Happy Scrapbooking Day

I always shake my head when new 'holidays' appear. How about 'shake hands day'. That was on May 5th. I know that Nurses week starts on Monday....Nurses day is on May 12th. Let's celebrate National Maritime Day or National Teacher's day. Those both happen this month too. There is a day next month called Juneteenth. It the day which celebrates the end of slavery in the US. Also known as Emancipation Day. Apparently it's the oldest known holiday. And did you know that the US doesn't celebrate Easter as an official holiday? Interesting. Anyhow today is known as National Scrapbooking Day. All scrapbook stores across the nation are holding sales, hosting crops, and scrapbookers everywhere are scrapping up a storm! Hey, I did my part and finished a layout tonight.

I'm currently working on the Lil' Man's baby album. So generally just scrapping Lil' Man photos. I finished this particular layout up tonight. It's been haunting my table for the past week I think. It just wasn't going together...so I went out on a limb and kind of did a bit of a random layout, although it is based on a Pagemaps sketch (a little lingo for all those scrappers who read this blog...here's looking at you... sistahs!)

This layout is all based on a PageMaps sketch. I don't routinely use sketches....I think I find them too confining....either that or I just don't follow instruction well (thinking back to the Vicki Boutin class I took where she tried and tried and tried to get me to use the TH foam block thingy to ink my pages with. I kept sneaking back to my good old cosmetic sponge....which I still use. the TH foam block thingy is safely hiding somewhere). But this page came together rather quickly. I started and FINISHED IT in ONE NIGHT! Yo GABBA GABBA!!! (Wow, do I let Lil' Miss watch way too much tv). So there you have it. My contribution to National Scrapbooking Day.