Well, guess what? Team Orange won, and - ohhh nooo - I've got a taste for it!
Even though it was just the "pre-season challenge," so we only got the glory of winning, while everyone got a 10% off coupon. What? Do they not realize that we posted, like, 250 layouts using orange? ORANGE? I don't want to point out the obvious, but shouldn't a uniformed serviceman with a velvet box be ringing the bell right about now?
Okay, so I actually only posted three orange layouts, but c'mon. ORANGE.
Here are the other two:
above: some lovely cards given to me by students last autumn
below: rather soulless California Adventure layout - I've had the layout done for over a year; it just needed photos, but, you know, ORANGE. I figured it was now or never and if I made something now then at least we'd get two points.
This week's challenge is to make layouts that use at least 50% of the materials from January's "A Study in Red" kit. (This is the regular kit. This is the junior kit that I've ordered. This is the stamper's kit.)
Unfortunately, even though I anticipated this challenge and placed my order over a week ago, my kit has not (it seems) shipped yet. And I gots to be scrappin' NOW, yano? (Ugh. Don't let me do that again. It might stick.)
So, I took my 10% coupon and bought the basic digital version of the kit for $7.
This was inevitable. Everything I scoff at I seem to end up trying. (Well, not everything. Geez. Ew.)
For awhile now I've been skeptical about digital scrapbooking because
- it's like making web pages. I have that out of my system. I've taken antibiotics to prevent its return.
- if I want to share my memories electronically, there is already this website+Flickr.
- it kills the point of preserving all those little SCRAPS of paper that have sentimental value. Scrapbooks are not just photo albums with ornamental ribbons and tags, people!
However, I now justify my digital scrapping foray because
- I want to play in the league this week.
- I need something to do while Mike cleans the hamitats.
- I need something to do while I put off colouring my hair. (Transfer interviews have begun!)
- I'm tired of gathering ancestral coins during the World of Warcraft lunar festival. I've already bought the teal pant suit and the pink festival dress and the regenerative dumplings.
- Winning was fun! What is winning twice like?
I'm surprised to say it, but the digital scrapping is more fun than I expected. It's nice to be able to muck around and not worry that you're going to cut the paper stupidly and there will be no going back. If it were free, I'd definitely use it to make mock ups before scrapping the real deal. (Except I think every kit, even the digital one, is slightly different. More sales bait that way.)
Not to mention there is no cursing the dried out glue.
So, I've made three layouts using the digital version of the kit, all things that don't have any accompanying ephemera and aren't items I was planning to scrapbook. Nothing but bonus here, Br'er Martha.
The first layout is from the cheery side of Marwood. (Where, on last month's visit, we actually didn't see a single bone - progress! I even spent some time fussing with that open grave that is as open and sad as it was over a year ago. Nothing but fur now. But you didn't want to know.) The second layout is (suggestive of) the Bellagio's Chinese New Year display (2006 and 2007). The last layout has tiny photos because they are old and low-res. It's a bit of a tribute to my mom, who loves the colour red.
(None are clickable for larger sizes because - one - I'm lazy and - two - no one needs to have a giggle over the things I wrote. Harumph!)
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