Work is about to begin, and for us that means we have to sit through a week full of meetings – not as much fun, if you’ve heard most of everything five times already, but then – what’s life without its little trials, right?
And what about the positive side of it? At least you get to see your colleagues whom you have been separated from for a whole long winter holiday – more than you ever get to see them anytime else.
Happy everyday, dear colleagues!
Keeping Record
Credit:
Captured Moments by Juliana Kneipp & Meghan Mullens
Lift of Downtown Santa Fee
Oftentimes, we focus so much on the light and happy times in life, that we forget to look at the difficult times (something which is true, I think, especially when it comes to us scrapping about the events in our lives). Today’s journal prompts, therefore, will focus a bit more on the hard and heavy side of life.
And here is my page, journaling a bit about losses and a very sad story.
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There’s so much inspiration out there, and this week, I decided to lift this page:
And here’s my take on it …
Now, don’t miss the blog where I got the original page from, because it has a lot of fun layouts that are easy to lift.Of course, you can see, I kept faithful to myself, by adding extra clusters and stuff. Just because I’m lifting something doesn’t mean I can’t give it my personal touch, right
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Credits:
2 by 2 by Heather Roselli & Libby Pritchett
Layered Cards – Mini Journalers 1 by Cindy Schneider
Font: DJB Miss Molly Brown by Darcy Baldwin
Well, well, here we go again. It’s Friday, and I’ve got the next installment of “A Cupful of Winter” ready for you. Today, you’ll get the first set of elements, and then there’s only one more part to go, which means I should be starting to work on my next project, shouldn’t I?
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Anyhow, my Terms of Use apply as always, and of course, I’d like to see the pages you create when you play with freebies from Misty Hilltops Designs.
See you next week, I guess, and happy Friday, scrappers!
With the holidays in full swing, and the students all gone, nothing much happens around here, except in the dining hall, where most of my interaction takes place these days.
So, of course, I wasn’t much surprised the other day, when all of a sudden Santa Clause strayed into the dining hall when I had just sat down for dinner. Well, granted, he was a rather small-sized version of Santa, and I did prefer to call him Sam Clause, because he usually goes by the name of Sam (if he’s not occupied trying to fill Santa’s big boots that is).
Sam Clause, however, wasn’t too happy with us calling him anything related to Santa, despite the evidence of the hat he was wearing, and when I asked him why not, he said, “I’m not Santa Clause, because I’m too little!”
Ah, now that, you know, is a really good argument, I have to admit. And thinking about it now, who am I to argue with a witty little six-year old, even if looks a lot like Santa Clause? And wasn’t Santa Clause a boy once too?
Who says you can only scrap the traditional way (if there is such a thing as “traditional” in digital scrapbooking)? Or with the trend of art journaling lately, pages tend to get all artsy and messy. Today, however, I would like to talk to you about a very different style of scrapbooking: magazine style.
If you look at a magazine, you would probably notice certain key features that are typical for this kind of media:
If we transfer that onto a scrapbooking layout, there would be three things you would really have to focus on: the photos, the text, and your title work. (Clustering lots of elements – doesn’t really work well for this, sorry for all of you who – like me – love to pile things onto their pages.)
So, how does this really work on a scrapbooking page?
Well, today, I have a couple of examples for you from my gallery.
And of course, things can get a bit artsy, too.
Or even more artsy/messy:
As you can see, there are basically no limits to what you can do with magazine style pages.
Tip:
Scrapping magazine style works well for you, if you have a story to tell, if you want to focus on your photos and the title.
Yes, yes, it’s coming a day late, but with the move of MistyHilltops.com and all, there wasn’t really much I could do. But now, I can actually take the time to wish everyone another happy new year!
At least in my part of the world, we get to celebrate new year’s twice each year, and who doesn’t mind having an extra reason to celebrate?
Anyhow, to all those who mind about Spring Festival, I wish a great and wonderful holiday season!
PS. And don’t forget to eat your dumplings.
PPS. Oh wait a minute. That was yesterday.
