Wednesday, February 29, 2012

First Blog Hop!


Welcome to my part of the Young Scrappers blog hop!

Young scrappers is a group on 2peas made up of scrappers anywhere from their teens to their thirties. Every month we have a new forum, where we talk about our lives, our pages and help each other out any way we can. It's definitely a fun place to be, and I've grown a lot with these ladies in the 6-ish months I've been there. 

This month, to celebrate the leap-year, we decided to do a blog hop! My theme is "Pinterest Inspired" since Pinterest has definitely affected the way I scrapbook. We have some giveaways and fun challenges along the way so make sure you visit all the blogs and enter comments to win goodies or participate! 

My page was inspired by these three pictures from Pinterest. I wanted a page of what friendship means to myself and my two best friends in their own words and this layout with the three circle pictures was the perfect starting point. I also loved the colour scheme in the second picture with the cake decorations, and I thought it would be cool to incorporate the petal type design around each of the pictures. Continuing with the circle theme, I wanted the grey middle stripe to have an overlapping circle pattern like the third picture. 

Here's my planning page. Whenever I scrap using inspiration pictures I like to have them ordered according to the individual page. That way I can focus on just the pictures that I want to use as inspiration rather than having too many irrelevant things to look at. 


And here's the final product! As you can see, there were a couple minor changes to the sketch I made, but I stayed pretty true to my plan. I changed the title and the layout of it, and added in a couple of hand stitched hearts, but that's about it!






Products used (all from memory, I don't really keep very good track of what all the products I buy are called): 
Teal paper: Poppy Seeds collection by K and Company
Orange paper: Don't remember, but it was a birthday/celebration pack
Lime and Peacock paper: DCWV stack (either brights or basics)
Grey circles paper: Made it myself using Photoshop :)
Thickers: American Crafts Lullaby in Teal
Scallop punch: Martha Stewart Double loops punch around the page

My post challenge is to see how you can use the overlapped circles inspiration. I want to see what you create, so please comment with a link to your creation! The deadline for all challenges and giveaways is Sunday at Midnight so get goin! :)

Your next stop is  Monica!


Becks (twopeas name: yelppuppy) <-- Blog hop starts here. If you stumbled upon my post first, please start from the beginning. -->
Rachel (RachH)
Loni (LonR)
Rosie (OCLittleFlower)
Christina (hodgepodge200)  
Monica (Monica B.) 
Caro (Caro_frenchie)
Jen (JenRitchie)
 

22 comments:

  1. Your planning page is really impressive. I think it is better than some of my finished pages!

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    1. Thanks Stephanie! I actually just started doing a planning page recently, I fend it helps me get my ideas in order :)

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  2. I love that you showed your planning page too!! cute layout

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  3. Becks here.

    I think my heart skipped a second when I saw your planning page! I LOVE the planning stage of scrapbooking, and your planner is as gorgeous as a finished layout. It's really cool! Your planning notebook can totally be a smash album by itself.

    And I love how you pull different inspiration sources together. I LOVE it!

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    1. Thanks so much Becks! The Smash book idea was actually kind of my inspiration for starting my "planning notebook" :) and I sure like how it's working so far!

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  4. Oh wow you are so clever! I love these Pinterest inspired LOs you've been doing - great work!

    I like your planner too, better than looking over at the computer screen like I do half the time. :oP

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    1. Haha thanks Loni! I love drawing out what I hope it'll look like, so I've always used the little boxes printed on paper.

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  5. OMG I love it !!!
    EVERYTHING !! Your LO, the inspiration chosen
    and most of all, your planner so clever !!!
    do you print every single idea of inspiration in colour ?

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    1. Thanks so much Caro! I normally print them all in colour but they're all really small and I do a "quick print" so not as much ink is used. The colours don't come out so vibrant then, but it gives me a general idea.

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  6. Hope I get a chance to scrap before Sunday so I can play! I love your lo and your process. Very impressive! I wish I could be so organized in my approach!!

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    1. I can't wait to see what you come up with! Thanks so much for the comments :)

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  7. love your inspiration you chosen and yoru take on the layout thanks for sharing.

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  8. Love how you showed your inspiration and your planning page! I make planning pages too! cuz my computer is too far from my scrapping area... or if i bring it over it distracts me and I look at too many things.

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    1. Thanks Jen! I definitely have the same problem with my computer, there are too many funny pictures on the internet!

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  9. I love how you plan your layouts. It's such an organized approach. I need to give it a try. Your layout came out great!

    I am hoping I can find time to participate (this weekend) in all these wonderful challenges you girls are presenting.

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    1. Thanks Christina! I hope you find some time because I can't wait to see what you come up with :)

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  10. Stunning layout!!! I love seeing your inspiration, process, and finished product!

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  11. wow!! So cool to see how you took those 3 inspiration pieces and turned them into your own layout. I love it!! The petal shapes around the photos are awesome and I love the overall circle theme.

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