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Embrace the need to play.

The last two words at the Big Idea Festival: embrace and play.

My page for embrace:

And my page for play:

This was the most fun page to do. Playing is good, and we all should do it more often!

I also have the final week’ layout for The Mother LOAD boot camp warm-up:

Reflection

This week is about style. I was to figure out what my style is; what are the colors I choose most, what type of embellishments do I always reach for, is there something I always tend to do on my layouts? I looked back over previous layouts, and I noticed that I have a tendency to always reach for kraft or white cardstock as my base. I like red. I like tags, fabric brads, and I like a linear look, as opposed to something whimsical, for instance. My layouts don’t have to be perfect, in fact, sometimes I like that hand-crafted-I-made-this-in-kindergarten look. It’s down-to-earth. That’s me. I have no idea what to call my style, and I don’t really know if I like my own style, but it’s comfortable. Like a pair of lived-in jeans. I have time to improve on it, however, and that gives me even more comfort.

This coming week, on Thursday, September 1, the “LOAD” part comes in, and I’ll be challenged to complete a LayOut A Day (get it?). Boot camp gets under way full-swing, and my goal is not only to get my layouts done, but do them well, and get them on this blog. Can I do it? I think I can! Until next time!


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Show and Tell.

I’m catching up on my Big Picture Classes homework this weekend, and I have accomplished quite a bit. I have Four new layouts, thankyouverymuch!

First, “Colour! Or is it Color?”. This week we are focusing on the color green. You know, each week I am finding that I like each color more and more, thanks to this class. I am discovering the importance of color in my layouts like never before. I am certainly appreciating colors more, as well.

He is Content.

I followed instructor Nic Howard’s lead as far as style and composition here. Quite out of my comfort zone, which is good. I am here to learn and push my limits.

Next, “Design Challenges”. This is a truly fun class! The challenges we are given are so unique and interesting. Challenge 4 is to use a vintage type, or font. I love fonts, and I have always found them an important part of the style of a layout.

A Fourth of July party photos I hadn't yet scrapped. Kizmet!

Challenge 5 is to use symbols in our layout. We were given links to a font website for free dingbat downloads, which really  helped. Dafont.com is also a good resource for free fonts and dingbats.

Pause. Christmas photos I never scrapped. I'm batting a thousand.

And finally, “The Mother LOAD”. Basic training for the goal of hopefully becoming a “super scrapper” one day. I’m keeping my fingers crossed. This assignment is to create any layout we choose, but to keep tabs on how long it takes me; what is my process; how do I go about choosing this and that, etc. It took me a long time, and I do not have a method or protocol I follow; rather I am somewhat scatterbrained at times. I don’t think about the order in which I am doing things, or how long it is taking me, or taking any steps to organize anything. I am just doing. One thing I have learned is that I tend to get lost in my creative process. I am so happy, content, focused and creative-minded, I lose track of the time, whether I am hungry, and sometimes what is going on around me. It’s not intentional. But, I do have to admit that there are also times I do dawdle and end up sidetracked looking at Twitter posts, or playing my turn on Words With Friends. Love that game.

Hello Summer, inspired by Ali Edwards.

I feel accomplished today, and it feels good. Yesterday was productive, and today will be too, as I get to work on creating cards for a friend. Happy creating!


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…And on to the Mother LOAD!

As in, LayOut A Day, the next BPC class I am now working on, taught by Lain Ehmann.  Come September, I will be in scrapbook “boot camp”, creating a layout every day for 26 days in that month. I’ll get whipped into shape as far as using my time wisely, being productive, using up old supplies that are currently collecting dust, learning new, time-saving techniques, and generally getting my motivational and creative butt kicked. It will be so awesome! For now, we are getting “warmed up” in class…this week we are organizing our scrap spaces, and using some old products and/or photos to help clean things up. A much-needed exercise, indeed. Here is my layout for this week:

Bo Bunny paper and stickers; Paislee Press green patterned paper. Noelle at 7.

You know, using up old supplies makes room for new ones! Don’t tell my husband I said that. I’ll be back for round 3 in a little while!

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