Homework from Embrace Imperfrction Class

Part of our “homework” for this week from the “Embrace Imperfection” class was to find out what annoyed us or stopped us from scrapbooking – to think of the reasons as we scrapbooked our layouts. From the lessons learnt from recent layouts completed I came up with the following:

• Not having an idea of how to actually place the photos on the paper when it was completely blank.

• Which embellishments should I use, and where the hell should I put them.

• Using the computer for headings and layouts just causes more stress

• Crooked lines when you cut some paper or photo, thus resulting in them getting smaller and smaller while you attempt to get them straight.

• Needing to place items on the layout straight with the same gaps between each piece (particularly in the layout above with all of its straight lines.

Foolish

This layout I completed to see what my “problem” areas were. The first problem was – I have the photos, I know the story I want to tell, but where do I put them all on the cardstock?? I fell at the first hurdle! So I grabbed my container full of sketches that I continue to collect and used a sketch from Becky Higgins Creative Sketches Volume 2 book to come up with this layout.

Ok so it is not my original work but it got the layout created and the story told, and am I really going to mind when I look back at my albums in years to come?

Finishing off The Dragon Dance

I used the layout idea from week three, Friday email sent by May Flaum as part of one of the Big Picture classes she ran.

When I saw this sketch I automatically thought about scrapbooking the photos I took of the dragon dance in Malvern. But I wanted to include some information about the dragon dance and the Year of the Tiger, a more educational layout than a feeling one IYSWIM. Plus I wanted to stretch myself in using colours I would not normally scrap with.

All of this meant researching on the internet, downloading images, creating text boxes etc all of which took time. And then of course I got to the point of not wanting to finish it and moving on to other layouts, this layout in a plastic bag and forgotten about.

Well the start of “Embrace Imperfection” by Karen Grunberg class on BPC and some of the posts on the message board made me go back to this layout and finish it off.

  Lessons Learnt:

1. I do like to scrapbooking with bright colours though still undecided if this is due to the colours in the photos or if I would use bright colours no matter what.
2. Researching items on the computer is a drain on my inspiration.
3. Using the computer for images, journaling and title took me ages. This and researching were the main reason for not finishing the layout. (Maybe need to get smarter if I use this method again?)