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Go To Designs: Diagonal

Today for our Go To Design, I'm featuring the downward diagonal. It creates a sense of movement that leaves no doubt as to where your eye should travel on the page. I like to think of using the diagonal flow in following three categories.

#1 - The Regular Diagonal

This is the most common way to use a diagonal flow design. It begins in the upper left-hand corner and flows to the lower right-hand corner of the page. Spanning the entire page seemed the logical thing to do on my layout about the Mackinac Bridge.

There are so many ways to create a diagonal flow. It can be as varied as Amy Coose’s mist splatters, Christina C. Scrap’s playful stars, Jennifer Hignite’s photo collage, or Laura O’Donnell’s word stickers.

 

#2 - The Cluster Diagonal

This next version still progresses from upper left to lower right, but the elements are clustered together instead of spread out. The design is more compact, leaving generous white space on the layout. This page about my great-grandfather is titled with a favorite phrase I remember him saying. Francine Clouden’s layout is neatly contained around an unexpected yellow circle and flows in an unexpected direction, which is my next category.

 

#3 - The Reverse Diagonal

If you want to shake things up a bit, try a reverse diagonal. It flows from upper right to lower left. It’s a striking design that depends on the unexpected to grab your attention. I think it works well because these layouts always catch my eye in the online galleries. Jennifer Larson says she always slants this way and has contributed two examples that prove her point!

If you'd like to see a collection of diagonal designs collected from all over the online scrapping world, here's a link to my Pinterest board. Are you inspired to try your hand at a diagonal design on your next scrapbook page? Is the diagonal one of your Go To Designs?

 

Go To Designs: Centered

Welcome to Day Two of Go To Designs Week. Today I'm focusing on Centered Designs. This design typically results in a well-balanced layout that is easy on the eye.

The Centered Design works especially well for a single photo. Matting, layering and clustering in the center provides the needed visual weight. My layout highlights a special moment between father and daughter on her wedding day. Cristina C. Scrap celebrates a special relationship, while Laura O’Donnell showcases a particularly adorable photo.

Centering a collage of photos is a sure fire way of making them the star of your page. Francine Clouden easily fits six photos on her layout, while Jennifer Hignite gathers five. Notice how both layouts feature pictures taken at different times and locations. I love these kinds of layouts!

One way to build a Centered Design is to start with a solid base in the middle, a basic square or rectangle, and build out from there. After establishing a focus in the center, it's easy to add different elements to fill in the page. I chose circles, a scalloped border and buttons to contrast with the center rectangles. A clean and simple design, yet very colorful.

Amy Coose, Christina and Jennifer all layer their squares and rectangles for an less formal look. Just another way to work the Centered Design over and over again and achieve a different result each time.

When it's time to embellish a Centered Design, small details can occupy white space and encourage your eye to travel around the page. In Summer Reads, I've created a diagonal flow by placing misting, brads, and wood veneer in the upper LH and lower RH corners. Christina favors stars and buttons in You & Me, and uses all kinds of fun bits to fill out her design on Lucky to Have You.

If you'd like to see a collection of centered designs collected from all over the online scrapping world, here's a link to my Pinterest board. Are you inspired to try your hand at a centered design on your next scrapbook page? Is the centered layout one of your Go To Designs? 

 

Go To Designs Week: Band

Welcome! This week at Write. Click. Scrapbook. we're going to explore the topic of scrapbook design. I'm Sue Althouse, and I'll be your host, along with plenty of help from the WCS creative team. 

I was introduced to the concept of a Go To Design a couple of years ago by Debbie Hodge over at Masterful Scrapbook Design. She described it as simply “a familiar way of arranging elements on the page”. A Go To Design can help you scrap more efficiently, and as we will see this week, a familiar design can be re-worked in so many ways. It need never be boring! 

Here’s our schedule for the week.

Monday: Band Design

Tuesday: Centered Design

Wednesday: Diagonal Design

Thursday: Rectangle Design

Friday: Shelf Design

Let’s get started with today’s Go To Design, the Band Design. So exactly what is a band? Unlike the shelf, (which we will cover on Friday) a band spans the entire page, either horizontally or vertically. So many ways to use this design. For instance...

#1. Let the photos themselves form the band. 

This is perfect for three 4x6 portrait oriented photos, or to show off a larger focal point photo by combining it with smaller supporting pictures.

#2. Show off a series of action shots or candid moments. 

Laura O’Donnell uses a band design to highlight her son learning to play field hockey, while Jennifer Hignite captures a Lego session and some special childhood moments.

