Saturday, February 1, 2025

Jo's Scrapbooking Vignette

 This is such a mess. Because I was in such a rush to finish, unfortunately I didn't take pictures of many of the steps and pieces. However, my entries from February 2012 are much more detailed and cover anything I missed here.

Most of the printies I used for this scene were from a blog that is no longer available but fortunately I had saved them to document files at the time. For some reason I think they came from mizshelley but I can't confirm that. In any event, thank you to the originator of them.

Eight pieces of nine different scrapbooking pages.

Bulletin Board frame:

Pegboard on one side and corkboard on the other. The pegboard is made from a square of matboard with holes punched in it using a pushpin.

Frame painted

Pegboard and corkboard in place.

Couple cartoon pieces and Cricut guides on the bulletin board and various plastic grid tools for cutting shapes on the pegboard. The original one had several scissors hanging on the pegboard but my vision is not good enough these days so those didn't happen.

50 or 60 pieces of scrapbooking sticker pages and divider identifiers.

The box to hold rhem

In place


The unit containing the scrapbooking papers. And below, the photo boxes.

The sticker box and the laptop computer.

The Cricut box

The lower half of the scene

With the Chrysnbon chair in place

And the finished scene.


Finished it and gave it to Jo before Christmas. She was pleased with it.






































Bit off more than I can chew in that time frame....

After I decided to do the scrapbooking room for Jo, I spent the first night cutting out 8 pages of 9 different scrapbooking pages. OMG, I had forgotten how long it takes to cut out little pieces of paper.

With the printing of all my saved files out of the way, I decided to look for the wallpaper to use in the room. Found two nice pieces in my wallpaper drawer then proceeded to look for the thin cork board to use in the scene. 

Well, that's where life got interesting! I have a great piece of very thin corkboard  from Lee Valley that I used in the last scrapbooking vignette. However, it is not hanging on a skirt hanger in the closet where it used to be. Double check - definitely not there! Try the other closet on the off chance - not there. Check the workroom bulletin boards - not there.

Flip through my wallpaper drawer - don't see it. Try that drawer again - don't see it but find a nice piece of flooring that I can use.

I'm SO frustrated! Take pages out of my wallpaper drawer level by level and LO AND BEHOLD! Found it!

I've spent three hours looking for that one elusive piece of cork board.

By the time this is all over, it's time for our M.E.E. Christmas party. That was a lovely evening...a visit from Santa, some enjoyable games, including a great "Is it mini or is it real" slideshow, draws for some really wonderful door prizes and, as always, a beautiful Christmas story read by Joanne.

So yesterday I had a couple mini friends over for lunch. We had a wonderful visit although their trip here was marred by terrible freezing rain.

This is the original room. I'm hoping to get this one done within the next week or so.


Jo plans to bring her scrapbooks of her wedding in Hawaii over to me before Christmas so I'm going to try to have the room ready for her then.

Well, since I started this entry on December 5 and it's now February 1, all I can do now is hope to catch up a bit on what I've been doing.