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January 25th : Art Doll (Style Challenge)

Oh, such a great challenge to take me out of my comfort zone! It scares me a little but I can't wait to get home and play with this. I have a couple ideas in my head now, just have to see how it translates when I have the computer in front of me!
 
LOL !!!!! A day or so ago I found myself thinking that this years MOC has been pretty tame and easy compared with the last two. ~~Silly person for thinking that!~~ The challenges have been fairly easy except for the dispersion one. And I have taken most of the challenges in stride pretty good. And now this!! And NOW I'm thinking maybe you all saved the "surprises" for the last few days of MOC6??????? LOL !!!!!
 
I used a SPRING-ish theme. I listened to all 4 seasons twice in the time it took to make this layout. It's the text on the background that took so long. I did a search in my photo files for the word "doll" then copied and pasted all the captions I found in the photos' metadata, and made the word "doll" stand out. I lowered the text opacity to make it clear it's not the featured item on the page -- the doll is -- but I couldn't resist also reducing the opacity of the doll parts in case I want to read my text again someday.

I think there's nothing I've come across in digital scrapbooking that I'm less interested in than dolls. It's not that they're hard to use. I just have no interest in dolls on my pages. I didn't play much with dolls as a child, even. But more importantly, I'm realizing that documenting my life is the most important part of scrapbooking for me. I'm signed up for Tangie's class, but I'll always be most interested in journaling and including lots of photos on my pages.

But I think I made the best of it, and even kind of like my page. If not for the requirement to have the doll be the primary feature, I would have made the text more prominent and the doll tiny. Just an embellishment. But I probably won't get around to editing the page and will include it in my album just like this.

The best part? As I was enjoying reminiscing while I was copying the captions from old photos, I found some things I'd like to scrap. And it will be easy to find them again, just by searching "doll."

 
3BluEyedBabies said:
Oh my. I definitely played with paper dolls when I was little, but I've never done a digi-doll! I was supposed to go shopping with my mom today, but she just sent me a message that my grandfather is back in the hospital with heart pains. That's all I know right now. SO I'm going to try to distract myself with some scrapping until I hear from her. If you have a moment to say a prayer for him, I would appreciate it...off to find some scrapping mojo...
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I will most definitely whisper a few prayers ... and send you a cyber HUG!!

I hope that a little scrap therapy will help ease your mind for the time being ...
 
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