Yesterday’s prompt was all about making playlists. Did you used to make mixtapes back in the day? I made a lot. Presents for friends. Mixes for car trips. Playlists to help me concentrate while studying. It was fun!

For the prompt, I made a playlist to remind me of the stages of my life so far. As I was going along, and reminding myself of all the great music I’ve listened to over the years, I came to the conclusion that one playlist is not enough.

I’d really like to create playlists for each season of my life, as I remember it, and make pages to go along with it. That however is a task for another day. Let’s at least finish the highlight reel!

When I started creating this page, I had just bought a new set of Project Life cards to share with my sister. The happy colors seemed like the perfect complement for the memories I wanted to record.

Each card represents a single song on the playlist, and is taped down with washi tape, that acts as a hinge. This is a very interactive page, and there’s also a playlist that anyone can listen to online at 8tracks.com. (You can find it here: Memory Lane.)

Do you have a playlist for the soundtrack of your life? Why don’t you make one? You’ll be surprised at how well it works together I bet, and how inspiring it is for stories to include in your scrapbooks.

Hey, how about another sample from this month’s musical LOAD?

The prompt for this page was to create a page with a pocket, a la liner notes from record albums and CD cases. There are a lot of pockets in the counterfeit kits I made, so it was fairly easy to add one to a page. (It’s almost like I knew there was going to be a prompt about pockets!) 😉

While assembling this, it seemed to really need a bit of green as a border strip, but the baker’s twine that was in the kit just wasn’t thick enough. It was getting lost on the page. Lately I’ve been doing a lot of crocheting, so the idea of creating a crocheted border seemed like a natural fit. This is just a chain stitch, but there are so many more things you could do to add a bit of texture to the page with crochet. Sounds like fun, doesn’t it?

The pocket holds some quotes from number one son, from about when this photo was taken. While making this page I realized I haven’t been as good at recording the silly little things everyone around me says on a regular basis. Must try to do that more. I love how saving those little moments captures a little bit of their personality and wit and interests at the time.

Bonus? Using up three shape paper clips on one page! Maybe I can get these out of my stash soon, and make room for newer embellishments!

What are some ways you’ve added pockets to your pages? What do you put in them? I’d really like to know!

How about another sample page from LOAD?

This was built using pieces from one of the Counterfeit Kits I made for the April challenge. The star was completely inspired by the string art in the sample pages of the original kit at A Beautiful Mess.

To keep the string from creating ridges behind the photo mat, the mat is mounted on foam tape. Other than that, the string art was very easy to do. You could do all sorts of geometric shapes this way. Anything with corners would work. Curves would be much harder to accomplish. The page would end up looking more like this:

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Which is cool, but it might be hard to fit a photo and journaling in around it.

What kind of string art do you think you could add to a page? Does the idea of string art even remotely appeal to you?

Last week, one of the prompts for LOAD was “Who do you dedicate your scrapbooks to?”
Rather than getting into who I scrapbook for, which has been done numerous times before, including this instance:

I went a slightly different direction with the page for the day. Instead, last week’s page was all about the musicians that have impacted my life, from Mozart to Melissa Etheridge. The goal is to use this as a title page for a music themed scrapbook.

This took forever to do, since I started with this:

That’s 49 squares people! 49! Of course some were hidden to make room for the title, but still 49 squares!

Anyone else want to fill in a grid with 49 things? (Almost!)

You can download a .psd version here: grid layout small squares photoshop document

If you make something with it, make sure to share it with me! I’d love to see what you create!

Chalk this up to the perils of not planning ahead. I have quite a few posts with some fun ideas and information planned and started for you. Nothing is finished however.

Because well, this happened:

My sister now has a son as well as a daughter, and I’ve been helping with big sister care for a few days, which means, you guessed it, no website access, and no craft supplies access.

Although, I was able to keep up with the MAY LOAD through the magic of the Project LIfe app.

So we’ll get back on track soon. Just as soon as my husband’s birthday is over. And my son’s. And Mother’s Day. And the Tulip Festival.

May, why do you have to be so wonderful, and so busy?