Oscraps

Welcome to the first edition of articles written by one of our talented CheeryO’s, Olga, known as jam-on-toast in the digital scrapbooking world. Olga’s commentary about how she scraps her layouts offers a delightful insight into how she processes her thoughts while creating a layout, and going by the comments in our forum, I think a lot of us can certainly identify with them!

In this article Olga describes how her original choice of kit to scrap some photos didn’t quite turn out and what she did to change that! We would love to hear your thoughts on how you have overcome situations like these, please do drop into the forum and share them with us in Olga’s original forum post HERE

For now, make yourself a drink of some sort, relax and have a read:

Share your story of the imperfect perfect kit………

To everyone who’s ever gotten a kit thinking it’d be perfect………. and then got stuck scrapping with it……… share your story……… here is mine………

I’ve done quite a lot of AJ-type scrapping recently and wanted to scrap something practical today, so this looked like it was going to be a quick and easy couple of pages. Once that was out of the way, I was planning to get some other scrapping done too. Little did I know……… All in all, this two-pager took me about 6 hours to scrap. I started with Anna’s newsletter freebie from a couple of months back, though only the base masks and some scribbles of the original template remain. While selecting and arranging the photos, I took a stroll down the memory lane (never mind that this was just a few months ago) and did more reminiscing than scrapping……… and then I got stuck embellishing. Like totally stuck……… didn’t know where to go from there………

So, I grabbed my AirPods and went on a wild adventure chasing a serial killer all the while playing with the flowers and the foliage. Initially, I’d been drawn to this kit because of its colors which I thought would go well with the photos taken on a black beach. Well, the papers did, but the greenery in the photos clashed with the foliage in the kit and the seven or so different clusters I built just didn’t look right. I even considered scrapping the whole thing (pun intended) and starting all over……… but then thought better of it. I am a resourceful scrapper after all. Pulling colors from the photos, I started recoloring elements and playing with the blending modes to preserve their original texture………

……… and……… lost track of time……… with hubby away on business and the son upstairs doing his teenage things……… unable to walk properly after a recent foot surgery, I sat there like in a trance, layering and clustering, arranging and placing, blending and masking……… I didn’t manage to get much done today. But my son made delicious burgers for dinner, and I spent a delightful Sunday, doing what I love – scrapping and listening to a book. Definitely cheaper than therapy.

See you next time!

Olga