LOAD513 (LayOut A Day May 2013)

After actually managing to do the 30 lists in 30 days and doing some work on the Art Journal Caravan, I decided I would try Lain Ehnman's LOAD513. LOAD means Lay Out A Day.  Lain sends out a prompt every morning at 12:01 am EDT. All the people who have signed up for the program have until 12 midnight PDT that same day to complete a layout and post it to the special FLICKR group gallery. I believe there are a few prizes but to get the grand prize you have to complete one scrapbook layout (digital or glue&paper) each day the program runs.  This one will run through all of May. And I don't know what any of the prizes are since they weren't the draw for me; the challenge was.

The Theme for the whole month is "Get a Clue" and is based, loosely, on the game of Clue.  We don't have to use the clue, but I'll try to twist it some way to fit.

May 1 was my TOPS's chapter meeting day. I had my upload done before I left. The clue for today was Mrs. White and it triggered the white frosting on my favorite cake.

All supplies are by Amanda McGee from her Doodlelicious Kit. I created the lay-out from Sketch#8 of GetItScrapped. I use Photoshop CS6.

Now things got complicated immediately as our state's TOPS State Recognition Day [SRD] celebration was taking place in Santa Fe starting Thursday night and running through Saturday noon.  I hadn't intended going on Thursday night but ended up there in the afternoon thinking I would be tying tags on roses. It turned out the roses weren't going to arrive until around 8 pm and I wasn't going to stick around for that so I went back home.

I'd had the morning to do the layout and I got that done and posted. The clue for this was a knife.  So I decided to 'take a stab' at it by posting a picture of me and John on the Oasis of the Seas last year getting a picture of at least one member of our team on the climbing wall.

All digi-kit supplies are by Valerie Randall (ScrapGirls) except for the Project Life cards which are from the Turquoise Edition of Becky Higgins Project Life cards/supplies. The template is from Simple Scrapper - the Ma13 single 2. I also uploaded this to the Simple Scrapper May 2013 Gallerry.

Friday morning I left for Santa Fe around 7:20 and managed to make it to the hotel by 8:30. I came home again by 5:15. Again, I managed to get my layout done before I left.

Everything, except the pictures is from a Sweet Shoppe Designs Collaboration called Brighter Days Ahead. I chose that one because the colors matched, pretty closely, to a color swatch I'd pinned. Since the clue today was the Kitchen - I chose to do a favorite breakfast of mine.

Saturday, things didn't run quite as smoothly and I didn't finish the layout in the morning. But SRD ended a little after noon and I was home by 1:10. Later that afternoon I completed the layout and posted it.

Over the last several years (starting in 2006 at least) I have tried to organize my scrap supplies. Maybe I'm just too greedy and don't want to give up anything. (Plus now I have my mother's sewing stuff that I don't want to get rid of stuffed in the same space.)
Template is from AD Designs by Anita - Favorite Moments_template 01. Other supplies are by Amy Wolff - her paper strips and a kit called Quirky Love. I recolored a lot to make them go with the background by Amanda Sok from a kit called Painted Cardboard.

Now to today.  I got my layout uploaded around 9:30 or 10 this morning along with doing 3 loads of laundry through folding and putting away, cutting up mostly frozen chuck roast and starting a crockpot meal for tonight and boiling the eggs for tuna salad for lunch. As I'm writing this, it's just after 10:30 - I feel like I've accomplished quite a bit today already.  The clue for today was a title. Agatha Christy's And Then There Were None, formerly called Ten Little Indians.

No template this time. After I duplicated the background, I used CS6 to draw a line with a brush straight across, then rotated the line 45º. Then I duplicated the line and moved it to divide the space. Then I merged the two lines and duplicated the page, I filled one half with black, then I filled the other half with gray. I used those as masks when I added my papers. Both papers are from Anna Aspnes' ArtPalette Barren Sunrise. The fotoblendz are her Watercolor Fotoblendz numbers 2 and 3. The script font is Monotype Coursiva and the dramatic one is Creepsville by Tony O'Farrel at DaFont.
I've never read the book by Agatha Christy but it's obvious by this layout that I'm an animal lover. The phrase struck me as appropriate and I'm sure others feel the same (and may scrap a layout about it as well.)

I will endeavor to post daily during the month of May so keep checking to see how I do the LOAD513.