Goofing around

I started this blog in 2008 because I’d began scrapbooking back then.
I’d found challenge blogs online that I wanted to participate in and I thought it would be nice to share my creations on the world wide web. The challenge blogs I participated in back then are long gone (I remember – among others – “scrapping out loud”, “scrapmojo”, “one little word”, “scrapping the music” and “Lotus Paperie” in which I was a design team member) but how right was I sharing my creative work ’cause 18 years later I still share my art online. Yes, “art”, because from scrapbooking came art journaling and bookbinding and the confidence to call it ‘art’. I moved on and hardly create scrapbook layouts anymore but….

…last week, I took some of my old scrapbook albums with me when I visited my parent, so they could flip through all the layouts. I have a lot of albums and before I put them in a bag I flipped through them myself… OH MY, that was fun! I got inspired right away to dabble into that way of creating again…

There are still some challenge blogs to be find online so I went to find Challenge YOUrself – one of my faves hosted by Sharon Fritchman. I loved the challenge that was up there right now but I also learned that the blog will be closing in june… so I took the opportunity to play along right away and create a layout for this month’s challenge.

Challenge YOUrself #147 – Celebrating friendship

The theme for this month’s challenge is “Celebrating Friendship!” Feel free to interpret the theme however you like, as long as it clearly conveys the message of friendship. Additionally, please remember to include a photo of YOU on your project.

I had this silly photo – edited with a photo filter – of me and my co-worker who became a good friend over the years, and I just HAD to use that…

I had so much fun creating this layout’; I’d forgotten how relaxing and cheerful this playing without pretension is so I might create more of these.
Thanks for stopping by my blog,
enjoy your day,
do something nice,
visit a friend,
act silly,
laugh.