I'd like to think its getting easier

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Since lately I have been scrap booking my heart out in spare time, things have gotten easier. And with a little help from Alyssa, and her blog on her SMASH book a lot of what I have done wouldn't have come together the way it did.  I was given a lot to put these specific scrapbook pages together, and there was a lot of weight on my shoulders due to the fact that I wasn't making these pages for me.  

First from the bridal shower was the hanging sign that said "Bride to be".  My first thought was to put the word bride all on one page but because one letter took about 1/3 of a page that idea went down the drain pretty fast.
 I used a couple to accentuate the invite. Yes there was an invite mailed out.  No I didn't get one, someone was nice enough to give me one for this exact reason.
 With the word bride I actually decided to have one letter on each page with a picture or two and some decoration with it.  It kind of worked out better then I had planned.

Then while we played a version of bingo, I didn't remember to take a card, but this picture helped instead.
I was looking for something to take up some space and decorate a page a little more so I cut up the picture, cut out the letters and Ta da! 
Then there was the Bachelorette Party.  Did I ever blog about that, no?  Check out Joliene's blog about it instead.  We went for a girls weekend at Carmel.  There wasn't as much activities or decoration as there was for the bridal shower so I had to be a little more creative.

There was one game where the six of us were each put into pairs on a scavenger hunt for things around town.  Each person in the pair had to see it for it to be checked off, and by dinner time which ever group had the most checks won a prize.  I decided to use those pages and well, cut them up and have them out and about the on the pages.

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