I hosted the SBPS (scrapbook photo swap) round #14 with the theme “circle of love”.  This is a secret sister swap where you submit pictures in the round’s theme and someone scraps them for you, and you do the same for someone else.  It was a combination of a theme and a challenge – the pictures you chose had to be of things and/or people that surround you, with the challenge of using a circle somewhere on your page, be it cropping, a journaling block, a circle embellishment… the choice was yours!

This page was for my friend Pattie and it was a TON of fun to play with… we don’t exactly experience snow on any kind of basis here so it’s always fun to get to see and scrap these kinds of pictures.  It was also a plus that the pictures she sent in were GORGEOUS to begin with!!

This second set was a mistake… but in a good way!!  I accidentally printed out pictures for Melanie (mnewby) and figured I’d scrap them since I had them….

ta ta for now!!  I will be back with a post all about my craft room… I tried taking pictures with the built-in camera on the laptop but everything came out mirror-imaged… so once I dig a digi-cam out of the mess that is the stuff we brought home from the party, I can take some real pictures.  And bonus!  I’ll have birthday pictures to share too

lovies, =o) kel

ETA: CAN SOMEONE HELP ME CUSTOMIZE THIS PAGE??  THE LAST THEME I HAD (THAT I ACTUALLY LIKED!) DIDN’T WORK SO NICELY WITH THE LAYOUT AND PLUG-INS… WHICH ALSO REMINDS ME I NEED A MUSIC/VIDEO PLAYER FOR MY SIDEBAR!

This round of the ScrapBook Photo Swap (hence, SBPS) on SCS I had two sisters to send to and it was a lot of fun to work with someone else’s pictures  The idea behind the SBPS is that the hostess chooses a theme, and you send photos to her.  She swaps out the photos and gives you someone else’s photos to scrap… it’s such a neat way to get pages done and see everyone’s style and see what they do with your photos.  Everyone scraps a little differently and the pages are NEVER the way I envision them in my head… but in a good way!!

First up is one of my Crafty Critters blog-mates, Moira.  I pictured the journaling going around the pages in the white space (like a border) but the story behind her pictures was so beautiful… I didn’t want to mess it up so I left it for her to do.

Second one was from Terria.  Her boys are SO cute and they look like they’re having so much fun being brothers… I hope my kiddos look the same in their pictures if not in real life!!  And please don’t mind the rug… like I said, I’m really new to keeping up with a blog so I’m working on finding the perfect spot to take those pictures!!

I’m hosting round 14 and we’re limited to 30 spots (and max 2 spots per participant) so if you’re interested look for it soon!!

=o) kel