Another challenge that I completed during Unconvention was a Scrapbook Sketch Challenge. I found this particular sketch hard as it featured several large circles and I don’t have an effective circle cutting system – unfortunately Stampin’ Up! doesn’t sell anything to cut circles with – yet!
The lady who ran Unconvention also runs a Yahoo group for Stampin’ Up! demonstrators, through which we can chat, share ideas, ask advice, give each other support and so on. Just last week we were issued with six (!!) new challenges and a week’s deadline. I didn’t get them all done but I did manage to get some completed.
One of the challenges was again a Scrapbook Sketch, so I decided to pull out the page I had started for the Unconvention Challenge and do both at once as a double page layout. Once I decided to skip the circles on the first challenge, the pages came together quite nicely. The photos are from my brother and his fiance’s Engagement Party last year.
The first photo is not particularly clear so the second one is a clearer photo of just the second page. I used Bella Rose Designer Series Paper, which is a little hard to see in the photo, but it matched Annabelle’s dress perfectly! I also used the new Blooms die cuts for the flower shapes which are so easy to use as you just pop them out! The stamp in the background is Baroque Motifs and the Alphabet is Schoolbook Serif. The capitals are from a retired set called Letterpress Alphabet.
I am now inspired to get back into doing some scrapbooking!
