Challenge #197 week of 18th January 2016

We are fast approaching our anniversary week when we celebrate reaching 200 Whimsical Musings prompts! Mark your calendars for the week commencing Monday 8th February so that you don't miss out on any of the fun and giveaways! It will be a whole week of inspiration and you are not going to want to miss any of it.

In the meantime, I'm happy to see that The Adventures of Glitter Girl is back on our screens again to help solve our scrapbook dilemmas and provide us with inspiration on a weekly basis. I'm a big Shimelle fan and am so happy to see how she has evolved in her style, her videos and these days, her signature lines with American Crafts.

So this week, I'd like you to be inspired by Glitter Girl!

You can find all 124 videos over on YouTube from both her time with TwoPeas and now solo so why not head over there to see if you can find some inspiration.

You might be inspired by her name, her superhero abilities, her wanting to help the community or just the content of one of her videos. Maybe you will be inspired to lift one of her designs or try out one of her techniques. I'm sure there's something for everyone in those 124 videos which are chock full of content. Maybe you're a scrapbooking superhero in your own right and that will be your topic or you could even take it down the route of your scrapbook hero.

Ok, so I've just realised that we've had heroes for two weeks in a row now so I promise there'll be something else next week but will Glitter Girl newly back on your screens, it seemed like the perfect time to be inspired by her!

As always, we love it when you share your creations over at our Whimsical Musings Flickr gallery with the tag WM#197.

And here's just a sneak of the sparkle that is Glitter Girl!

#72 inspired by bling, confetti and glitter

Well, I'm determined to catch up with everything as soon as I can on the prompts I've missed recently and there is a long list to be honest. Thank you to everyone for being so patient with me. I appreciate each and every one of you and even when I haven't been around, I've been thinking of you and try to get to our Flickr group as often as I can even if I don't manage to comment.

Life has not exactly calmed down round here but I am trying to just keep my head above water and make time for the things that make me happy and that most certainly includes Whimsical Musings and playing with paper.

I made a decision to leave the TV off yesterday evening and sat here looking for inspiration. It came to me from my Counterfeit Kit Challenge December page kit, Anticipate. I had posted about it on my blog and had intended to make a page about our Advent wreath tradition to include. I even had a note in my post to remind where to post the photo. Of course, I totally forgot and didn't manage to get my hands on any of my scrap supplies after I came back from our trip in December. So that was the first thing that needed to be checked off. I had the photos selected and printed so it was just a matter of picking up my kit and making it work for the prompt (immediately forgetting the original blog post also had a sketch to use!). And as the WM prompt was all about sparkle, it was perfect for this Christmas layout. I am a firm believer that everyone needs a whole lot of sparkle at that time of year.

I added in a sheet of white cardstock, glitter and sequins to match the photos and the prompt. I think this matches the prompt enough ;-) I included glitter slodges, glimmer mist, sequins, silver ink and some shimmery fabric. Ha ha, talk about overload!

CKC December page kit, Anticipate #1

So, being on a roll and thinking about how I had commented on the Flickr board that I had a sequin story to tell from my dressmaking days, I decided to carry on and finish a second page for this story. I love the way that our prompts or other inspiration pushes me into telling my story in small manageable chunks. If I ever get to put my layouts into albums, it will be interesting to see how that adds up and what bits are missing.

CKC January kit, Renew, #2

What a perfect prompt for this dull time of year. I was smiling all the time I made these two layouts.

Thanks Pam for making this week so easy for me :-)

#72 inspired by bling, confetti & glitter

Bling? Check. Confetti? Check. Glitter? Check. 

Although the layout is not all jazzed out, it is pretty sparkly right down to the subject.

I chose really bold colors to help the black and white photos shine. I didn't have to worry about matching the silver since it is a neutral and goes with everything.

I hand-drew the main part of my title and added some stickles to it for a little extra shine.

I also found those square beads in my stash. I didn't even know I had those but this was the perfect opportunity to use them to embellish this page. I love non-traditional embellishments.

The reference to "29/30" is to reference my list of "29 things to do before 30". 

Did you jazz up your pages this week? A little? A lot?

I can't wait to see.

xo,

Pamage

Challenge # 72 - Week of January 7th, 2013

The new year may be here (happy 2013 by the way) and all the parties may be over for a while, but we still have plenty of reasons to celebrate.

After spending the past week walking about the streets of New York City and noticing all the confetti left behind in Times Square from the celebration, I knew exactly what I wanted our challenge to be.

Glitter, confetti and bling.

Source: pinkpreppylillylover.blogspot.com via Grace on Pinterest

So that is your challenge. Find ways to incorporate some shine and glam to your pages this week. And as can be seen in the examples below from Lisa and I, you can add these details in many ways and to many subjects.

so play along and have some fun with some shiny confetti. we hope you'll join us on the boards, the gallery and fun challenges for this year.

xo,

Pamage