More Shimelle Challenges

I completed two more challenges from Shimelle's Blog. Challenge No. 11 is to mix two contrasting patterns to make your background.

Challenge No. 2 is to use paper from 3 or more collections. I used Heidi Swapp Destinations, American Crafts Chaps, and Lily Bee Catching Fall. I also combined this challenge with this week's sketch at Sketch Inspiration.

Crowned Competition 2012

Crowned Competition at Scrapdango will be back next month. It's always a fun filled month of challenges, games, and prizes. If you'd like to join in the fun, tell them I sent you in this thread.

Shimelle's Weekend Challenges

This past weekend Shimelle hosted a weekend filled with challenges, tutorials, page ideas, photography thoughts, organisation concepts, and more.

Challenge No. 10 was to use two photos and a bold background. I used two photos from St. Thomas and used some bright papers and embellishments from the January Kit from Hip2BSquare Kit Club that I won recently on their blog.


Challenge No. 14 was to create a layout with four unique sections. I created this layout making a grid pattern with the photos and two other embellished squares.

Page Maps and My Mind's Eye Challenges

Page Maps is hosting a sketch challenge sponsored by My Scraps & More. Here's the sketch and my interpretation. I combined this with My Mind's Eye April challenge to use hexagons.


I fussy cut the hexagon strips from the Kraft Funday Picnic Paper. I matted a few hexagons on foam adhesive to give some dimension to the layout.

Let's Get Sketchy Challenge #6

I stretched the sketch for challenge #6 at Let's Get Sketchy into a two page layout. Although two page layouts are not my favorite, they do seem to work better with lots of vacation photos.

Let's Get Sketchy Challenge #5

The current challenge at Let's Get Sketchy is to use this sketch.

Here's my layout of Apollo's Temple at Pompeii, Italy. I used the Little Yellow Bicycle Saturdays Collection.

The Paper Variety Challenge

The current challenge at The Paper Variety is to make a card and matching envelope. I used some scraps from Echo Park This & That Charming.

Chevron Border

Pop on over to the Scrapbook {Express}ions blog today to see my tutorial on how to make a chevron border for your layouts and cards.