This week was not only a challenge week for our blog, but was also a challenging week in general to get everything accomplished that needed to be done. If you don’t remember, last week Mom and I decided to keep things creative with our scrapbooking concepts by making our own challenge. We were to create a scrapbook page layout based on the contents listed on various strips of paper. To read more about how we came up with our challenge and what we did you can read about that here.
Mom’s scrapbook challenge was to create a beach themed scrapbook page using Stampin’ Up products, the colors red and pink, and rhinestones as an embellishment. Mom was nervous, but excited about the challenge, however; her finished scrapbook page layout not only turned out great, but also included all five elements instead of just four. Keep reading further for the items used in this page and how it was put together.
Items Needed:
- Stampin' Up Stamps: Crayon Kids
- Manga Skin Kit - Copic Ciao Set (8 Marker + 1 Multiliner Pen)
- Scenic Route Paper - Garland Scrap Strip
- Wausau Creative Collection Classics Specialty Cardstock Starter Kit, 8.5 X 11 Inches, 72 Count (46407)
- Tsukineko Brilliance Full-Size Pad, Starlite Black
How Mom Created This Scrapbook Layout:
This page actually features three different layered backgrounds. The first background page is a piece of 12x12 cardstock in red. On top of the red cardstock to create the second layer mom used a piece of pink cardstock, slightly trimmed, and placed it over the red cardstock. This gives a dimensional or framed look to the scrapbook page. The final layer, which is placed on top of the pink cardstock, is a patterned paper by Scenic Route Paper called Garland Scrap Strip. This patterned paper is actually a Christmas or holiday background page that mom utilized for a different purpose and features the colors pink and red in several different patterns.
Mom didn’t do any special cropping to the pictures for this scrapbook page, she kept them at a regular 4x6” size, but they are placed on pink card stock to frame the pictures. The children and sun images is a stamp set called crayon kids by the Stampin' Up Company. Mom stamped the image directly onto the finished scrapbook page. She stamped each image using black brilliance ink, where she wanted them on the page. She then stamped the image again on a piece of white cardstock and colored them in using copic markers. She cut out the face and the clothes of the children and glued them directly onto the scrapbook page where the images were previously stamped. Adding the cardstock images on top of the flat stamped image create a 3D effect on the page.
Mom used pink rhinestones at the bottom left-hand corner of the page to separate the words SPARKLE. It’s very hard to see in the picture, but they are there.
We also drew our strips of paper for next weeks challenge, so stayed tuned for that later on today. Please feel free to submit any challenges you participate in and leave a link to your image or blog.
Now get to scrappin’ those scrapbooks and keepsakes!
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