Member Challenge | MarieL

This week, our member Marie (MarieL), wants you to create a layout using your main photo for your color inspiration. 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 to visit MarieL to see more of her work and keep up with her.


Hello Everyone! My name is Marie from Washington State. I am excited to share this week’s challenge with you. To create this spread I took a photo of some fresh spring flowers laying on a table and then enlarged it to make it the focus of my pages. The first color that popped out at me in the photo was green, so I went through my past kits to find green journaling cards, embellishments and washi tape. The next color I noticed was the orange in the flower petals so I went back through my stash to pull out labels, cards, and photos that had a touch of orange in them to accent my main photo. And finally since my flowers were placed on a white table, I used a few cards with a white background to echo the look.

My challenge to you is to use a bright colorful picture on your layout, and then pull a couple of primary colors from it for your embellishments and accent paper. Try not to use more than 2 or 3 colors to give your page a cohesive look. I can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with!

Now it’s your turn to create a project based on Marie's challenge! Share your new project for the challenge in the Studio Calico gallery (add the hashtag #SCchallenge to make it easier to find!), then link up your project in the comments of this post by March 28 to be entered to win a $5 gift card to the Studio Calico Shop! This week's challenge winner will be announced in the April 2 Layout of the Week post.

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10 comments

  1. ginny says…
    03/21/2016

    this is beautiful!!!

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  2. CristinaC says…
    03/21/2016

    This is gorgeous! And such a fun challenge too!

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  3. CeliseMcL says…
    03/21/2016

    Lovely photo for your inspiration

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  4. TerryB says…
    03/21/2016

    What a great page, and I love the challenge. :)

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  5. casandraonline says…
    03/21/2016

    @MarieL you always get it right!

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  6. VBeata says…
    03/22/2016

    Beautiful inspiration! This is my page for the challenge : http://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/186097-on-the-road

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  7. penny says…
    03/22/2016
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  8. pinksoup says…
    03/22/2016

    I love your colorful photo! So pretty.
    For my take on the challenge, I picked up the pink tulle and her dark grey eyes in my granddaughters photo.
    http://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/186128-happy-sigh

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  9. TerryB says…
    03/25/2016

    My photo only had a couple colors in it. I used the blue & black.
    http://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/186296-swim

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  10. CeliseMcL says…
    03/26/2016

    A plethora of colors, but I gravitated to the cabs.
    http://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/186315-must-be-heaven

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