MMC - August 12 (13) - Challenge #2

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MMC - August 12 (13) - Challenge #2

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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!

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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.
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I would love to tear apart some old layouts for a redo, lol!  
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Mommytron wrote:
Tue Aug 13, 2024 12:41 pm
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! :)
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Art_Teacher wrote:
Tue Aug 13, 2024 12:42 pm
Mommytron wrote:
Tue Aug 13, 2024 12:41 pm
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!  
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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...........
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Mommytron wrote:
Tue Aug 13, 2024 12:45 pm
Art_Teacher wrote:
Tue Aug 13, 2024 12:42 pm
Mommytron wrote:
Tue Aug 13, 2024 12:41 pm
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!   
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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!
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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!
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QueenBee89 wrote:
Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:33 pm
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! :)
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Art_Teacher wrote:
Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:38 pm
QueenBee89 wrote:
Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:33 pm
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!!!
 
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My old LO. I used doily, don't like it very much. Now I use it in very rare ocсasions.
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My new LO. Instead of doily I used die cut.
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i chose this LO to scraplift  ⬇️

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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.



 
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Here is the original:
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When I look back now, it is soooo busy! I tried to do a simpler grid here:
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[[cringe]]
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New take…
I used torn pages from a house plans blueprints book, used 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.  

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