Hi everyone, Mou here with today's post!
I stayed mainly with a greyish color scheme with some pops of colors. The theme of my page is gentle sweet everyday moment and I have added some texture.
The papers I used are from various new and older October Afternoon collections: Daily Flash Apple Cider Bonfire, Daily Flash Girl Talk Blah, Blah, Blah, Public Library Dust Jacket, Travel Girl Mix Tape, Woodland Park Blue Sky, and some notebook paper. Again, I selected my embellishments from various collections as well, such as, DF Girl Talk Flash Blurbs, Saturday Mornings Designer Brads, Saturday Mornings Border & Label Stickers, DF Inspiration roller stamp, DF Photo Booth Chipboard, along with some alphabet stickers, threads and mixed media supplies from my stash. Here are some close-up shots of my layout.
Hi everyone! Roree here with your October Afternoon Monday challenge.
Everyone knows I love to make cards. For me, smaller canvases are so much easier to work with than larger ones. I know that is not the case for everyone though, so my challenge for you is to create a mini project. Try a card, a layout, a mini album, or whatever inspires you—just make it mini!
October Afternoon has some wonderful products for creating mini masterpieces and that is what inspired today's challenge. The Memory Cards are the perfect bases for many different types of projects and I used a few to create the following mini cards.
The first two cards were made using the Memory Cards, 6x8 Paper Pack, Double Take Stickers, Flash Blurbs, and Snap Caps from the Daily Flash All Boy collection, along with some baker's twine from Woodland Park and Eggnog Pop Drops.
The second set of cards were made using the Memory Cards, Double Take Stickers, Flash Blurbs, and Snap Caps from the Daily Flash Girl Talk collection, along with paper from the Snapshots 6x8 Paper Pack, Flash Chip hearts, and Eggnog Pop Drops.
These mini cards are all 3 x 3" and were so quick and easy to make. They would be perfect to add to gifts, pop in an envelope, or even add to your child's lunch.
Happy Halloween, everyone! Roree here with today's Thursday Sketch Challenge.
I started with a square format—perfect for a layout or a card.
Instead of going with a square card, I went with a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2" card. I covered the Bonfire patterned paper from the Apple Cider collection. I ran strips from 6 x 8" Paper Pack and Hayride along the top, and then I layered Snap Caps in the middle and added a patterned paper heart, a Designer Brad, and a couple of Buttons in place of the photos. I added a scalloped strip of Dictation patterned paper from the 9 to 5 collection and a white twill ribbon bow to the center.
I finished the card with some Snap Cap sentiments and a few pearls in place of the journaling.
Nicole used the sketch as a guide but added her own unique touches to make the layout work for her. Don't you just love it?!
I hope you enjoyed today's sketch and the samples Nicole and I created using it. If you get a chance to play along, don't forget to post your project in the OA Flickr group. We can't wait to see how you interpret it.
When I scrapbook I don’t feel the need to reinvent the wheel, I do what I know works for me. So for today I wanted to show you my degrees of inspiration.
This first layout I did a little while ago, and it was the starting point for the other two I will show here.
Notice the location of the elements in all three layouts follow a similar pattern.
In this layout I replaced the two photos with 1, moved the location of the title and instead of the horizontal paper ribbon, I used a few embellishments to create a cluster in the lower left corner.
In this layout I turned the idea on it’s side and instead of a column of paper I used the photos to achieve the same effect. I kept the title and journaling in the same spot, just turning it.
There are hundreds of ways to make this layout your own, I challenge you to give it a try. And find you own degrees’ of inspiration. Don’t forget to upload it to the OA flicker gallery.
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