#3. Create the band with patterned paper and layer everything else on top

Once you create a basic band design as a background element, you can go to town with the layering, as I did in So Blessed. Amy Coose grounds her layered cluster to the page using a simple band. So pretty.

#4. Use a vertical orientation and stack your element from top to bottom

Using a die cut shape or stacking words are just two ways to create a vertical band. Jennifer unites two photo clusters with her title and journaling in the middle. So many options!

If you'd like to see a collection of band designs collected from all over the online scrapping world, here's a link to my Pinterest board. Are you inspired to try your hand at a band design on your next scrapbook page? Is the band one of your Go To Designs?

 

Sunday Photo + Words

scrapbook!

Happy Saturday! I am so glad you could join me for our May installment of scrapbook! Saturday. I hope that you have had a lovely month of inspiration. I have enjoyed learning from Christine and Amy and I have found much inspiration from the gallery! I also really loved Amy and Aliza's weekend posts. Happy sigh. So much to love.

 

For today, we are looking into our gallery for color and design inspiration.

 

SKETCH

The sketch this month comes from Cristina's layout. 

I loved the idea of the pie chart and have been wanting to put it on a layout for a long time. This was just the nudge I needed.

Here is how the sketch turned out.

If you would like to use the sketch as a layered template, you may download it here. Please let us know if you do!

 

ROYGBIV

Last month, our scheme was the brightest it could be.  This month, we are going to the opposite end of the tonal spectrum. Inspired by Jennie's layout

you can see it is lovely in all its soft pastels.

Are you excited to try it? Me, too!

 

CHERRY ON TOP

Here is my layout using the sketch and the colors! Cristina + Jennie = Cristinnie. 

Thank you, Cristina for the sketch. I really liked using it. And Jennie, your colors are so soft and lovely. Thank you. I had fun using the sketch and colors and hope you will try them, too!

And, I hope that you loved the gallery as much as I! As always, if you make a layout using the sketch or the color palette, (or both!) please leave me word and a link. I love to see what you do!

Thank you for taking the time to stop by!

WCS Scraplifting Week | Wrapping it Up

Hello, and welcome to the final day of Scraplifting week. It’s Amy again, and I’ve so enjoyed hosting!

When I started this week, I wanted to explore how scraplifting could help me scrapbook faster and develop my design skills. So I’m wrapping it up with two layouts that illustrate those two concepts.

Here’s the first one:

It grew out of this one by Celeste, which came from a WCS post about scrapping with five or more photos: 

I loved her concept of using photos as a list, partly because I write a lot of list-style journaling. And I loved the overlapping photos. Knowing my penchant for lots of words, plus the fact that I didn’t have 14 photos to illustrate the things my son loves right now, I decided to follow her lead, and overlap squares, except they’re filled with words instead of images.

I stayed close to Celeste’s design, but the overlapping text boxes nudged me into new ideas. I also liked the combination of sans serif and script in the title and, now that I study this a little more closely, I realize I must’ve loved the visual triangle she created with turquoise, because I did something fairly similar—without even consciously thinking about it! In fact, I think I learned something about the structure of a design from every layout I scraplifted this week.

To make the text boxes overlap, you have to change a couple of settings. (This is how I did it in Word 2013, so if you have something different you might have to play around a bit.) Change the Fill option to Solid, the Fill color to white, and the Transparency to 0. Then, chose Bring to Front for some boxes and Send to Back for others. Nudge your text using spaces and tabs to leave room for the numbers. Arrange as desired.

This layout was perhaps the fastest layout I’ve ever made:

It was inspired by Marnie’s layout from this month’s gallery: 

What initially drew me to it was the title on the photo mat. But as I went about scraplifting, I realized just how much I liked that chevron-esque block of pattern. I thought it would take a while, but it really came together quickly. It doesn’t hurt that every piece I used was a scrap from some recent layout or another, hooray for scrap baskets! But really what made it quick is the simpleness of the design.

This layout took me less than an hour to finish. Let me repeat: less than an hour.

For quite possibly the world’s slowest scrapbooker, that is a record indeed.

To make the diagonal blocks of pattern, I used a plain piece of printer paper as my base, and then I cut a bunch of strips, each at least 6” long but different widths. Then I just glued them down at an angle down the length of the base, making sure that the corners matched up. Then I trimmed the base into a column. I repeated that for the other block, just with the starting angle running the other way. I love the quilty feel this adds to the layout and plan on doing it again.

