Final challenge of the day! Okay, I love circles. I guess I have been on a circle kick for over a year now. Because I love circles, you should love circles too! Ha Ha! So here is my challenge for you. Use a circle, big or small, one or many, as a mat. Mat a photo or an embellishment. Doesn’t matter how you use it, just use it.
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I don’t enlarge photos very often, mostly because it is just so easy to print regular photos off on my photo printer. But every once in a while, I will actually get up and change the paper in my regular printer over to photo paper and enlarge one great photo. Now you go do it. Put some photo paper in your regular printer and pick one photo that speaks to you. Make it big, make it speak louder!
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I have to admit that layouts with lots of white space are a challenge for me. I tend to fill my pages from edge to edge. Yet when I’m looking at other peoples layouts, I really love pages with lots of white space. So, go make a page with just that, lots of white space.
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Remember: white space doesn’t have to be white!
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Tip: I used my ATG adhesive gun to “draw” a heart around the photo and then applied fibers to the adhesive.
Okay, here is a color challenge for you. Use fuchsia combined with navy blue and gray. Any type of project. Go!
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This is a little gift bag I created to stuff with mall goodies for my friends who are coming over to scrap for NSD!
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Okay, go through your photo library, be it pre-printed or digi. Look for something that is more than 2 years old. Doesn’t matter what it is. Just pick the first thing that grabs your attention. It grabbed your attention for a reason. Tell that story.
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This pattern paper had the words “all boy” printed throughout it. You can still use paper if it doesn’t fit your theme, but covering up unwanted elements.
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Okay, take photos, paper, embellishments and journaling blocks and put them in a grid. Use whatever size you need. Don’t stress over it. Just toss them on the page and line them up. You may find that just picking a size and throwing the items onto the page can save you time and stress on how to design your page.
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Okay, I am a believer in saving your own story. Scrapping about you is just a more visual extension of the diary/journal. Others will want to read it, maybe now, but definitely later. Imagine the things you wish you knew about your mom, dad, grandma, great-grandpa etc. Write about those things. Take pictures of the moments you wish you had from loved ones who have passed on. Those are the things to save about yourself!
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Okay, this one is for some of my friends who may be reading this. Those of you who don’t think you are scrapbookers. I challenge you to do a scrappy thing. Print some 4×6 photos. Make some 4×6 cards out of some pretty paper, any paper. Write some notes on that paper about your photos. Slide them into a photo album that has individual 4×6 photo pockets. Done. Now don’t you feel like a scrapper?
Remember, photos only tell part of the story. Add your words, it makes the story more complete and preserves it for the future. You never know who may look at your photos down the road!
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Saturday May 1st, 2010 is National Scrapbooking Day. Every year in May scrapbookers and crafters celebrate the hobby. Many online sites have activities to follow along with for the day. I’ll be playing along with My Pink Stamper and Club Creating Keepsakes with their activities. I will also be having a couple of friends over for some in-home scrapping fun. And, I will be posting challenges and my project to match the challenge throughout the day on Saturday. I have 8 challenges planned, so I hope there are readers out there who would like to play along. If you decide to do a project based on my challenge, I’d love to see it. Post it to a gallery such as Flickr, Picasa, Club CK or another favorite and leave a comment on the challenge post with a link to your gallery.
Do you have a favorite online site that is hosting NSD challenges? I’d love to know about it. Leave a comment on this post and let me know about it!
These past couple of months have been the beginning for me of trying to get my work out in the public eye. In an earlier post I said I was able to have one layout featured on a popular blog. That is a start! I’ve also tried to get a short design team position as well as entering a card making contest. Neither adventure turned into anything, but it sure was interesting trying. Here are some of the projects I used for the two contests.
If you have ever thought of publishing your work, don’t be afraid to try. The worst thing that happens is that you spend a little time and money on your work and they say no. Its not the end of the world!
Here was one of my entries for a Cricut-based blog’s short-term design team. I took a shape from the Storybook cartridge and turned it into a photo frame by cutting and gluing multiple layers of cardstock together. The final layer had the frame cut out of it and decorated with pattern paper.
The card making contest had 5 themes to enter. Here are three of my 5 entries…
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