Thank you to everyone who played along with the sketch challenge this April. We’ll have another one for you all in May, so if you didn’t get to it this month, you’ll have another chance very soon.

Here are the amazing layouts that subscribers shared with us this month using the sketch.

Andrea

 Angie

EmmanuelleT

Audrey

Jenni

Julie Bonner

Lissa

Marie

Nancy

Stephanie

Fiona

Thanks for playing along with the sketch! Everyone did an amazing job. 

I was so inspired by fellow designer Jennie that I just had to scraplift this layout for Challenge #30. Inspired by the “Paige’s Portraits” paper in the April kit, the challenge is to use a frame on your layout. Jennie used the frames as journaling spaces for a list of her current addictions. I decided to follow her cue and use the frames for journaling, but I chose to do an A to Z theme:

I colored the Heidi Swapp color magic alphas to match the colors in the Amy Tangerine paper, all the way from A to Z.

I filled a few of the frames with patterned paper for visual interest, but the rest is just simple writing. I think I’ll do a second page with a photo and lots of white space to make this a two-page spread, but for now, I love the busy look of the filled frames by themselves.

Thanks for the inspiration, Jennie! If you’d like to play along with the Framed challenge, or even the Neon challenge, there is still one week left to get your entries in! You can find the details here and here. Thanks so much for stopping by today!

I do a lot of machine stitching on my layouts, but usually I just put a simple border around the edge. For this layout I decided I wanted to stitch journaling lines.

All I did was pencil in some lines, stitch over them and erase the pencil marks. Quick and easy, but it gives a different look.

Of course once I started stitching I couldnt stop so I added some messy stitches to the Heidi Swapp Instagram frame and even a few hadndrawn stitches on the little Maya Road kraft flag:

If you are like me and need journaling lines before ever attempting to journal directly on your layout, give stitched ones a try!

Rebecca

Do you love getting messy with paints, mists, chalks and inks? If so, the Color Magic products by Heidi Swapp are made just for you! Included in the April kit are Heidi’s Banner Delights. You add your own color and the color-resist designs show through for custom, fabulous accents. Let’s take a look at how Nicole and Sophie put them to use on their layouts:

Nicole added color to her banner rainbow style. I love how one color fades into another. Beautiful! And the stitching detail is great, too!

Sophie used the scallop banner to create a border on top of her photos.

For the confetti down the center of her page, she cut other banners into pieces and stitched them down randomly. I love all the different colors – so pretty and fun!

Have you played with the Banner Delights yet? We would love to see! Upload your pages to the Scrapbook Circle Facebook page and we will come take a look. Have a fabulous day!

PS – If you are interested in learning more about the Color Magic products, Heidi Swapp is doing a live webshow all about them soon! You can get more details here.

hello everyone! nicole here to share my Take 2 assignment for April!

This month, I chose a page that I did using the march kit – I wanted to re-create it in a more bold way – and what better way than the bright and fun April Daydreamer kit!

Here was my original page:

Last month, there was a soft chevrony (is that even a word) paper in the kit…and this month, there are so many fun prints, I couldn’t help myself- I decided to recreate the chevron on this page:

As you can see, I stuck pretty close to the design..I added a few more papers. All I did to create the chevrons was cut 1 scrap piece of paper at an angle. Then, I used that same piece of paper and held it up to my scraps.. and trimmed away. To get the opposite angle, I just flipped the paper! I  love the fun, bright effect the Amy Tangerine papers in the kit made on the page!

Hope you are inspired to give this chevron treatment a try  !:)

Hey again its Elizabeth here to chat at ya about being square.

Does anyone remember Square Pegs? I watched it all the time, yep I’m gettin’ old! But it was a cute show for its time. Anyway, the square in the peg is what I want to talk about. I have decided I’m a shape person. There is something about shapes that I write about almost every month huh? But I love them! I know you do too, cause I see them on almost everyone’s work out there!

Normally its circles.. I know, I know. But this time that little 6×6 sketchbook from Amy Tangerine and American Crafts really drew me in. I love those little pads of paper, perfect for just about anything! Only I didn’t do anything amazing with mine, I just like them! LOL. See..

If your really wondering if you have to do something flashy, cool, exciting, and out there with those sketchpads don’t. Just plop them on your page like I did and let the paper do the talkin’!

Go be square!

