Shimelle's Challenge 02 - Brady's Moments

I've been on a couple of scrapbooking online classes lately; Shimelle's Hitchhiker's Guide To Scrapbooking and Kelly Purkey's Sketchbook 4.

I love both classes and I learnt so much. I started seriously 'stalking' Shimelle on her  class 4x6 Photo Love at 2peas. If you have not heard about it, you should seriously check it out. Being a newbie at scrapbooking, I just love Shimelle's clear explanation and she has answered so many of my queries through her videos via her personal blog and also through 4x6 Photo Love series and her current series at 2 Peas: The Adventures of Glitter Girl.

I'm a little behind working on my layouts as I'm really slow crafter. Basing my LO from a sketch from the Sketchbook 4 class, here is my take. Coincidentally, Shimelle is having some challenges going on her blog for the online scrapbooking weekend and I decided to play along with her Challenge 02: Mixing Papers. Thanks to Shimelle I no longer have that much of a headache and no longer spend that much time when mixing papers be it from the same or different companies. I can seriously spend several hours staring at the papers and they'll just stare right back at me.

Supplies Used:

Paper - Echo Park Country Drive, Studio Calico Kits from different months, Vellum, SU Crumb Cake
Stamps - Ali Edwards Moments & Memories Story Strips

Others - Twine Lemonade from The Twinery, Flairs From A Flair For Buttons Etsy Store, Silhouette, Tim Holtz Paper Clips, Tiny Attacher, Studio Calico Mist White, Dewey, Silhouette SD, Photo Collage By Kerri Bradford

LO - Snow Fun

I've been slowly but surely working on my scrapbooking. I do enjoy it especially the documenting part. I feel that's as important as the photos in my layouts. I only hope with time, I can speed up my process as it's still taking me some time to plan and complete.

I do tend to take more photos and I don't want to be restricted to just using a few photos or have too many photos in a collage that I can't tell the details of each photo. I decided to use photo pockets for the additional photos I like to include.

This layout was inspired by a sketch from Becky Fleck and layouts from Bella Blvd's blog. The style of all my layouts are inspired by Nichol Magouirk. She is one of my favorite scrapbooker.

Supplies Used:

Paper - Echo Park Winter Park Collection, Upscale Essential Collection, Scraps
Stamps - Ali Edwards It's Ok, This One, Get Outside, Real Life

Others - Washi Tape, Ormulu Flairs, MFT Journal Tab Die, Ranger Embossing Powder Black, Zing Embossing Powder White, SC Mr Huey White, Silhouette