Your challenge for today … white space! Scrap a page that has white space! The term “white space” refers to an area devoid of photos, embellishments, journaling, and title. White space provides a resting point for the eye and breathing room for the viewer taking in your photos and journaling.

Here is a layout I created using Sports Nuts- Girls Bundle by WimpyChompers

Here is another layout from Kairyn:

From Leandi:

From Keepscrappin:

Hello everyone,

Here’s your challenge for today.

#20  – Try a layout with NO title – let your photos and/or journaling tell the story!

And here’s a wonderful example from Kairyn Lisa.

Remember – you have the rest of the month to play along in the ScrapMatter’s Bingo Challenges here for your chance to win some fabulous prizes.  Go check ‘em out today!

Take care and keepscrappin’

Kayla

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Wild Thing

Lavender Dreams

We were fortunate enough to catch up with Ramona of Memory Clips this week and ask her a few questions about her and her designing business!!  How awesome to get to know her a little better!  She is one of our newer designers, but has just jumped in with both feet!  WOOT!

1. Your screen name? Your real name? Ramona/Ramona!

2. What is your main job/career? I’m a stay at home mom to 6 great, but busy kids!

3. Are you married/children/pets? I’ve been married for 16 years. We have 6 children from ages 14 to 2. We tried pets, once or twice, and well, we’re doing good just to keep track of the kids! Maybe someday!

4. Where is home for you? We have lived in lots of different places, but northern Utah is what we consider home! We love it here!

5. What are your 3 favorite foods? cheese enchiladas, greek yogurt with blueberries and bacon.

6. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? I don’t eat a lot of ice cream, as it makes me sick, but I do love a recipe I make using coconut milk, spinach, peppermint flavoring and chocolate chips! It’s exactly like a mint chocolate chip!

7. Snacks…Salty or Sweet? Both-at the same time!

8. Beverage of choice? water with lemon

9. What’s your least favorite food? avocados

10. PC or Mac? What program do you use? PC. I design with Photoshop, CS5

11. How long have you been digi-scrapping? How did you get started? I started digiscrapping in February of 2008, so 4 years ago this month. I was an avid paper scrapper before that and had started making siggies for online forums using Corel PSP 3 years before that. Digiscrapping was a perfect mix!

12. What was your 1st LO about? It was about my 2 daughters and was actually scrapped a year before I found that actual kits could be purchased. This was done with the tubes in PSP. It’s pretty scary!

13. Do you have any other hobbies besides digi-scrapping (are there other hobbies)? I love to write! I have been writing novels since I was in elementary school. I’ve not been published yet, but hopefully someday. Journaling is one of my favorite parts of scrapping, because I get to use my words to tell the story!

14. What is the most challenging part of scrapbooking for you? Finding the right photos. I much, much prefer photoless layouts!

15. What would you like to learn to do (or do better) not related to scrapbooking? I have recently started sewing, just simple projects, but I would like to become really, really good at it!

16. What are your favorite movies/TV shows? My all time favorite movie is “Pride and Prejudice”. My favorite tv shows are Modern Family and Parenthood!

17. Describe your “scrapping” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where? I love to scrap and design with the tv on in the background! I am a political news junkie, so this is my favorite background noise when I work! My desk is set up in our family room, so I can always be part of the action, even if I’m sneaking in some scrap time!

18. If you only had 2 elements to use on a LO, what would they be? Flowers and stitching.

19. Would you like to share a little known fact about you…? I can’t think of anything. I’m a very open book-so most people who know me, know it all! For better or for worse!

20. When did you start designing? What is your favorite product that you’ve designed? I started designing in April of 2008, right after discovering the digiscrap world. I think my favorite products ever, are my templates. I love to design kits, but I’m not always as happy with them, as I am my templates.

21. How would you describe your design style? I think that I am still a paper scrapper at heart, so my style is reflected in that. I love big photos and lots of layers and a big title and journaling. I rarely do white space layouts, as I love to fill the page with goodies!

22. Where do you get your inspiration/motivation? I am inspired by a lot of things, but mostly things I want to scrap for myself. I use pinterest a lot to get ideas, as well. I love pinterest for finding color combos and looking at crafts and home design that I then reflect in my kits.

23. Which of your kits showcases your style the most?
I think it would be my kit, Curious You. It’s bright and playful with a good mix of neutrals. I don’t do a lot of graphic type kits (because I really can’t draw!), so I love ribbons and borders and elements that are fun to cluster together!

I really like the bright colors used in this hybrid valentines not to mention the adorable photo of that little guy!  Congratulations to flutterbyefaery for this beautiful project and winning Project of the Week!

Amanda (AmandaDawnRN)

This LO is so awesome! I love how it focuses in the center and those extractions are perfect.  Congratulations to Marlen for this stunning layout!

Amanda (AmandaDawnRN)

Hello, Steph here to present you the challenge of this day :

Just spill it challenge: Make a layout that has at least three lines of
journaling – just spill out your heart.

Here is my layout using “For the love” and a template of Memory clips (Minimal style vol.1)

And a fabulous layout of Kayla using “Love U Still” by Memory Clips

Join us here and fill in your bingo card!

Hi everyone!

It’s calliclaire (Carolyn) here with the February It’s about time challenge:

Scrap a layout about something you’ve be meaning to scrap for awhile – over a year old. 

This layout was hard for me to scrap as it brought back a bad memory.  But knowing we got through it and everyone is healthy and happy made it much easier to scrap now than a year ago!  I used the awesome new kit Love U Still by Memory Clips and Amber’s new font, SMD Font Doubler: Ophelia, by Stolen Moments.

Here is a sweet layout by Kairyn Lisa:

Debbysrose created this fabulous example with It’s Cosmic by Stolen Moments and Erica Zane:

Kayla made us this awesome layout using the fabulous new, Enjoy Life, by LDrag Designs:

I can’t wait to see your layouts from this fun challenge! You can find all of our February Bingo challenges here.

- Carolyn (calliclaire)

Hi Jacqueline here with the #17 challenge. Use the Featured store collab to create a page.

As a bonus the featured collab kit is on sale for 35% off for the entire month of Feb!!!!
Here is one by me

Another page with the Collabkit is from Leandi. They looks great.

She used a Music is my life Templates by Diana´s Creations and the SMD Font Doubler: Ophelia

Can’t wait to see your pages!  You can find all of our February challenges here.