Chantel would be proud to know that I'm spending nap-time creating layouts for upcoming classes at TM. Hopefully Anam will be posting (on the TM blog) the photos of the layouts/projects I've already completed so we can drum up some interest...maybe I'll just post them here!
The class I'm working on right now is a layout class, in which you get to learn how to combine the art of layering with the rad Hambly papers and transparencies. And since I can be sort of lazy, most if not all of my class layouts have real-life inspiration from my own layouts. I am discovering how difficult it is to take a perfectly planned 8.5 x 11 layout and convert it into 12 x 12 (that's what my class layouts are). All of a sudden you have a whole bunch more inches (or centimetres...whatever floats your boat) to work with. It can be frustrating to try and "fill" gaps that weren't there before. But I think the final result of this guy is going to be pretty pretty.
But unfortunately, Miss Juli-Awesome is right in her estimation of the clientele that would take a class. In that, they just aren't scrapbookers like I am...read: they don't like Embellishment Fairy vomit all over their pages! And I respect that, and I understand that. But isn't the best part of ART the part where you TRY NEW THINGS, and step out of your comfort zone. I know we are most likely to choose classes and projects that incorporate things we are already comfortable with, but I am willing to bet you would get more out of a class in which you were learning new techniques and using product you've never used before, etc. etc.
But what do I know!?
Anybody else got an opinion about this? What kind of classes do you take, if any? And what are the reasons you wouldn't take a class, or just don't take classes in general? These are the questions that fill my mind and give me a complex. But Kara says don't get a complex (and Juli says: what is a complex?) and so I won't and I love my pages irregardless of whether anybody else does or doesn't (Jill...this means you!!).
And isn't it funny when the page that you weren't totally keen on is the one that everybody loves? Ain't that just a hoot!?
I choose a class on if I like the finished product or not (ie. I would use it) and I don't want to "waste" money. If I had seen the Prima calendar class before hand I would never have signed up for it! You know me, I don't really care about that mumbo jumbo "learn something new" jazz... That's my 2cents for what it is worth.
ReplyDeleteBahahahaha your post was soooo funny Rowan was reading it too and laughing.....I just want to copy your staff kit. I hate red. God I hate red, Rowan picked up the kit for me and yours but I didn't get your pink tm kit or maybe I don't know what i'm talking about.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to d/l some of the awesome prima hybrid stuff and put it on disk and give it to you so you can use it in paintshop pro.
Oh and it helps if there is advertising on the classes, I think once they are posted on the blog they will do much better. Look at SISTV the ones that get comments, they are cool layouts not triple matted, vomit glittered layouts...
what do you mean this means me? is it because i have a complex developed from two particular blondes...you know who you are... or what? i dont understand. please explain lisa k.
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