Scraplift a Little Inspiration

June 01, 2012

Scraplift a Little Inspiration

Happy Friday! Today is our last day of the design team's scraplifts for the month. This has been a fun addition to our blog and we hope you've enjoyed it as well. Scraplifting can give you that boost of inspiration and creativity.

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This first stunning layout by Karola Witczak has inspired Hege Lundquist's scraplift for today.

Here is what Hege found creative about Karola's work:

I've had the honor of scraplifting Karola! I've been a great admirer of her for a long time. I chose this slightly different layout with earth colors and cool blue. I chose to focus on how she has built up the layout and the location of all her items.
I have used a different color scale than her when I'm really in love with the bright and pastel ones.
I have really enjoyed this and will probably try even more to
scraplift Karola another time and use her as inspiration later. Thank
you so much, Karola :-)

Supplies

Item# 844059 Songbird Collection Lineage
Item# 555597 Lucerne Songbird
Item# 555528 Perle Bebe Songbird
Item# 551612 Resistant Canvas - Printery
Item# 553081 Bristo Blooms - Nugget
Item# 553333 Country North - Alla Prima
Item# 533175 Trellis Roses
Item# 556501 Allegra Annaise
Item# 557287 Charlotte Coral Ice
Item# 557324 Charlotte Tiffany
Item# 557577 Pankita Rose Spring Mix
Item# 558147 Cherise Grape Vine

Our next lift was inspired by this layout by Stacy Cohen. Stacy inspired Maiko Kosugi to create a fresh colorful page.

Here is Maiko's insight on Stacy's beautiful work:

I had the honor of scrap lifting from the very talented Stacy Cohen!
I adore Stacy's color sense filled with her wonderful ideas. It was so difficult to choose which layout to scrap lift since all her layouts are just gorgeous,
but chose this one after seeing Stacy's gallery over and over again!
I followed Stacy's sketch for my layout and decided to make mine using the Sun Kiss Collection.
I love the delicate designs of Stacy's work, and it is a true inspiration where the part Stacy cut paper like waves! I really enjoyed it too!
Also I added some touches of my style by adding a large flower and Vine. I really wanted to add handmade doilies like Stacy did, but since I am not good at it, I decided to add die cut doily to my page. lol
Moreover, I am using the mulberry paper instead of gauze.
And finally, I added modeling paste to some places in order to make the whole color tone more settled down.
Thank you so much Stacy for this wonderful inspiration I really enjoyed it very much!!!
Maiko

Supplies

# 844172 Sun Kiss Collection Sunshine Path
# 844189 Sun Kiss Collection Sweet Tea
# 844219 Sun Kiss Collection Shady Nook
# 844226 Sun Kiss Collection Kindred Spirits
# 844240 Sun Kiss Collection Lemon Ginger
# 555689 Charme Rose Sun Kiss
# 555634 Perle Bebe Sun Kiss
# 555702 Lucerne Sun Kiss
# 555726 Pixie Vine Sun Kiss
# 844240 Sun Kiss Collection Lemon Ginger
# 554125 Crystals Fairy Belle
# 556846 Miss Godivas Marshmallow
# 556853 Miss Godivas Mermaid
# 557089 Lady Godivas Orange Ice
# 557652 Laraine Blue Lagoon
# 890803 Resin - Garden Well
# 891183　Chalk Fluid Edger - Coltfoot Stemens
# 891169　Chalk Fluid Edger - Shabby Tote
# PE-067-D48 YELLOW 100 PCS
# PE-914-LT.Blue BLUE 72 PCS
# PE-006-9 Rose Yellox/Cream

Sharon Laakkonen designed this colorful scrapbook page that inspired Heidi Kelley on her scraplift page.

Heidi shares what inspired her about Sharon's page:

I scraplifted this layout of Sharon's for a few reasons! First, I loved the title - something about it struck a chord with me, so I played off of it - just changing it a bit. Secondly, I loved that she used a cluster of three photos. Inspired by this, I tweaked it a bit to feature one larger photo, and stuck a couple smaller photos behind them too to make it look like a pile of pics. I used the same paper line, Doodle Deux, but mimicked her design elements instead of using the same ones. I thought it would be fun to use gesso to take the place of the wide yellow strip in the middle of her page, and then I clustered various cuts from the paper as well. :) Of course, I still had to add my art mediums as well, making the layout my own!

Supplies

Doodle Deux Collection:
Doodle Bits #843977
Two-by-Two #843939
En Francais Alphabet Stickers #554309

AnnaMarie Modro chose to scraplift this beautiful page by Janine Koczwara:

May You Always Be *Fairy Belle Collection*

To be on the Prima Design Team with the fabulous Janine is truly an honor...to be able to scraplift her – BONUS!! :) One of the things I admire most about Janine's style (beyond her stunning photography of those gorgeous children! :) ) is her ability to layer - paper, elements, embellishments...she is truly able to layer with ease. As one scans over her page, the eye is drawn to the many layers and details, placed just right...and the way she layers and clusters is both fluid and smooth. There are so many wonderful elements to Janine’s layering - hand-cut images from the patterned papers, mixing and matching of florals, the use of punches, die-cuts, and/or doilies, and the mixing of colors within a palette. And yet even with the multiple layers and clustering going on, there is never a sense of the page being too "busy"...the layers instead serve to enhance her amazing photography which remains central focus.

In scraplifting this layout, I retained many of the original design elements within Janine's "May you always be this sweet" layout, but rearranged some of the vertical layers into horizontal ones and added in more floral elements. Many of Janine’s layouts also seem to highlight one absolutely stunning photo, and I chose to use one photo on my layout as well, slightly enlarging it from her original design.

It was truly an honor to scraplift you Janine - thank you for inspiring me! :)