Welcome back! We have one more challenge for you before we wrap up this fun day! It’s the 6:00 pm hour of our International Scrapbook Day event and the last one before our wrap up at 7:00! If you’re joining us for the first time, today’s event schedule is below. Be sure to click on our previous posts for all the challenges we have offered today!
9:00 AM: PageMaps sketch challenge & a starry layout from Lisa Dickinson! (click here)
10:00 AM: Join designer Paige Evans with a pretty floral challenge (click here)
12:00 PM: Join designer Virginia Nebel with a travel challenge (click here)
2:00 PM: Join designer Meghann Andrew with a birthday challenge (click here)
4:00 PM: Join designer Wendy Sue Anderson with a fun Disney challenge (click here)
6:00 PM: Join designer Nathalie DeSousa with a Spring colour challenge <—-we are here!
7:00 PM: Join our Creative Editor Jen Gallacher as we wrap up the day!
This hour Design Team member Nathalie DeSousa joins us to share a sweet layout and we are excited to give you the last challenge of the day!
“Hello there, and Happy International Scrapbook Day! I am sure you all are ready to celebrate the day with lots of inspiration and maybe a few projects of your own. Today, I want to share a new layout I created that is all about celebrating memories through color and paper.
Nothing says new beginnings, Spring and love than flowers! So, I pulled a few cut files from JustNick Studio to cut flowers from patterned papers from Heidi Swapp’s Color Fresh Collection.
I used a knitting needle (the round metal shape of it is ideal to create the ruffled edges of the flowers) to softly curl the edges of the flowers before gluing the pieces together. A little dot of glue in the center of each shape keeps the flower together. The centers of the flowers were cut from white cardstock and glued with a small foam dot to the center of each flower followed by an enamel dot to match the color of the flower.
Since I wanted the flowers and picture to stand out, I chose to use mint cardstock as the base of this page. I cut a strip of the Wild Side paper and hand stitched a frame on the paper using mint embroidery floss. I glued this to the page, followed by a strip of the Paint the Town paper. The title was then placed at the bottom corner of these two strips using some of the stickers from the collection.
The picture was placed on the center of the layout. I used the flowers to create two clusters around the picture. I used a few Stem cut files from JustNick studio to cut all the leaves from white cardstock. A few stickers, pieces of ephemera and enamel dots complete the clusters and create the diagonal design of the page.
Thank you for stopping by today, I hope this inspires you to create a project of your own and celebrate this beautiful hobby that is full of colour!”
XO,
~ Nathalie
Challenge:
Our challenge this hour is to create a Spring colour themed layout using pink, orange, turquoise and white. Too specific? You can do it! Nathalie has chosen a gorgeous colour palette and we can’t wait to see what you create too!
Challenge Guidelines:
- Create a “spring colour themed” layout using pink, orange, turquoise and white and send an image of it to us at ideas@scrapbookandcards.com.
- Please put “iNSD colour challenge” in your reference line.
- Please ensure your image is less than 2mb. (very important or we cannot share it!)
- You have until May 15th to send your submission to us. We will share a selection of today’s challenge submissions on May 17th!
GIVEAWAY!
This hour we wanted to celebrate an icon in our industry (hobby!), Heidi Swapp! Heidi celebrated a birthday this week and is a friend who is always full of love, life, and colour. This Color Fresh collection Nathalie used is perfectly Heidi. Guess what? We have a Color Fresh prize package for one lucky reader today!
To enter our iNSD giveaways:
- Leave a comment below by May 15th;
- For a second entry, leave a comment on the post with this prize on our Instagram page;
- For a third entry, leave a comment on the post with this prize on our Facebook page;
- One winner for each prize today will be randomly selected and announced on May 17th.
- You do not have to participate in the challenge for our hourly prizes…but we would love it if you do!
Please join us for our iNSD wrap-up party at 7:00 pm! Our Creative Editor, Jen Gallacher is here and so is Close To My Heart!
Join us again at 7:00 pm as we wrap it all up!
What a precious layout!
Lovely colors and great LO.
Lovely layout. The colors are fabulous.
What a beautiful layout. So lovely with the flowers and the photo is precious
What a gorgeous layout and colour palette!
What a stunning layout. Love everything about it. Thanks for such a fun day.
Love the colours used and the layout.
The flowers are amazing and I love Heidi Swapp. So a great combination!
Great layout! The journaling touched my heart. What a lovely end to a fun and inspiring day.
What a beautiful layout! Flowers are gorgeous!
This layout is absolutely fantastic, the palette is delightful. Thanks for the chance.
Such gorgeous flowers and clusters.
This is so precious. Love the sweet photo and the clusters of flowers.
Gorgeous page, thanks for the inspiration!
Absolutely stunning! Love the colors, flowers and stitching!
A beautiful layout! I love the flowers and the colors you chose.
Such beautiful soft colours for a very important subject.
I love that color combo.
The layout is awesome and the colours are beautiful, almost delicate and dainty!
What an absolutely gorgeous layout for a beautiful and heartwarming photograph!!!! So precious!! What a keepsake. The inspiration and talent is at such a high standard at SCT!!! Thanks for sharing and for the chance for wonderful prizes. Happy NSD everyone!
Beautiful layout with depth and beautiful color
Nathalie’s layout is just gorgeous. The sweet photo is framed so beautifully. I’ve been using – and loving – Heidi Swapp products for years. Thanks for the chance to win!
The layout is stunning. I have some pictures of my two grands almost like those that I will pull out and scrapbook today.
What a stunning layout! Thank you for the inspiration.
This is incredibly beautiful!
Rely pretty colors. Love it
Beautiful Layout! Thank-you for sharing how you roughed up the edges of the flowers!
I love the colors! That layout is just adorable
Living the colors and the tender moment captured in the photo!
What a beautiful and sweet layout!
Thanks for sharing…
What a gorgeous layout. I love it. This has been so fun. My first iNSD!, thank you!
Just a gorgeous layout, the colors the flowers everything about it I love!
Wow – this is a tough one. None of my photos fit the color scheme, so I’m going to have to get creative. I’m up for the challenge!
Love all that dimension! Beautiful flowers!
This collection from Heidi Swapp looks beautiful! Thanks for the giveaway!
Love these colors!
Such beautiful pastel flowers… They are so pretty. Thank you Heidi Swapp for the fantastic prize!
This layout is so sweet. The colors are beautiful.
Fabulous collection full of some happy, bright colors!
Pretty color palette. Found some bird pictures from the zoo that will work great with this.
Simply beautiful! The colors are perfect for such a pure love! Great job!
The Spring colours are beautiful! I’m a big fan of the floral bouquets.
Loverly layout and who doesn’t love did flowers? I loved the tip about the knitting needle, I’ll remember that for my lsyouts.
I love the colors on this layout and those flowers wow!
Gorgeous!!
A beautiful layout. Love how you used the diecut.
Precious layout. Love the colors.
Absolutely LOVE your layout Natalie!! The flowers are gorgeous!
The flowers and spring colors are absolutely beautiful! Gorgeous layout!
So soft and pretty!
Stunning layout! Those flowers……swoon! Thank you for sharing.
The colour combo is so beautiful and inspiring. Thank you for sharing this layout.
What a sweet layout!