When I saw this fun photo framed paper, I decided to ‘frame’ a layout with ten of my addictions right now. So, you might notice, there are NO pictures on this page. I do this occasionally. Just have a layout with words. Here it is:

Do you have fun things you are addicted to? What about doing a layout to capture that moment in time. I’m sure in a few years, I’ll look back on this page and say, “remember when I was so into that?”.

Scrapbooking isn’t just for pictures, right?

Jennie

I’ve truthfully held off on scrapping these particular pictures because there isn’t a common theme (color, action, etc…)but they were all at the same event.  I decided to get over myself and just scrap these pictures, because it doesn’t matter whether or not the pictures match–it’s about the event that happened!  Do you EVER catch yourself doing that?

It was actually a creative challenge to make something that would make everything flow….I was inspired by my layout from last month entitled fotoshoot, (if you click on the link you can see it in our idea gallery) I used the Jenni Bowlin tab punch, you can find it in the shop HERE.  Anyway, I punched a WHOLE bunch of tabs and just placed them on the paper no rhyme or reason.  Remember I was “letting” myself create trying to do so without any rules.  I loved that the Daydreamer kit has a whimsical feel, it helped me to create differently–the process was truly a fun! 

Challenge yourself to create with those pictures that don’t “match”, we would LOVE to see your creations on our Facebook page.

Inspired by the Paige’s Portraits paper in the Daydreamer kit, our next challenge is all about frames. Whether you fill them with photos or journaling, or use them as embellishments, use a frame on your next layout and you could win a Scrapbook Circle shop credit! Nicole took on the challenge and this is the fabulous result:

I love Nicole’s sense of humor in this page! And of course I love the way Nicole fussy-cut frames from the Paige’s Portraits paper to use as embellishments.

Filled with patterned papers and words, and layered on each other, Nicole’s frames look great!

If you would like to play along with our challenge, here are the details:

1. Create a layout that includes frames. We would love to see a Scrapbook Circle kit in action, but any materials will do.

2. Post your layout to your blog, a gallery, or our Facebook page. Come back to this post and leave a comment with the direct link to your posted project.

3. Deadline to enter is Wednesday, May 2nd, 9:00 pm Pacific.

4. One player will be randomly selected to win a $10.00 Scrapbook Circle credit.

Also, Challenge #29 has been extended! If you still want a chance at playing with neon colors to win another $10.00 Scrapbook Circle credit, you got it! You can find the details here.

Happy scrapping!

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to my Scrapbook Circle Project Life post for April 2012! This month’s kit, Daydreamer, is full of bright, fun colors that are just perfect for documenting the beginning of Spring- especially with all the lovely plants that were finally beginning to bloom here when I made this page! This month I used my kit to document Week 10 in my Project Life album.

Here’s a closer look at the left side of my layout, where you’ll find pear trees in bloom, yummy lunch treats, crafty fun, and adventures at a new restaurant where my husband tried his very first cheese steak sandwich.

The Heidi Swapp Color Magic alphas in this month’s kit made their way onto a couple of my layouts for April, including here where I colored them with Tim Holtz’s Weathered Wood Distress Stain before adhering right over the top of my photo. There weren’t any hyphens in the alpha set, so I cut a tiny little heart off of one of the “Like” stickers in another pack of Heidi embellishments from the kit and used it instead.

Sometimes when I look at other Project Life pages, I realize that I use a lot more 4×6 photos than some of the other artsy documenters do, but I’ve realized that’s just my style! I like to use a big photo and then add journaling and maybe a little pop of color in some of the dead space in the image.

Documenting food and sunrises…two recurring themes in my Project Life album. I used the 6×6 Sketchbook paper pad in the April add-on this month for most of the backgrounds for these smaller photos. Punches (like the little tab I punched out and placed behind one of my photos in the picture below) are another great way to incorporate little bits of color into your pages.

On the right hand side of the layout you’ll find Angry Birds, a trip to the Botanical Gardens, more stuff in bloom, and a trip to the Korean market.

Oh, and maybe a fortune cookie sentiment, too, held in place by a tiny Heidi Swapp heart.

I used another punch along with the Sketchbook 6×6 pad to add a little something to the center of this photo cluster- a technique I repeated later on in this same page.

The frame for this koi photo was cut from one of the larger sheets of Amy Tangerine Sketchbook paper that was included in the main kit.

And that’s my Scrapbook Circle Project Life layout for April! Be sure to link up your Project Life pages on the Facebook page if you’re using your kits for them- we’d love to see them!