“Every child is an artist. The problem is staying an artist when you grow up.” – Pablo Picasso
I love this quote! It reminded me of the podcast interview with Linda Rapchak.
Cheers to YOUR creativity!
I was honored when Lisa Harris from MyKreativePursuits.com asked me to participate in her Mojo Monday, where she provides a variety of inspiration pieces as a jump start.
The piece I finally chose was a color inspiration featuring a pomegranate. The color combination is not something I would normally use, and felt it would be a good stretch.
Pomegranate Color Inspiration
While just coming back from out of town, I had a lot to catch up on. Then something exciting happened – my daughter knocked my coffee cup over on my laptop. (I didn’t say it was good excitement!) I immediately grabbed it up and held it upside down. After spending a lot of time trying a variety of things to help dry out any moisture, I still have several keys that are doing odd things, or nothing. However, plugging in my old keyboard to find I could actually get ALL the letters and numbers, made feel a litter better. What does that have to do with my project? Well, I wasn’t feeling very creative or happy after all that, so I decided to go digital!
I decided to use Close To My Heart’s Studio J online software. I realized Jubilee was a kit that I could make work with this color inspiration. In the original papers, I only loved one piece of paper, from the kit, and it wasn’t going to work with this color scheme. Going digital, I could tweak colors and papers to do what I wanted! Since Jubilee has a country feel, I decided to look for some photos taken at my parent’s, which is in a rural area. I found five photos I hadn’t scrapped of myself and my girls riding horses, and I chose the Top Hat pattern for five photos. Next, I selected Kit Mix 3 to start. I don’t really spend much time on the Kit Mix choice, because I know I can do whatever I want to personalize the papers and colors.
Two of my photos were of me and were black and white, while the other three were of my three girls and had less than lovely, old photo coloring. The layout featured two photos on the right page and I thought about just leaving them there. However, that really messed with my timeline feeling, so I just clicked the little arrows at the top between the pages in Studio J to swap their places. Voila! My pages were instantly swapped, and in the end here’s what I ended up with!
Horseback riding with four generations.
I hope you will periodically try new color schemes, as you may be surprised with the results. I think the colors of these older photos look fine with this color scheme, and I had never really tried to scrap them all together. There is really more of this story that should be told, and since this is a digital layout, I may go back and add a journaling block at the bottom of the right page to tell a bit more.
If you haven’t tried digital scrapbooking, you may like to see Studio J in action on this video I made.
Be sure and visit Lisa for Mojo Monday!
Cheers to YOUR creativity,
One of my favorite things to do is emboss! I said, “EMboss” not “BOSS! I have loved dry embossing since I had to do it with a light table, a brass stencil and a stylus! Then came along all the tools to make it easy! Heat embossing, I love that, too! If you like embossing, like I like embossing, or if you want to learn more, join the free scrapinar on August 26th. Even if you can’t make it live, be sure and sign up so you can have access to the replay!
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Embossing can add so much dimension and interest to a piece! Are you getting all you can from your embossing tools? You know it is always amazing to learn how to get even more mileage from tools you ALREADY own! Plus, who doesn’t like to learn a few tricks with tools we may want to put on our never ending shopping list?
Scrapbook Super Star, Becki Adams will show us how to get some new looks with our tools, and we’ll leave wondering, “Why didn’t I think of that?”
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Cheers to YOUR creativity!
We’ve talked before about the importance that online friends can play in our lives, they understand our scrapbooking, crafting, artsy selves! I recently was fortunate enough to go to Phoenix, Arizona to spend time with some of my online scrapbook friends, from our ScrapHappy group! When you get to meet online friends in person, it is not as if you are meeting strangers, it is truly a reunion!
During our event, we were fortunate to have Stephanie Ackerman join us and treat us to a mini workshop. I love Stephanie’s doodling style, and her heart. If you’ve seen her work, you know she put’s heart into it! She makes it all look so easy, and yet over time she has begun to add such dimension to her pieces!
Kristie Sloan and Stephanie Ackerman
She currently is running her year-long 52 Pick{ME}Up class. It’s never too late to join in if you want to check it out. Some of the techniques she uses for this class were what she presented to us. Using a deck of regular playing cards, we made a few of these little cards.
Stephanie Ackerman’s 52 Pick{Me}Up Mini Workshop at ScrapHappy Reunion
“What would you do with them?” you ask. The answer is, ‘Anything you want!’ Give them away, keep them for yourself, use them on a card, a scrapbook page, or anything else. They were great fun to create.
tip I would like to share is a product that I first learned about through Stephanie. It is called Glue ‘N Seal, and is THE BEST product I’ve used to date for mixed media pieces. It is not tacky or sticky as so many ModPodge type items are. It dries quickly, and it just becomes part of the piece to invisibly, that it’s hard to tell if you used it! Seriously, I was using it on some tags I was making, and had to use it to adhere a couple of things that were not sticking well. Because I was using the matte version, when I went back to coat all of the tags with a final coat, I couldn’t even tell the two I had already done! I can’t say that about all products I’ve used in that manner!
Back to the project:
I had prepped more cards than I had hearts, so I used a quote and some little pieces I had from some scrapbook embellishments for other cards. As always, you’re only limited by your imagination! If you get a chance to work with Stephanie, don’t miss it! In fact, here is a class you can access right away; it’s called, Project Miscellany: Playing with Paints, Paper, Stamps, Stitches and More. (affiliate link)