Weekly inspiration

Tbis week our music inspiration comes from music books I found on my own bookshelf! Have fun with it!

Friday Challenge!!!

The challenge: Create a layout inspired by the above CD cover. 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. So get inspired and go scrap!

My take on this week's challenge:
(excuse the shadows on the scan.)

Simply You: Guest designer layout inspired by music

The inspiration:


How Lacey was inspired:

Design: She used the 3 rectangular blocks of color on the CD cover as the background for her layout.

Color Combination: Again, the 3 rectangular blocks of color provided her background as well as the basis for the colors she chose for the rest of her layout.

The End Result:

How does it inspire you?

Rays of light: Layout inspired by music

The inspiration:


How I was inspired:

Design: When I saw this I immediately thought of getting some use out of my huge ribbon stash! I had a lot of fun stapling ribbon to my paper. I sort of rotated everything around to look right with the picture I chose, but my page was definitely heavily inspired by the design on the CD cover!

Topic/theme: The Sun and the Moon, along with the design, reminded me of rays of light. So I used that as my title, referring to my daughters.

The End Result:

How does it inspire you?

Why we love: Layout inspired by music

The inspiration:


How I was inspired:

Design: I liked the simple design, so I incorporated the entire square CD cover into the larger design of my rectangular layout.

Color Combination: I love doing these inspiration challenges because it forces me to look for paper and embellishments I might not otherwise use. I found some patterned paper that is pretty old that used the colors on the CD cover. It's always exciting to be able to use old stuff!

Typography: I did my best to mimic the way the little tickets were printed out. It took some major text box usage and since my girls all have different lengths of names, I used the option to expand the text with the shorter names so it still looks uniform.

Topic: The "We all Love Ella" morphed a bit into "Why we Love _________".

The End Result:

How does it inspire you?

Weekly Inspiration

For June, I am inspired by music. This week, it's CD cover art specifically. I've included links to the album tracks if you want to be inspired by the lyrics. Have fun!


We all love Ella: List of Album Tracks

The Bravery list of album tracks

Friday Challenge!!!

(inside: Did I miss anything?)

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. So get inspired and go scrap!

My take on this week's challenge:

Hilary's take on the same greeting card: Hilary decided to use the card to inspire her blog header for the month instead of making a layout.


Can't wait to see what you do!