Recently I signed up for an online class at Creative Passion, "Got Glue?" and was inspired to "get smashing", LOL.
As it often happens, now everywhere I go I see ideas for smashing, websites seem to lead to journaling, collage, mixed media and so on. Today while web surfing I happened to read an article "Making An Upcycled Smash Book"...an idea struck me and was so inspired!! Later I was visiting Mel Nunns Life Is A Canvas blog and I came upon her smash book challenge. What a great idea to get the ideas flowing! Wow, with topics like that I can think of all sorts of ideas. Some of my favorites were...
- In The Garden
- Where You Like To Shop
- Pets (a favorite animal)
- A Favorite Season
- Favorite Color
- Top 10 Songs
- Who Do You Love
Ok so now back the thoughts that stimulated this post... I had this cool idea to marry several things that have got my interest of late. My recent swapping activities have been almost exclusively focused on ATC's and most of my creative time on the web has led me to collage, mixed media, and journaling sites. The process of creating ATC's has me doing alot of experimenting. As I cut, spray, color and tear lots of cool remnants are left over and I've been wondering what to do with my scraps besides just tossing them. It occured to me a great Smash topic would be the creative process that leads me to the ATC design and all the remnants and cast offs would be exactly what could be used to smash in its pages...along with a few finished ATC's.
