This page was thrown together in 30 minutes for Laine’s 30 minute Thursday challenge. Oh, lordy. I never really realized how long it must actually take me to make a page until I tried to do one in 30 minutes – everything from selecting the paper to execution. The added challenge was that we had to use one piece of yellow cardstock, two photos, three pieces of patterned paper, and four brads or eyelets. Well, I ended up using three pictures because I thought we needed the photo of the finished product. And the others were too funny not to include. (Sausage making is full of sexual innuendo that I suppose I might have included, but I’d like my scrapbook to be G-rated, thanks!)

Some of my ideas were not quick enough in execution. Sure, putting the title on sausages sounds like a great idea.. until I realized I didn’t really have a pen that showed up all that well on the dark brown. So I furiously colored in letters with a silver gel pen and hoped for the best! And, of course, I furiously put the eyelets in so they’re kind of out of alignment. Oopsy!
Believe it or not, the two blue bands are actually from two different pieces of patterned paper, so I’m meeting that requirement (I cut out the little squares on the bottom strip from a different piece). I think the most challenging part was finding 3 pieces of patterned paper in my scraps that coordinated.

So, lesson learned: Don’t make hand crafted elements when you’re doing a 30 minute challenge! Now only if I had some sausage stickers, I would have been set…

Posted by Carrie on Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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