Moments

The latest assignment in my online Type + Writer class was supposed to be focused on capturing the little moments in a typical day. Unfortunately I wasn't able to do that, but I still wanted to learn the techniques used in the layout, so I modified the assignment a bit.

One cool thing that we did for this layout was to incorporate a "word cloud" using either the content from our free writing assignment (a snapshot of that day) or by using your own blog (assuming you have one). The site that we used to create this "word cloud" is called "WORDLE" and it's a very cool site. I just typed in the link to my family blog (not this scrapping one) and it captures the most common words and creates a 'word cloud' from them. You can modify the colours used, and the layout. I then did a screen capture and brought it into the layout and put it on its own layer so it was above the background paper. By playing around with some of the settings, I learned to create a muted background image that incorporates the actual words from my blog.

When I noticed that words like "Chris", "Alex", "Snowman", "Maple Syrup", etc. were prominent in the word cloud, I decided to use photos to link to that text and journalled something to tie it together.

It wasn't exactly what the homework called for, but I'm happy with the results.