The count down to this new year was FUN, FUN, FUN!!!
It took me a few days to recover from the “top 2000 musical week” we experienced on my blog – but now I’m back in bussiness and ready to roll…
So here we go!!!
The challenge over at t.a.a.f.o.m.f.t. (by the way, I won the December
challenge with this layout – YEAH!!!) is:
“find your favourite layout/project that you made last year”
I went through my galleries and BOY, this is the hardest challenge EVA!
I made an awful lot – layouts, art journal pages, projects – and I managed to narrow my faves down to a few, but then I got stuck.
While searchin through my galleries, I got curious what others would choose and I asked my loved ones to take a look and tell me what their favourites are… and that was kinda surprising!
(They all named 3 layouts, but I will show you only one fave of each…
otherwise it would be too much!)
Take a look at the choices of my loved ones…
My son chose this
one, the layout that
made me become a
DT member at
Lotus Paperie.
It’s a graphical
layout and I know
my son loves
simple, graphical
images so it was
not much of a
surprise to me that
he named this one…
It was not on MY
fave list though…
My beloved chose
this as his favourite.
It’s a very dramatic
layout. The poem
combined with that
breath taking photo
is really heavy, but
it’s one of my faves
too ’cause it’s such
a powerfull layout
and statement.
(for detailed photo’s
and complete text,
go here)
My mum chose this
“oldie” (it’s from
November 2008
actually) but this
choice is not much
of a surprise to me
either… knowing
my mum and her
love for the sea,
the beach, shells
and little romantic
girls…
It’s not one of
MY faves though…
My dad also
picked an “oldie”
and this surprises
me! Why this one
dad? (I know you
limited your choice
by saying that you
wouldn’t chose one
with yourself on
it…) I’d like to
hear your
argumentation!
My best friend Lena loves
the cover of my Leonard
Cohen art journal the best.
She wrote: “I’ve seen this
in real live and touched
it with my own hands,
and I think this is so
BEAUTIFUL”
Yes it is! But I chose
a page from it as one
of my faves, instead
of the cover…
(And a bonus…
there was ONE
overlap in the
15 favourites
of my loved ones.
Both my son as my
friend chose this
“clear book” – which
is from July 2008 by the way…)
And now for my favourites – I made emotional choices.
Every layout marks an important step!
The first page I
made for my
Leonard Cohen
art journal…
(April 2009)
I experimented
with spray ink
and took the
sewing machine
out of the closet..
this had a huge effect on all my scrapping afterwards…
The layout I “had
to do” for Lotus.
(October 2009)
I didn’t like it a bit
to have to use “lots
of ribbon scraps”
but I found out
that I can break
through the “Can’t
do’s” and “that’s not
my cup of tea’s”
and still come up
with something
beautiful! This
layout was an
important one in stretching and getting out of the comfort zone!
I made this one
last week and it’s
a successful
example of the
“play free and
use more colour”
feeling I want to
show more in
my layouts this
upcoming year.
Since I chose my faves with the reason:
“it has to mark something important I learned in the creative process”
LAST YEARS FAVOURITE HAS TO BE THIS MINI ALBUM….
This mini book (April 2009)
marks the beginning of a new
way of scrapping for me.
(I started my LC art journal
right after this) I’d visited
“Scrap-a-Licious” a few weeks
before I made this, and I’d
bought me distress ink.
While “playing with it to
getting to know the stuff”
I felt the freedom and
happiness which I was searching
for in my work and creating…
You can see all the pages
and journaling in this post.
(By the way: in that post I wrote “It turned out so beautiful that it’s my
all time favorite!” I guess I felt right away that this mini was going to be
an important step forward!)
I have a lot more I want to tell you, but this post is long enough as it is.
I’ll be back later this week with some thoughts and resolutions and
plans and goals I set for this year…
Just one more thing:
what’s your favourite if you have to pick one from my galleries?
Let me know!
Je t’embrasse!
Edit: Lena didn’t choose the clear book I showed, but the
“BOM” (book of me) I made last summer.
There are clear pages in that too, and that’s where I went
wrong and thought she ment this clear book. Sorry girl!