Tuesday, September 22, 2015

May Top Five - National Scrapbook Day 2015

As part of my year of INSPIRATION, I am challenging myself to scrap my Top Five (photos or stories or events) from each month. I am currently working on my May layouts and am using INSPIRATION from the Scrapping Everyday Miracles Birthday Mini Crop challenges for these pages.

Challenge #2 was to create a layout using a row or column or diagonal on the Tic-Tac-Toe board provided. I chose the center column which dictated that I use (1) die cut or chipboard, (2) patterned paper, and (3) buttons.

(1) I used my Cricut to die cut letters for my title.


(2) I created a background for my two-page layout using four patterned papers.


(3) I chose buttons as embellishments for the flower centers.


I used eight photos (plus two small circle-punched photos) along with two Project Life journal cards to tell the story of this FUN day!


While I'm sure I would have used patterned paper on this layout anyway (right!), without this challenge I might not have considered adding the button embellishments (which I really like) or taken the time to die cut my title, so I'm really glad I decided to try the challenge because this is such a happy layout! Have you tried any scrapbooking challenges lately?
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9 comments:

  1. Barbara EadsSeptember 23, 2015 at 4:33 AM

    You always make the cheeriest layouts! Love the button flowers.

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  2. UnknownSeptember 23, 2015 at 10:05 AM

    What an outstanding layout! I love the colors you chose and the buttons in the flowers just perfect! I am so happy you were inspired by my challenge. Thank you for playing at SEM and for sharing it with me on my blog too!

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  3. DebRSeptember 23, 2015 at 11:44 AM

    This is so beautiful...fantastic layout!
    Great job on the Mini Crap Birthday Bash at Scrapping Everyday Miracles.

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  4. SandraSeptember 23, 2015 at 4:51 PM

    I have to agree, your pages bring a smile to my face. You make the happiest of layouts and your colours are always beautifull

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  5. KarenSeptember 23, 2015 at 8:15 PM

    What a bright, happy page! Love all the smiles in the photos, too.

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  6. SianSeptember 24, 2015 at 10:44 AM

    I really like the button embellishments too. The perfect extra touch!

    Challenge? How about finding an empty space on my desk? Does that count?!

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  7. Karla YungwirthSeptember 27, 2015 at 12:36 AM

    I just love this fun layout!! The colours are so nice and bright and I love the way you used the Tic Tac Toe Challenge! Thanks so much for joining us for the SEM Birthday Bash :)

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  8. Missus WookieSeptember 28, 2015 at 3:49 PM

    Oh those buttons are just perfect on those flowers. That is indeed a bright and happy LO - looks like you had a great time.

    I like challenges which make me try things I've not tried before or for a while.

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  9. SusanneOctober 2, 2015 at 7:59 AM

    What a fun stashbusting spread - loving the button centers to those flowers! And I'm envious of your ability to stay on task when working chronologically too.

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