Monday, August 1, 2011

OLW Blog Hop - The Musical

Welcome once again to the One Little Word blog hop. I have really come to love these monthly gatherings, my friends. Participating every month in an organized group activity (thank you so much, Margie!) has been supremely helpful in keeping me on-track and accountable with my OLW dream adventures. Even when I haven't actually completed the prompt, preparing for this blog hop keeps thoughts and ideas about my word at the forefront of my mind.

Bet you thought all that was a lead up to my explaining how I don't have this month's prompt completed.

Well, you would be wrong. ; )

Because there is no way that I would miss out on a prompt that involved music. I cannot tell you how excited I was to see song lyrics as the main component this month. Music has always been a huge part of my life, my family's life. Just about this time last year, I wrote a post describing the soundtrack of my life. It is one of my favorite blog posts ever (if you're interested, you can check it out here).  And I got just as much satisfaction exploring songs from the perspective of my word, from seeing where my dreams lead me as I did when I wrote about this last year.

Music is just magic to me.

I actually did my cards digitally this month. I do all kinds of scrapping - traditional, digital and hybrid - but this is the first time I've done an all digital layout for this class. Truth be told, it was fun playing with type and color on my laptop. I'm a little bit geek at heart so sometimes I find great joy creating through technology.


Here's the listing of my lyric choices -

1. The Cave | Mumford & Sons
So make your siren's call and sing all you want
I will not hear what you have to say
'Cause I need freedom now
And I need to know how
To live my life as it's meant to be

2. All You Need Is Love | The Beatles
All you need is love

3. Love at the Five and Dime | Nanci Griffith
Dance a little closer to me
It's closing time 
And love's on sale tonight 
At this five and dime

4. Thunder Road | Bruce Springsteen
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night

5. F*cking Perfect | P!nk
Pretty, pretty please
if you ever, ever feel
like you are nothing
you're f*cking perfect to me

6. She Got Her Ticket | Tracy Chapman
She got her ticket
I think she gonna use it
I think she going to fly away

7. Dream a Little Dream of Me | Ella Fitzgerald
Sweet dreams til sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams whatever they be
Dream a little dream of me

8. Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise | The Avett Brothers
There was a dream
And one day I could see it
Like a bird in a cage
I broke in and demanded somebody free it

9. Defying Gravity | Wicked
It's time to try defying gravity

And I utilized the feature on my printer that prints directly onto a CD in creating my playlist! Total score. Here's a peek at this month all together in my album.


Next up in the blog hop is Maureen - check out her blog here.

12 comments:

  1. great job with this month theme. The digital layouts looks great as do the songs.

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  2. love seeing all these different choices. I've never seen "Wicked" but thinking I need to since it seems to keep appearing in the song choices!

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  3. Love how you did your cards. And your cd "page" is gorgeous! Your #7 song choice is one of my faves - but the Mamas and Papas version. :) Keep dreamin' (so many song choices are popping into my head!) :)

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  4. Great job on the 9 patch! You are really talented with the digital! Great song choices! Some of them are fav's! Thank ypu for sharing your olw journey -Amanda

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  5. I really like the verity in your song choices. The CD cover looks amazing. Great job with this months prompt!

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  6. I love love love the look of your cards! Geek away my dear.

    btw, I'd love to know how you are printing on the cd and with what type of printer.

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  7. This looks fantastic! Love it. Thanks for your continued participation!

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  8. thanks for the love, guys!

    Maureen, i use an epson stylus photo 1400 for my home printing. it's an oversized printer so i can print 12x12 at home if I want (which i rarely do as ink is more expensive than having costco or scrapbookpictures.com print for me). but i love the freedom to print digital accents, twill, journaling and grids directly onto a 12x12 page for hybrid scrapping. the printer also comes with the ability to print directly onto a cd. i love this printer. santa brought it to me a couple of years ago...

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  9. Great interpretation of the July prompt. Love how your CD page turned out. And the Pink song is one of my all time favorites.

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  10. our cards are great. way to go digital. love the clean graph lines with the blue script. very cohesive with the cd and transparency page.
    ~j

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  11. that should say "your cards".

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  12. I used the CD printer thingy for the first time with this prompt too. It's pretty cool isn't it! Your album is looking great.

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