Hello again! Thank you for joining us for the 2:00 pm hour of our International Scrapbook Day event! Today’s event schedule is below. If you’re just joining us now, be sure to click on our previous posts for more inspiration!
9:00 AM: PageMaps sketch challenge & a sweet surprise from Anya Lunchenko! (click here)
10:00 AM: Join designers Nicole Nowosad & Melissa Phillips with a scraplift challenge (click here)
12:00 PM: Join designers Lisa Dickinson & Jen Gallacher with a card challenge (click here)
2:00 PM: Join designers Stacy Cohen, Latisha Yoast & Virginia Nebel with a design challenge <—- we are here!
4:00 PM: Join designers Sheri Reguly & Paige Evans with a colour challenge
6:00 PM: Join designers Meghann Andrew & Cathy Z as we wrap up the day!
This hour Design Team members Stacy Cohen, Latisha Yoast and Virginia are here along with a design challenge and a great prize package! Let’s get this hour’s party started with Stacy Cohen.
“Happy InterNational Scrapbook Day everyone! To celebrate this fun day I scraplifted one of the beautiful layouts in the Spring issue of SCT. I absolutely loved Nathalie Desousa’s “Family Love” layout on page 67.
It was all the beautiful fussy-cut flowers that really caught my eye. Flowers? Count me in! Here is my take on her layout:
I used a mix of die-cut, epoxy and paper flowers.
I liked the look of the woodgrain patterned paper with its horizontal planks on Nathalie’s layout. I used that as a jumping off point and painted strips of colorful acrylic paint to act as a background for my photos.
Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics; Patterned paper, die-cut, epoxy flower stickers, epoxy dots: Doodlebug Designs; Word stickers: American Crafts; Acrylic paints: Vicki Boutin for American Crafts; Flowers: Prima; Adhesive: 3M; Other: faux rhinestone trim.
Hope you enjoy all the festivities here today!” ~ Stacy
Design Challenge!
In Stacy’s layout above she has essentially used the border strip as her focus point taking up one-third of her layout. This follows the “rule of thirds” design principle.
“The rule of thirds is applied by aligning a subject with the guide lines and their intersection points, placing the horizon on the top or bottom line, or allowing linear features in the image to flow from section to section.” (thank you Wikipedia!)
Stacy’s flower border flows into the photos which flows into her paint strips. Our challenge to you, should you choose to accept, is to create a layout following the “rule of thirds” principle. Remember it can be horizontal too!
Challenge Guidelines:
- Create a layout following the rule of thirds and send an image of it to us at ideas@scrapbookandcards.com.
- Please put “iNSD design challenge” in your reference line.
- Please ensure your image is less than 2mb.
- You have until May 13th to send your submission to us. We will share a selection of today’s challenge submissions on May 16th!
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Next, we have Design Team member Latisha Yoast joining us and you know what we love about this layout beyond her fabulous design? We love the Latisha is front and centre! Maybe that should be another challenge today…get yourself in a layout. It’s really ok to leave some memories about YOU too!
“Happy National Scrapbook Day friends! I hope you are creating beautiful projects and preserving those precious memories! Here is a layout of myself, doing something that I love. Which happens to be planning. I probably have too many planners, but there is something very therapeutic with taking pen to paper and planning out a schedule.
For this layout, I used the Jen Hadfield Patio Party Collection from Pebbles. It has really vibrant summer prints, and then on the “b” sides, there are nice earthy prints, it’s a great combination.
As I was working on this layout, I initially was using a piece of a yellow beige card stock, then switched to white card stock. It felt a little blah, with the white. Thats when I added the black spray ink, and water color to bring a little boldness to the page. I am a classic, clean and simple kind of gal, but adding a little bit of mixed media to the layout really took it to the next level.
Supplies: Pebbles Jen Hadfield Patio Party patterned paper, Thickers, Cardstock Stickers, Ephemera; Lawn Fawn black cord; WeR Memory Keepers Tag Punch Board; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L
My advice today? Have fun and try new things!” ~ Latisha
Thank you Latisha! Finally this hour we have a cute craft from Design Team member Virginia Nebel!
“Happy interNational Scrapbook Day fellow crafters! Welcome to our day-long blog celebration, we hope you are inspired this weekend to make a craft or two!
As memory keepers having a camera ready to capture that perfect moment is second nature to many of us. Today I’m sharing a fun DIY craft using soda cans to make a camera! Google ‘DIY soda can camera’ and you can view many process videos on how to make this cool recycled craft. I have shared a few assembly tips to create my version of this fun camera project.
I started with two large Arizona Green Tea cans (the beverage was quite refreshing too!), love the teal green and cherry blossoms pattern! You will also need scissors and a hot glue gun. For straight clean edges, you can trim the tin with a guillotine trimmer.
Step 1. Take one can and cut around it 1.75 inches from the top to create the camera lens. From the remaining lower part of the soda can, cut it out as a rectangle piece measuring approx. 4.5″ x 9″ for the camera body
Step 2. Take the 2nd can and cut around it at the top and bottom to create one large rectangle piece.
Step 3. From the larger piece of tin, cut out a 3” x4.5” piece and use this as a connector for the piece in Step 1 to make the camera body.
Step 4. Place a piece of cardboard in the camera body so that it will keep it’s oval shape.
Step 5. Trace out the camera body onto card stock, cut well inside the template outline and adhere it onto the extra tin. Cut darts all around the oval template and fold in the flaps. Adhere this to the camera body to finish the top. Repeat for the camera bottom.
