2014 Marathon - Game #3 - Page 2

Therapy97 · 02-11-2014, 02:53 PM

Brag about oneself, huh? That just goes against my very nature. LOL! Ok, ok, I have to say that I am amazed at how far I have come as a scrapper and to see so many different people nominating many of my marathon layouts in Game #2 has humbled me. It really is amazing and has helped my confidence as a scrapper that I am "doing it right." As Melinda said, the hubby doesn't always "get it"... actually none of my family does. So, coming here and getting the nods for a great layout during speed scraps is so awesome. But all the praise actually has to be given to this site... if it wasn't for Mousescrappers' challenges and speed scraps, along with the never ending friendliness of all the people on here, I would have never excelled in my scrapping abilities! So, I am proud of my continuing ability to show off my creativity and inspire others, especially to you all who understand the struggles we all have in making even a single layout.

Pooh46 · 02-11-2014, 03:05 PM

First of all, I was excited just to finish the Marathon! Still catching up on my sleep! I got a new camera for Christmas so I made a point of showcasing some of my photos from our trip last month in my layouts. I was very pleased with the results. Here are a few of my favorites:

Aussiegirl · 02-11-2014, 07:00 PM

I am very proud of this 2 page layout and LOVE how it turned out! It was actually fun to do too!

These pages and photos have also inspired a set of photos I am going to frame! I had bought a 5 opening frame and was going to use it for a photo a day from our last trip. However, now i am going to use it for 1 photo per trip from my family in front of the castle. This will be a quick reminder of how we have changed, how big my girls have gotten, and the overall fun time we've had on our trips! I can't wait to see the frame fill up (and maybe overflow into us needing another frame!)

I can't wait to see it fill up as my girls grow up and have their own families and we maybe take grandparent trips to Disney!!!

tinkerbell1112 · 02-11-2014, 07:42 PM

I have two things I want to show off.

First, I have never been able to figure out how to get that dreamy look in a picture and I learned in #164 to and love how it turned out

I'm not big on using patterned paper! Or doing clusters! So #161 was really hard for me, but I love how it turned out

janette · 02-11-2014, 08:16 PM

I'm always thrilled to get more pages done, I got some older ones done this time and it's fun to go back in time and see how much has changed.

This is my favorite page, I'd tried to do these pictures a few times and never thought to use a patterned paper before the SS and love how well it worked.

These are my favorites for the memories, my girls recreated their poses for me in the Then / NOW - a side benefit of my older pages is that they remember some of the pictures. They had fun doing it and too bad it couldn't be done at WDW anymore.

meagan43 · 02-12-2014, 06:59 AM

This year's challenges were so awesome that I really love my LOs. (Thanks hosts!)
Of course, there are a few that stand out to me more than others.

When this chat started by Melinda and she said only 1 picture, I was disappointed (I prefer to scrap lots of pictures on a page since I have so many of each event). So, I had to search and search for a subject. I started one LO in front of the castle and ended up with 3 pictures! So, had to ditch it and she had a quick turn around, too! Then, she says that the background has to be patterned - oh how I suck at patterns, especially as the main showing item. I saw my picture of Cheshire Cat (which I never really thought to scrap on his own). I started throwing things on the page and ended up with mostly pink items - I am SO not a pink person. Most of my LOs are bright colors. I LOVED how it turned out! Everything about it makes it stand out from my others and I can see just how to use it, too! As the first page in my Crazy Hat album! So fun, Thanks, Melinda for challenging me

amyjo76 · 02-13-2014, 04:39 AM

I'm most proud of completing the marathon

1. I think my favorite LO from the weekend was for SS#164
I liked that I used a non-Disney related kit. I like how the picture turned out blended in the background. I did ok with my clusters too

2. I liked my page from SS#156 because it all came together well. I loved scrapping the old pictures and the colors matched nicely. I used another non-Disney kit for this one as well.

3. I liked how SS#162 page was split up. I liked the bright color vs the pastel.

poohaddict · 02-13-2014, 05:51 AM

I am proud of myself for completing this marathon. I have had a very rough year and I needed to breakthrough and do something I love again! This gave me the perfect opportunity to digiscrap again.

Here are a few of my favorite layouts

luv2scrapmm · 02-13-2014, 07:38 AM

Like most people have said, I find it hard to congratulate myself. I am amazed I did the whole marathon considering I wasn't home most of Friday, my son was home for college so we went out Saturday, and I already had plans with friends and dinner at my parents' house on Sunday. Usually I don't plan anything on marathon weekends - lol. Many of my layouts were done in an hour which I can't believe. The challenges pushed me to try some new things.
I used kits I bought and hadn't used, tried pocket style scrapping (which I think I love), and used the eyedropper tool to recolor many more items than I have ever done before. Although I know I will tweek a few layouts, overall I am happy with how they came out. In fact, the layout I was least happy with at the time ends up being the one that someone else picked as a favorite for that speed scrap. Most of all I am proud to be part of this amazing group!!!!

My faves:

sthompsonfoto · 02-13-2014, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Therapy97

Brag about oneself, huh? That just goes against my very nature. LOL! Ok, ok, I have to say that I am amazed at how far I have come as a scrapper and to see so many different people nominating many of my marathon layouts in Game #2 has humbled me. It really is amazing and has helped my confidence as a scrapper that I am "doing it right." As Melinda said, the hubby doesn't always "get it"... actually none of my family does. So, coming here and getting the nods for a great layout during speed scraps is so awesome. But all the praise actually has to be given to this site... if it wasn't for Mousescrappers' challenges and speed scraps, along with the never ending friendliness of all the people on here, I would have never excelled in my scrapping abilities! So, I am proud of my continuing ability to show off my creativity and inspire others, especially to you all who understand the struggles we all have in making even a single layout.

I TOTALLY agree!!! My family doesn't get either but the always love the finished products and so it is nice to have others to share my passion and pastime. And yes without mousescrappers and all the great peeps around here I would still be just throwing some pics on a plain background and thinking I was really accomplishing something great when really, yes I was accomplishing something but nothing like what I am now. Now I look back at my previous scrapping and think, wow wish I had unlimited time I would redo that!

Did not like this challenge starting out, but turned out o really like this page! I love all the layers and the crazy amount of stuff in it.

I am not a pastel scrapper but did it anyway, I ended up liking the page much more than I thought I would and am actually going to use it again to do a different title and pics

Love the colors on this one