There is a challenge going on over at the WriteClickScrapbook.com blog. Lain Ehmann is doing a series of posts giving advice on how to scrap faster and her main strategy is scraplifting. Today she encouraged us to choose a designer we like and scraplift one of their layouts. I happened to do just that a few days ago for the Inspiration Defined class I am taking over at BigPictureScrapbooking.com by Elizabeth Dillow.
Here it is. Before you scroll down, see if you can guess which designer I scraplifted.
Supplies: chipboard letters and numbers & foam flourish stamp (Heidi Swapp for Advantus), chipboard circle (Colorbok - I placed the sticky side up), ink (Stampin' Up), font (VT Remington from DaFont.com), cardstock (source unknown)
Journaling: At first glance, China appears rather grey & drab. But if I look hard enough I can find plenty of color amidst the dirt & grime. So far no bright blue skies filled with rainbows. Until then, my camera & I will make our own.
I love to scraplift. Sometimes I do it more literally than others. This one was a pretty straight forward scraplift. I didn't change much out besides the photos, journaling and the stamp. I love how it turned out. I find I learn alot by scraplifting. It helps me step outside of my comfort zone and learn techniques as well as aspects of design I might not discover on my own. Often after scraplifting I then find I can incorporate new things into my own original designs.
In some cultures & art disciplines students learn by copying the masters. In Japan students even take on the name of their master.
The designer that I scraplifted is Ali Edwards. Did you guess correctly? Click here to see her original layout.
As I am writing this blog post, I am baking cupcakes for one of my children's upcoming birthday. If you like creative cakes and cupcakes, check back later to see what design we made. He chose the theme and has everything all planned out.
A few weeks ago, I helped my husband make these cute monkeys for a staff member's birthday. She was born during the year of the monkey. They take turns bringing in cakes for birthdays in their office. Not bad for his first attempt at cupcakes, huh?
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China has never looked so colorful!
Posted by: Paul | January 21, 2010 at 01:38