I just adore this weeks Mood Board Challenge by Jot Magazine!

I LOVE colour, especially bright and bold ones like the ones in this mood board.

 

In participating in these challenges, I always use it as a chance to get layouts done that are sitting there waiting to be done! I am way behind on my Project Life for this year so I took the opportunity to use this week's mood board to create the cover page for my little Easter weekend insert into my PL album. It was the exact colours I wanted for this so I was excited to get started!

Here are some close-ups...

 

 And the completed layout...

 

 

TA-DAH!!

The Easter insert for my Project Life is 6 x 12 inch in size so my layout is done on white 6 x 12 inch cardstock. I have used patterened paper, buttons, mini doilies, washi tape, paper decorations, fabric strip, and stickers on this layout. I had used an app called Phonto on my iPhone to write the text onto the photo so it printed out as is.

I really love this layout. Love the colours and how fun they make a page look!

:-)

 

With Sprinkles of Sunshine...

 

Anna





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I am thoroughly enjoying these challenges.

I was pretty darn excited when I heard about the creation of Jot Magazine but I can safely say that I am even more excited and thankful for Jot Magazine because it has GOT ME SCRAPBOOKING AGAIN!!!

Yay! :-)

 

This layout was a little more challenging for me than the first one. I picked and poked around my stash and came up with bips and bops, chose me paper, got an idea of a layout BUT took me ages to pick out the right photo for it! The first time I had a very clear idea straight up but hey! that's what these challenges are all about - to challenge you, make you think harder! I love it!!

 

Anywhoo...

Here it all is.

 

 And the end result again...

 

 

 It was rather hard photographing this page. It was just before sundown so the light wasn't really great outside and the colours don't really show as true as they are in real life. The doily trim is actually more cream and the cardstock is a warm chocolate-y brown (it looks kinda purple-ish in the photos but it's not!).

Anyway, you get the idea.

It's all fun and I like it :-)

 

Hmmmm...

Wonder what they're gonna come up with next!?!

 

With Sprinkles of Sunshine...

 

Anna





A little while back, Kim Archer of Etzcetera Magazine announced a new and exciting little 'something' she was creating.

When the reveal happened, it was 'jump up and down' pure excitement for me...

 

A brand new magazine called Jot!

 

For all the arty papercrafty creatives out there. YAY!

I love all that Kim Archer and her creative support team come up with so this was just something else that got this little creative in quite a tizzy.

I immediately popped the blog in my favourites list and 'Liked' the Jot Facebook page.

 

It wasn't long before a special post by the magazine popped up in my Facebook newsfeed about a Mood Board Challenge. The colours were totally up my alley and I knew exactly what photo I was going to use, the wording and a general idea of how I wanted the layout to look like. I haven't had that happen in a long time. I have done one other scrapbook layout in the last five odd years so this was going to be my second. And it was great to get back into it and manage to create something I was proud of!

 

The Process

 

 The materials I used were:

~ white bazzil cardstock

~ mini square stamp pad to ink around the edges of the page

~ a houndstooth stencil to roughly paint on a background

~ paint

~ floral paper

~ black ribbon

~ aqua tissue paper

~ buttons

~ diamonte embellishments

~ decorative clip

~ black letter stickers

~ journalling pen

 

And all together...

 

 

 It came up like this!

I am so in love with it - I really can't believe I did that!! LOL!!

 

So once completed, I sent a photo of it through to Jot Magazine for the Challenge competition and admired all the other entries coming up on the blog and Facebook page. There was some really good stuff coming in!!

 

And the verdict?

Well, CHECK THIS OUT!

 

Squuuuuuueeeeeeaaaaaallllll!!

I'm going to have something published in the very first issue of JOT Magazine.

Totes thrilled :-D

 

Now I'm itching to get working on the next Mood Board Challenge :-)

It's so much fun!

 

With Sprinkles of Sunshine...

 

Anna