Laura Vegas

"do you ever walk into your studio/scrap space and feel totally overwhelmed by the endless options? That would be me, staring at the piles of ribbon and mounds of patterned paper while my creative time trickles away". i took this quote directly from mary's blog … i'm sure she won't mind. lol! but it so perfectly describes how i feel. i really have a hard time scrapping unless i have some direction. 

enter: the challenge.

not only will challenges get us scrapbooking, it will also help us scrap faster (in my case, this would be a small miracle) by having a starting point. a suggestion from a blog reader and fellow scrapbooker, Lisamarie, has inspired my good friend mary and me to attempt challenges on a more regular basis. every two weeks is the plan.

we decided on the following things for our first official challenge.
1. ki memories pattern papers … i love ki memories papers
2. pink … what's more girlie than pink
3. letter stickers … i have kazillions of these
4. flowers … probably bazillions of these

first we have lovely cutler joining us, and you can see her layout HERE. and mary's layout … you can read more about it HERE.

here is my layout:

i just love ki memories papers … so that wasn't a tough one for me. lol! the yellow dotted one … that's one of my most favorite papers. love that pattern in any color they make. the pink paper at the bottom was actually the reverse side of the brown dot paper. and once again … i started this layout without any pictures in mind. then i happened to find this collage of photos that i had done a while back. i had some old photos … and just cropped and trimmed them until they fit nicely together and then adhered them all onto a sheet of white cardstock. it was on another layout … but i decided to tear it off and use it for this challenge instead. so the entire photo part was easy … just adhered that entire thing to my page and built around it.

i have a pretty good assortment of letter stickers from over the years … and i admit that i don't use them all that often. i use chipboard letter stickers … and felt letter stickers .. and puffy letter stickers. but not so much the regular letter stickers. so this challenge got me digging around in them a bit. i found these old ones from bo-bunny … and thought they were sort of fun and funky. i was going to use all pink … but i didn't like the second "s" that was on there. so i decided to add a few blue stickers in … so that i could use the same "s". yes, i overly obsess over my title letters … do it all the time!

and for the flowers … i used a mix of making memories felt and paper flowers … and some american crafts felt flowers. and then mixed in a variety of brads … fabric, velvet, polkadot, and shimmer. i took the easy way out on this as far as journaling. these were just some random photos that i had from years ago of alyssa … so i didn't have anything in particular to say. so a simple definition sticker and i was done. plus, i hadn't left that much room for journaling anyways. lol!

supplies:
pattern paper – ki memories
flowers – making memories, american crafts
brads – making memories, bazzill
letter stickers – bo bunny
definition sticker – making memories
scallop punch – stampin up

so we're totally inviting you all to join us in these challenges! we really hope some of you can get a chance to play along … and we would love to see what you come up with if you do. feel free to either comment on one of our blogs (or both, we both enjoy hearing from you), linking us to your layout … or you can send us an email showing us your layout.