Bella Blvd Studio Blog: CK Dream Team Challenge using our newest Socialite products!!

CK Dream Team Challenge using our newest Socialite products!!

Hi there!  I am Wendy Sue Anderson and I am so excited to be joining all of the talented folks here on the Bella Blvd blog again!  I am extra excited to be able to do a guest post with my friend, Laura Vegas.  Laura and I met several years ago through this wonderful world of scrapbooking and papercrafting and we’ve had many opportunities to work together over the last few years – we are both excited to be able to join forces once again and put together a little challenge to share with all of you here!

Laura and I decided to peruse the Bella Blvd Blog to look for inspiration and a fun challenge we could work on together.  We found lots of great ideas and oodles of inspiration, but we ended up finding this layout,

created by Stephanie herself, that we both loved! It’s originally from this post from August of 2009! We challenged each other to use this layout for inspiration.  We also decided to use the Socialite collection.  We knew it would be fun to use the same materials and the same inspiration piece and see how different out layouts would end up.

Here’s my (Wendy's) layout...

It’s very obvious that I was inspired by almost every aspect of the original layout – from the strips along the top and bottom, the strips of patterned paper behind a single photo, and hand-written journaling.  It was fun to take each element from the inspiration piece and give it my own personal touch.  I love the colors in the Socialite collection – beginning with the beautiful grays and then adding pops of bright, beautiful color!

Hi there! I'm Laura Vegas, from Northern California, where I live with my husband and my two gorgeous daughters (ages 11 & 14). I have been scrapbooking for over 15 years now. I started right before my first daughter was born, and have not slowed down since. I scrapbook mostly about my girls and our family, but like to mix it up now and then, by scrapping photos and stories about my daycare kids and family friends as well. I am lucky enough to design for Making Memories, Jillibean Soup, and Pebbles. I have been published in numerous magazines over the years. And am proudly a member of the 2010 & 2011 Creating Keepsakes Dream Team.

Laura wants you to know....

I was really inspired by the paper placement and basic design of this layout. I loved the torn and curled edges of the papers across the top and bottom of the layout, and choose to use the same idea on my own layout. I loved the one main photo, on top of the paper strips, and choose to do a small photo collage that still had the look of one photo. I'm usually not a big fan of grey, but I like how it made the other colors on my layout really pop off the page.

***The Socialite collection is Bella's most recent product collection, side-by-side of Lovey Dovey and are both now shipping in time for New Year's and Valentine's Day! Be sure to refer Bella Blvd and our newest collections to your favorite local scrapbook store! If the store orders and writes your name and email on the order, you'll get FREE Bella goodies...It's that EASY!

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