MID MOC Check-in and Challenge HELP!!

For that... I looked at it, and wrote 7 things that popped out at me. Then I tried to scrap with those things in mind. It's a tough inspiration board, ONLY because there is a load of inspiration crammed in there! So, you need to sort of prevent yourself from getting overwhelmed. At least for me, that worked.

Mine was: Colors, Type Font, Faces, Camera, Tag


I'm stuck on two layouts that should be simple... Clean and Simple, and the Blind Scrap. I hope to work on those tonight. Then I can move forward again!

 

@mimisgirl I totally had that problem with that challenge. I decided on the things I want to focus on and wrote them down and crossed them off my list while scrapping. That isn't a very conducive method to creative scrapping in my book but I didn't have a choice. I otherwise would have forgotten some of the things I needed to incorporate. Can't say that layout is my best ever, but it will do.

The worst challenge for me was the One word - explore challenge. I ended up loving my layout but only because I slept over it and got behind. I was about to skip it altogether but then an idea came to me while browsing my photos. If I have no ideas I always put it to the side and let it rest. Usually something will come up that I can work with then.

Sorry, I cannot help about the feverish 4-year-old. Hopefully he will feel better soon. Sometimes you just have to wait it out, I'm afraid.

 

In terms of challenge - my biggest hurdle is going to be next week when we will move into our place - we are in middle of a huge move, we moved from Mexico to U.K. And are currently in the temporary corporate housing. It has its faults but the internet works! Yay!! but later this week or early next , we will move into our own place - with no Internet set up - that's when it will be supremely challenging for me to keep up!

In terms of inspiration challenge - I did what some of the others did - jotted down the first 6 things that stood out to me and tried to work on a page incorporating them one by one.

I'm 3 behind right now and am hoping to catch up on those at least before the move.

 

I have managed to keep up so far. But having said that, I have 2 layouts that I am really not happy with. But that happens every year. I'm thinking its maybe because I scrap quicker in MOC? Anyway, I am loving it and all set for tomorrow's challenge

 

@Pallavi01 Where in the UK are you? I am on the south coast near Chichester

 

First I started writing down a few ideas of things that caught my eye that I thought I'd like to incorporate in a layout. Then I got busy with my day and thought about it awhile but waited to start longer than I had for any other page so far. Finally, I attended the speed scrap that evening, where every step was inspired by the inspiration board! It feels kind of like cheating. The speed scrap directions are still listed in the forum here. If I hadn't been guided by the speed scrap, I think I could have made a good layout with the ideas I'd begun writing down myself. I already had 4 or 5 before the speed scrap. I liked the ones in the speed scrap better than mine though.

 

I did the same thing with the inspiration one too. Just jotted down things that popped out.

I'm caught up right now, and I haven't had any real issues with any of them yet.
But I know you all can do it.

 

I'll be out of town for several days and it will be hard to make up that time. At least I am mostly caught up now.

Here's my big question and I'd be happy to get some input:

For the challenge, do you start with the template, the page kit or the photo? I've done a little of each but sometimes I get stuck in the process. For example, for one of the challenges, I knew that I had the perfect photos and I stuck them in a template but then I couldn't find a current page kit that I liked for it. I had to start over.

Another time, I tried starting with the page kit and then choosing a photo and a template but in the end completely switched over to another page kit.

I've also found the perfect kit and it was retired!

What do you do?

 

@mimisgirl - I don't remember how I did the inspiration challenge, but what I do remember is that I nearly didn't post the page, thinking it wasn't good enough. Then I got lots of encouragement. So just -- make what you want!

 

This one was really backward for me! I love the bricks, so I put the bricks in the middle of the layout and added a background paper. One I was there, it looked very masculine and grungy to me. So then I went flying through my pictures to find something that fit the background that I created and would work with the typewriter keys from Paula Kesselring. I finally found the pictures from last year where my husband and 2 sons were working on the car.

 

I am trying to use all the challenges in my 2016 album, so I pick the photo(s) first. If the next page in my chronological album works for the challenge, then I do it. But some times I have had to look ahead, like today's challenge is to use photos that tell a story. The next 2 sets of photos I should use do not tell a story, so I need to skip ahead until I find a set that does. I have also started on my 2017 album since those pics worked for 2 challenges.

Long answer to say, I almost always start with the photo if one is needed.

 

Yes, I think, as an art journaler, I often start with the main image. Which may then vanish as the piece evolves, but it gets me started.

 

We are over halfway through, people! There's a light at the end of the tunnel.



We've got this!





So let's set our eyes on the prize and finish things up in style.



And when it's all over, we'll be like this:

 

I'm sorry your kiddo got sick It seems like everyone is getting sick right now. I hope it goes away from your family and stays away! <3

I'm going to start making dinner, but I'll come back and read the other comments to see if I can say how I got through challenges or issues. Currently I'm caught up and finding this year's MOC to be fairly easy for me. Last year blocked me, scrapwise for several months. But I also had a gazillion things happening last year, and MOC was just something else interfering. This year, outside of homeschooling and potty-training, I've been able to keep on track! I'm quite pleased with myself and really think I can get through the rest of the month!

 

shhhh.... I admit that I kinda did this challenge backwards. I was inspired by a couple of things and then found products that I wanted to scrap with that worked with the board. Then I looked backed through my layout and compared it to the inspiration board and to make sure I had at least 5 inspired things. I actually ended up with more than 5, but only listed the required 5.

 

most of the time I try to find photos that fit the challenge and then a current kit... but I can float and totally change that