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[Art_Teacher]

Keeping with my "throwback" theme, this challenge is to revisit a layout that you did at the beginning of your scrapping "career."  I am not one to "re-do" a layout. If it is finished, it is finished.  However, I like to learn from my "mistakes."  Plus, I often see a layout and think, "I could've done" something else with those photos.  So, choose one of your early layouts that uses techniques you rarely do now (it doesn't have to be the very first one), and scraplift yourself!  Use the same basic design (number of photos, arrangement, color scheme, etc.) but add in what you have learned in scrapping!  New designers, new trends, etc.  Be sure to show which layout you are scraplifting, and let us know how your new layout reflects your scrapping today! 

Example:  Below is a layout of mine from almost 20 years ago!  I used those fancy edged scissors and heat embossing on it.  Can't think of the last time I did either of those.  I can definitely say I have improved with my layout spacing (digi helps this a lot!), I do more layering now, and I have gotten much more fancy with my titles.   Second layout is the one I did lifting myself, today!







You have until midnight, TUESDAY, August 20th to upload your layout in the gallery spot I've provided.
Must be a new layout.
CANNOT be combined with other challenges, except those requiring multiple creations, such as the Bi-Monthly, 100 Papers, and Team challenges.

[SandyJay]

I would love to tear apart some old layouts for a redo, lol!  

[Art_Teacher]

I would love to tear apart some old layouts for a redo, lol!  

Nope...no tearing apart. Just do a lift of yourself and improve!

[SandyJay]

I would love to tear apart some old layouts for a redo, lol!  

Nope...no tearing apart. Just do a lift of yourself and improve!  

Okaaaayyy….If I started with one tear apart I KNOW I would feel like I had to do the whole album anyhow.  Not going back and redoing the whole darn thing, THAT’S for sure!  

[scrappinmom99]

Oh myyy this is a good one. I started scrapping in 2000. DS was a year old. I would love to update some of those layouts...........

[Art_Teacher]

I would love to tear apart some old layouts for a redo, lol!  

Nope...no tearing apart. Just do a lift of yourself and improve!   

Okaaaayyy….If I started with one tear apart I KNOW I would feel like I had to do the whole album anyhow.  Not going back and redoing the whole darn thing, THAT’S for sure!   

LOL

[stinkerbelle]

i don't have any of my earliest pages due to a fire, but i chose the very first thing i uploaded here to ACOT which was during NSD 2009.  it will be fun to reimagine it!

[QueenBee89]

Omg this is going to be funny. I started scrapping at 10 years old.... I don't even know if I have any of my old decorative scissors... they were my mom's! lol!

[Art_Teacher]

Omg this is going to be funny. I started scrapping at 10 years old.... I don't even know if I have any of my old decorative scissors... they were my mom's! lol!

You don't have to use anything "old."  Just scraplift and update!

[QueenBee89]

Omg this is going to be funny. I started scrapping at 10 years old.... I don't even know if I have any of my old decorative scissors... they were my mom's! lol!

You don't have to use anything "old."  Just scraplift and update!  

ok, good to know!!! my very first scrapbook is super basic so this could be fun to take the base design and just spruce it up!!!
 

[Trek]

My old LO. I used doily, don't like it very much. Now I use it in very rare ocсasions.


My new LO. Instead of doily I used die cut.

 

[stinkerbelle]

i chose this LO to scraplift 

 
how i do things differently now:  i rarely use a cardstock background or 4x6 photo, i do NOT put things at bizarre angles like the journal block and i try not to have random embellishment placement like that flower.  i also rarely use flowers like those.



 

[Mathandlit]

Here is the original:

When I look back now, it is soooo busy! I tried to do a simpler grid here:

[SandyJay]

[[cringe]]


New take…
I used torn pages from a house plans book with a little gesso.  Put it on a patterned piece of paper, added a title, matted the main photo.  Much more depth and interest to my pages now, and I don’t leave things floating by themselves.  However, one thing I have “lost” a bit of along the way, is journaling.  


 

[ScrappyRN74]

Here is one of my first scrapbook layouts from the late 1990s. I really did not use much patterned paper back then and rounded my photo corners. I love the picture of my daughter at Sea World but I really do not like the look of this page

...so here is my reinvention with photos of my granddaughter at the aquarium. This one looks more finished. I have discovered Kiwi Lane templates and I like to use them to anchor and frame  my photos. 

 

[blbabe1234]

Here's one of my older layouts. One of my first ones scrapping furbabies. Ruby & Bear when they were babies.   Layout is 13.5 years old. Anybody remember paper piecing? I LOVED the images that came in the Scrapbooks, Etc magazine. In 2011, I did NOT have a Cricut nor a Big Kick. I also didn't know how to layer and used pattern paper "as is". Aaaaccckkk! LOL



Now, I LOVE to layer, and even like to layer embellies to create clusters. And if a paper is too busy, you can cut it, or do whatever.

I kept the basic design with 2 photos and I matted them and brighten the color palette. Even used a 3-word title and a similar subject....Jasmine and Shelby when they were babies!

[aheatfan]

This was really fun to do... so much has changed. I made this original layout in 1989.

Handwritten title in two fonts, one photo and not much else. Never would I put a sticker ON a photo now!! Also...no journaling.

Now I add journaling on everything, I think it is the most important part, I now add embellishments and very rarely do I handwrite my title.



 

[QueenBee89]

here's what I came up with! 



inspired by the basic "design" of page 1 of my first album 24 years ago  

[lisn2cats]

Back in the day (early 1990s), there weren’t so many amazing products like today…plus, I was dirt-poor. I had very few supplies and plain paper was cheaper than patterned papers; therefore, my LOs were pretty basic and flat. (They still are pretty flat!). The first LO was done in 1993 and, yeah, I still have that punch. But now I like to curl and further distress my torn edges then layer, fluff my flower petals and add splatters.

[Tammey]

The first layout is from 2014...my ideal of embellishments were wood veneer and buttons, I very seldom use either one now.



OMGosh...I am amazed at how much my style has changed over the years.  I have learned so much about layering, creating eye catching titles, most of all how to use emellie clusters.