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Scrapbooking Art That Caught My Attention…

Thursday, March 15th, 2007


…in the last few days.

Nat’s Deck Of Me card.

Why I love it:

I like the happy colors.

I love how she exceeded the boundaries with the butterfly and transperancy.

I LOVE that felt butterfly (Nat, where can I get one?)!

I like the loose triangle shape the circles and butterfly form.

I like her overlapping of elements on both sides of the card.


Corinne’s Shhh Layout

Why I love it: Doesn’t this layout draw you in? She created such intimacy for a layout that features an inanimate object. I’d like to point out how she did that but I was already planning to do a podcast about this principle so I can’t spoil the fun just yet.

What else do I love about this? The colors. And the combining of elements to create a picture (adding flowers to the tree branch with bird).

Corinne did a few things to pull our attention to the Buddha:
1) She framed the Buddha with the curtain, tree branch, and candles.
2) She created contrast by using colors that are darker. Because the photo is mostly white our eye goes there first.
3) She painted an outline of orange around the top corner of the photo. It is just bright enough to pull our eyes there second, we settle on the tree branch, which then points us back to the Buddha. The orange paint helps to unify the photo with the tree branch.

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Scrapbook Layout: Get A Glimpse

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

A little documentation of my husband’s video podcast network, Glimpster.

These photos are Flickr Moo MiniCards. They’re actually little glimpses of a photo (not the whole photo), which is perfect for a layout about Glimpster.com.

This is my second time creating a page using these photo cards. I intended on thinking out of the box for this second layout; do something completely different from the first one. But if you compare the two, you’ll see I didn’t stick my neck out very far at all. They’re practically the same page with just a few minor differences. Ahh, well, I’ll just tell myself I found a formula that worked!

Later on (when I feel like it) I’ll create an oppposite page that will document the success of my husband’s podcasts. For example, Izzy Video has aired on a tech t.v. show in Canada and Australia a number of times. That’s one for the scrapbook, for sure.

By the way, if you’re wondering where Paper Clipping is on the Glimpster layout, it’s not. Israel made these cards up before Paper Clipping’s birth.

Products:
Patterned paper: Chatterbox
Chipboard letters: Heidi Swapp for Advantus
Letter stickers: Creative Memories
Rub-on’s: Chatterbox
Sticker strips: Narratives by Karen Russell for Creative Imaginations
Ribbon: unknown
Pen: Creative Memories

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Green Artists And Crafters

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Lisa Congdon directed me to a new colaborative blog of artists and crafters who are looking to green-up their lifestyles.

Aside from having a super cool masthead, Sew Green promises good direction for people like me; people who want to get more eco-friendly but are, quite frankly, clueless.

A number of months ago I made a few small changes. I bought cloth napkins. I began paying more attention to which waste items I could recycle. And I exchanged my sponges for wash cloths.

I had no idea these small, easy changes would reduce my garbage by two-thirds. Two-thirds! It is now my recycle can that overflows, not my garbage.

Just yesterday I was thinking that it was time to make another household change. I knew it would take a little research to figure out what my next step would be. Sew Green to the rescue! Thank you, Lisa!

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More Photos From Our Trip

Monday, March 12th, 2007


We returned home today. The house is secure. The kids are safe and happy. And our pup, Gizmo, is finally comfortable with his new doggy door.

Life is sweet.

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I’m On A Little Vacation

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Israel and I left the kids with Nana so that we could spend a few days together in Sedona, Arizona. This area is so beautiful it attracts artists, as well as spiritualists who have declared Sedona as having numerous “energy vortexes”. It is the old west meets art meets new age.

Personally, I’m not into the mysticism. The natural beauty doesn’t need new age imaginings to make it anymore inspiring than it already is.

And while I came here just to have a fun time with my sweetheart, this place really has inspired me. Between shooting photos (which I’ll post later), observing the nature and enjoying the local art, I’ve learned things.

On a smaler scale, I’ve learned about various media: resin and handmade paper or acrylic on plexiglass backed with silver-leaf. I can’t wait to try some of this.

On a larger scale I’ve gotten to know myself better in terms of my taste in art. I realized how the aesthetic elements that most inspire me remain the same across all types of art: photography, scrapbooking, design, visual arts like paintings, and even dance. It’s the dance part that is most surprising.

What attracts me?


1) I like a certain balance between structure and the organic. I understand better what that balance is now.

2) I like to view things in the macro: I like the close-up perspective of lines, texture and color and the shape of the negative space around it. I realized that this is what I see when I’m looking for things to photograph. It is also why, of all the genres of dance, modern dance most enthralls me.

Modern dance is very much about the lines, shapes and negative space the body makes, the lines that define the muscle, the organic nature of limbs and movement. It’s just like the photography I like to take and the paintings that attract me.

Knowing exactly what it is that inspires you gives you greater ability to find those things in art and in your environment. It enables you to create what you love. I am looking forward to seeing how my experience in Sedona will influence my scrapbooking.

Have you figured out exactly what it is that attracts you?

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Ali Edwards and Autism Speaks

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

I know that a good chunk of you already follow Ali Edwards and know about her campaign to raise funds for Autism Speaks. You know about her adorable boy, Simon, who is autistic. You’ve even donated and sent your friends to do so as well.

