You may recall from last month's challenge that the purpose of this challenge group was to take our scrapbooking to the next level, to stretch our creative process and to grow as artists by embracing challenges that make us think, work and grow.
This month our challenger was the very talented Lisa Moen. Lisa, like most of us, doesn't always take the "perfect" photos. In fact, sometimes, the imperfect is all you have to tell your story. This month Lisa challenged us to use those imperfect photos to tell an story. Here's what she had to say about her challenge:
"I was digging through some old 1980's photos the other day and realized how bad some of the pictures were. Cameras have come a LONG way since then!
I have lots of pictures I haven't scrapped because they were/are poor quality pictures and I am sure you have pictures like that too. So let's dig out those blurry, bad pictures and tell the story behind them! So my challenge to you this month is to use a bad photo and journal about it."
I hope you will stop by and see what the designers on this adventure have created:
So, I didn't have to go all the way back to the 80's to find a blurry picture. The one on this layout was just taken in 2009, and why it wasn't deleted immediately on the digital camera, I don't know. But I'm glad it wasn't!
Once I chose the photo and some paper for a mat, I got to work, or should I say, started playing. :)
I started with a full 12 x 12 sheet of white cardstock, the butterfly template and about 4 bottles of mist in various shades of blue. Once it dried, I layered a small mosaic template on top and misted with yellow - just to play up a few colours in the striped paper I had chosen as a mat. I liked the paper, but it was too much, even with the large photo layered on top. So I reached for a piece of ouchless cardboard and immediately liked how those looked together.
I misted some scrap ouchless cardboard and then cut out the semi circles to layer in a fishscale pattern.
I carried the butterfly motif started on the right side over to the left and added some dew drops and stickles to continue with the red and blue. Red, blue and yellow = Disney colours, right?
My title work - multi font and multi colour, as usual. They also started out as white and the ones that are not white anymore, well, I altered.
You may notice that one thing is missing. Lisa's instructions said to journal about the photo too, which I seemed to forget about while working on the page. Since this page is going into the Disney album, and it really is a random photo - I couldn't tell you where in Disney or on what day, there is no story besides the title. I hope Lisa forgives me for missing off that part.
I invite you to play along with any of our challenges and add your comment below with a link, we would love to see what you have created.
