{"id":821,"date":"2013-01-18T11:44:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T23:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/?p=821"},"modified":"2013-01-18T11:44:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T23:44:34","slug":"inspired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/2013\/01\/inspired\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspired"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a year since some of my on-line friends, the Scrapmates, visited Fantail Grove for a retreat (you can read about the 2012 event here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Last weekend we did it all again – and it was just as good this time around. As you can see from the image below, we worked hard. (Followers of this blog may realise why we are working in the living room this year, and not the garage craft space – go here <\/a>to see the reason). \"Hard<\/a> I was very pleased to get my 2012 Photo-A-Day project album up to date as far as the beginning of December, but the highlight for my own creativity was completing three layouts:<\/p>\n

\"Waterfront<\/a>DH takes amazing photographs. These are from his daily walk between the railway station and his place of work and showcase just a little of how lovely (and busy) Wellington’s harbour can be. I wanted to try something new with my title lettering, and used plain chipboard letters from Kaisercraft. I inked these and then embossed them to give them a shiny finish. Next time I will have to remember that the grey of the chipboard substantially darkens the colours – but I’m pleased with how they turned out anyway.<\/p>\n

\"Really<\/a>This layout was my response to the challenge I laid down to the Scrapmates: use machine stitching. I have stitched on the scalloped border strips, and over the lettering. I also used up some Scenic Route journalling cards that were already quite old when I got them – as part of my challenge to myself to make a good sized dent in my stash this year.<\/p>\n

\"Haymaking<\/a>This is my favourite of the three layouts I made. I think I am at last beginning to get to grips with layering items and I love how the clusters look. I am so glad to have used the Kaisercraft chipboard embellishment and some very old diecuts. I will forever be grateful to Shimelle<\/a> for showing me how to repeat elements to bring unity to the design and lead the eye through the layout. I am sure I have lots more to learn, but I think this this is real progress.<\/p>\n

Have you found that working with others inspires you to create more than you might have if you worked on your own?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a year since some of my on-line friends, the Scrapmates, visited Fantail Grove for a retreat (you can read about the 2012 event here). Last weekend we did it all again – and it was just as good … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,9,47],"tags":[14,11],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantail-grove","category-im-creating","category-im-doing","tag-scrapbooking","tag-scrapmates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}