I also know that some of you are not very familiar with her. You are the ones I’m reaching out to today.

Ali is collecting donations for Autism Speaks through Kevin Bacon’s 6 Degrees organization. 6 Degrees will match the top six who gather the most donations (note, it is about the number of donations, not money). You only need to donate $10 to do this and each person can only be counted once.

Ali’s goal is to have 1,000 people donate by March 31. She is at the number two spot right now with 351 donations! If you have not already done so and you have $10 to spare, please head over to her homepage, look for the 6 Degrees badge with Simon’s picture at the right and make a contribution. We need to get Autism Speaks back up to the number 1 spot!

Also, Ali’s local news station highlighted her and her campaign! Go here to watch (click on the video camera icon to start the video).

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These Hang In My Living Room

Monday, March 5th, 2007

They are a sequence of paintings but they are all one piece.

Three Steps To Heaven is the work of Osnat Tzadok. Israel and I bought it three or four years ago online when we were looking for a painting to go on our wall. Something I thought might never happen.

When I look for art I look for vibrant color and shape. I love modern art with these qualities. My husband, on the other hand, likes the art to actually feature something. He needs more than just color and shape. We looked for a while without results and I thought one of us was going to have to compromise.

Then Israel found Osnat. Her work is perfect for us. I get my color, my abstract notion of shape and design. Israel gets a painting with an actual subject (in this case, trees). When he found Osnat’s site, we knew there was a painting there for us. And we both locked on to the same one at the same time.

Osnat’s paintings inspire me. Having just looked at her site again today I learned that she has donated some of her masterpieces to the Epilepsy Organization of Toronto for their auction. If you’ve been following my scrapbooking very long you know that Epilepsy has had its fingers around our family. It’s funny how a combination of commonalities can tie your heart to someone else.

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Scrapbook Layout: Something About You

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

This layout was for two different challenges. One challenge was to scraplift from one of Marci Lambert’s pages. Marci has been running the Layout-A-Day challenges on 2 Peas and is now stepping down. As a thank you, we all scraplifted her.

Click here to see her original layout. I loved her colors. The reds and yellows really pop out. I never use those colors together so I just had to try them. Since I didn’t have any products similar to hers, I found some red flowers on transparencies and added my own white and yellow with acryllic paint. Paint is so fun!

I used the Pencil Lines sketch for this week to inspire my overall layout structure. I am really having fun playing with all these different challenges.

Journaling:
There’s something about you. You attract people. Everywhere we go it seems strangers are telling me how beautiful you are. But it’s not just your pretty face. It’s the charm in your eyes. The sweetness of your smile. Your good, good heart that cares about others. You exhude life and everyone wants to have a piece of it. You are a joy, Trinity.

(The journaling spot reads: “Soaking up the sun’s rays and sending it out.” And btw, yes, I know the grammer here not perfect!)

Products:
Most of these products are from unknown sources! I’ll just list what I do know:
Transperancies: K.I. Memories, My Mind’s Eye
Gems: Bohemia for My Mind’s Eye
Rub-on’s: Danelle Johnson for Art Warehouse, Chatterbox
Acrylic Paint: Grumbacher
Pens: Creative Memories, Stampin’ Up, American Crafts

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Scrapbooking As “Life Art”

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Last night I kept myself awake thinking about Ali Edwards’ improved term for scrapbookers. Life Artists.

Creative people who are into celebrating life through art: life artist. “Scrapbooker” just doesn’t cut it – it is so much more than that name implies.

So who is a life artist? Do you take photos of your family, yourself, your environment, your world? Do you tell stories? Do you bring them all together onto paper, into your computer, onto a canvas (or some other cool concoction)? Do you create art journals with all kinds of wonderfully interesting pieces of your life and thoughts and emotions? Do you celebrate your life through your art?

Throughout my childhood I craved a medium to express myself in creative visual ways. I couldn’t envision myself as someone who could draw or paint. I sometimes collected cool papers and different things I found in various places, but without an awareness of what I could do with them they vanished over time, perhaps zipped away to the universe of missing socks.

That craving aside, I did journal. My parents bought me my first journal when I was seven and I was a faithful contributer to that blank book and about twenty-five or so others after that.

I also loved having pictures and collecting memorabilia and kept those in the old destructive albums that we all grew up with.

I first started scrapbooking in the more modern and archivally safe way in 1996. For a long time it was just about decorating the space around my photos. I had no interest in journaling, which I thought would just ruin the pretty pages.

It was a number of years before my scrapbooking hobby evolved into the hybrid of previous hobbies and interests that it is now. It is a collaboration: my photo and memorabilia collecting; my journaling; and my gathering of papers and items that inspire me. It is my opportunity to get creative and express myself through visual means.

What makes this particular type of art so spiritually exhilerating is that in addition to the creative visual expression is the use of photos and personal stories that I love. I don’t just look at my photos and put them in a box. For the couple of hours that I am creating a layout I actually interact with those photos. I put myself back in that moment. I remember. I relive. And I create art to express that experience. In doing so I celebrate my life and the people I love.

What an amazing concept. Ali is right. It isn’t just scrapbooking. It is Life Art.

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