I was looking at the pics on my computer last night and started looking at my old sb pages…(I know – I could look at the ACTUAL pages that are sitting about 8 feet away from me in their little albums, but…) I really noticed something. Even as far back as 2002 and those much simpler and "event" type layouts, I did have a style. That’s something we sbers are always talking about – "What’s my style?" "I don’t have a style" and "I love her style!" It’s interesting to go back and really look at the elements of a page and say – "Hey! I remember doing that" and thinking that technique was so innovative and then all of a sudden, serendipity squares and shaker boxes are SO over. Anyway, regardless of "trend" and "product" – style really does emerge. I noticed that I loved to layer from early on. I also rarely used big embellishments but loved to use quotes to back up my journaling (which was always typed on the computer – something that has really changed.) I also liked using smaller pictures AS my embellishments – a style element I can completely credit to my friend Leah Blanco Williams (who suggested when I was saying "this picture on the layout? Or this picture? I like both" and she wisely said "reduce one and use them both." – it was an epiphany people!! )
So anyway, without further ado – some old pages…..:) (no snickering allowed.)
Look at my exacto work! 😉 This layout was made in April 2002. I don’t have any of my earliest (and scariest!) pages scanned in….
I remember being so proud of the way I cut the grass and flowers to look like the purple patterned paper I used….
See the quote? See the layering?
And THIS…this is the very layout Leah and I were talking about. I loved the profile pic of Colin with his chubby cheeks and loved his little mohawk do. I felt so innovative for sewing on this page and making the giraffe! AND I used 2peas font "toosmall" for the journaling snips.
What do your old layouts say about you? Look at them today!
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I'm Bethany
I believe in the act of creativity in small everyday moments to make life more beautiful and meaningful..
Okay, I hate you…your old layouts look better than my new ones, LMBO!! 😉 Seriously, it’s pretty incredible how much of the Bethany I know and love can be seen in these early pages — so familiar, so innovative, and so “WOW” even back then…even for now! You’re not only one of my all-time favorite artists, you’re also one of the most stylish people I know, B. Look at you going and proving it with these early layouts, hee hee. What a cool trip down memory lane. Thanks for taking us with you!
These are OLD layouts? This just is not fair! It’s like you have no learning curve! LOL! I’m with Leah. You’re one of my favorites! -E