SHCG: Awesome LO... I remember how I felt going away to college, but it was only an hour and a half away. I can't imagine how hard your transition was! Love that you added your old college ID. The journaling on the notebook paper gives it a "school" feel... great touch! This LO seems like a departure from your regular style, and you did a great job!!
SHCG: What a great moment/day/feeling you capture. I just wished we could see your face on your college ID. And while I just LUV everything you have done the "Via Airplane" text has me a little confused and I would like to suggest adding a tiny "This is my" to the Independence Day title.
SHCG: This is great Sharon, love the colors and you did a great job with the inking. Love how you added the memoriabilia at the bottom, the picture is cool and awesome journaling. Great LO :)
SHCG: Love this LO. I love the colors and the inking really adds to this. Your journal page is awesome! This LO seems to be more one dimensional than I expected. Pop up dots were suggested for the 3 "cards" at the bottom, but after looking at this LO for a bit, I thought pop ups under the "independence day" would make it stand out a bit more. The picture is awesome, and sometimes scrapping just one photo can be a challenge, you did fantastic with it.
SHCG: The blue/orange color combo can get addicting, can't it? I love the bg pp, the vintage pcs, and the journaling on the notebook paper. And, look at you! Love the quintessential '89 long permed hairdo and the equally cute SID card. I'm with Janet on adding a few more touches. I can see a circle postage date stamp behind Via, a swivel brad on your pic pointed towards you as a sorta bridge between the journaling and photo, and I'd scoot the three pieces at the bottom so that the right vintage card overlaps the orange mat a little bit for added dimension. I'd also like to see you pick up the stripes in your photo mat, by drawing one or two white gel pen lines on the far sides of letters in the title that have stems. Finally, I wish you included somewhere the details behind your lei and feeling overwhelmed. Hard for me to do a one pic lo, too, but you show that it can work, and I hafta try your SID card idea with my own from college. So cools and inspiring to see a lo come from a ?OM and BWC.
SHCG: You always do such great journaling. I just wish there were maybe a few more embellishments. I'd like to see a little dimension to the page (maybe just pop dotting your license and things at the bottom would do the trick).
shcg: Again, always loving your journaling and so glad to see it handwritten here. Great play on words for your title. Also, I'm so glad to see that you did scrap this one-pic LO since it is so different than your norm. The inking is wonderful. I wouldn't change this!
SHCG: Great lo. I love how you used what appears to be notebook paper to do your journaling on. The journaling is also fantastic. Love the inking and the way you included ids.
This is my response to *jesse*/Jesse's Challenge for Scrap Happenzz Critique Group to scrap one of the biweekly QueZZtions of the Moment that gets asked in our group. The quezztion I picked was "When did you realize you could make it on your own?"
Journaling: "In late summer 1989, 18 years old, I moved to New York City to go to New York University. My parents gratefully paid for my schooling but in every other life aspect, I was alone for the 1st time ever in my life. I was across the country from my hometown of Houston, TX, & I didn't know a SOUL around. There were so many things I'd never done alone before. Sounds silly but I had never gone to an airport alone before. I had never made my own doctors' appointments. I had never been away from home for more than a few days. I had never lived amidst total strangers or had a roommate other than my sister. I had been so eager to leave TX, but I missed my family & friends, my boyfriend at that time, I missed being known for my achievements in high school, I missed the new wave/industrial clubs I loved so much (NYC clubs were more house music, ew). I missed the city that was familiar & comforting & home. I was immensely thrilled to be in NYC, hypnotized, but life was turned upside-DOWN. And I needed that time, that tough era, in order to grow up to be who I am today (still in NYC!)."
This is kinda a departure for me, I rarely scrap only one pic! But this shot of me in front of my dorm on my arrival day there said it all (BTW I was MORTIFIED my 'rentals snapped this pic in front of the dorm, now I'm thankful they did). That's not a blue ink stain on me, that's a "welcome to your new home" lei that was slapped on me upon arrival. I was so excited but totally overwhelmed by my new situation & this pic captured that.
I used a vintage NYC postcard, a scan of one of my old school IDs (bummed I couldn't find my actual freshman yr one) & some Club Scrap postage stamp embellies.
PP was a giftie from Gelidy Gelato - thanks Lisa! And thanks to Jesse for a marvelous challenge that delved into our past group stuff in a way that we hadn't done before, I don't think (plus cool that my journaling was almost already written in my response!). And much appreciation to Brenda for posing the orig quezztion.
Pardons that the scan chops of the page edges as usual.
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