Monday, March 5, 2012

First and Last Pages of my books...

 I am a list person! If you are one too then you understand. 
If you are not, then here's a quick run down of how it goes.
 When I have a list I get things done. 
 I cross off the many tasks that need to be accomplished and Life is GOOD.  
Without this list I get nothing done, 
I twirl in little circles until I'm dizzy, or see something shiny! 
I so love shiny things.   aahh.  

Okay, so I needed a new scrapbook to do list (the other one ran away).  
So, where to begin? 
 I knew I had a few things in some books that were not complete, 
(yes I do that too) the I'll journal that later syndrome. 
while looking through all these books (eleven). I noticed a bit of a trend.

I hardly ever make a first or last page of my book!   WHAT!  Yeah, 
HI, My name is Ashley,
 and I have a hard time making a first and last page of ANY scrapbook.
 There I said it.

NOW how to fix this problem. it starts with you guessed it, a LIST...
I made a list of all the pages I needed and the year 

then I went through some pictures, 
you know the ones you get large prints of and then never use them
or a few that I always wanted to make a page for 
but for some reason was not inspired enough to do so.
and I listed those pics with the year. 

See where I'm going here...

Yep, just matched them up and started scrappin' 
Here are a few of my now finished First and Last pages...




 what's so great about these pages is that you can usually make some good use of scraps! because you are only created a single page.


Sometimes, you didn't take very many pics and it's not enough for a two page layout
but, guess what it's perfect for a first or last...



again all I used were scraps on this page! WOW!


Okay, confession, this is a page I actually already had done, but I had to share with you!
It really shows how you could use random pics to create a page!!!
 I added some of the things I like or what I was doing at the time into little strips of paper attached with brads
It is a great way to fill up a page when you only have a few pics!

I just loved this one of me, but it was so small and it was just a stray picture someone took
perfect for this page!




maybe this will inspire you to make a list and finish some unfinished pages!  Or at least give you an few good ideas for how you can make First and Last pages of your Scrapbook!


Lots of Love,

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