The missing page has been found! I didn't even know it had been missing. I just now found it behind my computer and decided I'd better upload it right away since it has been about a month already! Here is Challenge #45: 1 patterned paper + 8 types of embellishments + journal in the first person + reveal something about yourself + you are the subject. I like this layout. I used products from the December 2009 Scarlet Lime kit and my trusty white pen. The flowers were cut from one of the patterned papers in the kit. This brings my tally for June up by one. No layouts for July. I've been super busy, haven't really had any down time, even with my insomnia overflow. However, the first week of August I'll be taking about a week to visit family and I have set a goal to complete 50 challenges while I'm gone. I am visiting someone who also likes to scrapbook. How will I do this?
1. Write down the challenges I'll be completing (#46 and #48-96), and then form a master list of supplies to pull from stash. This list will look something like this: 96 paper scraps, 42 flowers, 88 buttons, 50 ribbons, 115 brads/eyelets, 18 rub-on phrases, etc.
2. print and organize the photos for all 50 challenges.
3. select background cardstock for each challenge (whether it's one page or two pages), and slip each into a page protector with the photos in my staging binder in order by challenge.
4. pull all the items in my list from my stash, substituting only if absolutely necessary (I try to keep things easy here. I choose a variety of colors and patterns and textures, but I try not to throw in anything that doesn't look like it could go with very many things. I try to stay away from themed items for this part, unless it's on my list).
5. I flip through my challenges one at a time and add in as much as I can. Some things will have to be done separately before the trip, such as choosing titles and title elements, stamping images, etc, and other things will have to wait until I get back, such as stitching, adding stickles, and the like. I'll take my basic tools, but I'd like to travel light.
6. When I start working on the challenges, I'll have everything gathered together in the page protectors, and the finished layouts will be protected in the same page protectors until I get back home.
7. If I finish all 50 challenges and have leftover supplies (scraps of paper, most likely) I will make embellishments and cards.
That other project I've been working on, well, I've had to put aside most projects to prepare for this trip. Hopefully I'll get back to it next month.

Okay, I know it's my second post in one hour, but I just remembered I said I would tally my layouts and completed projects for the month of June. I wanted to post the last of the layouts for the month, even though it's out of order. I skipped Challenge #46 for the moment, so here's Challenge #47: Title and/or journaling on a main photo + 4 patterned papers + 7 flowers. I used the June kit from zanyzinnias.com again. Start Here, With Stacy - Assignment #1: create a layout that features at least 3 photos (taken at different times) that illustrate a particular personality trait in someone you love. Use sticker (or) chipboard letters. I did not take the whole assignment literally, rather as a starting point, so the rest of the challenge doesn't really matter here. I highlighted my sister's uncanny nature to not allow candid photos of herself to be taken.

Start Here, With Stacy - Assignment #2: Find a heritage photo that you know very little about. Use rub-ons over paper and photo. Attach ribbon to photo. The rest of the challenge I disregarded again, as it's my habit to try to make things my own if they don't fit. I journaled about all the things I could tell of my Nana's teenage years based on this photo alone, because I don't know any other details. She's the one on the right, holding the fishing pole and the soda. This photo was probably taken sometime in the 1950s. This was the June Zany Zinnia kit again. I made the butterflies using the newsprint paper bag (see the card I made for the SRM sketch challenge for more of this paper) and the Martha Stewart butterfly punch (love that thing!), and two adhesive pearls. I stapled the ribbon onto the photo. Don't worry, it's a reprint, not an original photo! :)

So my final tally for the month of June is as follows: HMITM 22-45, 47, 135 (25 layouts) + BPS A Baker's Dozen 13 layouts, egg carton, sketches booklet (15 layouts/projects) + SRM Card Sketch Challenge (1 project) + BPS Start Here, With Stacy (2 layouts) = 43 layouts/projects completed, and that's not counting the things I've been making for my new etsy shop. I'll wait until I have them posted in the shop to count them as completed. There. Now June is complete. :)

