August Challenges

I CHALLENGE YOU!

1- Most of my pages are more artfully done using products and techniques that really make the pages stand out... focusing on one - three photos instead of 10 or 15 photos. I never scrapbook in order and I only scrap photos I am in the mood to scrap... making it possible for all my pages to turn out just as I like them. I know that there are a lot of people out there that feel like they are 'behind' in the scrapbooking, they feel that they must put tons of photos on the page in order to 'keep up'. Let me ask you this, when you look at a page with 15 photos on it, scattered randomly around the page, with stickers and such 'decorating' it... when you look at that page... I mean REALLY look at that page... where do your eyes go? Do you even SEE ANY of those photos? ... or is it so busy that your eyes have no place to rest? With that in mind, I challenge you to look at scrapbooking in a different way... instead of a job... as a hobby... as a creative outlet... as a way to display your most precious memories. In order to do this let's start with this :

> Choose a set of photos you'd like to scrap.
> Now go through these photos and think back to the time you took them, how were you feeling, what was happening, what do you want to remember?
> Now choose only 3 photos from that set of photos... this may be hard... but think.. what pictures REALLY tell the story? We both know that you don't need to include ALL of them!
>Now design a page that will use only these 3 photos... tell the story through your art... try to stay away from stickers for this challenge... get your hands dirty... maybe some Distress Inks, Paints, Stamps... put your heart into it. You'd be surprised at what you'll end up with!
I'd LOVE to see what you come up with. I welcome you to take a photo of your completed challenge page and post it to my facebook Group, A Page in Time.

Challenge #2: Alcohol Inks... what can YOU do with them!??!