Cross Country Scrapping

As much as I love living in Ohio, I have to admit that I miss my southern scrap buddies, Susan Goetter and Delaina Burns. Once every few months, we'd coordinate our schedules and meet up for an entire weekend at Susan's house in Pensacola. I'd drive the 5 hrs from Gainesville and Delaina would travel about the same distance from her home in Alabama.

These weekends were always full of shopping, sugar, gossip, giggling, chatter and if we could squeeze it in, we'd sometimes actually scrap. This photo is from our last weekend together, March 2010, and is the result of too much sugar and not enough sleep.


There has been discussion of my flying into Alabama in the near future. But somehow we'll need to persuade Susan to make the 5 hour drive north for my visit. In theory, it seems a solid plan and should be easy to execute. To get my point across, let's just say that Susan and Delaina are dogs. Delaina is one of those little yippee, ankle-biter type dogs that get really excited and tinkle all over the carpet. Susan, in contrast, is one of those ol' coon dogs that lays around in the shade all day. Doesn't budge. When someone calls her name, she'll half-open one eye to see who's beckoning and then decide if it's worth rousting herself.

So me and the ankle-biter are trying to roust her...

... with a cross country sketch challenge.

The idea is to keep the three of us scrapping together (if only virtually) until we can put our travel plans into action. So every few weeks, we're doing a challenge where each of us creates a layout in our own personal style, using the exact same sketch. This time we chose to use this design from Sketch Support. Even though it's a card sketch, we all felt it would make for a great layout.


And here's my take on the sketch:


Ya know... had I known that I'd be doing the whole dog analogy above, I would have chosen different papers. Non-willingness to budge and tinkle stained carpets aside, I do love these girls!

Be sure to visit their respective blogs to see what they've created for our challenge.