Hey guys! It's Laura Craigie here with today's Monday Challenge! :)
I was drawn to this image off Pinterest for its clean lines and gorgeous colors.
Initially I wanted to copy the design as close as possible, but soon my creativity ran off in its own inspired direction. I pulled the red/blue/yellow color combo from the inspiration image, as well as putting letters into the blocks, or in my case label stickers. That's the great thing about having a starting off point like this image -- usually some portion of it will click with you and become your inspiration, even if it's not what you initially thought it would be.
The adorable bicycle card from the Travel Girl Miscellany was just the perfect piece for this page, which features a picture of my son with his first big bike, which coincidentally is red, too. :)
I thought I'd share this side shot, too, since it's not apparent in the full picture that I used foam adhesive to adhere some of the label stickers for added dimension.
Vivian played along with me today and made this seriously gorgeous page.
Here is what Vivian had to say:
“I absolutely loved the inspiration piece Laura found! It gave me a good problem: too many ideas! I finally settled on using three main ideas from the inspiration piece: a large grid as a dominant element, a strip with journaling at the bottom, and bits bridging the gap between the grid and the journaling. My 8-year-old daughter attended photography camp a couple of weeks ago and I had used PicMonkey (www.picmonkey.com) to quickly create a grid collage of her best work to share with friends and family on Facebook. I printed that grid out at 6” X 6”, printed a small black and white photo I took of my daughter next to one of her framed images at the end-of camp art show, and typed and printed my journaling on a 12” wide strip. From there I just picked various bits and pieces from the Daily Flash Snapshots line, which were absolutely perfect to include here. I asked my daughter to write on one of them so there’s a little bit of personalization in there from her as well. I think this layout is a record for me with 17 photos included!”
Thanks so much for stopping by today! If you feel as inspired as we did by this ad, feel free to play along, and don't forget to share your projects in the October Afternoon Flickr Gallery!
Have a happy Monday, and a great week!