Hello SCT readers, it's Nancy! I love a good clean design so it's no surprise that I was drawn to Peppermint Granberg's layout on page 67 of the Spring issue. Her beautiful, clean grid design was the inspiration behind this page.
Like Peppermint, I chose a nice stark white background with some fun pops of color. I matted the photo with a lollipop print transparency and surrounded it with icons that related to the story.
The story is one about Downtown Disney and one of my favorite spots there. I included strips of journaling and used machine journaling to attach them in a cascade. The white on white fringe at the bottom adds texture without taking away from the focal point.
Peppermint's layout included a few different shapes (circles, stars and hearts) and I mimicked that look with circles, flowers and a Mickey head. The mixing of shapes that are relatively the same size gives the design a pop of interest.
Thanks Peppermint for your inspiration and beautiful design! It's one of my favorite go to's." ~ Nancy
Your challenge: Create a layout with a grid design! Share your 4:00 pm challenge with us three ways: by email at ideas@scrapbookandcards.com, by uploading it to our Facebook page or tag us on Instagram @sctmagazine by May 15th! If you do, you'll be entered to win a one year subscription to Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine and a $100 mystery box prize!
4:00 pm GIVEAWAY with Jillibean Soup and Your Next Stamp!
Jillibean Soup's adventurous collection, Mushroom Medley will entice you outdoors to frolic with deer, foxes, bumblebees and more adorable animals. The color soaked papers mix and match beautifully to create layouts, cards and projects. Coordinating stickers, wood veneer dots, die-cuts and felt bows add that perfect finishing touch!
"Happy National Scrapbooking day from all of us at Your Next Stamp! Our iNSD prize includes the Word Critters Gardening Birds stamp set, Cute Home on a Hill die and some Magical Pastel Gumdrops!" ~ Karen Dedman
Thank you to Jillibean Soup and Your Next Stamp! For an opportunity to win this hour's prize package be sure to leave a comment below by Sunday, May 15th at 6:00 pm. All winners will be announced on Monday, May 16th! Please also take a moment to give a hearty "thank you," a smile or a wave to all of today's sponsors! They love seeing you on their Facebook pages. If you don't already "like" them, it's a great way to keep up to date on all the amazing inspiration they provide with their products!
Good luck friends! Emily Pitts is here at 5:00 and so is Cocoa Daisy and Paper Smooches! What a trio! We look forward to seeing you then. We also hope you've been working on some of our challenges today! We always love to see your work!
Wow! love this. I love the Jillibean Soup collection too. It is one of my favorites. Thank you to the great sponsors and all the fabulous designers who put in time to make this day great.
Great layout! I Love DownTown Disney too!!! Thanks for yet another awesome, inspiring and super FUN hour!!! :)
Love the pops of embellishments! I’ve never tried to make a page like this. What a great photo also! I love topiary and wow Is that amazing!
What a great group of sponsors! Thanks everyone!
Such a cute layout! And another fabulous prize!
What a great prize and a fun layout. Love the white space.
Great takes on the same design! Love the chance to win these goodies! Happy iNSD!
I love iNSD!!
Love the grid design.
What a huge and wonderful giveaway! Fantastic!
Just delightful!! WOnderful inspiration
What cute stuff in the giveaway! I love seeing all the different ways that circles are showing up in the layouts today. Great layouts by both ladies.
Beautiful layout! Disney is always a winner, as are Jillibean Soup and Your Next Stamp. All you need to create works of art are in this prize. The paper, dots, stamps, dies and embellishments. Maybe we can create beautiful layout like Nancy Damiano. Oh to dream! Thanks. this is a great prize.
love the pages – I love a grid too Great prize
Love the grid look. Live the collection from Jillibean Soup and the stamp from Your next stamp. Those birds set so cute.
Thanks so much! So adorable! Super love that grid! Feel a Scraplift coming on….
I love jillibean stamps and just picked up a couple at MI’s Mega Meet show this past Thursday but you can never have too many, LOL! Thanx for the inspiration and blog candy opp! Happy Scrapbooking Day!
Love these layouts! Thanks for the inspiration! What a wonderful day so far!!! Looking forward to seeing more awesome projects and chances at more amazing prizes! SCT rocks NSD!!!!!
super cute! thanks so much for sharing your ideas!
This is just amazing! Thanks for all these fabulous giveaways!
Great layout! Love it!
Love these layouts. Thanks for the inspiration and the chance to win.
Love these grid layouts. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love those layouts! Both are beautiful!
Great layout. Thanks for a chance to win.
Fun layouts! I love the way the embellishmnets were used. Thank you for another amazing giveaway.
Cute stuff! Love it all!
Love how the grid design works with the variety of shapes. Also, a big fan of the white background. I can imagine using the Jillibean Soup embellies on a white page of my own ;)
The gardening birds are so cute!
Your scraplift is super pretty Nancy! I love the photo you chose to work with of the M&M topiaries and how you made the layout your own. TFS!
Love the simple layout, especially foor Disney pages! I will keep this in mind for when I start scrapping our last trip. The Jillibean Soup kit is awesome!!!
Love how the layout is in small pieces rather
than larger pieces.
Good design idea.
thanks for sharing.
Happy NSD
Thanks for the fun day full of inspiration :)
What a great grid layout and the perfect way to document a trip to Disney! LOVE that cork Mickey!
Pretty layout, thanks for the inspiration.
Love this inspirational layout!!! Such a cute stamp set
I agree that Downtown Disney (now called Disney Springs) is a great place to hang out. Your layout follows the inspiration piece so well. Good job!
Love the design! Thanks for sharing!
Very nice layout. Love the chipboard shapes. Thanks for the opportunity to win. Would love the Jillibean Soup Kit. Love those colors.
Thanks for the chance and great giveaway!
Cute, cute, cute!!!!! …and some more great giveaways! Thank you everyone!
Now I have an idea how to use some of my cork. Thanks for the idea
such cute layouts from both ladies. i love those grid designs!
Yummy prizes. Thank you!
love the grids!! both layouts are fab!
Jillibean and gumdrops – sweet :)
Thank you for such a great giveaway!
What a great layout! And thank you for the chance to win such a fab prize!
I really like both of these layouts. Thank you for the inspiration and the chance to win this fantastic prize!
The stamp and die set featured here are AMAZING!!! I would love to have them to make some cards with and to use in scrapbooks!!! Thanks for the chance to win!! Loving NSD16!!!
Love this LO idea, too! Great inspiration today.
very funny LOs!
Thanks for the giveaway