Monday, July 1, 2013

Show Us What Inspires YOU!

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Happy Monday!  It's a brand new week with a brand new Stamp & Show Challenge theme!  This week's theme is Anything Goes!  Make sure to enter for a chance to win a $50.00 gift voucher to Simon Says Stamp!

Here are what 3 of our Simon Says Stamp & Show Challenge design team members made for the challenge!  If you'd like to see more, stop by the blog and click the person's name or card to see all of the details and leave these wonderful people some comments!  : ) 

Made by May Flaum
May had this to say: What could be more fun on an anything goes week than to get wacky and layer loads of Dylusions ink sprays? I had a blast making the background for this page, and I love how the Claudine Hellmuth flower stencil is perfect as a finishing accent, or as the base for my own custom designed background as I used it here.




Made by Ashli Oliver
Ashli had this to say: While browsing the Simon Says Shop recently, I stumbled across an adorable product - a product that had it's heyday before I was a scrapbooker... Puffies by KI Memories! They are SO cute! I have never really played with them before and since there was such a wonderful selection in the Simon Shop, and anything goes this week, I decided to give them a go. Using lots of Mint Julep goodness from Basic Grey, I layered up photos of my girls driving through "the forest." A bit of Alison Kreft washi along with those adorable Butterfly Puffies finished off this fun and whimsical page documenting something cute my girls always say.





Anna-Karin had this to say: Anything goes challenges are sometimes hard for me, with so many options. I was inspired by my project from last week, wanting to scrap more of my dad's childhood photos. I used twelve different Tim Holtz Sizzix texture fades to emboss plain cardstock, inked and distressed all the pieces and covered the background with them. Papers from the Collage Mini 8 x 8 paper pad were die cut with various Tim Holtz dies and I also used Elements Remnant rubs and tissue tape. The frames were die cut with the Postage Stamp Frame and open to reveal more photos and journaling. The finishing touches were done with a few Idea-ology pieces.



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85 comments:

  1. Great pages! Loving the texture on the backgrounds!

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  2. These are awesome layouts! Beautiful colours and fabulous designs!
    Hugs, Hazel xx

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  3. Oooooh love the layouts!!! Love the colors...

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  4. Great layouts! Love the background created with Dylusions sprays!

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  5. Beautiful LO's..Love the colors & the textures on them! :)

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  6. Some really awesome lay out´s here today. Wonderful creations from the girls here, well done girls.

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  7. These are all great layouts!

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  8. Fab layouts! Love the flower stencils and Dylusions sprays on the first one!

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  9. Love all the layers on these pages.

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  10. Such different styles and pretty pages!

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  11. As always...a HUGE thanks for all the inspiration you give us :o)

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  12. These are really beautiful projects! I'm in totally love with the colors of the first layout! :-) xx

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  13. Love May's misted background...reminds me of batik fabric from Bali.

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  14. Great projects as always, love Ashli's layout.

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  15. lots of great inspiration here! Thanks.
    Sandra ltb

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  16. Mary's layouts are always spectacular!!!! Thanks for sharing. Anna-Karen this is a beautiful layout of your father's photos, love the shading, and the papers, you did a wonderful job with the embossing folders and embellishments, what a great idea to use stamp style to hide the extra photos. You are inspiring!!!! Thanks for sharing.

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  17. Love all these layouts. The dylusions sprays are so vibrant and love the use of the embossing folders as a background element.

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  18. Wow, these are some very cool layouts!

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  19. All these layouts are really beautiful. I especially love the last one. What a clever way to show some of the photos of your Dad. I'm not really into scrapbooking but there are lots of ideas and inspiration here for cards, etc.

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  20. Love these layouts, all so creative and colorful xxx

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  21. Love all the layouts but Anna-Karin's really speaks to me. Love heritage photos.

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  22. I'm not a scrapbooker, but I always find inspiration in these layouts about composition, color, products, etc. I love May's work and will be checking out the other artists' work.

