Weekly Challenge | Mixing Techniques

This week, our member Laurin (username lk_berlin), is challenging you to use two or more different techniques on your projects! Our members are so talented and we love seeing your work in the gallery! Check back 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 visit Laurin to see more of her work and keep up with her.

Hi all! I’m honored to be with you this week coming up with a weekly challenge! This layout, “Pisa Collage”, is from my recent trip to Italy with my partner, which was a short and extremely busy trip! We had mere hours in Pisa to climb the Leaning Tower and explore the city, and I think this layout captures that feeling of busy-ness and of all the fun we had. This layout is created in the 6x8” page protectors from Studio Calico and features 2” squares of paper and photos. The layout mixes a few different techniques and types of embellishments, I love experimenting and playing around like this and I hope you do too!

My challenge for you this week is to use at least two different techniques on your layout (here I used stamping on photos and splitting photos into multiple pockets) and 2 or more types of embellishments (stickers, chipboard, stamping, brads, etc.) – all on the same layout! Whether you’re using 6x8 or 12x12 layouts, I hope this inspires you to get creating (and collaging!) and I look forward to seeing what you guys come up with!

Now it’s your turn to create a project based on Laurin'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 August 24th and to be entered to win a $5 gift card to the Studio Calico Shop! This week's challenge winner will be announced in the August 29th Layout of the Week post.