I firstly need to say thankyou to EM/Sugar Almond from UkScrappers for the inspiration.. her fabtastic J'adore LO can be seen here....Today I had the urge to scrap so much... had the time.. gawd only knows I've got enough photos and stash.... but it just wasn't happening.. I just couldn't get glue to paper... so I had to do it.. I had to scraplift...
Now I'm hardly likely to submit my LO's for publication, or am setting the scrapping world alight with my genuius new ideas.. and the likelihood of my family and friends( who are the only ones who see my albums really)browsing online galleries and feeling jipped that the LO starring them was a total rip from somebody elses is pretty slim..... SO.. why do I feel like a fraud scraplifting?!? It's not like I wouldn't give credit to the original...but normally it just doesn't feel right, perhaps it's that I feel I'm not doing justice to the original.. I don't know...
Anyway today was different.. I just knew I couldn't get an original idea squeezed outta my own head, so I delved into my faves.. found one that gave me that feeling.. that ..'That's what I wanna create'..kinda feeling.. and set to it, and you know what..it felt kinda relaxing.. a bit like painting by numbers, I just filled in the blank spaces.. I kinda enjoyed it.... It was what I needed today.. I needed to dip my toe back in the scrapping water... which I did.. t'was warm and lovely.. maybe next time I'll be back without without my armbands!!!!
3 comments:
There's nothing wrong with a bit of scraplifting (but I feel funny doing it too lol), lovely page. :)
Flakey rebels R us :)
hope you are well, Nics x
Aw... I don't think you should feel so bad scraplifting. For one thing, you credit it. For another -we all do it - even if subliminally! If you made a page you love - and it IS great... then why worry? Think your family will know in years to come? think you'll remember? think it matters?
Just get scrapping - who cares how or why? :-)
hugz
jake xx
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