It's been a while!
Posted on Donnerstag, März 26, 2009 at 3:14 PM by rhukari@rolmail.net"title="Send email to Reka the site author">Reka
Let me start by saying that I have many excuses for not blogging for so long, but none of them are really acceptable. I am just an A1 procrastinator who was suffering from burnout. :-) And you can imagine what type of chaos THAT makes for.
One of my first reasons for not blogging is that I took place in the Amazing Digiscrapping Race. This is a race, in its fourth year, organized by NDISB, where two-person teams complete 6 weeks of scrapbooking challenges, two a week starting in January, in the hopes of winning the GRAND PRIZE, a huge collection of scrapbooking supplies. Which is an matter of absolute luck, since the names for the grand prize are drawn out of a hat at the end of the race. But the journey is the reward. Along the way, each team who completes a challenge gets access to prizes from the generous hosts. And those were way beyond my expectations.
And the challenges themselves were rewards, too, not only a learning experience in scrapbooking, but also lessons in life and in self-knowledge. It was not easy scrapping from a "recipe" or working out the details between partners, made even more difficult by the fact that we were in two different time zones: me here and Suzi in California.
The first challenge was hosted by Hummie's World. The rules were simple:
1) Rip and tear a photo into three or more pieces! 2) Use journaling on your layout.
Having a rule about using journaling stymied me, because that is one of the reasons you scrap - to record memories - and that doesn't seem very logical without photos AND words. But then, I am a very wordy person. ;-) And I found out later scrapping is possible even without photos.
Here's my entry:
The second challenge was a collabrative effort between me and my partner, Suzi, from Elemental Scraps. The rules:
Cabin Fever (interpret this as you will, but it must be evident that this is the thought/theme behind your page!) Must include: 3 photos, 4 papers only (no more or less), 8 different elements - at least 1 must be acrylic, 2 different fonts. Must have a title, and journaling (which must be visible - if it is not readable, please include in your description)
Here is our entry. My partner Suzi provided the journaling, the background paper she made herself and two of the photos. I did the layout and supplied the embellishments.
More about the race next time!
Edited on: Freitag, März 27, 2009 3:28 PMPosted in Scrapbooking (RSS)