Better Living Through Scrapbooking October Challenge #1: Favorite Color Create a layout dedicated to your favorite color. Supply list: Cardstock: Discount Cardstock Kraft & Clove Felt Paper: Discount Cardstock Light Pink Mulberry, Vinyl (Gauche Alchemy Acme Kit) Paint: Plaid Apple Barrel Victorian Green Vellum: Colorbok Friendly Forest Collection Fleece: American Crafts Fieldhouse Blue Skies Bird stamp: All Night Media by Plaid Banner, heart & “eE” stamp: For the Luv of Art Sweet Ollie Stamp Set Ink: Rubber Stampede Brads, sticker & journaling spot: Crate Paper Season Collection Bird, flower & leaf die cuts: Colorbok Blue Skies Page Kit Punchinella, tickets, chipboard letter “R” & plastic “G” & “N” game pieces: Gauche Alchemy Acme Kit Adhesive: Plaid Paper & Sparkle Mod Podge, Elmer’s Craft Bond Glue Dots Other: Thread Journaling: Green has been my favorite color for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I always had to have green everything. If my brother & I got the same toy, mine had to be green. Now, I associate it w/ calm feelings & nature. I guess that’s part of why I like it so much. It’s been a constant in life & always calms me down. Chosen criteria: 2. Take a photo of something you love that is in your favorite color, and use it on your layout. 4. Create hand-doodling somewhere on your page. 5. Make the name of your favorite color a prominent part of your title. Techniques: For my background, I used the credit card technique with my paint. In case you’re not familiar with it, it’s exactly what it sounds like: I squeezed paint directly onto the bottom edge of an old plastic card (used gift cards work great for this!), and then smeared it against the Kraft Cardstock. The For the Luv of Art stamps are so cute! Instead of just making a plain brown cardstock banner, I stamped the image in brown on a sheet of Light Pink Mulberry, cut the banner out, adhered it to the Clove Felt Cardstock, and then applied a coat of Sparkle Mod Podge over it. The same idea applies to the hearts. When finished, I had really pretty handmade embellishments to cut out and use! Speaking of the stamps, to complete the word “Green” in my title (which is a play off the Aerosmith song “Pink,” by the way!), I needed a couple of “E”s — which is exactly what I found in the “Sweet” stamp, so I inked up them up and used them out of context! You can get so much more mileage out of your stamps by thinking about and using them in different ways. You can even cut acrylic stamps into pieces and use them that way; just piece them back together on an acrylic block if you want to re-use the whole word/image. Happy stamping! :) Be sure to upload your project for this challenge to Better Scrap’s mini-gallery! Deadline to enter October Challenge #1 (and all other October challenges) is midnight EST October 30th, 2010.
Better Living Through Scrapbooking October Challenge #1: Favorite Color

Create a layout dedicated to your favorite color.

Supply list:

  • Cardstock: Discount Cardstock Kraft & Clove Felt
  • Paper: Discount Cardstock Light Pink Mulberry, Vinyl (Gauche Alchemy Acme Kit)
  • Paint: Plaid Apple Barrel Victorian Green
  • Vellum: Colorbok Friendly Forest Collection
  • Fleece: American Crafts Fieldhouse Blue Skies
  • Bird stamp: All Night Media by Plaid
  • Banner, heart & “eE” stamp: For the Luv of Art Sweet Ollie Stamp Set
  • Ink: Rubber Stampede
  • Brads, sticker & journaling spot: Crate Paper Season Collection
  • Bird, flower & leaf die cuts: Colorbok Blue Skies Page Kit
  • Punchinella, tickets, chipboard letter “R” & plastic “G” & “N” game pieces: Gauche Alchemy Acme Kit
  • Adhesive: Plaid Paper & Sparkle Mod Podge, Elmer’s Craft Bond Glue Dots
  • Other: Thread

Journaling:

Green has been my favorite color for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I always had to have green everything. If my brother & I got the same toy, mine had to be green. Now, I associate it w/ calm feelings & nature. I guess that’s part of why I like it so much. It’s been a constant in life & always calms me down.

Chosen criteria:

2. Take a photo of something you love that is in your favorite color, and use it on your layout.
4. Create hand-doodling somewhere on your page.
5. Make the name of your favorite color a prominent part of your title.

Techniques:

For my background, I used the credit card technique with my paint. In case you’re not familiar with it, it’s exactly what it sounds like: I squeezed paint directly onto the bottom edge of an old plastic card (used gift cards work great for this!), and then smeared it against the Kraft Cardstock.

The For the Luv of Art stamps are so cute! Instead of just making a plain brown cardstock banner, I stamped the image in brown on a sheet of Light Pink Mulberry, cut the banner out, adhered it to the Clove Felt Cardstock, and then applied a coat of Sparkle Mod Podge over it. The same idea applies to the hearts. When finished, I had really pretty handmade embellishments to cut out and use!

Speaking of the stamps, to complete the word “Green” in my title (which is a play off the Aerosmith song “Pink,” by the way!), I needed a couple of “E”s — which is exactly what I found in the “Sweet” stamp, so I inked up them up and used them out of context! You can get so much more mileage out of your stamps by thinking about and using them in different ways. You can even cut acrylic stamps into pieces and use them that way; just piece them back together on an acrylic block if you want to re-use the whole word/image. Happy stamping! :)

Be sure to upload your project for this challenge to Better Scrap’s mini-gallery! Deadline to enter October Challenge #1 (and all other October challenges) is midnight EST October 30th, 2010.

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