Shippo's Art Auction

Hi guys! Its been a while since I posted here and since I am donating a scrapbook to help raise money for Shippo, I thought I'd post some more of my work on here for the bidders to look at. Some of the pages were completed for online challenges others were completed for fun and a few for personal use. I hope you enjoy looking at my work! Happy bidding!


One of the great things about scrapbooking is that there are many, many combinations and layouts you can do. Sometimes I come up with my own ideas and sometimes I "scraplift" from other layouts I've come across in my scrapping adventures. I believe this particular page was inspired by the large die-cut in the upper right hand corner:

This one was inspired by a Color Me Scrappy competition while the layout was a modification of one I had found online.

I really enjoy using quotes to bring out the message behind the page.

I wanted this page to be simple and allow the photo to be the main focal point.

I remember when I put this one together I had recently become fascinated with banners. I think they're whimsical enough to add a bit of a nostalgic feeling to the page.

Who doesn't enjoy a fresh from the farm picked strawberry? I added a recipe for strawberry shortcake behind the photo to pull it all together.

Sometimes simple layouts are the most powerful.

Pop! Pop! Pop! This page really made me stretch beyond my comfort zone with all the bold colors. But in the end, I think they all worked rather well together.

More inspirational quotes. I don't normally use pink on a boy-related page, but the pink really made all the other blues pop.

This was one of the first online competition pieces I completed. We had also just gotten a cricut and I had spent most of the day playing with it to make the fun pink & blue curly accents.

This particular layout was completed as a submission to become a member of a Design Team panel for one of the competition sites I submitted pages too. The layout and the colors were predetermined, although you could modify it to fit your photos and style. I wasn't chosen as a new design team member, but I did have a blast putting this one together.

Okay, so this particular page was 1 of 3 I had entered into the NC State Fair Scrapbooking competition. This one earned me 1st place in the wedding layout portion, and, to be honest, its one I'm most proud of!

This final layout was also for an online challenge. They provided you with a list of options to use to make the page as well as a very simple layout to go by. I chose to incorporate the tape, the fall colors, and the word "thankful" in my journal box.

Thank you all for taking the time to look at this page, especially if you are coming from Shippo's Art Auction.

I'm back!

Well, I ended up taking about a month off of scrapping due to summer just being too awesome to be inside a whole lot. Breaks can be a really good thing sometimes. I needed this one. Grace and I participated in a 2-day 12-hour per day Lazy Day crop fest mid-July. While I had a blast, completed several pages, and met some awesome ladies, I was completely fried by the time I left. I needed a break!

So, without out much further ado, here is my latest submission for Color Me Scrappy. There color scheme was VERY bold this time. I was actually a little worried about the contrast in colors, but I think I handled it pretty well.

Here's the palette:

And here is my inspired page:

Color Me Scrappy Time

Here's my last minute submission for the Color Me Scrappy Challenge #7!

My husband and I were out of town most of the week of July 4th to celebrate our 3rd wedding anniversary, as well as our 16th year together. Unfortunately, I'm not very good at taking pictures when its just the two of us, so no photos to scrap! While down at the beach we were visiting with his boss, who owns a house there, when my friend  Grace sent me an excited text to let me know I was the random winner for Color Me Scrappy last month. What a great surprise!!! I sent off an email that night from my phone (Yippee for technology!) and received my awesome mystery bag a couple of days after returning home. I'll do my best to post a picture of it soon. It contained a huge pack of paper and lots of stickers, bling, letters and a plethora of other goodies that I cannot wait to put to good use!

Now, on to the current challenge. The first challenge of the month was inspired by this color palette:

Holy rainbow of sugary goodness batman! So bold! So bright! So colorful! Love it! Not my typical color combination style, but I was psyched to get started. One of the things I love about doing these online challenges is that they really do force you out of your comfort zone. I've noticed my own personal color palette has increased quite a bit over the past few months. I'm no longer afraid of using bright colors! And just to prove my point, here is my page:

That's a picture of Grace and I taken a little over 4 years ago at her baby shower. 

