25 Days of Templates [5]

I’ve never taken an online class before for digiscrapping as I’ve taught myself everything I know so far through trial and error and scraplifting. Well… This class tempted me with some amazing goodies, and even though I’m pretty comfortable with templates I hope to learn a bit more and grow as a scrapper through taking this course.

Anyway, the class started June 1st. After seeing the materials and watching the first video I decided my first goal with the class was to NOT use the templates straight up and change them a little to fit my style more and just make them more personal. So I was inspired and finished using all 5 templates in just 2 days of starting the class.

Now normally when I use a template I just use it once. If it was a free template I completely delete it after I’ve used it because I tell myself I’ll never use it again since I don’t want my layouts to look identical. If they aren’t free I don’t feel right just deleting, so I have thought in the past that they will just sit there.

Since I finished using the first templates so quickly, and have had lots of scrapping inspiration this week, I decided to make a second goal…Scrap all the layouts a second time, changing it & modifying it to make a completely new layout with it’s own feel.

Now I know every week I won’t have the same speed, but I’m hoping to keep the same goals of first changing up the templates a little, (even it that is just resizing), and then scrapping with the templates a second time. By the end of this 25 day course I hope to have grown in confidence with using many template styles and not feeling intimidated with changing them to suit my needs.

The images here show all the layouts I’ve created for the first 5 templates provided in the class. Any comments are welcome!

Here’s to day 6 through 25!

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