I'm not sure what happened to our internet service this week (are you listening CenturyLink?!?) but I think they may have reverted back to carrier pigeons to send interweb messages because holy.slow.uploads.Batman! But finally my new video is ready, despite the mind-numbingly slow internet speeds I've been dealing with lately. I not so patiently waited out the approximate 7983 minutes for uploading (I love how YouTube tells me in minutes, lest I be discouraged by the hour notation - just tell me it's gonna take three days already!!), and now it's live and ready to go! Holla!
In this video, I focused on a source of inspiration - a print ad for L'Orèal – and showed you how I translated it to a scrapbook page:
Advertisements are a favorite source of inspiration for me and I love taking cues from their design to help my own pages come to life. From the ad, I took the elements of a large photo + circular graphics and incorporated them into a double-page spread that features the new Crate collection, Open Book.
S U P P L I E S :
I can't seem to resist a good grid, and creating one from circles is especially fun. I mimicked the bottles in the ad and created a colorful arrangement of circles layered with lots of embellishments. From stickers to die cuts to chipboard to tags to brads - I used them all on this spread!
I hope you'll check out the video (you can view it
right here!) and let me know what you think. And just a little behind the scenes info: my tripod had an unfortuate run-in with my foot (and consequently, the floor) and is out of commission, so I had to rig up a different filming contraption at the last minute. Which consisted of a tall glass vase, a two-by-four, a Gorillapod and a roll of duck tape.
Very professional. At any rate, it proved to be slightly less than stable and there a few times during filming where it wiggled and wobbled due to my overzealous hand movements. I did my best to edit out most of it, but there are still a few clips that might induce motion sickness. Forgive me - I'm hoping to find a new tripod set up before the next video!
So there you have it. I've posted two videos in less than a month, which means I totally deserve a beer. If you need me, I'll be sipping a cold one while browsing Amazon for tripods. And trying to get the duck tape off my phone.
