Help finding "portable' scrapping project.

[pjlla]

Okay... I got picked for jury duty. THe case is scheduled to last about a week and a half. I KNOW that there will be plenty of down time during these days and I would love to fill the time with some scrapping.

I am currently working on an 8 x 8 book for my SIL's 50th b.day and I will probably make myself some "page kits" today to take with me next week. But they won't fill the week. Any other ideas for easy to take scrapping projects? (Other than the serendipty stuff... already did some of that last week.) I usually work in a 12 x 12 format working on those pages it not quite so portable. Everything will have to fit in a small tote bag.... trimmer, adhesive, paper, etc.)... and NO sharp scissors allowed in the courthouse! And I don't have a laptop, so no digi-scrapping Too bad... it would be a good week to learn it!

Thanks in advance for any help.............P

 

[rlovew]

How about getting things cut out and home and doing some paper piecing or other embelishments- you can glue and chalk them at the courthouse and then they will be ready to put on your pages- it would take prep time before but they are more portable.

 

[MazdaUK]

How about doing the recipe swap pages? They're small, and you could get the recipes etc. printed and trimmed and just make them up

 

[mantaz]

Or you could do power layouts and put them in a power layouts box. Then when you have downtime you could just stick the pages together. Or if you have a lot of journaling that needs to be done you could save it for the courthouse too.

 

[pjlla]

Thanks for all of the suggestions! Any more?

 

[TiggerFamily]

I don't know if you can bring your trimmers in to the court house. I had JD last fall and I had all my pictures cropped and had some paper cut for board and a bunch of hearts cut out (I was doing a album called Puppy Love of my son's stuffed puppy that he brings every where, so every page has a heart on it) my tape runner and pens. I got all the page completed that I wanted to. Everyone was so interested in what I was doing. I never got called for a jury so it was like morning to my self to crop.

 

[Michele]

How about just taking pictures and a notebook and working on journaling to go with them. Or just going through the pictures and sketching your page layout ideas. This way all the pre-planning is done.

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

Take a blank notepad to sketch LO's, showing where you want to position photos, journaling and embellishments.

 

[MazdaUK]

I'm going away for a few days next week so now I've been thinking about scrapping I could do when the kids are in the pool with DH. I've just ordered the Valentine set from CM so I could do our "courtship" album if I pull and crop all the photos this week. Or I could do the recipe swap and get ahead of myself.

Sketch layouts??? I've never done that and really wouldn't know how to! I work mine around my pics rather than pic photos to fill a layout. Is that wrong?

I can see I've got a couple of evenings preparation ahead. Recipe swaps do count as complete pages for the challenge, right?