alphas Archives - I am a Honey Bee

Ah, as the temperature dips the craftiness increases. It’s nice to kill a whole night r even day by scrapbooking without feeling guilty about missing a great day outside. Clearly, I’m not the only one who feels this way as the ever fabulous Cathy Zielske tweeted this awesome meme. It’s a rif on Game of Thrones and scrapbooking…

I just love this. It totally made my day when I saw this. And yes, it reminded me to order more adhesive.

So getting back in gear with scrapbooking has been a lot of fun. I’ve really been trying to use products I have not used before or in a long time or products in ways I have not used before. It helps me stretch my imagine and use my stash.

My stash of paper and alphas has been getting a tad extreme so be prepared to see layouts using a lot of them as I try to use them creatively. In this case I used 5 pieces of paper to layer on a solid cardstock. The grey and white pieces that look hand drawn were actually patterned rectangles on a piece of patterned paper that I individually cut out, so I guess that brings the papers up to 6 kinds. I finished up a pack of stickers I had as we well as used new brads ad other 3d embellishments. My favorite thing I that I used are the 4 different kinds of Mini Market Alphas that I used to label each photo. I seriously love this alphas from October Afternoon.

left side page…

right side page…

Oh week 6 of 2012… I loved you so much! So many fantastic things happened! First off I took a cheese making class, then I watch the Giants beat the Patriots (AGAIN!) at the Super Bowl, and heading down to CT to go into NYC to see the parade. At that was just Sunday- Tuesday!

One of the thoughtful things I captured was that Price left a Cadbury Creme Egg in my coat pocket and I discovered it on my way to work. I think moments like that are often overlooked but they really matter. At least they do to me. So that is why I am glad to be doing PL so I could capture that sweet gesture.

Week 6:

Full Spread

Not sure if I am going to add more photos from the parade on the back side of the 6×12. I keep debating it. We’ll see how I feel looking back at it in another week.

Left Side

One of the things I like most about getting up really early for work has been seeing the sunsets. I didn’t so much for adorning that photo besides some alphas and the patterned paper but I love it’s presence on the page.

Right Side