Hello, and welcome to another challenge at The Inspired Scrapper! This week's challenge is a colour challenge using this photo (taken from the Internet, source unknown) as inspiration:



Here is my layout, based on these colours:



The photos are of my beautiful little niece, Olivia, and were taken by the amazingly talented Karen Dyke, of Karen Dyke Photography. The colours in the inspiration photo are quite deep and bright. I used 'quieter'/more muted shades of the brown, pink, and green. I also based my layout on this sketch from Becky Fleck's August 2010 Pagemaps:



Sketches are such a great starting point if you are lacking your own creative mojo, or if you are pressed for time and want to shorten the design process. Sometimes I'll start with a sketch as a leaping point and the end result won't resemble the original sketch at all, but in this case, as you can see, I stayed very close to the sketch.

We would love to see what this week's colour inspiration brings out in your creativity - share with us using our November linky!

Link up with our colour challenge here...

Oh my goodness...Erica, Debby, Cari, and Jo have all knocked it out of the park on this challenge!! I literally felt my blood start pumping faster when I saw their creations! I am definitely inspired, and I know you have to be too! Share your inspired projects with us here!! Leave a comment on this post letting us know where to find you!

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.

Colour Inspiration, by Chriss Hird

This week's colour challenge rocks! These colours together are so cool, they're hot! Red, white and sky blue seems so summery to me - fresh, clean. Nautical themes also come to mind when I see these colours together. Yet when I saw this colour scheme, I had pictures in mind right away - the one's of my daughter and her BFF posing before their first Hip Hop competition. Their shorts were these colours exactly and now I had a starting point for this layout. See how just one simple idea, suggestion, inspiration, challenge can get your creative juices flowing?!



Fancy Pants' "Wishful Thinking" line really caught my eye. Penants and banners are really the new "It-Girl" of the summer. I hand cut the banner and swirl from two different patterened papers in the collection, and intertwined them. As the girls' Hip Hop competition is the subject of the layout, I felt the need to grunge it up a little. I downloaded a font from www.dafont.com and printed it on patterened paper. I then adhered it to chipboard, cut it out and inked the edges.





The girls received a pin from the event, which I decided to incorporate into the layout. I thought this would be a good idea, as we all know what would happen to it if I didn't. It would get put into a High School Musical jewelry box, occasionally get pinned to something, end up in the junk drawer before being lost for good. So instead, I clipped off the pin and used my double sided tape to adhere it to the page. Now she's got it forever!



What do these colours say to you? Go with your intuition, play, experiment and most of all, have fun with it!

Colour Challenge, from April 30th to May 6th...

Here is this week's challenge (carried over from the Typepad site):

This Friday, we are featuring a colour challenge based on this inspiration piece:

Here is Susan's take on the challenge:

Happy Friday everyone!! So this is our last challenge for Arpil. Wow I can't believe we are through April already.

This is the layout that I created.

The journaling for this layout is hidded under the photo.



Play along with us! Upload your challenge to your blog or gallery, link back to us here, and add your name and url to our Mr. Linky. This challenge closes in one week, at 9 pm PST on Thursday, May 6th. Show us your stuff!