Lisa made this layout

based on a scraplift of this one by Laura O’Donnell:

from this post about using four photos on a layout. 

Lisa says

I simply loved Laura´s design! It is so pleasing on the eyes with the grid the photos create and the stacked papers under them. I especially love that she used that bottom white paper for her journaling. As you can see my page is almost a total scraplift which in my book is a high form of praise!

And, to finish everything off, there’s this layout from Laura:

Inspired by this one by Sue

also in this month’s gallery.

Laura's thoughts on her process:

Sue's layout Knitting 2013 featuring the beautiful knitting projects she made last year really made me smile. I am a new knitter and was inspired by Sue's topic to make a layout about how I learned to knit. I only used 1 photo on my page because even though I've learned to knit and purl I'm still figuring out how to decipher the instructions and abbreviations used in knitting patterns so I don't have too many completed knitting projects yet. I did scraplift the washi tape under Sue's photos and instead of Sue's hand stitching around her layout I used a stitched frame on my photo.

So tell me: which layouts this week inspired you in some way? Maybe a scraplift, or maybe something smaller?

Happy scrapping!

WCS Scraplifting Week | Make it Yours

Welcome back! It’s Amy here with you again, for another day of scraplifting tips and tricks.

As I worked on the material for this week, I very purposefully tried to make layouts that reflected the original designs but that also “felt” like layouts I would make. To make it mine, in other words. If you look back on the layouts I’ve shared so far, you can see how the bones of each one are pretty similar to those of the inspiration piece, but my scraplifts still wouldn’t look out of place with the rest of my layouts.

Making a scraplift yours involves a few pieces of knowledge:

1. Understanding your own scrapbooking style is key. There are plenty of times when I see a beautiful layout and think I wish I could scrap just like that. In a sense, that’s the impulse that drives a scraplift in the first place—wanting to make something that looks just like that. But when you bring your own style to something you love, you make something different that is uniquely you. To do this, though, you have to understand something about your own scrapbooking style. I know that my style is centered in the story. I like to include a lot of journaling in unique ways, and I like to use text-based embellishments. I’m most comfortable with small patterns and I like simple lines. So when I do a scraplift, the first thing I think about is how I will fit my story into the design parameters. Will I need to add some journaling space somewhere, or take out a photo or embellishment so I have more room for words?

2. It’s also good to know your weaknesses. My stumbling block is always design—the fine art of knowing where to put things. (Maybe that’s also why my bookshelves are jumbled messes of books stacked both horizontally and vertically?) Sometimes design seems like a foreign language I can almost understand, but just not quite. Knowing this is a weakness, I lean on other people’s design fluency when I scraplift. Maybe your weakness is, say, mixing colors, so when you do a scraplift you might look more at how the inspiration piece uses blue, green, and yellow. Let the inspiration piece push you out of your comfort zone a little bit!

3. Your unique approach brings a scraplift to life. Your stories, your photos, your embellishment and color and font and texture choices are what transform someone else’s idea into your creative expression.

The point is to narrow down what it is you want to be inspired by, and then bring your own creative force to the rest of the choices.

Here’s that process in action.

I fell in love with this layout

by Amy Kingsford, from one of last year’s summer dailies. I adore how she placed the tags around the photo in a way that leads your eye to both specific spots in the picture and to the journaling itself. I like that she used a big piece of a bold patterned paper;  I also loved the muted color scheme. (And that picture! I almost want to have another baby just so I can recreate that picture!) (OK, not really. But almost!)

Here’s the layout that I made, inspired by Amy’s:

When I first started working on this layout, I started almost completely from scratch. The only thing I knew I wanted for certain was to work with one of my son Kaleb’s baby pictures. When I found this image, I was swamped with memories of how it felt to have a new little one (he’ll turn nine next month!). For the journaling, I had some notes saved in the folder with my pictures, so I just had to edit that text a bit.

Then I moved on to color choices. Since I had taken almost all of the saturation out of the photo when I printed it, I wasn’t completely bound by the colors in the picture, which are mostly shades of blue. Instead, I went with soft but warm yellows and oranges, to reinforce the feel of the kids lying in the sun. This choice was also influenced by the soft colors in Amy’s layout.

Once I had the supplies picked out, the layout came together really quickly. I changed the positioning of the tags on the photo because (obviously!) my photo was different from Amy’s. I added a tag for the date. Then I started playing with where the title would go, and I learned something: the thing that adds just the right bit of oomph to this layout? Those two crossed pieces of washi tape. I almost didn’t include them, but the layout just didn’t feel right until I included them. I think it’s because they give the title a home in the middle of the pattern.

