CSI Scrapbook Challenge Case No. 272

Clicking through some of the Scrap Our Stash designers and members' blogs, I came across a beautiful and fun page with a winter theme that was made from a challenge in the CSI scrapbook challenge website which gives an inspiration photo/artwork and then clues to incorporate elements into your page and journaling ideas. I had stumbled across this once before but never got around to participating.

I gave it a try since I had a creative block with some photos that I wanted to tackle in a layout from two different times I was in Utah as part of my states, countries and California cities album. One visit was in summer and one was in winter so I wasn't sure how they would go together. But this February challenge from CSI Case No. 272 gave me a tie in: the plaid pattern as part of the design went with the winter feel for my snow pictures and I happened to wear a plaid pattern when I was hiking for the summer trip.

I used the same design proportions of patterned paper to plain, grabbed some brick red paper for accents, and added in some dots as snow falling like the inspiration piece. I cut a bit of fringe around one photo to show warmth like the scarves as we indulged in a pizza-cookie that day.

I didn't end up doing any of the writing prompts from the challenge but I could write about it now, today's is "if you could do today over, would you redo anything? " The only thing I can think of is that I would get one of my weekly phone calls out of the way and applying to another job on my list, otherwise felt productive:

• calling the help desk to try to get access to a job board, 
• fixing a warming soup for dinner, 
• picking up some fresh produce for the rest of the week, 
• putting gas in the car,
• exercising the dog, 
• singing with the Smule app, 
• and responding to an email for a phone interview. 

But the night is still young-perhaps I can get one more thing done besides yoga to make my headache go away.