Sunday, October 01, 2006

Inspiration

After I got home on Saturday night after watching Ohio State soundly defete Big 10 rival Iowa, I went searching for something scrappy because I felt the need to create a new layout. I was looking for inspriration. I went to Scrap Girls since that was the first digital scrap site I joined. I scanned through the gallery finding plenty of inspiration, but nothing that really clicked for me. Then I went to the Message Board under Crops and found a familiar user name, scrapdiva73, aka Brandie Valenzuela (a designer for Scrap Girls). I had previously joined several of her "All About Me" crops and thoroughly enjoyed them. I found she had hosted a "Sketch Challenge Crop" on Thursday night and I had missed it. The crop was based on the following sketch:



In an additional message, Brandie thanked everyone who joined the crop and said "Remember, if you still want to create a LO based upon the sketch, please do! Just upload your layout to the gallery in the main area of "Scrap Girls Crop and Classes" section, so we can all see it!" This was all the inspiration I needed. Now all I needed was a subject.

The main reason for me getting involved in scrapbooking was to create a scrapbook (paper or digital) of a recent Western Caribbean Cruise my wife and I took with 14 of our close friends. After I got involved in digital scrapbooking I decided to create a page of each event prior to the cruise and during the cruise. So far I have only created 7 pages. I think I need to get busy or I'll never complete the scrapbook. I looked through the 700 plus pictures I took on the cruise and found 3 pictures I could use. The pictures were of an unexpected event that happened on the ship in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. The event was held on Sunday, January 22, 2006 in the Schooner Bar. It was held on the second day of our cruise, so this was really special. The event was the broadcast of the semi-final football game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Denver Broncos. They were able to televise the game through a satelite link to Mexico City. It was neat because the broadcast of the game was in English, but all the commercials were Mexican. Two of our friends originally lived in Pennsylvania, so they were loyal and true to Pittsburgh. Myself, being a loyal Cleveland Browns fan had a little difficulty choosing which team to cheer for. Both, Pittsburgh and Denver, have ruined Cleveland's chances in the past of going to the Super Bowl, and Pittsburgh is an inner-conference rival. I decided to cheer for Pittsburgh because they had several incorrect penalties called against them in the playoff game the previous week. It was fun sitting in the bar on a ship in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico watching a football game. It was definitely not one of the usual cruise events. Following is the layout I created:






# posted by Tom... : Sunday, October 01, 2006




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