Scrapper Envy

No, 'envy' isn't the word. Awe? Inspiration? Indeed. Here is the source of my reactions: http://twinsand2boys.blogspot.com/ I've been spending quite a while this morning really studying her work. My motivation always comes from one thing: how can I translate this into my visual journals? I really struggle with page layouts. For a very long time now, I've been taking the scrapping layouts in some of the scrapper magazines and -- reversing them? The areas they use for photos, I set aside for journaling, and the small journaling spaces suggested I use for my images. I just haven't found the happy balance yet, though, and I get even more PUSHED, EXCITED, when I look at beautiful, original stuff like on this blogsite (which I'm adding to my sidebar of favorites to read every day). I've never done any scrapping, and I can see how much there is to be learned from that genre of making art. Do you ever just look at a blog site and your fingertips get ITCHY with the desire to instantly go get to work? That's how I feel looking at this one. da BOMB! There's really no better feeling than to respond to someone else's fantastic creativity with a surge of my own! I sure can't do what she does, but what she's accomplished feeds the threads & seeds sewing and growing in my head. Awesome!