Yahoo! Week 5 Challenge

We're now into Week 5 of the Scrappers Island Challenge run by Two Scrapbook Friends. Each week, a certain amount of people are voted off and sent to Exile Island so we're now down to 16 people with only a few weeks left to go. I'm having a great time with these challenges and getting to play around with some papers and product I might not otherwise have used.

For this week, the challenge was based on this sketch by Karan Gerber for TSF. You had to create the layout so that it integrated the elements of the sketch, but you could interpret things a bit to show a bit of creativity or to have things work with your own photos, papers, embellishments, etc.

This week's requirements were to:

- Use a diecut shape as the background - it couldn't just be a partial background
- Lots of layers with blended patterns or cardstock
- A photo corner, either with bling or chipboard
- Brackets had to surround the title

Here's the sketch that Karan created for this week:



I decided to use a cute photo of my niece, Amanda, and some great papers by My Little Yellow Bicycle (Zinnia line). I used a great lace cardstock diecut background (I used white behind it so it would show up on the scan). This was actually really hard to scan because of the layers. The journalling box (yellow Coredinations cardstock) was elevated a bit with adhesive foam squares, so I couldn't lay the layout as flat as I normally would - so there's a bit of an inconsistnecy with the brightness, but perhaps only I would notice it. *grins*

I created my own photo corner around the photo using different sized gems in a pale purple colour and put them into a bit of a swirl pattern, and then built a really cute flower for the corner with a flower set from the Zinnia line.

The brackets around the title are chipboard that I inked and then put stickles on for a bit of texture and sparkle. I also used some rub-ons on the photo itself, and used a combination of metal and cardboard stickers for the actual title.



I also added in a felt floral border over the other two strips of paper and cut the diecut flower out of Coredinations cardstock using my Silhouette.

The deadline is Wednesday night, and voting takes place on Thursday with the list of people continuing on posted on Thursday night... keep your fingers crossed I make it through, but even if I don't, I'm sure I'll continue on with the challenges as they've been so much fun.