The inspiration:
How I was inspired:
Design: Loved the blocks of color and the black strips running through the piece.
Color Combo: Speaks for itself
Typography: Loved the random letters included in the artwork...how some of them were turned upside down, so I incorporated that into my title.
The End Result:
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?
The inspiration:
How I was inspired:
Design: I took the design pretty literally as far as where I placed things. I loved the "pinking shear" look, but couldn't find my pinking shears anywhere, so I just kind of made it up as I went along and inked it to give it more definition.
Typography: I didn't use a font, but I copied the font used on the card with my own handwriting. Since the topic was somewhat childish, it worked well.
The End Result:
How does it inspire you?
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:
Color Combination: I really liked the color combination of the greeting card, so I knew I would use that on my page. The only yellow paper I could find was about 4 years old, and certainly not "hip" at all, but it worked for my purposes.
Design: The design wasn't too difficult to translate into a layout, either. I liked the flower and the ribbon on the card very much. I actually had the exact same ribbon (also very old) in my stash, so I pulled it out and used it. I loved that the flower used both hot pink and pastel pink and also had hints of the green leaves, so I went with that, as well.
Typography: I found a font similar to the "My beautiful Wife" and used it for part of my title. (Font is called "Inspiration"--Fitting, no?).
The End Result: (Couldn't scan it straight to save my life)
