Two Pages!
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liralen"Every artist was first an amateur."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
Okay, I am hooked. Did just two pages last night, wasn't brave enough to tackle the title page, yet, but I'll get there... and it was lots of fun, felt like being back in elementary school, scissors, glue, pretty pens and an empty page. It was cool. I spent nearly two hours on just the two pages, using printouts of Mapquests maps to mark the route we took and then adding pictures for a number of our stopping points and journal snippets for the ones without pictures. This is going to take forever, as these were fairly simple pages, no matting, no framing, no fancy titles.
But it was FUN. Especially compared to various digital tools for doing it without the textural feedback of cutting and gluing and shaping the pictures, extras, and pages. I'm now digging up paper I'd forgotten I had, pens and inks and markup tools that I haven't used in years, and old drafting, cutting, and paper shaping tools I'd forgotten I had. That's been a discovery in and of itself. Watercolors as a background to the Niagara Falls photos, stick figures for some of the camping bits, and Japanese textured origami papers for the pictures of kids flying dragon kites. Lots of fun. It's interesting trying to figure out what is acid-free and what's not, what should be touching pictures and what shouldn't. I found a whole set of Prismacolor pens that I can't figure out if they're safe or not, but until I do, I can just use them on separate pieces of paper and have them not touch the photos themselves.
John saved a bunch of ticket stubs, pamphlets and things for me, too, while we were on the trip, as he'd heard that T. managed to train her husband P. to do that for her scrapbooks. So he'd hand me stuff and I be like, "Uhm... why? Oh!" Hee.
With work being as heavy duty has it's been this has been a very welcome break.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
Okay, I am hooked. Did just two pages last night, wasn't brave enough to tackle the title page, yet, but I'll get there... and it was lots of fun, felt like being back in elementary school, scissors, glue, pretty pens and an empty page. It was cool. I spent nearly two hours on just the two pages, using printouts of Mapquests maps to mark the route we took and then adding pictures for a number of our stopping points and journal snippets for the ones without pictures. This is going to take forever, as these were fairly simple pages, no matting, no framing, no fancy titles.
But it was FUN. Especially compared to various digital tools for doing it without the textural feedback of cutting and gluing and shaping the pictures, extras, and pages. I'm now digging up paper I'd forgotten I had, pens and inks and markup tools that I haven't used in years, and old drafting, cutting, and paper shaping tools I'd forgotten I had. That's been a discovery in and of itself. Watercolors as a background to the Niagara Falls photos, stick figures for some of the camping bits, and Japanese textured origami papers for the pictures of kids flying dragon kites. Lots of fun. It's interesting trying to figure out what is acid-free and what's not, what should be touching pictures and what shouldn't. I found a whole set of Prismacolor pens that I can't figure out if they're safe or not, but until I do, I can just use them on separate pieces of paper and have them not touch the photos themselves.
John saved a bunch of ticket stubs, pamphlets and things for me, too, while we were on the trip, as he'd heard that T. managed to train her husband P. to do that for her scrapbooks. So he'd hand me stuff and I be like, "Uhm... why? Oh!" Hee.
With work being as heavy duty has it's been this has been a very welcome break.
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Date: 2005-08-10 08:06 pm (UTC)*is all inspired to go back to work on Trip's album now*
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Date: 2005-08-10 09:02 pm (UTC)I love infectious enthusiasm. :-)
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Date: 2005-08-10 08:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-10 09:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-10 10:15 pm (UTC)*cough*
It's great to have another scrapbooker around! I find that the stuff is addictive, and gets expensive as I collect more and more tools. I read an article that claimed that the average scrapbooker had $1800 in supplies and tools, and when I mentioned that figure to a number of people I know who scrapbooked they all thought it was a bit low. Not to scare you or anything. :)
I have little plastic sleeves for some of my memorabilia, like tickets stubs. And some my scrapbooks sell pages with plastic pockets that I can stick brochures and pamphlets in. I like the pockets for brochures so that I can still take them out and look at them. And I like your Mapquest printouts marking the route you took. That sounds really cool. Now I want to go on a road trip so that I can do that, too.
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Date: 2005-08-11 03:29 pm (UTC)I do! And, yeah, just wandering around a scrapbooking store is a bit like wandering through a candy shop and going AAAGH I WANT That! :-)
Hee, about the road trip.