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This is my response to Brian/fuchsboi's challenge for Scrap Happenzz Critique Group to do a layout from only trash/reclaimed materials, nothing new or intended for crafting. Photos are from a trip to the Mill City Museum in Minneapolis, during our annual family reunion around Thanksgiving '06.
The museum is about the flour milling industry. Page 1 of this 3-page LO asks the question “Can a museum about FLOUR be any fun?” Pages 2 & 3 face each other (like a 2 page LO) & answer that question “YES!”
I used different flour-containing food packagings & magazine pics as embellies. The computer printing is on envelopes. Page 1 uses a shopping bag that you see me holding in a photo on page 2. The letters are handcut; page 1's “flour” is cut from the patterned insides of billing envelopes (idea lifted from Manhattan Scrapbooking Meetup's Cheryl, thanks Cheryl!) & page 2's “YES” is from a cereal box. There's a plastic paper clip there that gets cropped out of the scan. The pages are bordered w/ paper bag paper. The blue mattes are from file folders. The stars are cut from a patterned gift bag, they are more shiny & holographic IRL. The "photo corners" are from post-it notes (no addt'l glue req'd! I had to add those to bring more focus to the pics.). I used a bit of a Pillsbury Doughboy memo pad that I bought there. I also used a green twist tie under the journaling blocks. Hard to see but I sponge-inked the background to try creating a “stony” look (the museum had remnants of the original stone/brick mill).
Pardon the scans/stitching, there's more of a margin around the edges than shown here.
It was challenging but fun not using new scrap materials! (Only the background cs was new, plus I used ink). I was very frustrated for a while because other materials I wanted to use didn't work (fyi REAL twine doesn't take glue as well as twine made for scrapping, I wrestled w/ twine & glue for a while before giving up). This isn't the best LO I ever did but I captured the great time we had at the museum while having a good time myself, so mission accomplished I guess! Thanks to Brian for the worthwhile challenge. :)
Journaling “Sun. Nov. 26, 2006 – Mom & Dad left in the AM – soo great to have been w/ them! Awoke to Jon making everyone French toast & pancakes – tasty & so nice of him. We all eventually to downtown Minneapolis to visit the Mill City Museum. First we lunched at the café (delicious turkey/celery/dried cherries pasta salad in honey mustard) then onto a museum about Minneapolis' flour milling industry on the site of an actual old mill… which brings up the question–
Can a museum about FLOUR be any fun?? YES!
First off, just being w/ my family is so fun – we can find amusement & excitement anywhere. That being said, we had a BLAST at the Mill City Museum! Took a tour of the mill, learned about the flour industry history, saw lotsa interactive exhibits re: flour milling technology, the effects on the town & its people, did cool activities involving all the fantastic delicious stuff we eat that has flour… it was really cool how they made learning about FLOUR MILLING so FUN & fascinating! I LOVED seeing all the Pillsbury Doughboy stuff – he's one of my favorite advertising icons! We also learned about water's powerful role in mills. We designed our own cereal boxes from felt (a great time quite similar to scrapping for me). We saw the witty “Minneapolis in 19 Minutes Flat” movie w/ native comic Kevin Kling. It was a GREAT day!”
TFL.
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