Better Living Through Scrapbooking Challenge September #3: Fashion Disaster Create a layout about a fashion disaster, hair disaster, or social faux pas that happened to you. Be sure to upload your project for this challenge to our mini-gallery (don’t forget, to be eligible for the grand prize, you must complete all four weekly challenges for the month of September!). Deadline to enter September Challenge #3 (and all other September challenges) is midnight EST September 30th, 2010. We can’t wait to see what you create! :) Supply list: Cardstock: Discount Cardstock Brilliant White, Ocean Blue & Cream Vellum Patterned paper: Graphic 45 On the Boardwalk Collection Borders Dreamcatcher embellishment: A Print A Day (http://aprintadayarchives.blogspot.com/2009/03/downloads-dreamcatcher-list-pad.html) Alpha: American Crafts Rockabye (Powder) & Niki Riki (Sunflower), Making Memories Hullabaloo Collection Ribbon: Doodlebug Design Inc. Striped Grosgrain (Seaglass), miscellaneous Brads: Doodlebug Design Inc. Paint: Making Memories Adhesive: Mod Podge Gloss Other: Thread Journaling: My 1999 school photo revolved around a latin theme — hence, my little chihuahua & my very colorful, festive shirt. ’90s fashion, eek. But really, I’m not embarrassed… I love seeing how my style has evolved. ♥ Chosen criteria: 1. Use an old school photo of yourself on your layout. 4. Use ribbon in a fun and/or unusual way on your page. Techniques: To mimic the design on my shirt, I splattered blue, yellow, pink, orange, and purple paint on a sheet of cream vellum. I then let it dry and placed it under a stack of heavy boxes to flatten out. Afterwards, I cut random rectangles from the vellum and did the same with the blue cardstock. The vellum actually softens the impact of the very bold ocean blue color, so it blends in more with the white background and the light blue denim of my jeans in the photo. Speaking of softening, I inkjet printed my photo on another sheet of white cardstock, cut it out, and then dropped water in a few random places, allowing the ink to bleed and run. This creates coherency in the layout’s design and adds to the vibe! Since one of the challenge points prompted me to use ribbon in an unusual way, I decided to braid it — something I’ve never done before, but it looks quite pretty and very fun with the colors I used. To keep the ends from coming undone, I stuck a brad through all three layers of ribbon at each end; there are actually two little braids, so four brads in total were used. Look closely: I also hand stitched the lines of my journaling spot! :)
Better Living Through Scrapbooking Challenge September #3: Fashion Disaster

Create a layout about a fashion disaster, hair disaster, or social faux pas that happened to you.

Be sure to upload your project for this challenge to our mini-gallery (don’t forget, to be eligible for the grand prize, you must complete all four weekly challenges for the month of September!).

Deadline to enter September Challenge #3 (and all other September challenges) is midnight EST September 30th, 2010.

We can’t wait to see what you create! :)

Supply list:

  • Cardstock: Discount Cardstock Brilliant White, Ocean Blue & Cream Vellum
  • Patterned paper: Graphic 45 On the Boardwalk Collection Borders
  • Dreamcatcher embellishment: A Print A Day (http://aprintadayarchives.blogspot.com/2009/03/downloads-dreamcatcher-list-pad.html)
  • Alpha: American Crafts Rockabye (Powder) & Niki Riki (Sunflower), Making Memories Hullabaloo Collection
  • Ribbon: Doodlebug Design Inc. Striped Grosgrain (Seaglass), miscellaneous
  • Brads: Doodlebug Design Inc.
  • Paint: Making Memories
  • Adhesive: Mod Podge Gloss
  • Other: Thread

Journaling:

My 1999 school photo revolved around a latin theme — hence, my little chihuahua & my very colorful, festive shirt. ’90s fashion, eek. But really, I’m not embarrassed… I love seeing how my style has evolved. ♥

Chosen criteria:

1. Use an old school photo of yourself on your layout.
4. Use ribbon in a fun and/or unusual way on your page.

Techniques:

To mimic the design on my shirt, I splattered blue, yellow, pink, orange, and purple paint on a sheet of cream vellum. I then let it dry and placed it under a stack of heavy boxes to flatten out. Afterwards, I cut random rectangles from the vellum and did the same with the blue cardstock. The vellum actually softens the impact of the very bold ocean blue color, so it blends in more with the white background and the light blue denim of my jeans in the photo.

Speaking of softening, I inkjet printed my photo on another sheet of white cardstock, cut it out, and then dropped water in a few random places, allowing the ink to bleed and run. This creates coherency in the layout’s design and adds to the vibe!

Since one of the challenge points prompted me to use ribbon in an unusual way, I decided to braid it — something I’ve never done before, but it looks quite pretty and very fun with the colors I used. To keep the ends from coming undone, I stuck a brad through all three layers of ribbon at each end; there are actually two little braids, so four brads in total were used.

Look closely: I also hand stitched the lines of my journaling spot! :)

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