Step 6. Take the beverage can top from Step 1, trim it to the height you wish and glue it to the camera front. Fold a little rectangle from the scrap tin to create a flash.
Have fun with your fabulous camera as a fun photo prop or display.
Thanks for dropping by the blog and hope you have an amazing crafty day!” ~ Virginia
Thank you ladies! What a fun hour but it’s not over yet.
GIVEAWAY!
Our friends at Pinkfresh Studio want to share a fun “Be You” prize package with one lucky winner today! Pretty florals and soft elements are the central themes of this collection, but some added geometrical elements and rose gold make this an amazingly versatile collection!
To enter our iNSD giveaways:
- Leave a comment below by May 13th;
- 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 16th.
- 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 next challenge at 4:00 pm and share the hour with Sheri and Paige!
Join us again at 4:00 pm!
oh wow, than “camera” is so fun and creative! I’ve made flowers from pretty cans before, but this is so far beyond that! thanks for sharing
I will jump off from this one to make a page with more photo on it.
Such a creative craft from Virginia! Thanks for the design tips – who knew that the rule of thirds is even in Wikipedia?! Happy iNSD!
The SCT design team members are SO VERY TALENTED!!! I love how their creations inspire me :) Thanks so much!!!
How darling! Love the
design and the colors
on the tins are wonderful
for this.
Happy NSD!
Carla from Utah
Love the layout. The colors are gorgeous.
very cute idea! thanks for sharing!
This is such a fresh and pretty collection! Thank you for an opportunity to win it.
Gorgeous layouts, full of texture and dimension. How cool is that fantastic tea can camera!! Thanks to SCT and Pink Fresh Studio for your generosity and this fun celebration.
Beautiful job on your layout. I also loved the one from which you.drew inspiration – I had already tagged that one in my magazine!
Love Stacy’s LO, so bright!
Gorgeous Layouts!! And that camera is just OUTSTANDING!!! HAPPY NSD!!!
Oh that top/first layout is stunning with those bright colors!!!! The kit is cute! Tfs!
Oooh- love this prize. I don’t think I’ve seen this collection before. Thanks for all the inspiration! Happy NSD!
Thanks SCT for a great day
Beautiful colours! Love it!
I looove the painted look on her layout! I always struggle to get the painted look just right on my pages. However I’m feeling inspired to try again!!
That camera is tooo clever.
Thanks for the inspiration. Great giveaway – Pinkfresh Is o e of my favourites and this looks like a lovely collection.
Your camera project is amazing! How creative and cute! Thanks to Pinkfresh for the generous giveaway this hour.
Beautiful layouts and the camera is so cute. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love all the ideas. I love challenges to get me out of the lots of pics on one page style. That camera is to cute. For my play room?? Hummm.
What a great idea from such a pretty can! Very creative! Thank you for such a cool idea!
I love the bright, happy colors in these projects! I’m now inspired to create something. Tfs! :) ~ Andrea
Beautiful layouts and the camera is just plain fun!
I’m inspired to try those strips of color in a layout
Love love flowers ???? and that Be You collection is gorgeous ????????
Oh my goodness. That camera is so clever and fun. what a great idea and the layouts are fabulous and look like lots of fun. Thanks for the chance to win.
The layouts are gorgeous and that can amera is outstanding! The print on the can is so pretty I’d want to repurpose it too. Thanks for the giveaway and inspiration.
Beautiful layouts once again. What a fun craft idea, making a “camera”!!
LOVE the layouts! Wow – how cool is that camera can! I have never seen anything like that!!
So beautiful and creative! Tons if inspiration is the best way to celebrate, and event better the give away! Thanks
Pretty layouts! I am curious how Stacy stores or displays that bulky layout , it obviously won’t go into an album.
Really like the bright colors used on wood look paper. Great layouts!
it took me longer than i wish to admit to realize that camera was really operational. So clever!
This layout is amazing and the can project was thinking outside the box. Thank you for the inspiration. I will try both. Thanks for the chance to win great prizes.
Love the camera and just had finished reading the article on thirds. I have known this as a photographer and long time crafter but sometimes we all need a reminder! Thanks for a great article ..
Those flowers on that first layout are amazing! :) Excellent job!
Super cute layouts! Great prize. Awesome day! What more can I say ….. yes there is more I can say! You are rockin’ This day Sct!!!
What a great day. Always love a chance to win a giveaway. Thank you.
What fun layouts…love the use of paint on the summery one.
Happy international scrapbooking day! Love the “rule of threes” I use all the time in my layout! Thank you for the layout ideas and it always good to recycle wat you have around your house for crafting is paper rolls, coffee tins, cardboard packaging and even tags n labels from ur bought clothing items etc. ty again for the chance to win!
Rule of thirds …. how fun! Camera sorta cool! Love the collection!
Pinkfresh is so pretty!
Georgeous layout. Great camera. Thanks for another chance to win.
Such a fun and inspirational day!
What fun projects! Thank you for sharing all of these great ideas today! And, oh – Pinkfresh! My very favorite!
wow these projects are just awesome – LOVE the 3D flowers – so yummy:)
Happy National Scrapbook day, what a wonderful prize, thanks for the chance to win!
I love the flower border. I’m afraid to use thick dimensions because I’m afraid of how thick they would make the album. I would be interested to see how everyone deals with that.