Monthly Inspiration
This month I am inspired by Junk Mail. :)
The challenge: Create a layout inspired by the above greeting card. When you are finished post it to an online photo or scrapbook gallery and then link it to this post. If you don't want to post it online you can email me at lalakme at yahoo dot com. I will post my favorites next week in each category: design, color combo, typography and topic. So get inspired and go scrap!
My take on this week's challenge:
Hilary's take on the same greeting card:
I love to see how different scrappers are inspired differently...that in itself is so inspiring to me! I can't wait to see what you do!
The inspiration:
How she was inspired:
Design: Notice that she wasn't necessarily inspired by the design as a whole, but rather smaller elements of the card's design. The blue shelf like thing under the flowers is translated to a blue ribbon on the bottom of her picture. The purple down the side looked corrugated to her, so she dusted off her old paper crimper and crimped the paper she used to mat the picture. The dots on the flowers inspired her to add dots along some of the borders in her layout. The whimsical nature of the flowers also inspred her to add some fun curves to the side instead of keeping it totally straight like the card does.
Color Combination: She really loved the fun color combination of the card and took a lot of inspiration from that, ending up with a very vivid layout that matches its title well.
Typography: She liked the whimsical font, so she found one that was similar and used it for her journaling.
***as a sidenote, Hilary said she hated this picture but knew she wanted to scrap it. Those types of pictures are often difficult to scrap because you aren't inspired by the picture itself. So it is nice to be able to use outside inspiration to translate it into a wonderful layout like Hilary did here!***
The End Result:
How does it inspire you?
The inspiration:
How I was inspired:
Design: I really liked the swirls on the stripes. That was my favorite thing about this greeting card, so I wanted to use that. I knew I wanted it to be for the "title page" of Sophia's baby album, so I found this old American Crafts paper that had stripes on it and used some Fancy Pants chipboard swirls to duplicate the look. Still simple enough for the title page/hospital picture type layout, yet it adds a little something special to the page.
Color Combo: The burgundy and white combo seemed so elegant that I decided to keep with the simple combination of colors instead of adding something else into the mix. Of course, mine is pink and white, but again, I think it works well with the type of layout this is intended to be.
The End Result:
How does it inspire you?
The inspiration:
How she was inspired:
Topic/theme: Hilary was inspired by the quote on the side of the greeting card, but that particular quote didn't fit the theme of the layout she was doing, so she made up her own similar quote and used that instead.
Design: Hilary kept the same basic design of the layout, especially with the sidebar/quote idea. The picture and journaling placement naturally fit into the larger area.
The End Result:
How does it inspire you?
