ScrapStuffz Inspired By Summer

Hi everyone - I'm here today with another Scrapstuffz Inspired By reveal to inspire you to enter our June challenge.  When I saw the inspiration photo I knew exactly what I wanted to do.   I used a sketch from my stash, but have learned that I need to start writing down where I got them since I blog now and want to give proper credit where due.  I used the photos of our favorite summer spot, and the Echo Park Paradise Beach Collection.  I have gotten many many layouts out of that collection, and it's probably one of my favorite summer ones. 

Oh - sorry for the bad picture - it's past my bed time and we have to be up early for a trip tomorrow. Until next time - keep scrapping!

Photo Inspiration:

ScrapStuffz "Inspired By" August Challenge

     It's time for another fun ScrapStuffz challenge.  For August we were given this awesome beach picture.  Who couldn't gain some inspiration from this!?

     Anything to do with the beach is always easy for me since we go there every year for vacation.  I went a slightly different direction though and used the chair colors and water and scrapped pictures from the first time our son went in the pool.

    The waves were hand cut out and then misted with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist.  You can't tell from the photo, but they aren't all completely covered, and then i anchored them down with a pop dot on alternating waves.  The effect gives a lot of movement to them making it look much more real.  The ribbon obviously mimics the waves.

   The banner and Hello Summer are both from the Echo Park Paradise Beach collection.  The banner is a sticker and the Hello Summer was almost like a project life card.  I used my exacto knife and cut the words out and used pop dots on that as well.  

     I'd have liked to use hidden journalling on this, but wanted to bring more yellow into the picture so I used a turquoise marker on the yellow paper to tie it all together.  How would you have done the journalling if this was your page?

     I again can't wait to see what inspires you about the pictures and what you create with that!

  

Beach Bonus

     So I promised a bonus item this week, and here it is!  I made a pop-up card from my Echo Park Paradise Beach sticker collection.  This card was a free download on their website.  If you sign up for an account they have tons of free project ideas for each collection.  The card took maybe five minutes in total to put together.  I'll tell you...that's my kind of project...instant gratification :-)

    Since several of the stickers go over top of the card I think I'm going to press the card to tissue paper ,and then cut each shape out so it's not sticky anymore.                         I haven't decided who will receive this yet, but I'm thinking it will be my nephew with a strip of photo booth photos of Michael on our beach vacation this year.  So much more fun than a postcard!

     That's for checking my bonus project out, and stay tuned as I'm working on two new scrappy video tutorials for you.  Hope you're all getting lots of scrap time in now that it's getting to hot to enjoy outside.  Well, it's to hot for me....I could send you all some of this 90 degree weather if you want it :-)