National Scrapbook Day Recap

Wow, what a great weekend of scrapbooking! I played along at the Creative Crop at Big Picture Classes and on the Echo Park Blog. They both had some great challenges that had me going all day.

Despite the fact that dear hubby was working most of the weekend and the girls and I had a birthday party, softball game, and our last Sunday school class of the year, I was still able to create 3 cards and 9 layouts. And I had a great time making them, though with less sleep! Thank goodness the challenge deadline at Big Picture gave me until Sunday night.

Here are my layouts for the Creative Crop:

CHALLENGE #1 - Feature a photo with a fanciful frame.

CHALLENGE #2: Grab a photo from a few years back and a photo from today and tell a story about the way things are different or the same.

CHALLENGE #3: Use photos and/or page accents to create a page that talks about reflection, literally or figuratively.

CHALLENGE #5: Using iPhone photos.

CHALLENGE #6: Use this Sketch!

CHALLENGE #8: Add a mini flag to your layout.

CHALLENGE #10: Use any cast-off object on your layout.

CHALLENGE #11: Scrapbook a favorite memory from your childhood.

CHALLENGE #12: Utilize kraft in two different ways on a project.

For the fun on the Echo Park blog, I completed 4 projects and posted about them on my blog already. The exciting news today is that I won the prize for the Echo Park sketch challenge - YIPPEE! I'm getting a prize package of border punches from Fiskars. Fun! So cool to see my layout featured on their blog...it was a great surprise today.

Thanks for taking a look at the fruits of my NSD labors.
I had a blast! Now I should go clean up the disaster in my scrap space.

Echo Park Sketch Challenge

For Echo Park's Challenge #4 using a this sketch, I had to search through many pictures to find ones that would be good for a layout that included a banner. I have never really caught on to the banner trend but really like how this page turned out and how easy it was with the banner stickers included in my Walk in the Park collection kit. LOVE Echo Park's kits because they include everything I need to make great pages so no need to hunt for separate embellishments.

I blurred the journaling a bit for posting. Love how bright and happy the layout is. Thanks for taking a peek!

Echo Park NSD Challenge #6

For Echo Park's Challenge #6 Project Playground, I used Kandis Smith's project "Style Essentials Ready Made Layout" as my inspiration:

I had never heard of Kandis Smith before today but I really like her style since I was drawn to two of her projects today.

Here's my interpretation on her layout using the Walk in the Park collection which seemed PERFECT for this layout about my girls.
I even made little banners using the stickers in the collection using a lovely idea from BPC's Creative Crop.

I'm really having fun with Echo Park today. Thanks for stopping by!

Echo Park NSD #3 - Scraplift a Design Expert

For Echo Park's NSD Challenge #3, I chose to scraplift Design Expert Kandis Smith.

Here's my card using the Echo Park This and That collection as well as the sentiment and double ended banner die from Papertrey Ink and buttons from Cosmo Cricket.

Hope you are enjoying National Scrapbook Day! Thanks for stopping by!

Echo Park Challenge #1

Here's my card for Echo Park's challenge #1 - Speed Scrap a Card. I used the 'Walk in the Park' collection. I didn't see the challenge until 15 minutes before the deadline. Fortunately Echo Park's great paper collections include awesome stickers and colorful papers which make creating a great card so easy!

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colourQ challenge #135

I love, love, love the colour combination at colourQ this week! Here's my take using one of my new favorite sets from Papertrey Ink, Trendy Tree Tops and some great new Lily Bee papers I just got.

Supplies:Cardstock:PTI,Patterned Paper:Lily Bee & Echo Park, Dies:Papertrey Ink In the Meadow, Trendy Tree Tops, Double Ended Banner,Embossing Folder:Cuttlebug, Ink:Papertrey Ink Pure Poppy.

Thanks for looking! Have a great weekend!

Color Inspired Layout

Today's prompt for Lain's Layout a Day "Scrapbooking Outside the Box" challenge was to use holiday colors for a non-holiday layout. As I was looking through my pictures for inspiration on what holiday colors I could use for this challenge, I came upon these pictures of my husband and daughter that I love. I noticed that some of the girls dresses were a deep purple and red which made me pull out the color palettes for this week's Papertrey Make It Monday challenge for color inspiration. Love it when it all comes together so quickly! I even used the Rule of Threes Nichole talks about in the video.

True, I didn't complete the requirements for today's LOAD prompt but the beauty & fun of LOAD is that you don't have to! All you gotta do is make a page.

I used a textured grey paper as my background. Closeup of my Rosie Posie embellishments....a first for me to use my PTI stamps on a layout!

My inspiration colors from PTI:

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Make It Monday #64 Color Inspiration

If you've never seen a PTI Make It Monday video, THIS oneis a MUST see. Nichole Heady goes through the making of a card using color inspiration and shares her thought process for putting it together. Great video!

I was inspired by several of the color combinations posted so, here are my three cards:

Here I used my much loved but often neglected PTI Quatrefoil die. I stamped a little medallion from Mehndi Medallion set in each of the windows with fine linen on the outside and vintage cream closer to the center sentiment. A little hard to see the medallions in the photo since the inks come out so light and delicate against the kraft cardstock.

For the second card, I used the Quatrefoil as an impression plate on the Winter Wisteria cardstock and layered the other colors on top.

For my last card, I stamped the heart from Heart 2 Heart #3 in the various inspiration colors along with the sentiment (Stampin up') on a cut off Wine Bottle tag die cut.

Thanks for looking!