Weekly Challenge | Sparkle with Aimee

This week, our member Aimee (username adow), is challenging you to add some sparkle to you projects this week. We're excited to turn our weekly challenges over to the SC community! Check in each week as we ask one of our members to inspire you with a challenge based on one of their projects from our member gallery. Be sure to follow Aimee here at SC and visit her blog to see more of her work and keep up with her!

Hi! My name is Aimee and I have a scrapping addiction. Oh wait, wrong blog. Let’s start again shall we? Hi, my name’s Aimee and I am so excited to be here today as this week’s challenge enabler provider! First, a little about the layout “Make Time for Happy”. This spread is very near and dear to my heart, partly because here in Australia we are heading into the depths of winter and I long for warmer nights spent outdoors, but mostly because it’s such a happy memory for me. It’s for this reason that I knew the layout had to be special. I took my inspiration from the amazingly talented @TaraElias’s ‘Family Night’ – my favourite layout so far this year.

Now if there is one thing you should know about me, it’s that I think in terms of colour. Wherever humanly possible, I try to tie my paper and embellishments in with my photo and, as luck would have it, Camelot was a dead ringer. From there, it’s just a matter of picking your base colours (white, apricot and coral) and then your accent colours (yellow, aqua and pink). But for me, there is always another layer... the sparkle, the bling, the Joie de vivre of the layout, and you better believe this layout has got it in spades – the gold rub on hearts, the glitter ‘best ever’, the gold glitter tape, gold flair and the gold heart vellum. Boy did I go to town on my pretty, shiny stash and that folks is my challenge for you. I want you to pillage your shiny things. Be it glitter, metallic vellum, gold rub-ons, sparkling embossing powder or even just those cute glitter word stickers. I am not going to set a limit for how many of them you have to use on your spread, but if your layout looks like it belongs in a pirate’s treasure chest – two thumbs up! I am on a one-woman mission to make the Studio Calico Gallery sparkle and shine, if only for a week. I would love it if you would help me out and make a shiny spread.

A big thanks to Studio Calico for giving me this amazing opportunity to play with you. I hope in some small way I have helped to inspire you and I really look forward to seeing what you all come up with.

Now it’s your turn to create a project based on Aimee's challenge! Share your new project for the challenge in the SC gallery (add the hashtag #SCchallenge to make it easier to find!), then link up your project in the comments of this post by June 2nd to be entered to win a $5 gift card to the Studio Calico Shop!