I am continuing to work towards my personal goal of expanding my colour confort zone. Today I would like to share a page I put together using plenty of bright colour. I was inspired by all of the colourful beach umbrellas in my photographs to bring a rainbow of colours into the page. I liked the idea of...
This month I am participating in the October 27 Day Challenge on Mercy Tiara's Facebook Group MercyTiara's 27 Day Scrappy Challenge. This month's challenge was to follow a recipe put together by last month's winner. The layout must include: 1 Black and White, 5X7 photo of yourself 1 or more 6X6 papers 1 Floral paper 1 Striped paper...
Shimelle Laine recently taught two scrapbooking classes back to back, The Scrapbook Process and The 20 Project. I absolutely love Shimelle, and her new classes have me brimming with inspiration and so excited to scrapbook! I learned a lot of great ideas about album theory while taking these classes, and want to apply some of Shimelle's principles on...
I've been playing around with letter stamps and distress inks, and am so excited about the beautiful, simple, customized titles I have been able to create for my scrapbook pages. I love using thickers for titles, but they can be expensive to purchase and limiting because they only have a finite number of each letter per sheet. By...
If you've watched Glitter Girl's Adventure 065: Layouts Within Limitations, you'll be familiar with her method for breaking through creative block and creating a few layouts with a limited range of supplies. In the video, Glitter Girls sets out to solve the issue of being hindered by the volume of supplies we own, and the worry that we...
Hello :) This week I created a layout in response to more challenges going on at Shimelle.com. This one combines two of the challenges, the current week's challenge to scrapbook using lot's of letters, and a pervious challenge to bring back colour blocking. I used a layout that Shimelle created in her blog post We're Bringing Back Colourblocking...
Today I'm sharing a pretty pastel page with light teals, soft pink, and glittery gold. I used a stand by page design that I go to when I have three horizontal 4x6 photos. I starting by adding a one inch strip of patterned paper the left hand side, I stacked the photos all up on the left side,...
I've been having a lot of fun participating in the weekly challenges over at shimelle.com. This week we were challenged to take inspiration from maps and globes. If you follow Shimelle's work you will see that she uses these motifs often because she has a passion for travel. I have adopted some of her ideas on maintaining...
This week I participated in a weekly challenge at Shimelle.com- to scrapbook using hearts. I had a lot of fun putting a bunch of my heart realated supplies to use this week. Thank you Shimelle! I used 5 different heart supplies on my layout: A white and grey heart print patterned paper from Amy Tangerine Cut & Paste...
