Elisabeth
10-25-2007, 02:44 AM
Okay, I've got a new one for you! Or is it an old one!? Well, the page kit is new but you decide the direction you want the challenge to go in for your own scrapbooking.
The featured kit is Then and Now (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=6664). It's awesome for heritage photos BUT I challenge you to do something more. Of course if you do a layout of any kind with the page kit you will still get the bonus add on pack, which of my work is one of my favorites I've ever done.
Your challenge, if you so accept it, is a choice of A or B; either will be sort of fun I hope!
A) Do the obvious. Find an old photo or postcard which you love, which means something to you, even if it's not a memory of yours, it could be something historical in your family. Take a photo of that same place or thing or person now. If it's a person, perhaps you have a child who looks incredibly like an ancestor; that's a good contrast/similarity. If it's a place, make sure it's someplace special to you. If it's a thing, be sure to include the history of how it was passed down to you or whoever has it now and why it is special.
Here is an example of the contrast; this is a place I love - St. Augustine. I collect old postcards from there, and I posed my husband in the same place as the man in one of them. Treasury Street (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=219835&nocache=1)
Remember you can recolor the kit; I realize I made it for one of my own sets of photos *whistles, looks up*.
OR:
B) Here is a very personal challenge that might make you really dig and think. You don't have to use photos for it if you don't have them, just your own journaling. Think about a time in your life that you would love to revisit, even if it's just for a few minutes or a few hours. Maybe you would really want to see a loved one again, or maybe you had a great time in high school and would love to step back there for a minute. Now, while you're thinking about that, take a moment to realize how different you are now and what you learned from that person or that period of time in your life. Similarities? Contrasts? What about that time made you who you are today? Sometimes we pass through time so quickly that we don't appreciate it until later.
For myself, other than the obvious wishing to spend time with my parents and grandparents again, I miss a period of time in the 1990s when I went almost every weekend to some local clubs to see a group of bands play. When I first met them, I had no idea what "Hardcore" was, and it turns out it's an offshoot of punk. It probably sounded different in every city, but the bands here (Atlanta Hardcore) played really fast and they had a pit (which I stayed away from by either getting very close to the stage or way back from, lol) and unless you knew the words you couldn't understand a bit of it! The first time I went I laughed aloud for about a minute and then realized how much I was enjoying it! I was hooked. Like everything, that scene changed or went away and my favorite bands disbanded, but it did change my life because I learned so much. The band members were good role models to kids who looked up to them and I respected them for that. I'd love to step back in time and go to another show.
For me that's really way more than one layout because I have lots of photos of the various bands, (a couple are already in my gallery) and I will be away from keyboard for a while and won't get to create right now, but I did want to share my story.
Well, what are you waiting for? See the posting bonus here (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=221002&ppuser=18691)! lol
This challenge will run from now until November 3, (2007!) and as I will be offline for the time, I will have to give out the posting bonus when I come back instead of every couple of days. I am sorry about that. In an attempt to make up for it, I will draw three names from random numbers of those who post layouts for this challenge, when I get back, and those three will win a page kit of mine. I haven't decided which one yet so feel free to make suggestions! Thanks so much, as always, I appreciate each one of you and I always learn something from you!
The featured kit is Then and Now (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=6664). It's awesome for heritage photos BUT I challenge you to do something more. Of course if you do a layout of any kind with the page kit you will still get the bonus add on pack, which of my work is one of my favorites I've ever done.
Your challenge, if you so accept it, is a choice of A or B; either will be sort of fun I hope!
A) Do the obvious. Find an old photo or postcard which you love, which means something to you, even if it's not a memory of yours, it could be something historical in your family. Take a photo of that same place or thing or person now. If it's a person, perhaps you have a child who looks incredibly like an ancestor; that's a good contrast/similarity. If it's a place, make sure it's someplace special to you. If it's a thing, be sure to include the history of how it was passed down to you or whoever has it now and why it is special.
Here is an example of the contrast; this is a place I love - St. Augustine. I collect old postcards from there, and I posed my husband in the same place as the man in one of them. Treasury Street (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=219835&nocache=1)
Remember you can recolor the kit; I realize I made it for one of my own sets of photos *whistles, looks up*.
OR:
B) Here is a very personal challenge that might make you really dig and think. You don't have to use photos for it if you don't have them, just your own journaling. Think about a time in your life that you would love to revisit, even if it's just for a few minutes or a few hours. Maybe you would really want to see a loved one again, or maybe you had a great time in high school and would love to step back there for a minute. Now, while you're thinking about that, take a moment to realize how different you are now and what you learned from that person or that period of time in your life. Similarities? Contrasts? What about that time made you who you are today? Sometimes we pass through time so quickly that we don't appreciate it until later.
For myself, other than the obvious wishing to spend time with my parents and grandparents again, I miss a period of time in the 1990s when I went almost every weekend to some local clubs to see a group of bands play. When I first met them, I had no idea what "Hardcore" was, and it turns out it's an offshoot of punk. It probably sounded different in every city, but the bands here (Atlanta Hardcore) played really fast and they had a pit (which I stayed away from by either getting very close to the stage or way back from, lol) and unless you knew the words you couldn't understand a bit of it! The first time I went I laughed aloud for about a minute and then realized how much I was enjoying it! I was hooked. Like everything, that scene changed or went away and my favorite bands disbanded, but it did change my life because I learned so much. The band members were good role models to kids who looked up to them and I respected them for that. I'd love to step back in time and go to another show.
For me that's really way more than one layout because I have lots of photos of the various bands, (a couple are already in my gallery) and I will be away from keyboard for a while and won't get to create right now, but I did want to share my story.
Well, what are you waiting for? See the posting bonus here (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=221002&ppuser=18691)! lol
This challenge will run from now until November 3, (2007!) and as I will be offline for the time, I will have to give out the posting bonus when I come back instead of every couple of days. I am sorry about that. In an attempt to make up for it, I will draw three names from random numbers of those who post layouts for this challenge, when I get back, and those three will win a page kit of mine. I haven't decided which one yet so feel free to make suggestions! Thanks so much, as always, I appreciate each one of you and I always learn something from you!