I’ve been into digital scrapbooking for… a week? I can already see that my design style for-just-about-everything-else is showing through my pages.
If you were to ask me what that style is, I guess I’d have to say… simple grunge?
In the first page that I shared with you, you can see that I was still learning… but it still looks good. I probably will leave it just how it is.
Then, I created the headers for the new look here at WMM. Keep refreshing the page, there’s five of them. You can see I remembered the amazing thing that is CLIPPING MASKS!!! Oh dear, that created a monster.
Yesterday, as I was overwhelmed by having access to cable television and wanderlust, I shared the page I made for one of our trips up to the Shaver/Huntington area last winter. More clipping masks with grungy edges.
Last night I was going through more of our photos and I decided to do my next page with some photos from one of the activities we did last Memorial Day weekend. On Memorial Day, we took my mom and brother to our favorite gold panning site. I didn’t take a lot of photos, because I got pretty upset when I discovered that all of my photos from the day before were over exposed because I forgot to switch out from manual mode after taking photos of a waterfall on our hike. Remember that?
In the few shots that I took, I did manage to squeeze out this page. The smaller photo is a rare shot of my brother… gasp… smiling!
I still am not “done” with it, it does need something more with the text. Any ideas? I’m thinking of doing some kind of line leading out from between the two words, but nothing that makes it feminine. Maybe I’ll do some grungy vertical lines like in an old movie.
I’m pretty interested to see how things develop as I continue to dive into this new hobby. I don’t really use any embellishments right now, I like things simple. I’ve subscribed to a few digiscrap blogs in my feed reader for inspiration. I’m just not really into all the cutesy stuff that I see on most of the digiscrap sites. Right now I’m using freebies from other people, but I have made a few papers that I haven’t shared yet. In the last week, I think I’ve made almost 20 pages. But, the first four or six from our first trip to Yosemite together are probably going to get redone. You know what? Now that I’ve typed that, I’ve gone back and looked at those pages. I wont be redoing them. I might make some changes to the first one, but I am happy with the rest of them.
My creative process never stops, as I keep scrolling back to look at the “Gold Fever” page… I keep thinking about making changes and how I think adding the old-movie-like lines will really pull that page together. The same goes for all the other finished pages. When I quickly view them in Finder, I instantly think of something I want to add or change.
Honestly, as much as I want to hold a finished product in my hands or at least have something in an album, I know I want it to be exactly how I want it. Which is probably while it’ll be another month or so before I send the pages in to get printed!
