Stampamemory Challenge - November 2011 - Double Page Layouts

Its been ages since I have felt the need to complete a double page layout, how about you?  This month the Stampamemory team challenge you complete just that ..... I used to struggle to get everything to fit on one page but now one page layouts are all that I complete.  I found this a little challenging .... so I chose a subject that had lots of photos.

Our trip to Sydney gave me lots of photos.  By cropping all the family ones first I was then able to include the photos of the other memories, cropping them to fit in the empty spaces.

I tied the two pages together using a simple hand drawn dashed line around the border.

And I balanced the pennant title on the top left hand side of the page against some little buttons on the bottom of the opposite page.

Having punched out the pennants using the punch I then embossed them with polkadots and stapled the little flags onto a piece of seam binding and cut slits in the cardstock to feed it through.

I  created some little title blocks using a circle punch.

And the Scallop Square die cut for the Bigshot makes a create journalling block. I've used the Beau Chateaux papers with Marina Mist and Soft Suede cardstock.

I enjoyed creating this double page layout and as we are off to Sydney again this month it was great to have scrapped the previous visit.

Why not have a go yourself and enter our November Challenge - check out all the details here.

Happy Monday

Nikki

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Stampamemory Challenge - July 2011 - Page Map

This moth's challenge over at Stampamemory, is to produce a page using a Page Map. I love Page Maps - they make one of the hardest parts of deciding where and how to lay out the page just so easy .... and then of course using Stampin' Up!'s range of coordinating products makes chosing and matching product and colours a breeze .... scrapbooking isn't hard at all now!

And here's my interpretation.  I've used this layout design before - and I love it. Inspired by this month's Gift with Purchase, I used the colours of the free ribbon and buttons as my colour choice for this page - (see yesterday's post to check out how to qualify for this freebie).

These two girls are in some ways like chalk and cheese and in others just so similar.  They have been friends for over half their lives and for as long as we have lived in Australia.  When they are together - there is always a camera ... they are definiately not camera shy :)

Which is good for a scrapbooking mum!
 
I've added in heaps of different textures including tearing, using the polkadot embossing folder and the Pompom trim from the soon to be retiring Autumn Winter Mini. 

The title is from Fun and Fast Notes set - if you love this set a little birdie told me that it will be retiring in August - so check it out on page 46, and you want / need it have a chat with your demostrator or contact one of us from Stampamemory.

I also created a sheet of my own DSP.  Using the Extreme Elements stamp set, Daffodil Deight, Pacific Point and Melon Mambo inks, I stamped away and created an A4 sheet of customised cardstock.  I punched 1 1/4" squares and backed them with 1 3/8" squares - love how the SU punches just coordinate in size - made this job super quick and super easy.  I'll be making a couple of cards from the left over pieces so keep an eye out for them later this month.

So that's the challenge for this month .... have a go, its great fun.  If you want to check out my other page using this map have a little looksee here.

Nikki

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Stampamemory Challenge - May 2011 - Colour

There's a lot going on during the first days of May - click on the OLW link if you are looking for the OLW update, or scroll down for the May specials .... but read on for the SAM Challenge and a new scrapbooking layout.

It's challenge time again at Stampamemory - click here to see what the rest of the Design Team have come up.  I've taken this colour challenge quite 'loosely' shall we say!  I chose Pacific Point as the blue, Not Quite Navy for the black and More Mustard for the yellow/green and I chose to ignore the pink!

Blueberry Crisp DSP is one of my favourites and I've wanted to make bunting ever since I first saw it on a layout about a year ago.

I love that the Defining Alphabet stamps fit so nicely inside the 1" circle punch - never noticed that before and it made the title quick and easy to create.  I've raised up the little circles on Stampin' Dimensionals.

All the edges have been 'daubed' with Pacific Point.  And the bunting has been hung on Linen Thread.  Here's a close up of the journalling ...

Why not have a go at this challenge this month - you can do what I've done and pick just a couple of colours you like or go the whole hog and match up the lot - whatever you decide to do, don't forget to share it with us and have fun.

Happy scrapping.

Nikki

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SAM Challenge - A 'Shaped' Layout

Challenge time again ....  Ros has been the Challenge Master this month and wants to you to create ... 

"A 'shaped' layout, not your standard typical square or rectangle shaped layout."

I have to confess I struggled with this concept ...being a 12 x 12 girl, the thought of making something a different shape was hard .... I started by trying to draw the Eiffel Tower, then the Sydney Harbour bridge .... neither worked, then I was watching my son sort though his one milion and one footie cards and hey presto .... inspiration and a Footie Top!

It's a very simple layout but I think the effect of the shirt shape makes it look a little more special.

Because the photo was so large there was no room for journalling ... so I created a little journalling tag using the Top Note Die Cut and left one side of the photo 'open' so that the tag can be removed.

 There were some additional expenses for this page too ... another packet of footie cards to replace the ones I have used on the page ... :o)

Ssshhh don't tell anyone, I do have a confession to make, this page will be going into our album as a 12 x 12 page :o)

So now it is your turn ... can you make a shaped layout?  Upload it to the Stampamemory website here ... or send your images to me and I'll post them here on my site for you.  The prize is a choice of either On Board So Tweet Chipboard or On Board Batch Of Blooms - so certainly worth creating a page and entering our competition.