I just received a nice comment from a woman who's sign-in name is Kathleen. I don't know what happened to it, though. I clicked the "publish" button and the comment disappeared! That makes me very sad. I always like to visit the pages of those who leave comments for me, so if you get the chance, Kathleen, please try it again?
You mentioned the stitching tchnique I used on challenge #43. Do you remember trying this in grade school at all? Should I make a tutorial? It's fun and easy to do, and makes for a cool netting look, I was going for a "butterfly net" feel.
Hmm, I really should upload those new layouts, but I think I want to show you another project I made. It's a journal to keep me focused on only a handful of projects at a time. It's a work-in-progress that I'll be adding to over the month. I just need to make a few last-minute touches and I'll be ready to scan it into the computer for uploading.
An update: Our 4th of July seemed very busy. We had set our alarm to get up for our first day of church, and messed up the time so it didn't wake us up. I had one hour to get 5 people ready to go. Then we had a late night with the kids up until past 11:00pm. Oy. We took over 100 photos, then deleted all the blurry ones, so now I still have 78 to weed through and fix up before printing.
I'm kind of a rambling blogger. The less I have to talk about, the more I tend to ramble. I'll be back soon with new pages. Promise.

Whoa. What just happened there?
I was plugging along, happy in my world of hmitm and photos and adhesive and punches, and all of a sudden my BPS class ended, and poof! there went my mojo. I mean, it's silly, right. I'm only days away from the next class starting, Kidding Around (the one that involves scrapbooking with your kids), and I find myself searching for something to work on in the meantime. Hello!? Isn't this what this blog is for? Lol, come on, Seane! You can do this!
Okay, so, here's what I've been up to instead.
1. It's that time of year again. Yep. Any homeschoolers out there starting on plans for the next school year? Well, I am, and I don't use any fancy curriculum, just pieces I find and put together myself. I haven't really found anything I like 100% or that completely work for us, so I use one type for history, another for literature, and probably a bazillion different ones for art. You get the idea. I've been busy wracking my brains!
2. Soul searching. Well, church searching, anyway. My little family is going to try out a new church in the morning, which makes for a super-long 4th of July this year. If we feel at home there, we'll be going from having no church to, well, having a church, I guess. I am not super religious or anything, so don't be expecting a lot of faith-based pages, just the odd one or two here and there.
3. I have been reading some of Ali's earlier blog posts about some of her big projects, and I have been thinking about doing my own versions of a few of them. First I'll start by reorganizing all of my layouts into albums, because there just isn't any organization whatsoever there. I need to look at the albums I spotted in Wal-Mart today, the fabric ones for $10 that come in a handful of colors. I want to see if they would accept 8.5x11 page protectors as well as the 12x12 they come with. If so, great! I'll have an affordable way to display all my albums on the bookshelf in the living room. If not, I'll be looking for 12x12 binders, I guess.
4. I have been really taken in with some of the mini albums I've been seeing in the magazines, and I am yearning for a vacation, an actual trip away from home that involves the whole family and sight-seeing, but I just don't see the budget for it this year. We can still enjoy a staycation, but I would just like to get out of the house, head to the beach, or something.
5.Fighting with the camera. It eats batteries. I mean, just 5 minutes' worth of photo-snapping, and I'm having to replace the little buggers. So today I went and bought a recharger, that way I can at least reuse the batteries after they get used up.
6. In anticipation of the new class and some new materials I ordered for scrapbooking, I have been trying to dig up the motivation to clean up my scrap space. I've been working on it every time I work, but I just need to dive in head first and not come up for air until I tidy up all the bubbles.
No layouts today. I have a few, but I've been jumping out of order, and that just won't do, will it? Also, I've been working on a self-paced BPS class (Start Here, With Stacy, it's free) and have done a few layouts inspired by that. Since there's no gallery for it over there, I might as well post them here, when I have more than two. I don't really like to post for just a couple pages, if you haven't noticed. :)
Okay, one more note about something I'd like to try. I said I was looking at some of Ali's big projects, and I think I may like to do a 365 Project or a December Daily or a Week in the Life. Then I saw One Month at a Time over on Get It Scrapped! blog (www.debbiehodge.com) and got even more inspiration. My problem is always that I am a few months behind the times, always catching wind of these great projects too late to jump in with the crowd. My solution? The Academic Year :D Starting July 15th, 2010, and ending July 14th, 2011 makes a lot of sense for me with school-aged children, especially when they are homeschooled year-round. Next to the Calendar Year it looks more organized (whoever thought to put the end of the year in the middle of winter? Well, in the USA.), and next to the Fiscal Year (which would make more sense for us if my family life began and ended with my birthday, which is in April, but still too late for the new planting season) it is more celebratory of where we live. Think about it: the United States Independence Day marks near the end of the academic year, near the center of summer holidays, and the beginning of another year of age for our country!
I know I'm overthinking this. It's what I do. Have an eventful 4th of July!