Milissa's Creative Process

Today is my turn to share with you my creative process.  I hope you have enjoyed all of the posts from the other Master Forgers about their process and their page kits and that it has given you a chance to get caught up a little.

 In previous blog posts I have shared the different ways that I create my kits so I thought I would discuss my process for creating a project.

 Generally, I try to clean up after each project.  My desk will usually look like this when I start off a new project. 

Okay, not completely  clean, but a nice open whole to work in.  The stack closest to the front is stuff that usually is an ongoing project, in this case cards.

 There is usually a starting point for a project - something that sparks my interest.  It may be a sketch, a new purchase I want to use, etc.

For this project, I am making two cards and one of them is for a lady that loves pink and bling so I have picked these items out of my stash as my inspiration. 

I also have these stamps that I want to use on the cards.  This is a new stamp company and I love the font and the borders on these stamps.  Now lets raid my scrap stash for some paper.

 I think this will be just the thing!

If I don't have a sketch or a challenge that I am working from, then I just kind of play around with the paper to make it work.  For this card above, it's hard to tell but the bottom stamp is actually double-stamped, slightly offset.  I like to that sometimes to make it look like it has a shadow. 

And here is the card that I started with.  I think she will like it.  I also dressed up the inside a bit. 

More sparkle!  And that is my scrappy process in a nutshell.  So do you have a system for how you scrap or do you just go how the wind blows?  I used to think I didn't really have a set way to scrap till one day it just clicked that I really always start the same way.  It was one of those "aha" moments.  I bet if you really think about it you have a process too!