Apron Strings October Kit

Hey there!  Hope you’ve been feeling well and getting some scrapping done!  I’m going to Archiver’s thsi afternoon and I can’t wait.  I went to the pumpkin patch yesterday and took pictures and then edited (minor) and printed them last night!  Talk about hot off the press :)

So I worked with the bigger than a bread box kit this month and the pressure was on to get as many done before my trip to Vegas as I could - since I wasn’t going to be back until the 3rd and they were due the 5th!  I managed to get 3 finished and pictures printed for the last one so all was good with the world.

Here are a my layouts.  I’ll post cards and another item later this week (I have to give you a reason to come back, don’t I?).  You can always check out the newsletter here if you just can’t wait.  Or to see what the other designers did with the same kit!

Here are some Halloween pics from 2007.  It’s lucky I hadn’t scrapped them yet!  My pictures from last Halloween (and the pumpkin carving) were lost when my hard drive went.  I should be glad that I only lost a few pics, but I was really disappointed.  Remember to back your pics up!!

On that last one, the green was just too bright for me and the pictures so I toned it down using distress ink.  I had thought I was going to have to change the background paper after I scanned it in but now I kinda like the distressed look!

And from the other half of the kit…  I used the exclusive Becky Fleck sketch for the first layout.

Pretty simple layout but it just worked for me!  I inked the paisley chipboards instead of painting or covering them.  I have always had trouble with the paisely chipboard pieces (I have a ton of them!) but I think they worked for me this month!

I’m off to get ready to scrap.  Be sure and check out the Apron Strings yahoo group and blog for more challenges this month!  We’re doing APRON Bingo and a photo scavenger hunt all month long on the yahoo messageboard!  And several weekly challenges on the blog!