited. Here's the page:

The story behind it: for as long as I can remember, my grandparents had a copy of the Mona Lisa in their hallway. When I was little, my uncle told me that HE had painted it. I believed this well into my teens until one day I was introduced to the works of Leonardo DaVinci... Whenever I look at the painting (that now hangs in my living room) it always makes me smile ;-)

At Ella's Bootcamp, one of the so-called 'drills' today was about making your own patterned paper using stamps. So I broke out some stamps, and went to work. All 3 colours patterned paper are hand-stamped.
I also tried to pay attention to the 2nd drill from day 1 about combining different patterned papers. I used a bold print (dark brown paper), a text-print (mustard paper) and a more subtle print (rust paper).

the MotherLOAD - Day 19 | Ella's Bootcamp - Day 1

Today's ML-challenge was to NOT scrapbook chronologically. Since I've abandoned that idea several years ago and already scrap whatever I want whenever I feel like it, this wasn't too difficult for me.

Today was also the first day of Ella's Bootcamp. The first topic was grammar-free journaling, and the ideas included using a pie-chart (for 1 person) or a comparison chart (for more people) to document their routines, quirks etc.

I decided to combine these 2 promps and make a comparison chart of my guinea girls:

(the top photo is their group portrait, and the bottom photos are their 'baby pictures')

the MotherLOAD - Day 18

We're 2/3rds on the way - woohoo!

Today's challenge was to use this colour scheme:

These colours screamed 'Autumn' to me, so I dug up some old photos that I took several years ago of the Fall colours in a local park. Here's my page:

the MotherLOAD - Day 17

Today's challenge was to use one of your snack bags (which I didn't make - remember?). Other than that, you were free to do as you pleased.

Inspired by yesterday's LO about my OLD car, I decided to make a similar page about my NEW car:

the MotherLOAD - Day 16

Today's challenge was to break the unwritten scrapbooking law from the old days that you could only use the a photo once, and to go ahead and use a photo that you'd used before.

I already fulfilled this challenge multiple times during these past 2 weeks having done 4 redo's so far and I had also already used my grandparents' photo from yesterday's LO before.

Since I got a new car today (woohoo!), I decided to redo an old 12x12 page about my previous (and first) car in A4 format:

the MotherLOAD - Day 15

Today's challenge was to scrapbook a tough topic.
Given the last few months, inspiration for this one came easy (I basically made a page mimicking this blog post...)

the MotherLOAD - Day 14

Today's challenge was to use stamps on a layout. Not too much of a challenge to me personally, since I often use stamps on a scrapbooking page (even if it's only to stamp some journaling lines so I'll write straight...)

Here's what I did:

As you've probably been able to tell by now, I do a lot of travel pages... This one is about our January trip to Egypt. The sphinx-stamp and journaling stamp are both from Art Impressions.

the MotherLOAD - Day 13

Woohoo - we're halfway there!!

Today's challenge was to make a page about a ritual that you have.
I decided to do a page about our seal spotting trip at Texel last month instead:

the MotherLOAD - Day 12

Today we were challenged to use (and I'm paraphrasing here) a crappy photo, because sometimes you want to tell the story even though the photos did not come out as well as you had hoped.

Here's what I did:

The photos in this LO were taken with 3 different devices: 2 photo cameras and a video camera. I used 2 stills (top right and bottom left) from a video my mom shot of the camel ride, and the quality of those is especially bad due to the conversion from film to image...

the MotherLOAD - Day 11

Today we were challenged to use this sketch that was provided in the daily email:

Here's my page (I stayed pretty close to the original sketch):

Some participants chose to do a page in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. I comtemplated doing that as well, but in the end decided to go with a lighter topic...

the MotherLOAD - Day 10

Today's challenge was to use another of those snack bags that we were supposed to compile during basic training, which I didn't do. So I did my own thing and finished a page that I had already started some time ago about my trip to Nepal in 2007.

the MotherLOAD - Day 9

Today's prompt was to use the leftover scraps from your previous layouts.
However, I was feeling so frustrated about my health problems that I made a page about that instead:

I blurred the journaling for this post because it's very personal, but I wanted to show it anyway because I really like how it turned out despite its simplicity, especially the photo (love photoshop actions!).

the MotherLOAD - Day 8

Today's challenge was to scrap about your needs. I took the easy way out and scraplifted the example page ;-) Here's my LO:

I can't live without the internet (or I'll suffer from fanfiction withdrawel...), reading material (be it books, my ereader or magazines) and, of course, my girls!

the MotherLOAD - Day 7

Today's challenge was to reinvent old scrapbooking techniques & trends such as themed papers and cut out photos.
I chose to NOT follow the prompt again and did another remake of an old 8,5x11" page: