Something From Almost Nothing..So Far

A quick catch up today on the pages I've made for Shimelle's Something For Almost Nothing class. I've been doing 6x12 and I've got to say that I love it! There is something very satisfying about cutting a piece of cardstock in two and saving half for later; and something very enticing about that smaller page sitting on my desk waiting to be filled in half the time. I think I'm converted. Almost. I haven't even thought about buying an album yet. And I don't think that matters one bit. I've been thinking about sewing some 12x12 page protectors in half and putting them in my big album. We'll see. There's no need to make my mind up just yet.

So, here we go:

And patterned paper scraps next. My sewing machine decided to stop sewing on paper half way through this one; so I had to fake most of the stitching by poking holes and drawing on stitches with a brown pen. I've blurred out the photo because asking you to look at me in a bikini is completely unnecessary. The Accountant was happy enough to take a photo, though, and that's a good enough reason to celebrate life, don't you think?

Then ribbon. I'm trying to use up photos as well as supplies, so this is one from a pile of duplicates in a school collection.

And cardstock. I loved SJ's tone on tone idea and I gave it a go with this old photo. It's not a good picture I know, but it's the only one we have of the day so I've been holding on to it anyway. I did love that hat! The rest of the journaling is on the back so it wouldn't intrude.

And that's my album so far.