Weekly Challenge | Inspiration with Jamaica

This week, our member Jamaica (username jamaica), is challenging you to create a project based on an inspiration piece. 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 Jamaica here at SC to see more of her work and keep up with her!

I made this layout for a challenge Tina Aszmus and I set for ourselves on National Scrapbooking Day. Since I haven't made an actual layout in ages, and I'm a very slow crafter, challenges are a great motivator for me. They get me started and help keep me focused. After bouncing around a few ideas, I pulled up two images I'd pinned recently—this pin for art journal inspiration and this onefor my dream gallery wall. Neither are obvious scrapbooking inspiration pieces, yet both were stuck in my mind days after I'd pinned them. I figured if they're that memorable, there's something that will translate to a layout.

For me, it was the mix of colors and patterns arranged on a light background. The obsessive organizer in me went straight for a grid and used some small scraps of my favorite papers as well as the Egg-celent card from the Easter add-on and some extra photos. Tina took a less literal approach, artfully arranging an array of elements across her page. It's fun to look at both layouts to see how we were inspired by the same pieces yet interpreted them so differently.

My challenge to you is to look thru your Pinterest boards and find an image you love, whether it's a gorgeous pink frosted cake or the perfect shade of green paint in a kids room, as long as it's not a scrapbook page, and use that as your inspiration. Don't over think it. Just find a pin that resonates with you, regardless of whether you think it'll translate easily, then figure out what it is about that image that attracts you to it and use that as the basis for your layout. Oh, and have fun!

Now it’s your turn to create a project based on Jamaica'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 May 19th to be entered to win a $5 gift card to the Studio Calico Shop!