Definitely, scrapping is an art. Inspiration in art comes from our heart. Many of us scrappers, if not all, approve of this view. Scrapping lets us also discover ourselves, express our own feelings or emotions and most of the time scrapping awakens our inner selves hidden under our everyday masks.
I remember when I was a little girl, I was unable to take care of flowers. Often I forgot to water them and saw them fade away slowly. My father thought it a shame, a girl who didn’t like flowers and who was unable to keep one blooming ^-^ Or in my eyes, flowers meant joyful colors, nature and life. I grew up thinking I was not able to carry on beauty or did not feel myself artsy nor creative. Instead I chose to grow with figures and a career in finance.
But I love photos. I feel photogenic and I loved to be photographed. Then I became a Mom, deeply in love with her babies. I began to take more and more pics of my sons and I find them more photogenic than me or anyone else. Yes, I am a Mom! I was tired of keeping my thousands of photos stored on my laptop. I started to build a website for my boys but it wasn’t enough for me. I found digital scrapbooking and I started to make page after page after page after page…
The longer I scrapped, I was surprised to discover the amount of creativity out there. Each time I visited a gallery, I would ask myself how I could create those same looks in my layouts.
And most of all, I discovered how deeply I love nature and love flowers. I love to take photos and scrap them – their colors inspire me more than anything else. Yes, scrapping helps me to discover my love of flowers and helps me also to have more and more in my garden 🙂 I am so happy now that I feel able to take care of a plant and see them grow and bloom in my own way.
April’s theme gives me the pleasure to scrap layout with my favorite flower. I made one recently with a red rose. As I wandered across the gallery, I was happy to find some marvellous layouts, and see how each of us can be inspired by those beautiful color of life. Keep an eye on these two pretty creations :
The page I made is here :
About the Author : Bao is a guest Creative Team member at The Digital Press. She has been a digiscrapper for about ten years now. She joined The Digital Press in March and enjoys being active on the site. Her style tends to be clean & simple. Most of the the time she scraps her family’s photos. She loves, however, to scrap other subjects such as flowers, nature, the environment, foods … She says hello to all of you from her big island named Madagascar, and feel blessed to live there.