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  23. Oh I love the hand journalling...and so much of it! Such a special touch to a layout.

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  24. Wow, these are stunning projects ... TFS :)

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  25. I hope to have a chance to do this challenge :) May's background is so pretty, and I am totally in love with all the fun details of Ashli's page - she really echoed the movement in the photos, like the black lines she drew. Great job!

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  26. Love the embossing on Anna-Karin's page!

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  27. Love all these inspiring layouts, the colors on May's is just so gorgeous!!!

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  28. wow--what wonderful and creative layouts.

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  29. Not only are the layouts gorgeous, but such wonderful memories they capture! Keepsakes that will be treasured for a long time to come!!
    c

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  30. Love the two backgrounds of the first and the last LO´s! Got inspired (again!) so thanks!

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  31. Wow... those backgrounds are great. I am really loving these layouts.

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  32. The layouts are extremely creative!

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  33. Beautiful layouts. Love that Ashli did a lot of journaling on her page, and that Anna-Karin did all of that gorgeous embossing! hugs, Kimberly

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  34. The last one with all the different embossing folders is amazing! I'm inspired!

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  35. Wow what gorgeous layouts! Love the inked background on May Flaums project!

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  36. All of these layouts are so beautiful and so unique!

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  37. I especially like that vintage layout. One of these days I will get up the courage to actually begin scrapbooking my photos.

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  38. Gorgeous layouts! Thanks for sharing.

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  39. Great layouts! Thanks for sharing!

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  40. I am already a follower and love your blog inspiration that you provide daily. The layouts are beautiful and so different. Such amazing array of product which produces some wonderful works of art. Thanks for sharing and the chance to win.

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  41. Wow, that layout with all of the dry embossing is awesome, what a neat idea, definitely inspiring! Thanks for sharing.

    Katie B.

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  42. All of them are wonderful, but May's Dylusional spray BG makes me delusional with happiness!!!!

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  43. Love the pages. Awesome layouts!

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  44. Really fabulous projects! Love them!

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  45. Love that idea for dry embossing! Thanks for the inspiration!

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  46. Awesome LO's! Need to get creating for this challenge! ~God bless~

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  47. Each layout is so different and unique, beautiful projects.

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  48. Well, let's just say I love anything with Tim Holtz on it. =) Nicely done! Just love the inks and all the color on the first one. Gorgeous! Cute forest layout. I love that little deer!!! Thanks for sharing!

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  49. I love using all those Tim Holtz texture plates for the background.

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  50. Lots of fabulous samples from the DT! :)

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  51. Those projects are sll so beautiful!

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  52. wonderful projects...love the layering on the 2nd.

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  53. Beautiful layouts!The first one is so colorful,Very Pretty!!!

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  54. All such great ideas! Can't wait to give them a try.

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  55. Love the layouts - the pastel colors, the puffie butterflies, the tone-on-tone page. Great job.

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  56. love all of these gorgeous layouts! beautiful projects! :)

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  57. Wonderful layouts. Lots of inspiration there.

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  59. Wonderful layouts, love them all!

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  60. Awesome pieces! Love the sprayed background! Just so pretty!

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  61. What a great idea to use so many different embossing folders. Nice

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  62. These layouts are so adorable and beautiful!!

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  63. Beautiful layouts; just love May's colours!

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  64. The layouts look so damn pretty!

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  65. These are beautiful layouts!

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  66. Love the colours in May's LO and Anna-Karin's colours and use of all those EF. Fab work from the DT

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  67. gorgeous layouts!! loving all the color and textures!

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  68. Such different styles, but all are great

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  69. beautiful pages. love all the elements and colors..
    the stories are the best part for me

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  70. Love that background with the sprayed inks!!

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  71. love All The Bright colors! Thanks For The Inspiration!

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  72. Gorgeous layout, i wish i could do it too.

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  73. wow..Amazing projects.. Love all the detailing. TFS!

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  74. amazing inspiration. the textures are fabulous.

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