Scrap Room Challenge on Scrapbook.com

Hi everyone. I am doing the scrapbook challenge on www.scrapbook.com.  Here is the link: http://www.scrapbook.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/1569295/

And here are the before pictures of the space plan and organization, I thought was going to work but obviously didn't.

 As you can see, I tried to keep this space nice and neat. I think the space plan and organization is the problem.  That is one of the first things I am going to work on.

This is the first step in the Pre-Challenge. To take pics of the space as it is! So here is the disaster area in all its glory!


Scary that my pretty corner desk is completely unusable, one because its a total mess, and two because I can't even get to it!

Happy Saturday! Oh wait it's actually Sunday!  I wanted to show you all what to do when you can't find paper that works with your photo the way you want it too. I wanted my background paper to mimic the circles on Siena's pink dress and couldn't find any paper that worked with it. So what I did was, I matched embroidery floss with the colors on her dress (dark pink and lime green) and stitched in my own circles on white card stock. To make sure that the circles were in fact round, I used my paper piercer and a plastic canvas circle. Yes, a one of these!

And it worked perfectly!  I got round circles that were pre-pierced and easy to sew. I back stitched the circles onto the white card stock, stamped my girls names on, added a paper ruffle border, a crochet flower and a polka dot button and it was done!  I love the contrast between the pink and lime green cards stock. I have a lot of portrait type pictures of the girls and I don't feel the need to journal on each scrapbook page I made from them.  However, I do always try to keep the photo as the main focus of the layout.