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Our NEWSLETTER FREEBIE for the week is... |
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BB Gallery Spotlight– Kathie |
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Enter NEWSLETTER FREEBIE in the comments field to be eligible for the Freebies. Offer expires 11pm EST SUNDAY 25th February. |
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KI Memories Mini Soup Be the 6th customer to place an order after the newsletter is online and you will receive this item in your order free! |
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Autumn Leaves— Designing with Details. Designing with Style. Autumn Leaves— CHA release ordered. KI Memories—Memory Trends felt albums, new idea book. Daisy D—CHA Winter ordered. Fancy Pants—CHA Winter ordered. Collage Press—CHA Winter ordered. My Minds Eye—CHA Winter ordered. |
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1. BB News. 2. Finding the right words, with Leanne Ryan 3. NEW in the store. 4. Newsletter Freebie. 5. Products coming soon. 6. Portal Sneak Peek. |
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The theme for this week’s portal is… Diecuts, Tags and Labels The portal is updated every Friday with unique creations from the Blue Bazaar Design Team focusing on a specific theme each week. To view the portal simply enter Blue Bazaar via the main page at www.bluebazaar.com.au. |
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This week’s project is by Cherie Theodosiou: |
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Sassafras Lass—CHA releases. Cosmo Cricket—Button diecuts and Dutch Girl journaling cards. KI Memories—Mini Soup. Lil Davis—Love Affair release papers and chipboard borders. |
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This week we are introducing a brand new monthly feature from Design Team member Leanne Ryan. Anyone who knows Leanne will know she has a way with words so we are lucky to have the opportunity to pick Leanne’s brain on all matters relating to journaling. Journaling can be a challenge for some, including myself, so I am looking forward to reading Leanne’s articles which will provide some interesting and thought provoking ideas on how best to develop and use journaling in our layouts. Orders—we are unfortunately behind schedule and are currently picking orders from the 16th and 17th February onwards. February is very busy for us as we have just finished the Birthday SALE and now on to the CHA release rush. We are aiming to catch up on all orders this weekend and have everything in the system shipped by Monday/Tuesday of next week. To the right is the sneak peek for the March Poppy Ink kit….sadly not including the ipod! I hope everyone has a great weekend! |
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METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING Lets talk simile and metaphor – the cousins of comparison who can help bring your journaling to life. In theory Similes and metaphors are all about making connections between, what at first appear to be, two entirely different things. A simile uses the words ‘like’ or ‘as’ to establish an association, for example, ‘you know that like the last piece of chocolate cake, the moment cannot last’. A metaphor simply talks about one concept in terms of another, for example, ‘a beautiful butterfly, she emerges from the cocoon that is childhood.’ And therein lies their power. You read this and can’t help but visualise a butterfly - beautiful and free - emerging from a cocoon. Then you start thinking about the attributes of a cocoon - how it’s a place for growth, but is restrictive at the same time, and how that might apply to childhood. It has so much more impact than simply saying ‘she grew up’. Similes and metaphors can be used as potent titles on your pages, they can be used to evoke powerful images within your journaling, or they can form the basis for an entire layout. On the page My layout ‘As in life’ is one whopping big simile, comparing the characteristics of the surf to those of life itself. ‘You wait for opportunity to present itself. And you know you must seize it when it does. You can’t question the wave, or yourself, for too long. Because if you do, you know it will wash past you, indifferently, and you will be forced to watch it travel to the shore without you and wonder at what could have been. If you’d been quicker. Braver. But even when you do seize it, you can’t predict the outcome. Your ride could be exhilarating – the wave sweeping you along as it thunders towards the shore. Or disappointing – its potential fizzling out beneath you. Or worse, disastrous –dramatically rolling you, smashing you, mercilessly under the water, into the sand, until you emerge battered and salty from its grasp. You won’t know until it happens. You can’t know. There is an amount of predictability, based on experience and intuition, but no certainty. As in LIFE.’ How the simile is established and the layout unfolds is just as important as the words themselves. The relationship - alluded to, but not made obvious from the outset - is developed slowly, with detailed imagery, until the ‘a-ah’ moment right at the end that brings it all together. Tips - Free writing about a person, an object or idea can help you to identify its features and give you an analogy to work with. Even though I had a direction in mind for ‘As in life’ from the outset, I spent a long time writing about how the surf could be likened to life until I had enough material to run with. - Only use connections that work and help make your point. For ‘As in life’ I stuck to the themes ‘risk’ and ‘opportunity’. In my original scribblings I also talked about how the sand could be a sanctuary from the danger, but to go in that direction would have detracted a little from what I was trying to say. - The metaphor or simile doesn’t have to be restricted to your journaling. You can carry it over into other elements on your page. A cool way to illustrate a metaphor or simile digitally would be to superimpose one image over another. On a paper page you can use embellishments that symbolically support your analogy, and even use subtle elements, like a particular colour scheme and choice of font, to help establish atmosphere. - Beware of clichés like ‘a breath of fresh air’, ‘a busy bee’ or ‘an open book’ because they’ve been used so much they’ve lost much of their meaning. Coming up with your own analogies, relevant to your life, your family and your experiences, will be much more interesting, meaningful and in the end, more effective on your layout. |
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Layout supplies: Cardstock – Bazzill Linens: Sassy Grosgrain ribbon Ric rac Thread White gel pen Button Making Memories mini flower brad Heidi Swapp silhouette word |
