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

do you remember?

I barely remember the last time when I opened photoshop and created layout just because I felt like doing something creative.

Last week during our coffee date with Harmony we talked about passion and our creative minds and I told her that I haven’t been feeling creative lately at all. It’s like being in a funk and don’t know how to get out of it. We both  agreed on doing some fun projects together in a future to keep the creativity flowing (stay tuned!) and to get inspired and most importantly – to get excited about the whole process of creating once again. I really needed this conversation with her, she is my dear friend and always knows how to lift my spirits.  I’ve decided to explore the “almost forgotten” love of mine (memory keeping) once again and spent some time browsing pinterest this week to get my creative mojo going.

At the beginning of my “scrapping days” back in 2006, I had a few fellow scrapbookers whose work I admired so much and knew once I will be in a need for inspiration, I can browse their galleries to get some ideas for my layouts. I loved loved (and still do even though none of these ladies design or scrapbook any more) work of Two Sisters designs – Angela and Emily Powers. Their style of creativity was amazing. Their digital kits and layouts were always so fun and full of modern and eclectic elements and so many unexpected details. I took a few ideas of my favorite layouts of theirs and put together this page above called Do you remember? I dug my old stash of scrapbooking supplies and discovered so many goodies! (note to myself: dear me, please explore the archives of stash more often. You will love it!).

Well, I think after this experience, I will open the photoshop more often now.

Some of  the supplies used (many of these supplies are long time retired): background paper is mine from Simple basics paper pack; Paislee Press – Chasing the Sun; Say Yes To;  Two Sisters Designs – Artist canvas, Falling leaves; Emily Powers – Funky labels;  Amber Clegg – stamped alpha; Emily Merritt – Painted on; Karla Dudley – Life Recorded, Digital Essentials