Rachel's March Results

When Marieke first gave us these kits for Christmas, March was my favorite on first sight. In fact, I immediately stole a couple of embellishments to use on a layout with a bird theme that I was working on at the time. When I sat down to brainstorm a project for this month, I began to search my photos that went with the color palette or that had something to do with birds. I came an almost ten-year old across a photo of myself in Venice and the idea of “free as a bird” popped into my head, and I immediately toyed with the idea of doing an album on my carefree twenties. I found an album that I had went with this month’s colors:


I thought I liked the idea of an album about traveling with friends, from which emerged the “birds of a feather travel together” theme. I dug through old memorabilia and created this page on a trip to Ireland to visit my friend Elaine:


Then I scrapped that idea, once I realized that I had bitten off far more than I could chew. Then I had an epiphany: I could create a basic template, which could be repeated throughout the album. I have been wanting to try journaling with the computer, which I have never done. Here is how that experiment turned out:









































I tried to use colors that went with this month’s scheme. And in retrospect, I am not so sure that using a text box is “legal” but considering how little paper we had to work with this month, I am amazed that I was able to create an entire album out of what I had. I also cheated and used staples on the tags (it’s sort of an adhesive, right? Uh, yeah, no). I decided to make memorabilia pockets into which I can later insert ticket stubs, extra photos, and other souvenirs. The idea to create a collage of photos was a question of time: no need to crop photos.


I scrapped the opening page of the album last, because I thought it set the tone for the remaining pages, which are all about trips I took over a two-year period.


No cards this month. No paper left!