{"id":6835,"date":"2010-01-03T14:21:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T13:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/?p=6835"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:58:40","slug":"count-down-and-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/count-down-and-take-off\/","title":{"rendered":"(count down and…)
TAKE OFF!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The count down to this new year was FUN, FUN, FUN!!!
\nIt 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…<\/p>\n

So here we go!!!<\/p>\n

The challenge over at t.a.a.f.o.m.f.t. (by the way, I won the December
\nchallenge with this layout<\/a>\u00a0– YEAH!!!) is:<\/p>\n

“find your favourite layout\/project that you made last year”<\/em><\/p>\n

I went through my galleries and BOY, this is the hardest challenge EVA!
\nI 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.<\/p>\n

While searchin through my\u00a0galleries, 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!
\n(They all named 3 layouts, but I will show you only one\u00a0fave of each…
\notherwise it would be too much!)<\/p>\n

Take a look at the choices of my loved ones…\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u00a0
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nMy son chose this
\none, the layout that
\nmade me become a
\nDT member at
\nLotus Paperie.
\nIt’s a graphical
\nlayout and I know
\nmy son loves
\nsimple, graphical
\nimages so it was
\nnot much of a
\nsurprise to me that
\nhe named this one…<\/p>\n

It was not\u00a0on MY
\nfave list though…<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nMy beloved chose
\nthis as his favourite.
\nIt’s a very dramatic
\nlayout. The poem
\ncombined with that
\nbreath taking photo
\nis really heavy, but\u00a0
\nit’s\u00a0one\u00a0of my faves
\ntoo ’cause\u00a0it’s\u00a0such
\na\u00a0powerfull\u00a0layout
\nand statement.<\/p>\n

(for\u00a0detailed photo’s
\nand complete text,
\ngo here<\/a>)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nMy mum chose this
\n“oldie” \u00a0(it’s from
\nNovember 2008
\nactually) but this
\nchoice is not much
\nof a surprise to me
\neither… knowing
\nmy mum and her
\nlove for the sea,
\nthe beach, shells
\nand little romantic
\ngirls…<\/p>\n

It’s not one of\u00a0
\nMY faves though…<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0
\nMy dad\u00a0also
\npicked\u00a0an “oldie”
\nand this surprises
\nme! Why this one
\ndad? (I know you
\nlimited your choice
\nby saying that you
\nwouldn’t chose one
\nwith yourself on
\nit…) I’d like to
\nhear your
\nargumentation!<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0My best friend Lena loves
\nthe cover of my Leonard
\nCohen art journal the best.
\nShe wrote: “I’ve seen\u00a0this
\nin real live and touched
\nit with my own hands,
\nand I think this is so
\nBEAUTIFUL<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Yes it is! But I chose
\na page from it as one
\nof my faves, instead
\nof the cover…<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(And a\u00a0bonus…
\nthere was ONE
\noverlap in the
\n15 favourites
\nof my loved ones.
\nBoth my son as my
\nfriend chose this
\n“clear book<\/a>” – which
\nis from July 2008 by the way…)<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

And now for my favourites – I made emotional choices.
\nEvery layout marks an important step!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The first page\u00a0I
\nmade for\u00a0my
\nLeonard Cohen
\nart journal…
\n(April 2009)
\nI experimented
\nwith spray ink
\nand took the\u00a0
\nsewing machine
\nout of the closet..
\nthis\u00a0had a huge effect on all\u00a0my scrapping afterwards…<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"<\/a>
\nThe layout I\u00a0“had
\nto do”\u00a0for Lotus.
\n(October 2009)
\nI didn’t like it a bit
\nto have to use “lots
\nof ribbon scraps”\u00a0
\nbut I found out
\nthat\u00a0I can\u00a0break
\nthrough the “Can’t
\ndo’s”\u00a0and “that’s not
\nmy cup of tea’s”
\nand still come up
\nwith something
\nbeautiful! This
\nlayout\u00a0was an
\nimportant one in\u00a0stretching\u00a0and getting out of the comfort zone!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nI made this one
\nlast week and it’s
\na successful
\nexample of the
\n“play free and
\nuse more colour”
\nfeeling I want to
\nshow more in
\nmy layouts this
\nupcoming year.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since I chose my faves with the reason:
\n“it has to mark something important I learned in the creative process”<\/p>\n

LAST YEARS FAVOURITE HAS TO BE THIS MINI ALBUM….<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This mini book (April 2009)
\nmarks the beginning of\u00a0a new
\nway of scrapping for me.
\n(I started my LC art journal
\nright after this) I’d visited\u00a0
\n“Scrap-a-Licious” a few weeks
\nbefore I made this, and I’d\u00a0
\nbought me distress ink.
\nWhile “playing with it to
\ngetting to know the stuff”\u00a0
\nI felt the\u00a0freedom and
\nhappiness which I was\u00a0searching
\nfor\u00a0in my\u00a0work and creating…<\/p>\n

You can see\u00a0all the pages\u00a0
\nand journaling in this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

(By the way:\u00a0in that post\u00a0I wrote “It turned out so beautiful that it\u2019s my
\nall time favorite!”<\/em> I guess I felt right away that this mini was going to be
\nan important step forward!)<\/p>\n

I have a lot more I want to tell you, but this post is long enough as it is.
\nI’ll be back later this week with some thoughts and resolutions and
\nplans and goals I set for this year…<\/p>\n

Just one more thing:
\nwhat’s your favourite if you have to pick one from my galleries?<\/strong>
\nLet me know!<\/p>\n

Je t’embrasse!<\/p>\n

Edit:<\/strong> Lena didn’t choose the clear book I showed, but the
\n“BOM” (book of me)\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0I made last summer.
\nThere are clear pages in that too, and that’s where I went
\nwrong and thought she ment this clear book. Sorry girl!<\/span><\/p>\n

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