Time for a New Challenge

Wow! Can you believe that the first of December is already upon us. My family got together for Thanksgiving weekend, and we will be spending a week with my in-laws over Christmas. As I have a 15-month-old son who is the only grandchild on either side of the family, this means that these two months are going to overflow with pictures. Which means that I will have a blast scrapping them all!

I have found that the best way to get better at digital scrapbooking is to do it often and to try new things. I will often scrap pages that I have no intention of printing just so I can reuse a picture in a new way or try out a different style. A couple of weeks ago, I showed you how to erase part of a paper clip so that it will look “clipped” onto the page. You can check out that post here: Take a Look at Fasteners. You can, of course, use this same technique for other things such as stickpins or charm loops.

Here are two layouts I have done recently with a close up on the fasteners.

Paper, word art, flower: Granma Always said and Dad's cabin by Sherri Tierney; Oodles-of-Doodles by Kim Hill; Grunge overlay by Faith True; envelope: Brown Pink by Moltaz; tags, pins, strap, frame: Pumpkin Cobbler and For My Father by Miss Mint, font: French Script




Jingle Bling by Sherri Tierney, bulb from Hip Dot Holiday by Jen Beschinski, template by Victoria Feemster, font: Socially Awkward

And now for the challenge. I want you to create a layout that uses two different fasteners that you need to use your eraser tool with. Post links to the layout in the comment section here or e-mail them to me. The deadline is Dec 15. For a prize, I will send you a sample of the new desktop templates I have coming out soon:

Have fun and I can’t wait to see the layouts!