Books & Blogs: Color Me Happy

Each Thursday I review a book or blog related to scrapbooking.
The Review
I am currently taking Shimelle’s Blogging for Scrapbooker’s course. In this course, everyone shares a link to their blog. I decided to select a blog for this week’s Books & Blogs Review from one of my classmates. Right now, I have 163 new blogs in my reader. (Yikes! I know.) I used a random number generator and ended up with the number 19. I counted down the list to blog number 19 and landed on Color Me Happy by Diane Payne.
I reviewed her posts from February 19 to March 22, 2011. There were 11 posts during this time period—so fairly consistent. Most of the posts contain a layout of Diane’s. Her layouts are beautiful and for whatever reason, seem a bit different than a lot of what I’ve been seeing lately. One disappointment was that a few of the photos of layouts were “out for publication.” I want to see the layouts! This was problematic because the layouts were discussed, yet there was no layout to refer to. Oh well. Congratulations on the publications. I suppose I’ll just have to wait for them to be published. 🙂 One post included a tutorial and another post had an image of the sketch that was used for a layout (also pictured). Several times Diane wrote about what inspired her or how she decided how the layout should look. I really enjoyed that aspect of her blog.
Overall, I like Color Me Happy. The blog is nicely designed and Diane posts regularly. Will I continue subscribing to this blog in the long term? I’ll have to wait and see. I enjoyed the layouts and inspiration, but do have 163 new blogs in my reader, so I’ll have to thin it down at some point (I have around 250 blogs in my reader right now). I suppose I’ll keep you posted on which blogs make the cut and which blogs don’t in a couple of months after I’ve been able to explore all the blogs and see what kind of content is produced over a few weeks.
Over the next few weeks, my Books & Blogs Reviews will come from blogs from Blogging for Scrapbookers.

Publishers and Authors
If you are a publisher or an author and would like me to review your scrapbooking-related book or blog, please email me at stephaniemedleyrath at gmail dot com.

Stephanie