Scrap Tag

 Dora Phillips

Remember playing tag as a kid?  Racing away from your friends in hopes that you would not be caught?  This is not that kind of tag!  This is more like playing the game telephone from your days as a jr. high girl.  Remember that one?  You whisper a sentence to your friend and she whispers it to the next girl and she whispers it to whoever is next in line.  When it reaches the end, you see exactly what happened to your original sentence.  The more girls you had in line, the more it changed.

In scrap tag, the person first in line scraps a page and sends it to a friend.  She uses it as inspiration for a page and sends it on to the next one in line.  Players can lift anything or everything--no rules here except for keep it moving down the line.  

Designer's Note:  I wanted to start the tag off with a more simple layout, so I fell back on blocking.  It is a great way to add in lots of patterns while still having a nice balance.  I also made sure to have a quick and easy journaling idea.  For some subtle fun, I traced the wheels and the word fast with a black sharpie.

Designer's Notes: Have fun picking out patterned paper! In this case, since it's all about bubbles, I chose patterned paper with circular patterns and used the outside of the letter chipboard, also in circle shapes. I did think I needed to break up all those circles, so the squared off background, linear doodling, and long journaling and ribbon offset the roundness of the rest.