we missed getting this challenge up last week ... did anyone notice that? mary was on her way back home from the states ... and wendy was off in disneyland. me? i was here ... sick and working. but this week we're all back to normal ... as normal as any of use can be i think. mary and i asked wendy to play along with us again for this challenge.
this week's challenge included the following:
1. the colors green and teal ... how fun are those colors together!
2. embossed paper ... i was thinking dry embossing. but i just saw that mary went with heat embossing. either way, embossing is fun to do!
3. paint ... i have mucho paint that i just love, but havn't used it much. alyssa even asked me about my paints the other nigh ... saying that i never use them.
4. string ... you all know i love string. but i have noticed on my recent layouts ... that i havn't really used much string. nice to have it back out again!
i decided to go with a no-photo layout ... mainly because i was too lazy to dig around for photos to match. i actually really enjoy doing these sorts of layouts about myself ... i like to work some layouts about me into my scrapbooking every now and then. and the no-photo thing is perfect for that ... since i don't have many photos of myself. i created this layout without even knowing what it would be about. and came up with the title after seeing how much room i had to work with. and then based my journaling around the title. this is definately "me today" ... since i wrote the journaling this afternoon!
took me forever to pick my shades of green and teal ... but these are the ones i came up with. nice and bright shades! since we were doing embossing ... i wanted to do just cardstock. i'm usually quite a pattern paper girl ... but i love the clean and simple look of embossed cardstock. i used 2 different cuttlebug folders ... the swiss dot folder and the spots/dots folder. and for my title ... i used an idea from a previous challenge with heather. i layer some letter stickers over my plastic letters ... love it.
for the paint ... i brushed some black paint around the edges of my cardstock, using my finger. and each of those cardstock pieces is adhered using pop-dots to give it lots of extra dimension. i also tied lots of string around a few cardstock pieces. then just added a few plastic flower stickers, with some large silver brads in the middles.
make sure and check out mary's layout HERE ... and wendy's layout HERE. and let us know if you decide to play along ... we'd love to see your take on our challenge!
supplies:
embossing folders - cuttlebug
plastic letters - heidi swapp
letter stickers - doodlebug
plastic flowers - making memories
brads - making memories
paint - making memories
other - string
OOOps! I totally thought we said "embossing" not "embossed paper." Oh well, I'm a nerd. Love the cardstock only look, and all the different embossing templates you used look great! Love Heather's layered sticker letter technique too - still need to do that up! :)
Posted by: Mary MacAskill | March 20, 2009 at 04:38 PM
Very cool - and all so different again!!
Now that I blog (lol - like I'm some expert with 3 posts), I'll have to take your challenges and post mine there :)
Posted by: Leslie | March 20, 2009 at 05:38 PM
Love, Love the colors here Laura. So fun and purty for spring! Nice to see some fun string and I love the paint on the edges. I'm sure you had fun using your 'bug for all the embossing. I've never seen those HS letters before. I need some plastic letters in my stash! TFS!!
Posted by: Carla | March 20, 2009 at 05:40 PM
Love this! :o) I absolutely need to start doing something like this every month or so...would be a fun little journal after a while. I love the mix of embossing AND the pink with the other colors. Super fun! :o)
Posted by: Wendy Sue | March 20, 2009 at 06:00 PM
Oh man! Did typepad eat my comment?? grrrrr....
I LOVE EVERYTHING about this!!!! BEAUTIFUL colors! Makes me happy looking at it! Need to try this!!
Posted by: Sara Rossi | March 20, 2009 at 06:33 PM
LOVE the string wrapped around those great embossed squares. And your use of paint for the challenge is so subtle and awesome. Love the whole thing!
Posted by: Rhonda Steed | March 20, 2009 at 07:19 PM
Yaaaay! I DID miss the challenges! I'm so glad you ladies are back! :) I can't wait to try this one out! I have never used paint on a layout before, so this will be fun. :)
Posted by: Dani | March 20, 2009 at 07:55 PM
Ok I am not even kidding - I just bought a 2 inch square mega punch today so I could do something like this! Totally awesome! LOVE the colors, love the embossing - do you mind if I lift??? Totally want to do something like this for Shannen's album!
Posted by: Sarah Klemish | March 20, 2009 at 08:05 PM
Love the colors! love everything about it! What a great idea!
Posted by: Vcitoria S. | March 20, 2009 at 08:43 PM
Those colors look amazing!! Love your layout....and I NEED to do a layout to document some things about myself one of these days too! Thanks again for all your inspiration!!!
Posted by: Jamie Harder | March 20, 2009 at 10:31 PM
:) this is awesome! looks like you got your doodlebug letters! great colours! i love the title. :)
Posted by: Heather M. | March 20, 2009 at 10:48 PM
ooooh...loving this page Laura! the embossed squares, the string, the fact there's no photos, fantastic!
You totally inspire me, thank you for sharing! Glad to hear you're feeling better now.
Posted by: Lisa | March 21, 2009 at 06:06 AM
Love everything about this page - and for a change, I have (almost)all the supplies! Thanks so much for the inspiration.:)
Posted by: Linda J | March 21, 2009 at 08:51 AM
love the simple and streamline of this lo....don't even miss the pics..... great job.
lynda in calif
Posted by: lynda p | March 21, 2009 at 10:36 AM
Very cool!
Posted by: ShellyJ | March 21, 2009 at 10:43 AM
I always love these challenges, but today was the first time I've tried it. Here's the link to my take on it.
http://kimscraps.blogspot.com/2009/03/challenge.html
Posted by: Kim Ket | March 21, 2009 at 03:08 PM
Laura
Love how the challenge turned out!!! Everyone did a great job. Love the colors and different styles and designs of each designer.
Have a great weekend!
Sandi N.
Posted by: Sandi N. | March 21, 2009 at 05:52 PM
Super fab layout about yourself, Laura! I just had my 32nd birthday on Wednesday, and was wondering what kind of layout I'd make for myself. mind if I lift yours? Love the colors and everything about it! I'll give you a link when I get it done! :)
Posted by: cathyl | March 22, 2009 at 06:34 AM
Absolutely beautiful!!! I am thinking that I will have to play along with this one, while I am doing laundry today. I love the colors!!
Posted by: Chris | March 22, 2009 at 08:21 AM
I love your concept ... it doesn't feel like there's no patterned paper because of all of the great texture!
Posted by: Jessica | March 22, 2009 at 03:20 PM
kick me into action!!! i need to scrap!! love your take Laura!
Posted by: sasha farina | March 22, 2009 at 09:25 PM
man i love the color combo in this LO :)
soooo summer-y!
Posted by: Candi Tardio | March 23, 2009 at 06:29 PM