Day: September 17, 2011

P2D Inspiration: Sisters

Published by Sula H.

I’ve decided to take a different route today. Instead of the usual CT spotlight, I’m going to share a little paper to digi (P2D) inspiration. For those of you who are clueless, P2D simply means, you find a layout that has been created through the traditional means of scrapping (paper and glue, etc.), scraplift it and turn it into a digital layout. Anyone who knows my scrapping style, will also know that most of all I love variety. So, recently I’ve been exploring the vast field of traditional scrapbooking and the possibilities you can find there for you digital layouts. I’ll be sharing some more inspirational galleries of some individuals in the future, but today I simply want to show you a traditional scrapbooking page, and what it looked like when I turned it into a digital layout. Here’s “Happy?” by Sophie Crespy: I loved the composition of this page, and how she pegged the photos plus some elements. So, I wanted to try my hand at this, doing it digitally, and here is the …

Saturday Feature: Driving Me Crazy

Published by Sula H.

China is a noisy place. I learned that very soon after I got here. It’s something you just have to get used to. But sometimes the noise just drives me crazy. Like the other day when they opened up a new store somewhere across the street (at least I assume that this is what was going on, because they love to turn up the volume especially on such occasions). In any case, the noise (for it was more than music) that came into my home from the outside was louder than the volume of the music I listen to at home. As a matter of fact, I tried to turn on some of my own music just to drown out that nerve wrecking whoomm whoomm from the outside, but it was a hopeless case. I could hardly hear my own music, and I had the volume already up more than usual! Worst of all, the music outside was so loud that it constantly had the alarms of the cars that were parked around go off. …