do you remember?

I barely remember the last time when I opened photoshop and created layout just because I felt like doing something creative.

Last week during our coffee date with Harmony we talked about passion and our creative minds and I told her that I haven’t been feeling creative lately at all. It’s like being in a funk and don’t know how to get out of it. We both  agreed on doing some fun projects together in a future to keep the creativity flowing (stay tuned!) and to get inspired and most importantly – to get excited about the whole process of creating once again. I really needed this conversation with her, she is my dear friend and always knows how to lift my spirits.  I’ve decided to explore the “almost forgotten” love of mine (memory keeping) once again and spent some time browsing pinterest this week to get my creative mojo going.

At the beginning of my “scrapping days” back in 2006, I had a few fellow scrapbookers whose work I admired so much and knew once I will be in a need for inspiration, I can browse their galleries to get some ideas for my layouts. I loved loved (and still do even though none of these ladies design or scrapbook any more) work of Two Sisters designs – Angela and Emily Powers. Their style of creativity was amazing. Their digital kits and layouts were always so fun and full of modern and eclectic elements and so many unexpected details. I took a few ideas of my favorite layouts of theirs and put together this page above called Do you remember? I dug my old stash of scrapbooking supplies and discovered so many goodies! (note to myself: dear me, please explore the archives of stash more often. You will love it!).

Well, I think after this experience, I will open the photoshop more often now.

Some of  the supplies used (many of these supplies are long time retired): background paper is mine from Simple basics paper pack; Paislee Press – Chasing the Sun; Say Yes To;  Two Sisters Designs – Artist canvas, Falling leaves; Emily Powers – Funky labels;  Amber Clegg – stamped alpha; Emily Merritt – Painted on; Karla Dudley – Life Recorded, Digital Essentials