October 1-2-3 Challenge (2024)

[Cristina]

8 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

I am posting this layout (without my own approval) to get it over with! I have started and stopped so many times with different attempts at using the 1-2-3 elements required and I just couldn't get it to work. So I figured - glitter? must be for a celebration, right? So I made a kid's birthday (photo from online) layout using some stuff from my stash. Bits and pieces from Billie Irene (the folded edges on the corally-coloured background paper); Rachel Jefferies for much of the birthday things (e.g. balloon sketches and striped paper at the far right); also some glitter bits from Marisa Lerin.

The only piece I was involved with was the striped folded-corner paper in the background. The whole effort felt forced and unnatural to me, but I really wanted to produce something I could post and live with.

If anything is missing or not according to instructions, please don't judge me too harshly. I have to let it go!

Julie, this is lovely!

[Cristina]

8 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

this is beautiful Julie.  It's a style I love, but can't replicate.  So keep posting so I can see what love!  I go through the "love-it, hate-it" with everything I create.  I find I need to warm up creatively before anything I like happens.  Sometimes that period can day hours to days.  It doesnt come easy to me, and at some point we just have to let go and put it out into the world.

Susan, you have also been creating beautiful pages, elements, papers, etc.  Don't be too harsh on yourself. 🙂💟 

I have had the same feeling, and I just did not like what I had done.   Now, I am more of the opinion that I should practice the techniques more, post what I have, and try harder next time if it is not a piece of art.  😉😄

Edited October 7 by Cristina

[Julie Magerka]

13 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

Oh Julie, it is my opinion, that you have created a superb page, depicting your own delicate style. I also feel that you judge yourself far to harshly. Using glitter, took me outside of my comfort zone, which can be good thing. Allowing  to experience something a little different. I look at your work, and I  see a sensitive creator, producing perfection.

You're right Sue. I might have felt the layout was forced and unnatural, but it is good to step outside our usual zones and try something different. It's a good reminder for other aspects of our lives too. Not just layout styles!

[Corrie Kinkel]

18 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

Corrie,I think you may have misunderstood  my comment. I like the colour you chose. After looking at your page,  I should have used a colour  other than white.

Ok, sometimes it can be difficult to grasp a meaning in another language then my own!

[Corrie Kinkel]

16 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

I am posting this layout (without my own approval) to get it over with! I have started and stopped so many times with different attempts at using the 1-2-3 elements required and I just couldn't get it to work. So I figured - glitter? must be for a celebration, right? So I made a kid's birthday (photo from online) layout using some stuff from my stash. Bits and pieces from Billie Irene (the folded edges on the corally-coloured background paper); Rachel Jefferies for much of the birthday things (e.g. balloon sketches and striped paper at the far right); also some glitter bits from Marisa Lerin.

The only piece I was involved with was the striped folded-corner paper in the background. The whole effort felt forced and unnatural to me, but I really wanted to produce something I could post and live with.

If anything is missing or not according to instructions, please don't judge me too harshly. I have to let it go!

Julie you did a superb page and kept true to your delicate style! It seems that there are a lot of us that don't like it too glittery! I often have to rethink and retry different ways and layouts before I finally decide on the one that you all can see here! Sometimes it is a hate or love affair.

[Susan Ewart]

9 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Ok, sometimes it can be difficult to grasp a meaning in another language then my own!

And sometimes even in my own language somedays anything and everything is hard to grasp😔.   I can't imagine thinking in one language and typing in another language.  

[Cristina]

Adding my 2 cents...

How often are there misunderstandings when talking to a person in front of us and using our own language? At home, at work, with friends and colleagues, and at family dinners... 😄

Talking and writing in a language other than one's first language only adds another layer of difficulty to comprehension. There are nuances that we can only fully comprehend in our first language.

No wonder I add a lot of smileys to my posts here. 😉

Edited October 8 by Cristina

[Sue Thomas]

16 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Ok, sometimes it can be difficult to grasp a meaning in another language then my own!

I senced that it may have  been interpreting the different language.

[Julie Magerka]

4 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

I senced that it may have  been interpreting the different language.

It might be the word "should". Brits use it differently than North Americans. For us, it has the connotation of something that OUGHT to be done. Just my tuppence.

[Michele]

I wanted an autumn feel and few places are as beautiful as Central Park, NY during this season. These are stock photos that I wish I'd taken. Cass's polaroid script came in handy, even if I did edit them a little. The elements and backgrounds are from a bunch of different sources including PS blog trains, CF, and Boo Land Designs. Again, the Change to Target brush was a lifesaver. The font is AutumnEmbrace for both the title and the little leaves.

