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The theory behind my brand of scraplifting is simple.
"Create a scrapbook page that is Uniquely Yours! One that tells your story and reflects your personal style, but found its inspiration from somewhere else." ~ Michelle
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Scraplifting is the art of using things around you, most often a finished scrapbook page, as inspiration for your own layout. While I have out and out copied many pages for my personal scrapbook, the fundamental concept of Lifted is to use bits and pieces of a what you like from another layout and changing things up to work with your photos, story and style. My book explores this concept in depth using "inspiration" pages and layouts "lifted" from that inspiration page. All layouts have detailed sketches, and each lifted page has a narrative from the artist explaining her creative process for that page. It's the perfect tool to begin seeing scraplifting in a new and exciting way.
Why is scraplifting "okay"?
Scraplifting works because you are unique. You have your own family, your own individual experiences, and your own style.
You are a strong, dynamic, amazing person with a style that shines through in each page you create.
How do I know this? Because I know scrapbookers, and we rock!
When you scrapbook your life, in your voice, with your stories, using your creative style, you will, by nature, end up with a page that is uniquely yours. That’s why it works. That’s why scraplifting is not copying! It is using a layout as a springboard to creating a page that’s all your own! When you Lift a page effectively, the process will easier, you will get more done, and you'll still maintain every part of you that makes your scrapbooks so wonderful.
Is a "Lifted" page really my own?
Of course it is!
Now, I suppose there are some guidelines that one should follow in that fine line between a copied page and a Lifted one, but those are not in print anywhere. They are governed only by your own moral compass. Personally, when I copy a page I do so knowing that page will go in my personal scrapbook. Additionally, while I don’t submit for publication anymore, I would’t submit a lifted scrapbook page, no matter how different it was, to a magazine. I might, however, post a lifted page on the web, and depending on how drastic the lift, I would give credit to the original artist.
But here’s the thing. I don’t scrapbook for anyone else (anymore – every single page you may have seen in any book or magazine has been 100% original) My pages are for me and my family. If I have a page that was sparked from another page, then so be it. I’m cool with that. As is my family.
*** These days, in my busy life, scrapbooking has to be fun, or I won’t do it. ***
For me, lifting makes scrapbooking easier, more fun, and allows me to not beat my head against the wall trying to come up with every single little detail for a page. Which, ironically, opens my mind to a point where I end up being even more creative.
Give Scraplifting a try. Believe me, it's NOT a crime!
