Monday Card Challenge! Embossing!

No better way to conquer a Monday than with some creative output, wouldn't you agree? Join us for another card challenge - embossing! Dry embossing, heat embossing...or both! Show us what you came up with...

Stamping Challenge!

This week's challenge is to stamp it! Use your stamps on a layout, card, mini album...you decide! Acrylic, wood mounted, clings, or even foam stamps (don't we all have a bunch in our stash?!) Our design team has provided us with some very creative examples - now you share!

Autumn Is In The Air! Challenge Link...

While I'm not quite ready to close the door on summer, and in this part of the world, summer hasn't quite closed the door on us, it's still safe to say that autumn is in the air! It's such a lovely time of year, isn't it? And can you say photo ops?! What does Autumn bring out in your creativity?

Please scroll down to see what Jo, Karen, and Chriss have created for your viewing pleasure! And please, share yours with us!

5 Senses of Summer Challenge - Link up here!

Hello - TGIF, and TGI New Challenge Day!

Just as Chriss said, summer is a rich sensory season! For smell, I think of sunscreen - we use a lot of that in my house! I also think of salty sea air at the beach - I can't get enough beach come summertime! For sound, how about waves lapping at the shore, seagulls crying, happy children calling and playing around the neighbourhood - or the oh-so-annoying drone of a mosquito somewhere in your room at night? Touch - bare feet on grass, the 'peach fuzz' of little boy summer buzz cuts, cold droplets of water hitting your skin as you duck into your neighbour's sprinkler...Sight - the flip flop tan lines on your feet, the riotous colours of a flower or vegetable garden, and the butterflies, dragonflies, or honeybees busying themselves there? And taste...oh yes. Berry season! Fresh peaches. Watermelon. Sweet corn on the cob! Iced coffee...Yes, summer is definitely a rich sensory season! What do the senses of summer mean to you? Share with us!

Mr. Linky for Friday, August 20 Sketch Challenge

Friday, August 13, 2010 - Music Inspiration

This week's challenge is to use music as your inspiration. I think it's safe to say that music plays a fairly significant role in most people's lives in one way or another. The soundtrack of your teenage years, your first dance as husband and wife at your wedding, the theme song to your child's favorite TV program or movie that wedges itself annoyingly in your brain...Or perhaps you play a musical instrument, or you wish you did...And what about a song whose lyrics mean something to you, or crazy karaoke nights, or the lullabies you sang to your baby?

Scroll down and see how Chriss, Jo, and Virginia have all provided wonderful examples of musical inspiration - and please share yours with us too!

Link Your Outdoor Projects Here!

Hello, and welcome to this week's challenge - 'The Great Outdoors'! Scroll down to see the inspiring examples from some of our Design Team - we showed you ours, now you show us yours!



Happy Scrapping,
Jillian.

Summer Lovin' - Share It Here!

Hello, TGIF, and happy summer!! This week's challenge is to scrap your summer photos/memories. Both Virginia and Chrissann have provided some great layouts to inspire you, so please share your summery goodness here!

Friday, July 23, 2010 - Colour Challenge

Good morning! Welcome to another new challenge at The Inspired Scrapper! This week we are going with a colour challenge based on an inspiration piece that I came across on one of my many travels around the Internet, at a website called weddingtimes.com:



These colours just leapt out at me! Such a great combination of cool, crisp, and clean (white, pale blue) with soft (pink) and hot (red)! These colours also screamed, "Summer!!", and nautical, as Chriss notes in her post.

We would LOVE to see what you do with this irresistable colour combination! Link up and share!

Wishing you a vibrant and colourful summer weekend!
~ Jillian.

Beach Challenge - Link Up Here!

Summer's in full swing - you must have a whole batch of new beach photos to scrap by now! Or, if you've got pictures from summers past - pull them out and get them done, then share with us here!

Scraplift Challenge - Friday, July 2, 2010

Hello again, and as always, Happy Friday!! Here we are, in July already, and there is fun and festivities all around us! Today we find ourselves sandwiched between Canada Day yesterday, and Independence Day in the U.S. in two more days. Summer is in full swing! There are just so many things to love about summer!

One of my favorite things about summer is all the photo ops! I came across this post recently - 100 Summer Photo Opportunities. Great ideas, and wonderful inspiration, no?!

Now on to this week's challenge - Scraplifting! I would venture to guess that most, if not all, of us have scraplifted in some capacity at some point in our scrapbooking lives, wouldn't you agree? For me, scraplifting works a lot like sketches - it jumpstarts my mojo. Or, at least it takes the place of my mojo if I'm lacking!

I scraplift for other reasons too - sometimes it's because I'd like to try something outside of my usual style, or because I flat out love somebody's layout and want to make one just like it for myself! I think it is safe to say that the scrapbooking community agrees that scraplifting is completely acceptable so long as proper credit is given to the original source.

Coincidentally, I came across this recent post about scraplifting on Lisa Kisch's blog.

Here's another post about the pros (and cons?!) of scraplifting...

So, here is one of my scraplifts for this week:



I scraplifted one of my all-time favorite scrappers, Lisa McGarvey. Lisa was, until recently, a Garden Girl at 2Peas in a Bucket. She has also had her work published in some of my favorite scrapbooking magazines. I have always, always admired Lisa's great photography of everyday moments. Her pages are always very energetic, and her composition pleases me every single time. She also adds such amazing detail without looking cluttered or over done. Plus, because she has two boys who, like mine, are adorable and spirited, I can related to a lot of her everyday life. I'm sure if we ever met, we'd be totally BFF's right away. Um, ok...maybe I'm getting a little carried away...one thing scraplifting should definitely NOT look like is stalking. That's taking it too far!

Lisa's layout that I lifted, as seen below, was from the May/June 2009 issue of Scrapbooks Etc:



Other than using a different colour scheme, and adding my title to the top of the page instead of at the bottom, I think I kept pretty close to Lisa's layout. I even incorporated the use of arrows in my layout, just as Lisa had.

To see more of Lisa's great work, you can look up her gallery on 2Peas, or you can visit her blog, Four McGarveys.

Chose a layout that appeals to you, that you've earmarked or made note of, and share your scraplifts here. Come on, I know you've got some!!



Wishing you many summery photo ops,
Jillian.