Duck Fan

The Challenge:
Use a twine technique on your layout or project.

I was so happy to be able to participate in Big Picture Class's online crop during National Scrapbook Day.  They have 12 challenges, posted on the hour all day long.  We had until the next evening to get them posted for a chance at some awesome prizes.

Megan Hoeppner issued this challenge and she showcased several ideas.  I really like her idea to wind the twine on a glue dot and then place in the center of a button.  It was a great idea, so easy and adds just another level of interest.

I picked this photo of my nephew making the Oregon Duck "OOOOOOOOOOOOO".  His parents are die hard Duck fans so I am sure that they were ecstatic about their baby boy joining in.  I had this green and yellow paper just begging to be used on a Duck fan layout.  I added some Oregon themed Os, some football die cut stickers, a nice loopy punched piece of yellow, a piece of chevron ledger paper with Os and tied with twine,  and some fun yellow letter to my buttons and BAM! cute layout complete.

The layout

Spring!

The Challenge
Use photos from you phone on your layout or project.

I was so happy to be able to participate in Big Picture Class's online crop during National Scrapbook Day.  They have 12 challenges, posted on the hour all day long.  We had until the next evening to get them posted for a chance at some awesome prizes.

I love the photo apps on my phone and the cool effects you can use while taking them.  I took some photos of flowers in my yard, using some cool vintage/grunge/saturation settings.  I really love how they came out and especially love the bright colors of the flowers.  I decided that such vivid photos needed vivid papers to support them.  These papers by Echo Park were just perfect.  I also fussy cut some of the flowers from the paper to be my embellishments to keep the page simple, yet fun.

CKC Portland

The Challenge:
Use staples on your card or layout.

I love staples!  They come in all sorts of color now and have the duel purpose of holding stuff on and looking good.  I have found myself using them a lot lately.

Recently I went up to Portland to meet up with some peeps and shop the vendor fair at CK's convention at the Convention Center.  It was a blast!  There were so many great ideas and fun stuff to woo scrappers of all kinds.  We then had dinner and I stayed over in a super nice hotel in downtown.  I even met Megan Hoeppner!  I just brought along my little point and shoot camera, but it worked out nicely and I thought staples would be a great embellishment on a layout about scrapping.

I also joined in the all day crop Saturday during National Scrapbooking Day at BPC.  They had challenges every hour for 12 hours.  That's a lot of scrapping in one day!  I managed to do 9 of the 12.  The very first challenge was to make a fanciful frame around your photo.  Ah...staples to the rescue.  I made an actual frame, even miter cutting the corners.  Then I just stapled them together.  They work quite well.  The frame is pretty sturdy.  When I was finished, I added a few more staples to "hold" the strips on the page; added a fun banner and bingo bappo!  After I took the photo and posted, I realized that I forgot my journaling.  Um, hello?  I will be adding the stories behind these photos very soon, lol.

The layout

St John's Bridge

The colors used this week at CSI are some of my favorite colors.  I love the earthy tones and  I love them together.  I took these last weekend while my husband raced in an outrigger canoe race. I started right under the bridge.  A very cool looking one.

For my evidence I used: bird and branch, white space (I have a hard time with that one), circles in my punch.

For my testimony I journaled on the mystery of bridge design and beauty that was accomplished without modern technology.

I also used this layout for BPC's National Scrapbooking Day challenge to use 3 colors next to each other on the color wheel.

The case file