I made Amy’s layout into my own by:

*adding more journaling

*including the date tag. If I don’t handwrite the date, I like to do something small that repeats part of another embellishment for the date.

*cutting the main title with a script font (LD something*?) and spelling the subtitle with different letter stickers (those pale orange alphas are one of my current favorite supplies)

*running the photo all the way to the edges of the layout

The way Amy’s layout pushed me out of my comfort zone? I used that nice, bold (for me) patterned paper. Remember…I like smaller patterns. But I took a deep breath and used this cloud paper (instead of the B side I bought it for) and you know? I love it!

Let’s look at how some other WCS team members make a scraplift or two their own!

Lisa  made this layout

after being inspired by Amy Coose’s*  layout “You are My Dream Come True”: 

Lisa’s use of chevron patterned paper and the strong diagonal line (I love that and am all itchy & inspired to do this soon!) are reflective of Amy’s layout. To me, the photo is what really makes this feel like a “Lisa Ottosson” layout. About her process, Lisa says

I used Amy´s general design with the half page. I didn´t journal on this layout since I plan to have it in my general happy things album, which is more like a coffee table book than a scrapbook. I liked how my eyes were drawn to the photo on her layout and I tried to recreate that.

Jennie McGarvey also shared a couple of scraplifts. This first one

was inspired by this layout by Jina Jean in the January gallery

Two very different layouts—color, theme, embellishments. One very Jina, one very Jennie! They both make me want to do different things—Jina’s layout inspires me to do a then/now layout (maybe about how, twenty years ago I discovered that I really, really love black clothes. And how I still do now!) Jennie’s layout made me stop and think what everyday kinds of moments am I forgetting to document? (It also made me want some ice cream!)

and this one

got its start with this layout by Stephanie Bryan from the February 2014 gallery:

I actually have Stephanie’s layout pinned on my scrapbooking board. I loved the vertical column of text. And I love just as much how Jennie changed that into the little story that is her title. (Sidenote: I gave up. I’m eating ice cream while I write this!)

Jennie says this about her scraplifting process for these two layouts:

For both of these pages, I kept pretty close to the original design.  I had chosen both original pages because their overall design really appealed to me -- and I wanted to stay true to that.  They were both done with materials that were pretty easy to use whatever products and make the design my own.

And there you go, as powerful a way as any to make a scraplift your own: similar design, different products.

So tell me: how do you make a scraplift your own?

WCS Scraplifting Week | Keeping Organized

Welcome back to day three of scraplifting week here at WCS. I hope you’ve enjoyed what we’ve shared so far. Amy here, and today I thought I’d toss out a question:

How do you keep your scrapbook inspiration organized?

I have to confess, technology makes this much easier for me! I used to have folders (you know…actual, real, paper folders) where I’d toss in layout ideas that I’d torn out of scrapbook magazines. I kept them organized by number of pictures. I think I spent almost as much time organizing ideas as I did scrapbooking.

Now I use a revolutionary, never-before-heard-of organization method:

Pinterest!

I know, probably everyone uses Pinterest. But it’s such a useful tool for keeping ideas organized. Mostly what I pin are layouts that I love but aren’t sure what I’ll take from or how I’ll use.

When I see a layout and know immediately what story it inspires me to tell, I keep it in my layout notes. This process is a little bit more specific to how I work. If I find an idea I want to use and I know immediately which story I'll use it for, or I have one of those this-supply-will-work-perfectly-with-that-story moments, I make a note to myself that includes the link to the layout and how I want to use it, and then I save the note in the folder where those pictures are located. That way, once I get around to working on those photos, I have my layout idea notes ready to go.

Some layouts end up in both places!

The layout I’m sharing today was inspired by this layout from Laura O’Donnell:

It was posted during Amy Coose’s blogging week, on the 2-Photos Day.

I’m drawn to layouts with big photos lately, so this grabbed my eye immediately. I didn’t have a specific way to use it yet, though, so I pinned it and waited, and then I remembered this photo of my son Nathan and I knew Laura’s layout would be a good place to start:

I swapped out the smaller photo with some journaling, but I kept quite a bit of the original design. One thing I learned from this scraplift is just how hard it is to mix layers of patterned paper successfully! That is something I’ve been trying to do better lately; sometimes I get it right. I’m not sure I did on this layout—I keep looking back at Laura’s original to see what pattern-mixing magic I overlooked.

