#52 Inspired by past challenges

I can hardly believe we have been doing this for a full year. Looking back I am amazed that this little venture has added 52+ stories to my efforts to document my life and that of those around me.

In clicking through each prompt I was again reminded of all the great challenges we had throughout the year... and some I wanted to take on again. I couldn't narrow it down, so I ended up creating 4 new pages! And that in itself should be cause for celebration.

dream big & dare to fail

for this layout, I took on Challenge # 2 to be inspired by Norman Vaughn's motto of "dream big & dare to fail". The first time around I had been intimidated by the boldness of his words and ended up making a trivial layout. This time I wanted it to have more oomph and true meaning to my dreams. But alas, I am still not daring enough to put them out into the universe, so they sit in a little pocket for my eyes only. The layout was also inspired by this recent pin {here}.

we go on the best dates 

For this layout I wanted to take on my own prompt, Challenge # 13 to be inspired by a triadic color combination. I decided to do one I hadn't done before, red-yellow-blue. When I think of those colors I think Elementary School and boy toys. So I was interested to see if I could pull it off with this goofy picture and I think I succeeded. The sketch came from October Afternoon's blog {here}.  Another cool element of this page is that I was able to use the menu from the restaurant right in the layout.

love life

I had been itching to re-do this prompt and do it justice probably since I first took it on. Challenge # 23 was inspired by my new room decor, but my initial resulting layout didn't have the feel of the room although it used the colors. I recently bought a 6x6 paper pad - MME's tangerine collection {here} and it had the perfect colors. (here's a little known secret about my work: I use a lot of 6x6 paper pads). I added a few more touches and turned out the perfect layout reminiscent of my room.

momofuku

for this layout I revisited Lisa's Challenge # 30 to be inspired by the current trend of geometrics. Although hexagons were all the rage a few months ago when this prompt first came out, these recent pins prove that the new trend is triangles {here & here} or maybe just coincidence.

Overall, I had a blast going over past challenges as looking at how I have evolved as a story teller. Thank you for all your support and I can't wait to start another year with tomorrow's prompt.

xo,
Pamage

ps: remember that you have until the end of the month to upload a layout to the gallery using the tag WM#52 for a chance to win a prize. 

Challenge #30 week of 12th March 2010

I've just realised that I'm back on trend! ;-) No, really! Although even I find that hard to believe. But I've been looking around and keeping my eyes open and it's true. Even shapes have their time. And mine is back, or rather has been back for some time but I've only just realised.

Now you might be wondering what on earth I'm talking about but I want you to take a look at this rather ugly piece of patchwork here:

Would you be surprised to learn that this is about 35 years old? Well, the very centre of it is anyway. I learnt to patchwork by hand when I was about 8 with my grandmother. I couldn't make enough. And hexagons were my shape of choice. I never got into the more regular square shape, even though I'm sure it's quicker and easier. I started this piece here when I was about 9 and when I look at that very first circle right in the middle, I can tell it was stitched by a child! Let me tell you, it's not pretty! But anyway, to cut a long story short, this "quilt" has never been finished. I would pick it up and go crazy adding a ring or some flowers and then put it away for literally years. Now when I look at it, it's UGLY. But this wasn't the only thing I created at that time - anything that could be made from fabric got its own Laura Ashley patchwork version. Remember, it was the 70s after all :-)


So, what's this got to do with anything anyway? Well, you might have noticed that hexagons became very popular in scrapbooking about a year ago. I'm not really sure who brought it out on paper first (maybe SC?) and then came the chevrons (one of my faves right now) and just yesterday on Pinterest I noticed diamonds too - and I know that our very own Leslie created a diamond focused layout a for challenge #27 so she's right on trend too!

Celine Navarro for SC (here) 

A Pinterest find that links to a blog "Apriltwoeighty" which looks just gorgeous and appealed to my hexagon patchworking side although she's far more talented and up to date than I ever was :-)

A page by Waleska for JBS (here) and there are some other gorgeous layouts on the same page including a lovely hexagon based one. 

And here's a selection of products that follow the same trend.

Studio Calico

Studio Calico

My Mind's Eye

Core'dinations

Crafter's workshop

Echo Park

So the challenge this week is to incorporate this trend for geometrics into your scrapping in some way - paper, design, technique etc. 


Can't wait to see what you create over at our Flickr group (here) with the tag WM#10.


Have a great week everyone!