Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013 - (Page 28)

These layouts that are good for you... How about talking scraptherapy? Whether it is a refuge against anxiety or a trigger of serenity, scrapbooking, by combining photo and text, is a great tool to relieve our overflows of emotions. To take stock, recharge our batteries or go through rough times, does scrapbooking have the capacity to soothe our minds? by Catherine Labeeu Art therapy, you certainly have already heard of it. This discipline appeals to artistic creation activities for psychotherapy purposes. And what if the act of scrapping was part in this line? Obviously, we are neither doctors, nor therapists. That is why we will use the term scraptherapy, because it is a most evocative word, but without trying to substitute ourselves to health professionals! So, for you, what are those pages « which are good for us »? Supplies: patterned paper (4h37, My Mind's Eye), stamps (Aladine, Artemio), alphabet (American Crafts), inks (Kesi'Art, Ranger, Versafine), masking tape « Retour au calme (Back to calmness) » par Stéphanie Leschiera Scraptherapy, some very personal definitions « This is a chance to dream, a door opening out on to imagination », « relieve one's melancholy spleen », « spend some time to take stock », « have fun, take time for oneself ». Those are the terms used by the Design Team to define scraptherapy. 28 HISTOIRES DE PAGES - SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2013 Ana goes a step further and notes that scrapping helped her to discern colors differently, to the point of idolizing on them now! But besides the creation process itself, scraptherapy allows you to overcome severe events that some- times disrupt a whole life. For Catherine and Dan, scrapping pictures of their lost loved ones helped them move forward on the path of mourning, to move from one phase of anger to one of sadness and finally to that of acceptance.

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013

Cover
Editor's note
CONTENTS
Rendez-vous
Letters from our readers
Let's play around with color - Tempted by transparency
Are you a beginner? This page is especially for you!
Readers' Idea Gallery - Summer activities - Combo
Tale of a sketch - Put the photo in the spotlight
Letter from our translators
Ideas
One page, three options
Matching decorations
Make-over session - for Christelle's and Emilie's layouts
U.S. tags - They are a must!
A mishmash of words
Honors go to photography
Graphic and stylish - Sew in your layouts
A mini-album with labels - to be downloaded on page 99
Techniques
A few little graphic rules - to adopt without delay !
Let's tame color
A background in 6 steps - Transform your patterned papers
Butterflies
Are you a tea - or a coffee person?
A background in 9 steps - Ink, paper, that's all!
A background in 9 steps - Flowers and colors!
A maxi-album - A floris't shop
Discoveries
We have tried out for you
Marseille - Provence 2013
Meet the artists - Delphine, Carole and Laetitia
It's on trend - Marine anchors
Scraptherapy - How about talking scraptherapy?
Rendez-vous on the blogosphere

Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013