SHCG: Excellent challenge response! The blocky title letters and the little squares are perfect for the lego theme. I really like your scraps... mine aren't that pretty! :) Doesn't seem like you're slowing down much creatively... great work!
SHCG: Great response to the challenge! I really love the title, what a great way to use your scraps. I like the little squares all around also, great job and your streamlining has definately not taken away from your fab layouts :)
SHCG: So cool! Love the Title! The inking around the photos really helps. Love the paper in the corners, especially the upper right. Your journaling is stellar as usual. The little squares are a great addition. Great response to the challenge.
SHCG: This is a great LO. I am not sure where the simplifying is :) Love the title and the different colors behind them. Love the little squares and as usual great pics!
SHCG: Wow this is cutting down? I think that all that work would have taken me ages...especially handcutting the letters. The title letters look really great. I also love the little squares. think it would be nice to have a little bit of doodling around some photos that you would want to stand out from the rest and to break the strong contrast with the white background a little.
SHCG:What are you talking about streamlining-this one looks so much complicated to me!! WOW! Love, love the tile-the scraps and the hand cutting are superb! I like the fact that you used different colored mats behind the letters! Love the blue border on top with the with pen dashes and the little squares on the bottom and that you repeat them above that pic! Great journaling as usual! I also love the pps that you used and the way you used them! Great lo!
SHCG: LUV the crazy title and how you angled the photos. It is amazing how rotating the photos slightly added so much movement to the pages. My only suggestion is keep making more great pages. :)
SHCG: At a quick glance this may look like streamlined, simplified scrapping, but on a closer look, there's a lot of work put into this, mommy-to-be! I'm still impressed. Love the almost diagonal symmetry to this spread, from photos to text to paper embellies. I absolutely love how you responded to this BWC with scraps from your Body War cj. Great idea to complement the lo subject with block title letters and primary colors. Cute use of that stitched ribbon. Your tiny squares of art make me want a tiny square punch of my own. My only suggestions are to move up the trio of tiny squares about the same length as those squares and maybe add three more under the journaling in the yellow space, toward the ESB photo (is that Lego?) and spaced as close as your trio. Spell check: 2 items, second line--delete 1 "then" and sub AN for "a excellent". Love your colored-in selected text. Love the Lego Van Gogh and Rodin pics. The ESB from that angle against the sky makes it so lifelike. I now have to add Legoland to my list of places to visit. Your lo also inspires me to take on this now seemingly doable BWC. High five Greg for me sneaking viddy in. Legoland! LOL! Reminds me of Knocked Up.
Love the title scrap lettering! Great job Sharon. You'll be surprised how the energy does come back...maybe not the motivation, but the energy does. :)
This is my response to WendyGirl/Wendy's "Use Your Workstation Scraps" Challenge for Scrap Happenzz Critique Group - to use a piece of the paper that you work on (& wipe inks, practice stamps, etc on). Pics are from Thanksgiving '08 when my out-of-state family all met up in San Diego for the holiday; some of us went to Legoland one day.
I am now 15 wks pregnant & have definitely been inspired to streamline/simplify my scrapping lately so I can keep it in my life...my energy levels aren't what they used to be & I guess this is how it's gonna be from now on! It's been quite an adjustment but ultimately a groovy creative challenge trying to keep scrapping while having less time/energy than I used to.
The title letters were hand cut from a workstation scrap created while scrapping my "Body War" CJ LO - http://www.scrapbook.com/myplace/index.php?mod=galleries&u=41507&m=view&id=1483197&type=-1&page=1&a=41373 . I made a test scrap using watercolor paper, stamps & watercolor pencils before I did the LO background; the test scrap looked cool & I saved it, hoping to use it one day! The small squares punches were from a piece of paper on which I wiped excess ink from photos/papers/stamps, excess Stickles & tested gel pens (added the multicolor outer inking later). Hard to see but there's a soft blue/green overlapping rectangles pattern on the background pp. I used colored pencils on parts of the journaling. And pardons but my scanner chopped off the edges as usual, there are more margins on these pages, plus they match up better, IRL.
Journaling for those interested - "Tues 11/25/08 (during our Family Thanksgiving in San Diego) – Started the day w/ a 'Core Rhythms' Latin dance workout w/ Mom & Sally & a relaxing bagel breakfast at the beach house. Then we all then went to…Legoland! What a excellent time & a nice day. The 1st coaster, Lego Technic, was great, I rode w/ Sarah. Then we did Pharaoh's Revenge where we had to shoot toy guns at targets while on a ride - I scored 470, Greg snuck Viddy in despite signs prohibiting photography. Following that, The Dragon coaster – Sarah, Jon, Jacob & I waited a long time for a fun yet not very thrilling ride. Wandered through Lego Mini Land USA where models of many cities in Legos were – very cool! NYC was wonderfully done w/ a subway & moving subway trains plus lots of landmarks. After lunch, Sarah & Jacob did a Volvo driving thing & got their Legoland driver's licenses. Spent some time at the store, Jacob was dismayed not to find sets that were Legoland exclusive. Later, Kid Power Towers – thing where you're in 2-person seats & have to 'climb' by pulling the rope – went w/ Dad & felt some acrophobia while high up but it was fun! Treasure Falls Log Chute w/ Sarah. Lego art exhibit. A fabulous trip to Legoland! --- That night – met Shirley's friend Sean in Little Italy, ate an awesome feast at Zia's (thanks, Sean & Shirley, for paying) & went back home to the beach house to watch Brooke Burke win 'Dancing W/ The Stars'. --- Too many great moments today to list – I love my family!"
LO was inspired by Rhonda Steed's "Have Fun Be You" LO from Scraptivity's Aug 04 Notions Newsletter. The Scenic Route pp was a giftie from Geliday Gelato - thanks Lisa!
THANKS Wendy, for a marvelous challenge... I too always thought it would be cool to use workstation scraps someday so it was super that you inspired us all to do so!
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