As anyone can tell, the card did not jump start my scrapping. I got a job I can do at home using my PhotoShop program. It's great, because it has paid for the program and the new computer we bought. It is also going to cover our Christmas last year and this year. It's not so great because it takes up my PhotoShop time, and I don't want to fiddle with my settings while I am working on a specific project. When no work is coming in I am ready for a break from PhotoShop.
To add to my list of excuses, in my last move I lost my scrapbooking list. That's my list of the specific pictures/events that I want to scrap, and then cross off when I have. It's gone and has left me feeling a little lost.
I have managed to make some wallpapers for "the man with no name" I can share. He has two monitors and likes to use them as the picture frames on his desk. I like to make them coordinated.
18 November 2009
No Jump Start
26 February 2009
February's Visiting Teaching Message
I haven't scrapped in a long time. To get back into the swing, I made another Visiting Teaching card.
I do have hopes of getting some more scrapping done. I have a dream of a couple Shutterfly books, or whatever company I choose to go with. Of course, I have to make that decision first so that my pages are a perfect fit.
20 October 2008
Visiting Teaching Card
Just a little something I made for the ladies I Visit Teach.
credit: Doreen Stolz' One Moment in Timecrown by LJD
02 February 2008
And ACTION
This week I designed my own page. I don't mean I made the layout or chose my own elements. I mean I DESIGNED my own page.
Inspired by the colours the Little Gunner was wearing,
I chose my colours from the site I mentioned last week, Big Picture Scrapbooking. Using the shape tool in PhotoShop I created a grass and a tag.
Using 11 of the actions available from Atomic Cupcake, I created this!
Credits: ME!!See what a little pristine chipboard, torn vellum, simple tear, fabric, old brass, stitch, cardboard, tea stain, sketched and painted, cutout, and crinkled action can get you? Thanks, Atomic Cupcake.
Have no fear. I do NOT intend to become a designer. I much prefer to use designers' kits for their colour combinations, paper designs, and element choices. I even like to use other people's layout ideas when I don't have any of my own.
Have you ever used an action?
27 January 2008
Words
The Princess Pea is 3 and has an extensive vocabulary. She also makes up words to pretend she is speaking another language. When asked what her gibberish means she will give a translation. Yet, some words she never gets right, even after we say them. I told YTBN (yet to be named) that we would want to remember these so we wrote an email to ourselves. I lost the email and realized we needed a better way to remember. This is one of the reasons for scrap-booking.
The words on journaling strips was an easy decision. I also envisioned a profile picture of the Princess Pea and journaling explaining how she confused these words and couldn't even understand why we were correcting her and would often correct us. I choose the snazzy title, "The Things You Say." A google search got the better of me. I needed to know if there was a word to define what she was doing. When I saw what a nice definition it was, and how well it explained all of my journaling, I knew this was my new title. With the title placed I could see that a picture would clutter the page. It wasn't her face we were remembering anyway. It was the words. Therefore my page became one of only words. I think it worked very well.
I have an online friend that went camping, but forgot her camera. Using a camping kit, she made her scrap page anyway, with no pictures in the frames or on the mats. The journaling explained the events, including the missing camera. It was a wonderful layout that was fun to look at and preserved the memory. It demonstrated what scrap-booking is about.
Have you ever tried scrapping a picture-less page?
20 January 2008
Pick a Colour
This week I have been helping my yet to be named on this blog husband with a logo for his new company. I am not an artist or graphic designer, but have had a lot of fun finding the font that looks right and placing the letters for the company name where they look best.
It is very similar to scrap-booking. Finding the right elements and finding where they should go. Choosing the right font for the title, choosing the same or a different font for the journaling. Except there is one big difference. When I scrapbook, I use a designer's kit. The designer has already chosen colours, including the coordinating colours.
As Andrea Gold said in the January 18 GDS News, "I work and think best in shades of gray." Working on the logo, I worked everything out in shades of gray. Now I had to choose colours on my own.
I'm sorryMy yet to be named on this blog husband wanted bright and bold. After making such a painful attack on the eyes, I realized I needed some help. Where do I turn? I checked out my digi-scrapping bookmarks online. I remembered a site that provides scrapping inspiration with a quote of the day and a colour combination for the month.
Another important feature of the page is the image that provided the colour combination and a description of why the colours work well together.
Unfortunately, my "client" had an idea of the colours he wanted to use and none of the archived combinations were what he envisioned. A simple google search of "color combo" turned up this site.
http://www.colorcombos.com/
Entering the main colour he wanted (orange) we were able to scroll through seven pages of colour combinations trying our favourites using the provided colour code/HEX numbers until we found "The One."
How do you find or "see" your colours?
12 January 2008
Scrap-book Galleries
The online community of digital scrap-booking involves posting your layouts in galleries so that you can share your pages with others and view other digi-scrapper's pages as well. In other-words, to inspire and be inspired. But, what happens when it becomes intimidation? I recently asked this in Go Digital Scrapbooking's forum. Click on the title below to see the discussion that followed my comment:
I am seeing all of these great pages, and it really hit me with the ST IV contest, when we all used the same kit at once. The amazing and innovative things people did! I just want to scraplift them all. But, then I don't feel it is MY page. Others that I love seemed so specific to the picture that I couldn't scraplift it anyway.
I want my pages to be creative and beautiful. But I am not an artsy or creative person. I don't think my page is creative if I'm just copying someone else.
How do you do it?
I received some wonderful and encouraging responses from the great gals in the Go Digital Scrapbooking community.
Do you visit any online galleries? How do you find the inspiration without becoming intimidated?
