Thursday, July 4, 2013

Week 4 - Thursday: Bonus Challenge + Giveaway!

As you can see on our schedule, Thursday of Week 4 will always be a "bonus challenge" - that is, it'll be something random that we choose each month, to add a bit of freedom and variety to the schedule.

This time, we're pleased to issuing a challenge inspired by Kristin Tweedale's free summer storytelling workshop, Find Your Voice. Both of us are currently participating in Find Your Voice (and I, Emily, am on the contribution team), which is a workshop aimed at developing storytelling skills through crafting, prose, and photography (or any other method you choose). You can join in any time - it's an 8-week course and week 3 begins on Monday.

To get you going, though, our challenge this week is to create a scrapbook layout without photos! (Crazy, right? But it's easier than you think, and a lot of fun!)

Emily's Layout: The easiest way to go about this challenge, I think, is to grab a large piece of ephemera and treat that as your photo. I took this advertisement card from 35 Denton, a music fest I attended in March, and paired it with a 4x6 journaling card, then built my layout as usual. I love that Amy Tangerine's older Sketchbook collection had papers that matched the ad almost perfectly! (And yes, I used that sequin stamp from my Studio Calico kit again. I can't get enough of it right now!)



Katie's Layout:
I don't scrapbook without photos much, so it's definitely a challenge for me! I decided to treat my layout a bit more like I would an art journal page. I used gelli prints and cardstock, and I attached my little card on one edge with washi tape, so that it flips open and my journaling is on the inside.

And now, thanks to Kristin's generosity, we have a GIVEAWAY! There are a couple of different ways to earn entries, but we would highly encourage you to create a project for this challenge and link it up below the giveaway widget for the highest chance of winning this great Find Your Voice prize pack, which includes a Find Your Voice stamp, some flair, and a 3x4 card!



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12 comments:

  1. Honestly, I have no idea! I have way too many photos to scrapbook that are just sitting in boxes! LOL :)

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  2. Fun! I got this :)

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  3. Thanks for the chance! :) I would love to scrap more stories from my childhood and the lives of my grandparents that I don't have photos for.

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  4. I would love to scrapbook a picture of JUST me and my brother (he is deceased) but believe it or not, I do not have any! Shows why we need to be in all kinds of photos :)

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  5. I take photos of everything so I just dont have many "un photoed" moments...LOL...but I would love more of my Mawma and me. I just do not have enough of them and she is no longer with us.

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  6. I would love to scrapbook pictures of myself with my grandparents...I have a total of two, and that was when I really young. I would love to have many more pictures of us together.

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  7. I recently traded in my car it would have been nice to have pics cause I loved that car!!!

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  8. My kids monthly milestones when they were babies - I was never that organized

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  9. Great ideas! And thanks for the giveaway opportunity.

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  10. Wish I photos of me running to scrapbook how important running is to me!

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  11. I would love to scrapbook mine & my hubby's relationship prior 2 having kids, but for some reason there just aren't any or very little pics:(

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  12. This was a great challenge, thank you.

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