Here are several of the layouts I did during the crop on Saturday night. It was awesome! I normally don't like crops because I either get too distracted, or I end up having forgotten some important things. But, at the shop it was great! I packed way too much, but ended up leaving most of it in the van. I just cropped from the shop! I went around looking for possibilites and then selected them, took them to my station and made my pages. What product I didn't use, I put back. If I were just shopping with my photos, I would buy way too much stuff "in case I need it" and maybe more than one possibility. This was great.
I am discovering that there is more than one way to scrapbook. At the crop I was doing what I'm calling "product driven" pages--I selected great papers and coordinating accessories. It took 5-10 minutes to peruse the shelves and make selections. Then I just delved in. Easy and pretty quick! At home, it is more "technique" or "idea" driven pages. It takes forever to search for paper that either matches, or at least will work. Then I have to search for embellishments, fiber, etc. Next, I start leafing through the ideas/magazines. Two or 3 hours later, I might have a "plan."
These photos of Alex took me the longest as I used the puzzle page template, but the papers were easy. The pages with Jess's apartment were purely product driven. I loved that I found a black polka dot with the lime green and turquoise. The Comets page was the best to do at the shop b/c I hadn't a clue what to do--I don't have any hockey paper left, and they don't sell it here! Yet the photos were just so busy. I love doing the edge treatment to the cardstock. I just tear strips, score them the long ways down the strip, then glue them on, encasing the edge of the cardstock in between. Sometimes, I will sew over them. That technique and a few other things I was doing caught the eye of the shop owner and later in the evening she asked if I would be willing to be on the shop's design team! How exciting is that! This afternoon, I went to a quilt guild class on hand dying fabric. We did a six fabric gradation of a single color first. You mix the dye and then dye one piece of fabric, dilute a bit and dye the next, etc. Some people used a color right from the jar, but I mixed some blue and yellow to get a teal/turquoise and even got a bit brave and added a smidge of black to "darken or gray" it a bit. The next project was a 7 step gradation between 2 colors. You mix 2 different colors of dye and then do a piece of fabric in each color, and then gradually add in the other. I think mine are going to be very subtle. The instructor showed samples like yellow to blue with the greens in between, or red and blue with purples. I have an idea of a project though, that needs different shades of orangy-reds, so I did orange to red. The last technique was different: we put 2 colors of dye on the same piece of fabric and hopefully some magic will happen and we will achieve some great texture. The hard part is waiting... The fabric is still sitting in the dye and can't be washed out for 24 hours! The wait is killing us, because we are not sure yet, until it is rinsed, washed, and pressed, what our results are.
The class was so fun, informative, and messy! After such a creative weekend, it is going to be hard to go back to the regular schedule of daily stuff, but on the other hand, I didn't mope around, missing Dale, and being bored!
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