What made this layout special to us?
Pam has such a knack for balancing her layouts and coordinating her colors. We ove the vibrant colors and extra touches that she added to this layout. She also does a great job with shading and accenting her embellishments.
Which cutter do you use, how long have you had it, and tell us something that was really helpful to you in learning how to use the machine?
I was one of the first consumers in the United States to receive the Original Wishblade before it was available for purchase. I had the brief privilege of working with the originator of the WB as a DT member before they sold to XYRON.
Describe your crafting process (for example: are you a planner? Do you create layouts or cards "off the cuff"? Do you like to create alone or with friends? With or without music? etc.)
PLAN PLAN PLAN. I dream, sleep, eat and think scrapbook design (paper and digital book). I have my own huge layout sketch notebook separated into categories: 1 photo---vertical. 1 photo---horizontal. 3 photos---vertical---horizontal---mixed. Try this, it's guaranteed to
help keep your pages fresh and not arranged in the same way page to page.
Then I can grab my photos, check out the tried and true layout sketches and go from there. I rarely copy exactly one of my sketches, but the jumpstart makes the layouts flow and I get more done in the time I have. Sometimes I scraplift one of my designs exactly with different papers and embellishments and you simply don't recognize it as the same design.
Likewise I will pull papers and let my eye rest with them for a while to see if they really work. By the time I get to adhering things to the page, I usually have tweaked both papers and placements but then it goes fast. I usually spend an hour or more per page.
Sometimes when I am all about "art", a layout can take four hours or more. I do less of that now with the system of page sketches and the realization that it's more important to have the pages in books for everyone to enjoy than to spend a full day on a layout. (my kids don't
care about the artsy factor nearly as much as what I have to say in my journaling....)
What do you typically pack to take to a crop?
Don't do crops. People come to my house!!!
YAY! All my stuff is here, open to my daughter's, daughter-in-law and friends. Share and Share alike. I only ask that they check with me first if it's a one of a kind print or embellishment. Otherwise, my philosophy is use it up, there's always more at the store. My Daughter in law is making an album for her son (from first marriage) and so far she's only bought a Jolee's sticker pack, everything else has been 'bought at the Pam Store")
Tell us a fun or little known fact about you. (This one doesn't have to relate to scrapbooking or cutting at all.)
I'm part Native American, Seneca Tribe, descended from the Tallcheif line.
