30-Minute Thursday!

Thanks to everyone who participated in our first 30-Minute Thursday challenge. And the winners are...

EVERYONE!

I mean it. If you took part and posted a link to your challenge, YOU WIN!

Send me an e-mail with your snail mail address and I will get a goodie out to you. It may not be large, but it will be FUN!

(And I leave for CKC-Seattle tomorrow, so it probably won't go out until Monday).

Now, if that doesn't get the rest of you slackers off your duffs, I don't know what will!!!

For this week's challenge:

This page started with the need to create something. I had the urge to scrap, didn't have a ton of time, and didn't feel like creating a "masterpiece" page. I just wanted to get some photos on the page. So I flipped through my pics, found these two, and went to it.

Pictures: Not great, not awful. Self-pics of my older daughter and me being silly. They didn't need to be the center of the page because they were more there to express a feeling rather than to capture a "one-time-only" event.

First, I leafed through some scrapbooking magazines and idea books to get a design I wanted to capture. This is what I found:

When I read scrapbook mags, I dog-ear the pages of designs I adore to make it easy to go back to when I need inspiration. This one was from Scrapbook Trends, and the designer is Kara Henry. I love the look of the strips of patterned paper.

Once I found the design, the rest was really easy. All the PP strips are cut from scraps (I keep all my scraps in a big 12x12 clamshell plastic tote thingy. When it gets too full, I weed out the smaller/older pieces). I didn't have to measure, which sure speeds up the process!   

Once all the PP and cardstock was adhered, I went to the title. "Ooma and Booboo" are names Kinsey made up for us when she was two (I am Ooma, in case you couldn't tell). I was running out of time and knew I wasn't going to be able to add a huge journaling block like Kara did on her page. I also love big, bold titles, and since I hadn't ever done an "Ooma/Booboo" page, I thought that would be a good choice.

The challenge here was finding all the appropriate Doodlebug letters! I started with just orange and soon realized there are way too many "Os" in my title... so I went to hearts. Even then, I was one short! So that's when I brought in the second pack. (Note: these are some of those "self-adhesive" chipboard letters that aren't really...well, self-adhesive. Bummer). This actually took longer than anything else on the page -- finding the correct letters, and getting them to stick!

Once they were on, I had only a few minutes left. I knew I wanted to add SOME kind of journaling to the page, so I went with the single words to the left of the PP strips. I added a few brads, rounded the corners (can't really tell in the scan, but I did!), and called it good!

YOUR CHALLENGE: Scraplift a page in 30 minutes. You can make it as close or as far from the original as you want. Post a link to your creation in the comments section below by Wed. 11/7. PRIZES!!!

A note about scraplifting: There is scraplifting and there is SCRAPLIFTING. Here's my take on it. If you are creating something for my own personal scrapbook, I do whatever works -- down to and including lifting a design from someone else exactly (that's what page kits are, right?). If I am publishing something online -- even just on my own blog -- I always give credit to the original inspiration in the supply list or comments section. If I am publishing something in a magazine, it is my own work. I may have gotten a color combination or a cute embellisment idea somewhere (painting a circle for the background, for instance), but I don't "lift" an entire LO and call it mine. In the above instance, I personally would not submit this LO for publication because I feel it is very close to Kara's. She did the tough work -- I pretty much followed it, even though the two pages are far from identical.

Your thoughts?

 

Comments

[Ingunn]

Whee, you are the best!

But wait...you're not leaving until tomorrow? You're teaching classes on Friday, right?

[Etta]

I really like that page. And I might actually have time to do this one. I wanted to do the last one, but I haven't done much scrappin' lately, period.

Good luck in Seattle. I'm off to mop my floors (while listening to the latest Scraphappy podcast) and then to find a scrapliftable page!

[Leslie]

I so agree! Can hardly wait to hear all about the details of CKC!

[Mary c]

I think I live to scraplift. RARELY does anything I do look like the piece I scraplifted. However, I don't think I am a visionary, I am a re-visionary. LOL!

[Casey]

Your page looks fab! I completely agree with your rules on scraplifting. :)

[Nicole]

Cute page Lain! As someone who's never submitted a page for publication and don't know if I ever will, I scraplift with abandon and rarely even pay attention to what products came from which manufacturers. Now that I've started blogging, I'm trying to keep better track. Your rules sound like winners to me! I do the dogear thing too (and choose subscriptions based on how many pages get dogeared in which publications).
I have a question for you and your readers though--how do you keep track of your electronic inspiration files? I'd been clicking and saving to a folder but just calling the files "scrapping1", "scrapping2", etc without making note of where I got the page from. Now if I want to CASE, I need to track down the original source. What do you do?

[Jenna]

I like the page! I agree with you -- scraplift with abandon for your own books, keep track for publication.

I am proud of myself -- I finished last week's 30-minute page this morning. Better late than never, huh?

[Nicole]

i did it, and after the requisite technical difficulties, it's up!

http://canadacole.typepad.com/superfluous_fluff/2007/11/creativity-ahoy.html

[Jenna]

Ooops, here's the link!

http://sjcrj.blogspot.com/

It's the page at the top.

[Etta]

Okay I did it. And I realized that this was really hard. There was so much more fine-tuning I could have done to this page. It's not perfect. The letters aren't straight. I wanted to ink the background paper. But I ran out of time!

I scraplifted this page that I saw in the SS Reader Gallery today:

http://www.simplescrapbooksmag.com/gallery/details.ihtml?idx=81118.

Here's mine:
http://picasaweb.google.com/emlinton76/2007Scrapbook/photo?authkey=fgT9lvZLUyk#5128465419222747458.

I'm going to have to practice this 30 minute thing!
Enjoy!