It’s funny how things come to me…how an idea suddenly appears when the pressure is off and my mind isn’t trying so hard to create.
I’ve had this series of photos-adorable pictures of my niece- that I printed out and scrapped way back in 2007. The pictures are in place and only a few spots of journaling remain to be written. I’ve struggled with the album cover though. It was just a plain red Martha Stewart accordion book. I knew that I wanted the cover to be scrapped and that I wanted it to reflect both a boyish nature but with a girly side, too. I looked at this thing forever and just couldn’t come up with anything.
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And so, I set it aside and walked away; for four years {that’s a lot of walkin’…actually I walked 800 miles away because I moved to Arkansas during that time!}.
“It” {inspiration} came to me out of nowhere. I was just waking from a nap and the album popped into my mind. I hadn’t seen it for a while….months…maybe even a year. It’s been packed away in a drawer in the craft room under scraps of felt and other unfinished, uninspired projects. But there it was; an idea both boyish and girly. A rocket layered upon a paper doily. With a star spangled pennant banner. And, a cover was born.
Sometimes it’s just as good to just walk away as it is to plow through.
