Life Right Now

Recently I saw a post on WriteClickScrapbook.com about occasionally doing a layout about your life right now.  I liked that idea, but hadn't gotten around to scrapping it.  Then today At the Big Idea Festival over at BigPictureScrapbooking.com the challenge by Karen Grunberg was to make a layout about life right now.  Hmmmm, seems like maybe this is something I should do.  :)

The inspiration layout was one page and used much smaller pics.  Since I was using 2 pages I decided to do 2x3 pics.  There are a lot of them on this layout...can you tell?  :)

I cut 1 inch strips of patterned paper and punched them with my border punch (I've got to get some more of those).

I made a list about things that have been going on in our lives over the past few months.  I decided to write my journaling on a scrap of vellum.  I put a piece of notebook paper behind the vellum as I was writing my journaling.  I chose to highlight certain words by changing the font color.

I used a butterfly punch and layered two butterflies on top of one another for depth.  I then put a dot of glue to stick them down before stitching them on.

I have never stitched on a page before.  I had a lot of fun using different stitches on the layout.

Rather than using one color of thread for the whole layout I decided to use tone on tone.  Each of the strips of patterned paper has stitching on it.  I really went all out.

It's hard to see the title in this picture, but I love it in person.  Some of the words are in silver, the us is acrylic, and the now is chipboard.

"This is Us Right Now"

I love the idea of scrapping about everyday things.  And the opportunity to use pics that I like, but probably wouldn't scrap otherwise is always fun.

Try making your LRN (Life Right Now) layout.  If you do, link it up for me so I can see!