A wonderful friend of mine, Heidi, gave me a book that inspried me. It talks about other forms of artistry...and using different mediums in your artistic works. I am a scrapbooker and card maker...not a painter or a sculpter. But I love to use the various mediums in my scrapbooks and cards. Sometimes I spend a VERY long time on one layout and sometimes I have people telling me that I should just get the pictures on the page and simplify. In come cases, I have simplified. But when I want to go all out, I will. In this layout, I needed to express myself through my children's artwork. I used pastels and s,eared them around the black paper, I wore patterened paper, only small strips, because I did not want to take anything away from the photos. Don't be afraid to get messy, don't be afraid to think outside the box, don't be afraid to be an artist and not just some one slapping down the pictues on the page. Enjoy using your artistic side. I may never get caught up, but at least I will be proud of the pages I finished.
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