Happy Valentine's Day! I have a new layout to share today. Summer Fullerton puts together a fun colour challenge each month for Scrapbook & Cards Today, and the February installment went up on the blog today.
Summer invited me to play along with her and I couldn't pass it up. I love a good color challenge, and when I saw the colors she picked out, I was excited to dive into my stash and see what I could come up with.
Purple, two pinks, yellow, and white. Such a lovely color combination that I most likely would have never put together on my own. I started out digging through my patterned papers, putting together a mix of papers in the chosen colors that might work. I ended up with papers from Pebbles, Jillibean Soup, and Bo Bunny. One thing I learned? I don't have a wide selecion of purple patterned papers.
The next thing I did was go searching for photos. I really didn't have any particular ones in mind, so I just browsed through my external hard drives. Nothing was grabbing my attention or calling out to be scrapped. I'm not sure what made me think of this photo of Alyssa. I just suddenly thought about it, which worked well, since it was already printed.
My next step was cutting the circle background piece with my Cameo. I knew from the beginning that I wanted to cut this from a full sheet of patterned paper and adhere it to a sheet of white cardstock. Since I had my Cameo out and plugged in, I went digging for a possible title to use.
I usually just type in key words in the search box, since it's easier than browsing through my entire library. I believe this popped up when I had typed in the word "beautiful". It is a print and cut file, an it just so happened that the colors matched perfectly! Love when stuff like that happens. I printed it on white textured cardstock and trimmed around the edges.
I cut two large pieces of the two pink patterned papers to layer behind my photo, and tucked the title piece on the side. I wanted to add a bit more purple, so I used a large circle border punch along my tone-on-tone purple dot paper and tucked them under the top and bottom of my title piece.
I added some buttons and ribbon pieces to embellish my title piece. I won't lie. It was hard to find some purple buttons. Which is strange, because I own a gigantic amount of buttons.
And this trim from Webster's Pages. Pure yumminess! Such a gorgeous shade of yellow. I helped secure it on the ends with a few pink and purple-ish brads. I used the title piece to help guide my journaling. And a small secret? I have no clue how close that date is to the actual date that this photo was taken. Lol. This photo was take at a modeling session Alyssa attended when she was about 4 years old. I have scrapped other photos from this day, but I apparently never dated any of those layouts. Yes, I do guesstimate dates from time to time ;)
To see this challenge in it's entirety or to see Summer's past challenges, make sure to stop by and visit the Scrapbook and Cards Today site.
What a gorgeous picture of Alyssa. I too discovered I had a small supply of purple, which is weird because that's my favorite color. You nailed this color combo.
Posted by: SandraA | February 14, 2013 at 08:33 AM
Gorgeous layout and adorable photo. Love how you used all the colors. TFS
Posted by: JoAnn B. | February 14, 2013 at 12:57 PM
WOW WOW WOW!! This is gorgeous, love these colors together and that cute picture!
Nice card below, love it!
Fun project sheet, all those hearts are sweet.
WOW another awesome weekly page by you, love love this!! Keep making them they are inspiring!!
Thanks for sharing and making me smile this morning!
Posted by: dawn | February 15, 2013 at 03:12 AM
CUTE! Love the color combo! Absolutely precious photo! :)
Posted by: Kathy Martin | February 15, 2013 at 04:21 AM
You really got the color combo spot-on! And what a great picture to scrap, too. Great work!
Posted by: RachelV (love2scrap) | February 15, 2013 at 08:04 AM
Love that trim! How do you store layouts like this one when they don't lay flat or fit well in page protectors? I love this look but I don't know what I'd do with it once I'd made it. :-)
Posted by: Caroline | February 16, 2013 at 05:09 PM
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! You are amazing, Laura! Thank you for the inspiration. Take care. :)
Posted by: Kim Thomas | February 18, 2013 at 04:39 PM
This is GORGEOUS!! Love it all....'specially the purple!! ;)
Posted by: Sara Rossi | February 18, 2013 at 09:17 PM
Too precious...LOVE the photo, and the layout just brings out her cuteness.
You know that I think you ROCK when it comes to color schemes- well, here is another example..LOVE!
Posted by: Janet | February 19, 2013 at 08:02 AM
SO fun great color combo and I love the touch of trim on this layout!
Posted by: Diana Waite | February 20, 2013 at 05:12 AM
Purple can be so scary to scrap but you nailed it! The yellow calms it down nicely! Great challenge!
Posted by: Carla | February 23, 2013 at 03:57 PM