That’s another thing about scraplifting: sometimes the original just can’t be duplicated. But there’s always the next layout, right?

Lisa made this layout:

After being inspired by this one by Diane Payne, from Jenny Larson's Keep Warm Week back in January:

Lisa says:

I love the fun polaroid mats that Diane used on this page. They give such a summer feeling to the whole page. I didn´t use polaroid mats, but still went with a similar shaped on the photos. Since I scrap A4 (8.5x11") I usually end up using three photos. I also liked her title on the edge like that, so I did that too. I l also added a bit more journaling than Diane did, but I can totally see this layout as a title page for spring layouts in my album!

Jennifer Hignite shared this layout:

It’s a scraplift of one of Carey Bridges’ layouts, from the October 2013 WCS gallery:

Here’s what Jennifer said about her scraplifting process:

I was inspired by the design of Carey’s layout. I was drawn to it because of the polaroid photos and the word bubbles!

I changed up the design a little bit, to make more room for journaling. I wanted to write a little bit more on this layout to share some then and now perspectives on school life. I kept the layout of the photos very similar, and used word bubbles to help make the photos pop.

Most layouts have enough flexibility that even when you change things, the result is still amazing. Dare I confess that I rarely use word bubbles, even though I love them? Hmmmm. I might have to scraplift that idea. Just pinned it!

So tell me: how do you organize your inspiration?

WCS Scraplifting Week | The Ethics of Scraplifting

Welcome to day two of scraplift week!

As I put together this week's material, I found myself thinking about the ethics of scraplifting. I know...that's not a thing. Or not really. There is, in fact, a long line of creative types "lifting" ideas. There are oodles of poems, for example, with a subtitle like "after John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn." There are books that take a character from one novel and build an entirely new story around it. (I have an entire list of them somewhere!) Paintings based on old myths. Movies based on old fairy tales. Urban legends based on old movies.

Inspiration is quite often circular.

So I personally don't think there's anything ethically wrong about scraplifting. It just fits into how creativity works. But there is this: if you scraplift someone's idea, you should give credit for it if you post your layout online anywhere. I firmly believe in linking back. So if I scraplift something from someone, and then I share it somewhere online, I always make sure to link back, both to the original site where I found the layout and the original scrapbooker's blog (if she has one). Because who doesn't appreciate more hits on her blog? And who doesn't want to know that her work inspired someone else's?

In fact, even if I don't post the scraplift online, quite often I'll still email the orginal creator just to thank her for the inspiration.

My point, of course, is to give credit when you scraplift and then post somewhere. It's just good scrapbooking karma!

Today, I’m sharing this layout:

It was inspired by Sue Althouse’s layout

From the August 2013 WCS gallery.

I loved several things about Sue’s layout: the layers of patterned paper under the photos, the narrow strips at the top, the balance of the elements. But mostly I loved the journaling strips on top of the tags. Since my layouts tend to be heavy on story, I am always watching out for interesting ways to put the words on my layouts.

I followed Sue’s design pretty closely, but I made it feel like an “Amy Sorensen layout” by making the title bigger (I love mixing different alpha stickers) and hand drawing the letters for the word “jump.” The color choices are also connected to my style—I use quite a bit of orange, but in small doses. Finally, one of the things I do quite often is write the date on the layout by hand. Even though there’s absolutely nothing beautiful about my handwriting, I still think it’s important to include it.

(Sidenote: can I just say how much I love these pictures? They make me laugh, and plus: one day when Kaleb’s own little five-year-old is making him crazy because he has so. much. energy., I plan on using these images as evidence for just how energetic Kaleb was!)

Celeste made this layout

After being inspired by this layout of Jenny Larson’s

from the May gallery. (I confess: this was my favorite gallery layout this month, and one I will be scraplifting, too, in the very near future!)

Celeste shared part of her scraplifting process:

I was inspired by all that patterned paper! I love patterned paper and anytime I see it used a lot on a page and well I get inspired!

 

I pretty much Copied and Stole Everything (CASE) I guess the only thing I left out was a button and a word sticker. The design was just perfectly simple and clean. I couldn't bring myself to mix it up. 

 

Sometimes you just don't mess with perfection!

 

Lisa also did some scraplifting. She used this layout from Stephanie Bryan

 

to make a piece of wall art:

(Swoon!)

 

And here is Lisa's process:

I loved Stephanies page and wanted to make a wall art piece using her design. I created the collage with my black and white photos in Picmonkey and printed it almost at a full A4 size. Then I added a few pops of color, which is probably my favorite thing about her layout! And I love that this reminds me of an old school collage!

