My Mantra
I’ve been seeing a lot of talk about mantras lately. My mantra for about a year now has been that everything is fixable. This was a break-through discovery for me about year or two ago when I finally allowed myself to take some risks and mess things up.
Whenever I’m unsure whether something will work, I remind myself that even if I screw it up, everything is fixable. This little reminder helps me to take the risk. Whenever I find myself staring at a big ugly mess on paper, I remind myself, everything is fixable. And I find a way to fix it.
Those who participated in last week’s Paperclipping Live saw what the above layout looked like in its messed-up state. It wasn’t just a little mistake. It was a big mess. I recorded that session so if you want to see “the before” and watch how I create “the after,” click here and then hover your mouse over the pictures of the different video clips. Dates will show up over the clips. You’ll want to find 1-08-07 (yep, I labeled the year wrong).
Additional Tip For Using Masks
Here is a little tip you can add to whatever you may have learned from the Paperclipping episode on Masking: The color of your paint, especially the paint you put at the edges of the mask, should contrast with the paper color. In the episode, I used white paper, so I emphasized that I wanted a dark color at the edge of the mask. But if your paper is dark, then the opposite would be true. You’d want a light color. So the principle is, paint the edges of the mask a color that contrasts with the paper.
I can give step-by-step instructions of what I do. But sharing the principle behind the design enables people to experiment and make their own stuff based on their own personal creativity. That is why I am always looking for the principle behind the design.
Paperclippiing Live Tonight
Don’t forget, it’s Tuesday, and that means I scrap live tonight at 6:30pm MST. I’ll be starting a whole new layout and so that I can share my thinking process with you from the very beginning. See you then!
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Connection
12×12 Layout
Journaling to my daughter reads: You have always felt a natural connection to Grandpa Jerry…even when you were a newborn and he held you for the first time we could see that you liked him holding you. When you were old enough to express your own desires but still young enough to be held, you always wanted Grandpa to hold you if he was around. How luck you are to have such a loving grandpa. How luck he is to have the world’s sweetest granddaughter. It’s a special connection.
Supplies I used: Patterned paper (Daisy Bucket, K.I. Memories, other source unknown) * Gesso (Golden) * Paint (Grumbacher, Making Memories) * Flower (Bazzill) Glitter * (Martha Stewart) Brads (Making Memories) * Ribbon (Bazzill?) * Mask (Heidi Swapp for Advantus) * Bling (Heidi Swapp for Advantus) * Rub-on (American Crafts) * Pen (American Crafts)