I found the sketch in a book I recently purchased at Archivers. The name of it escapes me, but I'll post the title of it later. As usual, I modified the sketch to fit my style. I don't like to straight out copy a sketch so I usually try to add my own personality to it. 

Now I'm off to participate in the 2nd day of a 2-day Lazy Day Crop that some of the local Creative Memories Consultants organized. I had a blast working on pages yesterday and hope to get about 10 pages (or 5-2 page layouts) complete before heading home later tonight. 

Happy Saturday, everyone!

New Challenge Blog!

My friend, Grace, from the Scrapbook Bitch found another challenge for us to enter this week. Super excited because this one is from My Creative Sketches. They give you a layout sketch and you have complete control over the colors and embellishments. So, the complete opposite of the Color Me Scrappy entries we've been doing.

Here's this month's layout:

Here's my version. I had a blast completing it. I hope you guys enjoy it, too!

Challenge 6

So glad I didn't wait until the last minute to post this particular entry for Color Me Scrappy. My friend Grace over at The Scrapbook Bitch reminded me I needed to work on this challenge today while we were at Archivers.

My first thought when I saw this week's color palette was that basically that I didn't think I'd be able to find a picture to go with these particular colors. They were all just so bold that it was almost a little intimidating. Scrapping for me has always been about finding a unique way to display a picture or several pictures. I felt that these particular colors were just too overwhelming for my style. Don't get me wrong, these colors are beautiful! Just a little more intense than I usually work with.

But I plunged in head first and just started playing around with the colors. I made it work for me! I did work with a sketch that I had found in my Scrapbook Etc... magazine, though I did modify it slightly. Working with a sketch this time made it easier for me to concentrate on the colors rather than the layout. I'm very happy with my results today. I hope you enjoy it too!

Thanks for stopping by!

Challenge 5

Ooops! Here I go again, waiting until the LAST minute to post my submission for Color Me Scrappy. And I did so well last month and had my submission posted like 5 days after the color palette was posted. Oh well, I'll try to be more on top of it next time around!

Great color selection again. This time the colors were very brown and neutral. Now, some may think this particular combo may be boring to work with; but for me it was an ideal color combo! I had just printed off pictures from my Trash The Dress photo session from last November so the neutral tones were perfect!

I focused mostly on the browns and kept the grays to a minimum due to wanting to carry over the fall colors from the photos to the layout. This particular layout was my own interpretation of a layout I had seen around Archiver's. Usually when I seek inspiration from someone else's layout I end up tweaking things here and there to make the layout my own. As always, I had a lot of fun working on this one. I think I'm getting more confident in my layout progress as this one only took me a couple of hours instead of several! I hope you enjoy it :o)

Thanks for taking the time to check out my page!

Challenge 4 by Color Me Scrappy

Its the time again. Time to post a new scrapbook layout of my own creation using colors inspired by Color Me Scrappy. This is their 4th challenge and also my 4th entry. I guess you could say I'm really enjoying toying around with their color schemes and finding pictures that fit with them.

This particular color palette was inspired by a beautiful bowl of cherries:

Looks good enough to eat, huh? Well, as soon as I saw this one I was super excited and inspired at the same time. This was a perfect color scheme for some pictures I had captured the other day while picking strawberries with my friend, Grace, and her son, Jonah. It was also one of the first times I really played around with my new DSLR camera. I was very, very pleased with the results.

Anyway, here is my entry:

The layout was inspired by one I had seen several weeks before hanging around Archiver's for inspiration. Sometimes I'll just walk around the store and snap pictures of their display layouts so that I can use them later for my own albums. I feel very fortunate that there is an Archiver's so close to me; especially since Grace and I can make a day of scrapbooking at least once a week. If you've never heard of or been to an Archiver's store, you are missing out! Check out there website: Archiver's and tell me that your heart doesn't get super excited about a store devoted to noting but scrapping, stamping, and card making!? They even have a workroom that is free and open to the public, unless they are running a workshop or there is an extended crop session going on.

Thanks for dropping by! Enjoy my latest entry.