 

[Julie Magerka]

2 hours ago, Michele said:

I wanted an autumn feel and few places are as beautiful as Central Park, NY during this season. These are stock photos that I wish I'd taken. Cass's polaroid script came in handy, even if I did edit them a little. The elements and backgrounds are from a bunch of different sources including PS blog trains, CF, and Boo Land Designs. Again, the Change to Target brush was a lifesaver. The font is AutumnEmbrace for both the title and the little leaves.

 

Gorgeous layout!

[Corrie Kinkel]

18 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

And sometimes even in my own language somedays anything and everything is hard to grasp😔.   I can't imagine thinking in one language and typing in another language.  

You get used to it and when I'm using English I think in English most of the time. All things scrapbook related are in English for me and I find it sometimes difficult to explain in Dutch what I do to a friend. 😃

[Susan Ewart]

12 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

It might be the word "should". Brits use it differently than North Americans. For us, it has the connotation of something that OUGHT to be done. Just my tuppence.

I did not know that.  Oh, I'm watching just the nicest movie on Netflix, Mrs Haris Goes to Paris.  What a feel good and fun movie, I'm only 1/2 way through, but so enjoyable.  But it's probably a UK production.  

[Susan Ewart]

10 hours ago, Michele said:

I wanted an autumn feel and few places are as beautiful as Central Park, NY during this season. These are stock photos that I wish I'd taken. Cass's polaroid script came in handy, even if I did edit them a little. The elements and backgrounds are from a bunch of different sources including PS blog trains, CF, and Boo Land Designs. Again, the Change to Target brush was a lifesaver. The font is AutumnEmbrace for both the title and the little leaves.

 

So beautiful.  What a treat, you get to go to Central Park, what I see in movies and TV is how picturesque it is.  

[Ann Seeber]

4 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

the nicest movie on Netflix, Mrs Haris Goes to Paris

Oh, I really enjoyed that movie, too. A real "feel-good" experience.

[Michele]

5 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

What a treat, you get to go to Central Park, what I see in movies and TV is how picturesque it is.

I don't get there anymore; I'm pretty much a hermit now. But years ago my mom lived in Manhattan and we used to take my young daughter there, especially to the zoo. And when I was a teenager in Brooklyn, I used to sneak into the City with my friends to the Schaefer Music Festival in Central Park. If we didn't have tickets (~$2), we would just hang out and listen.

[Susan Ewart]

5 hours ago, Michele said:

I don't get there anymore; I'm pretty much a hermit now. But years ago my mom lived in Manhattan and we used to take my young daughter there, especially to the zoo. And when I was a teenager in Brooklyn, I used to sneak into the City with my friends to the Schaefer Music Festival in Central Park. If we didn't have tickets (~$2), we would just hang out and listen.

I get that, I'd "like" to be a hermit....but work seems to get in the way of that 😁. New York (and generally the upper east coast areas) are so beautiful in the fall.  Did you ever get to NY City at Christmas time?  That's something I'd love to see.  

[Michele]

39 minutes ago, Susan Ewart said:

I get that, I'd "like" to be a hermit....but work seems to get in the way of that 😁. New York (and generally the upper east coast areas) are so beautiful in the fall.  Did you ever get to NY City at Christmas time?  That's something I'd love to see.  

I used to go every year to look at the windows and the tree in Rockefeller Center. Then we would get something to eat. NYC at Christmas time is incredible. 

Oh, and once you're old and retired, you can be a hermit like me! 😄

[Ann Seeber]

2 hours ago, Michele said:

I used to go every year to look at the windows and the tree in Rockefeller Center. Then we would get something to eat. NYC at Christmas time is incredible. 

Oh, and once you're old and retired, you can be a hermit like me! 😄

and me! 😉

[Anne Lamp]

My Halloween themed 123 challenge.

 

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[Julie Magerka]

5 hours ago, Michele said:

I used to go every year to look at the windows and the tree in Rockefeller Center. Then we would get something to eat. NYC at Christmas time is incredible. 

Oh, and once you're old and retired, you can be a hermit like me! 😄

I'm there already! And lovin' it!

[Art Kuiper]

I agree with Christina. The images you all have posted are super. What I like especially are the chit-chats where the techniques used to make the images are discussed. I learn so much from them. Now I will have to try some of them to create an image for this forum.

[Cristina]

On 10/8/2024 at 6:42 PM, Michele said:

I wanted an autumn feel and few places are as beautiful as Central Park, NY during this season. These are stock photos that I wish I'd taken. Cass's polaroid script came in handy, even if I did edit them a little. The elements and backgrounds are from a bunch of different sources including PS blog trains, CF, and Boo Land Designs. Again, the Change to Target brush was a lifesaver. The font is AutumnEmbrace for both the title and the little leaves.

 

Wow, Michele, this is beautiful, photos and layout!