 

And here is exactly what I meant about creativity being circular. Or maybe it just winds—you start with something that inspires you and you see where it takes you. Sometimes it's a CASE (love that term but had never heard it until now!), sometimes an adaptation, sometimes a change in media. Whatever the destination, though: it's a fun road to follow!

WCS Scraplifting Week | The Benefits of Scraplifting

Welcome! This week at Write. Click. Scrapbook., we're going to explore a topic I've been thinking about quite a bit recently. I'm Amy Sorensen, and I'll be your blog hostess this week, but plan on seeing a whole bunch of other WCS team members too.

 

Lately I've wanted to accomplish a couple of different things with my scrapbooking layouts:

 

1. Scrap faster! I feel like I'm the world's slowest scrapbooker. Somehow I end up taking what seems like forever on my layouts. I want to get more done in less time.

 

2. Expand and develop my scrapbooking style. I'm actually fairly comfortable with how I scrapbook. I know that my style will always be journaling-centric, with a tendency toward alphabet-themed supplies. But I also don't want to get stuck in a rut. I want my layouts to look like me but also feel consistently fresh.

 

As I thought about these two goals I'm working on, I realized I have a great resource right here at Write Click Scrapbook. I'm probably a little bit biased, since I've been here since June 2010 and loved the site since it was founded by the creative brains behind Simple Scrapbooks (may it rest in peace, sniff). I considered all of the layouts and scrapbooking ideas I've pinned, or notes I've taken, and ideas I've loved, and I realized:

 

scraplifting!

 

I don't do this enough. I tend to be inspired by others' layouts in the sense of seeing them and then thinking Ok, now I'm ready to create something. But scraplifting makes the process go a little bit faster, since the work that's the hardest part for me (figuring out where to put stuff and how to use supplies in different ways) has already done. And it also helps open up my scrapbooking style by helping me incorporate design approaches that my way of thinking just never would come up with.

 

So this week here at WCS, we're focusing on the fine art of scraplifting.

 

First, let's establish what scraplifting means. It is the process of taking part or all of a scrapbook layout and incorporating it into your own work. You can scraplift a design, an embellishment, a title treatment, a color scheme, even a story. (OK...the idea for a story, as someone else's experience can act as a spark for your own.) Anything, really.

 

Here's the first layout I scraplifted:

 

 

My inspiration was this layout:

 

 

 

by Amy Coose from the April gallery.

 

When I saw Amy's layout in the gallery I sort of swooned just a little. Lately I'm drawn to tone-on-tone designs, with little pops of color, and of course I love my Silhouette. And scripty fonts mixed with straight ones.

 

When I scraplifted it, I changed a few things, mostly the position of objects. But I think the "feel" is similar.

 

I think every time you scraplift from someone, you can learn something about your own process. This scraplift reminded me that simple is often exactly what is needed. I had a whole bunch of little bits and pieces I'd pulled out to use on this layout—but as I looked back and forth between my scrapping desk and Amy's design, I realized that the "feel" she created was due partly to the judicious choices in supplies. So I kept mine simple, too.

 

Christine also scraplifted one of Amy Coose's layouts. She started with this page:

 

from the December gallery. She used it as inspiration for this layout:

 

This scraplift is remarkable to me because at first glance, you barely notice that one inspired the other. But when you look closer you can see the similarities in the way objects are placed and the shapes of things.

 

Christine shared some thoughts about this process:

 

I was inspired to pick this layout to scraplift because I love papers and layering them. I've always loved Amy Coose's style and this was the perfect chance to scraplift one of her layouts. I was also attracted to the shapes she used, such as the circles and stars. And sewing on the page! I love doing that but I don't have room in my craft area to leave my sewing machine out, so I hardly ever use it.

 

I changed my layout from Amy's page a bit, because I needed to fit three photos onto the page. I added a section on top with papers and shapes so that I could add my third photo. I am usually not a multi-photo on a page scrapbooker, but this page was for a vacation album and I needed to fit more photos onto my pages because I have so many photos from our vacation to Maui.

 

 

One of my scrapbooking friends told me once that she doesn't scraplift because it feels just a little bit like cheating. And while, OK, maybe it is standing on the shoulders of someone else, I also think it's one reason we share our work. If it helps someone else to scrap faster, or happier, or in different ways, I think it's a good thing!

 

So tell me: do you scraplift? Share a link to something you've scraplifted if you're so inclined! And join us tomorrow for more scraplifting goodies.