This weeks challenge is brought to you by Katie H (an MM Magazine Associate Editor).
Challenge #9 - Take a cue from Mother Nature and create a project inspired by the weather.
Katie created this page after being inspired by a spring rainstorm. I love the cloud paper and rain accents that she used from the Puddle Jumper kit over at We Are Storytellers. Think about how the weather has been affecting you lately, and let it inspire you! Then come share your creations with us over at the gallery.
This week is National Library Week, and to celebrate, we've made the theme for this weeks challenge: Celebrate Reading! The theme is broad, so get creative. I plan on making a page about my favorite author (you'll have to check back later this week to see who it is) and Kristin made a page about actually going TO the library with her niece and nephew this past weekend (see below).
Whether it's magazines, newspapers, novels or scrapbooking idea books :) there are endless supplies of inspiration to be found! Here are some other ideas to get you thinking:
*use the pages from an old book as your layout background
*create a page about your "must reads" for this coming summer
*Is there one book you read over and over? Journal about it!
*turn an old, unwanted book into a mini album by painting over the text and adding your own pictures and embellishments
*Are you in a book club? Make a page about your group and all the books you've read so far
Want some more layout inspiration? Check out the hybrid page Memory Makers Magazine editor Katie Hilbert made here. Share your own project with us in our Challenge Gallery, then head over to the American Library Association website for details on events, contests, and other fun facts about National Library Week.
It’s 60 degrees here in Cincinnati and the daffodils are starting to bloom, which means spring has officially sprung! Spring always gets me excited about the idea of cleaning and organizing (but, I’ll admit, not the motivation to actually do it) and doing lots of improvement projects around the house. It also makes me thirst for fresh, bright colors.
All of this got me thinking about the photos I have of a recent room makeover--we transformed my husband’s bachelor-pad gray walls into an oasis of grassy green delight. With all the work we’ve doing, I’ve amassed a collection of "after" photos (and a few "befores"), with no plans to do anything with them. I definitely never thought to scrap them…until now.
So, that’s this week’s challenge: Great a layout about a "before and after." Your page can be about a room makeover, like mine, or about a style makeover, or even about a life makeover (like life before and after getting married). The rules are up to you! All we ask is that you share your creations in the Weekly Challenge photo gallery.
If you live in the Midwest like me, you’re probably in need of a little pick-me-up to get you through the last of the winter blahs. Look no further than today’s post to get your creative juices flowing. It’s time for this week’s challenge!
Here it is: Create a scrapbook page from the prompt “If I could…” and include acrylic paint on the page. Ready…set…go!
Like every other challenge it seems, this was a great one for me. I typically think in the real rather than the abstract (my pages don’t stray too far from vacations and daily life). Plus, I fear painting because it’s messy and there’s no undo button, and, to be honest, I’m not really very good at it. So in response to the challenge, I made a page with a message to my childhood self adding swashes of bright blue paint on the journaling tag and around the cardstock edges.
After you dig in to the challenge, share your challenge creations right here in the gallery.
Happy Monday all! Are you ready for another challenge to start off your week?Here it is: Create a scrapbook page, card or other paper project using only neutrals (e.g., black, white, brown and their various shades). The only color on your proejct should be in a photo.
This was a great challenge for me because, well, it really was challenge. I love color and don’t hesitate to use bold choices on my layouts. So it was challenge to think of how to mix neutrals in a pleasing way, as well as think about how to add visual interest without using any color. So I added tons of texture with ribbon, felt, plastic, paper tears, and sanding over my photo.
Share your challenge creations right here in the gallery.
