Challenge: Tie Up Some Loose Ends!

Do you love all these challenges or what?!  When Beth and Meridy suggested this idea for the group to celebrate NSD, I knew it would be a fantastic celebration. You may have landed here from Milissa's Embossing/Stitching Distressing Challenge.To see all the challenges, start at the CKC Blog.

I'll introduce my challenge by saying this: I am terrible with endings.

I am a creative idea person - I like beginnings. I'm good at beginnings. I'm organized, prepared, motivated. Then, somewhere around the middle, I start to fade - I lose interest.

It's a common thread in my life. Whether it was writing a paper or studying in school, finishing a project around the house, working on a committee, doing a craft project, it's all the same. Not a great thing to admit about myself, huh?! But it's true, I battle it most every day.

One of my goals for 2012 was/is to finish what I start. I can't combat such a big part of my personality with a simple New Year's resolution. I will, after all, lost interest in it :). But as I recently mentioned in another post, I do want to accomplish a small goal: complete all the little details on all my older albums. Even if it's just smacking a picture on some paper and calling it good, or writing a couple of sentences on the paper, at least those little details will be done, and I can say I finished something!

I've skipped pages sometimes because I needed to get a picture printed. Sometimes it was because I didn't have the supplies I wanted, and sometimes I just didn't feel like doing that page.  In older, postbound albums, sometimes I just threw the pics in the protector to save a space for the page, but never went back and actually did the page.  I've been on a mission to get those unfinished pages finished, so I can concentrate on more recent stuff.

So my challenge to you: Look back through your scrapbooks. Do you have any half-finished or skipped pages?  Did you ever skip some journaling or picture printing?  Look for a project and finish it!  Whatever you pick should be something relatively quick - the goal is to get something done so you can feel the accomplishment!!

Link a completed project back here in the comments so we can all take a look.  If you post that link in the comments by Sunday, May 13, I'll highlight any linked projects in a future post.

In case you need some inspiration, here are a few pages I've finished/resolved in the past couple of weeks:

I showed these pages a couple of weeks ago using my April kit.



I always meant to add one page for our first trip to Mexico
into my 2010 chronological album.



This one is from 2003. I skipped come pictures of our cat, Owen,
because it was too sad to work on her pages when she died.
Finally went back and did some 2012 journaling on it, and I'm glad I did!

I went through a time when I didn't take many pictures, so I wrote a summary
of pictures I missed and used it as that year's final page in my album. I
used some items from the DCWV Snapshot Stack to throw together
this simple page.

The next stop on our hop is the Everyday Sparkle Challenge with Susanne at http://www.snapsandsnippets.blogspot.com/. Have a great National Scrapbook Day and weekend!