Sunday, January 10, 2016

Instagram LO for Lasting Memories challenge

Good Morning to you :) I hope you are having a fine weekend. Mine was up and down but got some things done, the laundry is done :) my craftroom well that is a work in progress. I belong to a facebook group Our Happy Scrappin' Place and starting today is "Our Organization Challenge will be from Jan. 10th thru 20th. We'll be working on several areas of organization from photos to physical organization. We'll get our spaces cleaned up to start a creative year together!" I'm really looking forward to this challenge :) and maybe a great spruce up of the craftroom. If I can locate things when I need them then the challenge worked :)

This week's new challenge over at Lasting Memories is "Anything Goes" with a New Beginning theme

When you get to my age finding something that is a new beginning in my life is a hard subject for a challenge :) You know what I mean "been there done that" is part of my language, but after thinking a few days and then thinking some more it dawned on me that I got the new smartphone last year. Now this is something new for me, my only need for a cell phone was exactly that a phone and if it had a camera then it was an added bonus. Well I keep hearing about instagram and kept seeing photos from instagram and some of the facebook groups I'm in wanted you to upload pictures and tag them in instagram, well thought best to check it out. After getting on the main site and it wanted a phone to attach it's app too then I knew it was time for a new phone. So I talked with my DIL Andrea about the straight talk plan and she said they also have refurbish phones you could buy at a cheaper price I started to check it out. She also sent me some links and after deliberating about it I found one phone I would try out you know "test the water" as they say. So now I have a smartphone and I Love It! But Instagram :) what a fun program and takes a better picture with the same camera on the phone than taking it with the phone camera alone. So my new journey has begun. For the layout I went to ScrapMuch? and used their January 8 sketch for the inspiration for my layout:
I was able to use one of the blocks for my journaling and the pictures took over the other blocks. This is a really fun layering type sketch and will need to keep this around a bit for future layouts. Since this topic is about a camera app I made sure that the layout was full of camera motifs
The background paper started you off with the camera and the star in the bottom corner, a couple that were fussy cut out of a cut apart sheet and then the pink camera pattern paper for one of the layers. I added a little journaling block about my first photo I took with the app. This layout also qualifies for the Say Cheese challenge in the yahoo group Scrappin N Chattin.
 The title work, with some fun fussy cutting layers. I also added in the journal block my current stats on instagram. I used my current counterfeit kit "Brighter Year Ahead"
A closer picture of my journaling. These are just a few of my favorite photos at the moment. I do enjoy having the smartphone with me on walks with Buddy, easier to carry than the larger camera and the pictures come out pretty darn good, it took a bit to figure out how to do the pictures better than my first few and it was really nice to have the camera phone available for Christmas photos this year. Well that is me in a nutshell :) It really doesn't take much to make me happy. I'll be so happy to see your creation over at Lasting Memories too. Another layout to add to my 'All About Me' album :)
I'm also adding this to a new challenge blog: More Than Words: January challenge: Personality & Selfie.
 http://morethanwordschallenge.blogspot.com.au/I've notice since I have joined instagram that the photos I take are more of the happenings in my life and that is part of my personality, just as when I was a teen my personality then was totally different than what it is now :)(What does the word "PERSONALITY" inspire you to create?
You can choose to use the word somewhere on your project or simply be inspired to create from it.  Please explain in your blog post how it inspired you, if not already obvious. )


25 comments:

  1. What a great layout Tina! I love my smartphone too and the megapixels for the phone camera is the same as my bigger camera. So I use my phone a lot to take pictures. I am on instagram, but don't know much about it. lol Or how to use it. I think I posted one or two photos a few years ago and haven't done it since. Not even sure how I did it! lol Bringing Bret back to school today, I hope it clears off, but looks like I will be following the rain and fog all the way up. Yippee! Hope to meet up with you yet this year my friend. Keep scrapping! Hugs, Brenda

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  2. Ooh, Tina. So much to comment on in this blogpost! :)

    I love the idea of a craft room re-organisation (I'm mid clear-out myself) so I'll be interested to see how it works out for you.

    The layout is awesome - and I'm sure there must be more *new* things for you to experience no matter what your age.

    And, lastly, I've finally joined Instagram myself. Would love to 'meet' you on there - I'm @obstinatepursuit xxx

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  3. I love this Tina. You will love your new smart phone as I'm sure you already do. I didn't realize using the instagram app made even better pictures. Now I'm going to have to try something new too. I use my smart phone 98% of the time now for pictures. Just so easy and good.
    Good luck with all the challenges you got to enter with this layout.

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  4. Welcome to InstaGram! I LOVE it! I don't have FB so this is a creative outlet for me where photo's are concerned and a lot of scrapbooking sites on there as well. You can look me up @karen82402 .. great idea for your layout this week!

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  5. Great take on the sketch and fabulous layering! Thank you for playing along at ScrapMuch?!

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  6. What a great layout! So glad you could join in the fun over at ScrapMuch?

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  7. Love the colors especially the teal.The vintage camera is so cute. I haven't tried instagram but love my smart phone

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  8. Yay for new beginnings! Your layout is wonderful!
    Thank you for joining us at ScrapMuch?! :o)

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  9. Fun take on the sketch and great paper choices! Thanks for sharing with us at ScrapMuch?

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  10. Great take on the sketch! Love your journaling in the film strip. Thank you for joining us at scrapMuch?!

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  11. Great selfie & so lovely to have you join in our challenge at More Than Words.

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  12. Lovely! Thank you for playing along with More than words !

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  13. Great layout Tina! Love the photos and think it is pretty cool that you did a layout of your Instagram photos and such.... social media is so huge and in our lives so why not scrap it! Clever! Lovely sketch too and you did a great job with it.
    Hugs,
    Jo
    xox

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  14. This is fabulous! I love that you included some journalling. Don't forget to pop our challenge board into your post! Thanks for playing along with us at our very first More Than Words challenge.

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    1. Thanks Heather :) It's in there now. I forgot about that part of the rules :)

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  15. Oh yes, January is prime time for scrappy organization, isn't it. Glad you had time to do this layout - love that camera in the bottom corner, it establishes a nice upward flow through the pictures to the title. Fab.

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  16. So nice! I love the multiple photos! Thank you for playing along with us at More Than Words!

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  17. Looks great. I like your photos and the individual journaling block.

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  18. I love that you used more than one picture! Thanks for playing along with us. MTW - KareenBH

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  19. Wonderful layout! What a journey to find a phone! I am in the same boat right now!! No nothing of Instagram! Thanks for sharing your experience! All the best from More Than Words! :)

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  20. What a fabulous layout and a fabulous read! Happy you're enjoying your cellphone! Thank you so much for playing along with us at More Than Words!! :)

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  21. Great take on the sketch! Thanks for playing along with ScrapMuch?

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  22. Fun take on the sketch. Great job! Thanks for playing along with us at ScrapMuch?!

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  23. What a amazing creation!Thank you so much for playing along with us at More Than Words!

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