2 girls – 1 LO – 2 lifts

Alice and I have known each other thanks to digital scrapbooking since around 2008. We “met” at  Scrapartist.com;  it was one of the first stores back then which carried digital scrapbooking stuff.  Alice was also a member of my Creative team when I was designing.  Although we have never met in a real life (and I hope one day we will!), we share a love of being creative and crafty and miss the early days of digital scrapbooking !

As both of us don’t create as often as we used to, we decided to challenge ourselves a little bit. We picked a layout (LO) from our Pinterest boards and tried to “lift” it which means we took someone’s layout as an inspiration and used similar design, products etc. We chose an amazing page by MelBlackburn called Here and Now which both of us pinned almost at the same time. You can find the original layout at the Studio Calico website.

And here is what we came up with.

Here is Alice’s page called The New Me. I’ve always been a fan of Alice’s style, I love how she mixes brushes and patterns and her pages are always full of little details.

And here is my take on this challenge.

I have to admit that it took me forever to decide what color I will go for the background with.  I started with two papers but at the end went just with the white one. I guess it means I should create more often to get back into the easiness of designing a layout.

Feel free to join us if you feel like creating! Please leave a link in the comment section so we can leave you some love.

I can’t wait to do this challenge again soon!

Products used on my page (many of them are long time retired):

– Two Sisters Designs – Alphabet soup, Beauty marks

– Emily Powers – I am free, Puddle Jumper (brackets), Blossom nation

– Karla Dudley – blog hop freebie (background paper), Digi Essentials no. 1

– Paislee Press – Presslines no. 7, Say YES to,

– Amber Clegg – Date stamps

– Alice’s brush – cross