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Thanks to all of you who played along with us during the month of May selected by random number generator, our winner for the month of May is Kathleen White. Please contact me HERE to claim your prize. You have seven (7) days to claim your prize or its forfeited. If you didn't win this month , that's okay, next month it could be you!!
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Good morning faithful followers, Brenshevia here with a little AAG news. As you may have noticed we have implemented our weekly In The Spotlight featured layouts. I wanted to take a moment to explain to you a bit more about this and how your layout can be featured.
Each week the featured layout banner at the top of the page will be updated. It is ONLY updated with layouts from the previous challenge. For example, this week we have our May 15th challenge going on, so we selected 5 from to be featured from the May 1st challenge We will NOT go back to previous entries to spotlight, only for that week's entries so make sure you get yours in on time if you can!
Our selection is based on your timely entry, how well you followed the sketch and the details and composition of your layouts.
If your layout is featured above, you may indeed grab a blinkie from our blinkie "storage room" and place it with a link back to our site on your blogs.
Well that's all for now, lets get those layouts upload for this week's spotlight, happy scrapping!
Brenshevia
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I found this tutorial by Laura Vegas on the
Bella Blvd website and thought it was awesome for creating your own starburst pattern. I have used it several times. What I like mostly about it is that you don’t have to stick with the design exactly as you see it below you can modify it (as I did) to make it fit your needs.
Step 1: For a full page sunburst background, you will want to start with a sheet of 12x12 cardstock. Trace a circle in the area that you want the sunburst to "burst" out from. I traced my circle in the lower right section of the page.
Step 2: Using a ruler, or any straight edged item, you will then draw lines from the circle all the way out to the edge of the paper. These do not have to be evenly spaced and there is really no wrong or right way to do this step.
I only trace my lines to the edge of my circle being that I know I will place something over the circle eventually.
Step 3: Once your lines all drawn out the way you want them, number the pieces so that you know the order they go in. Start in one corner, and number them going in a clockwise order. This is much easier then trying to fit them together later. Once they're numbered, cut all the pieces apart.
Now that you have your pieces all numbered and laid back out, go ahead and select the paper you want to use. I used Simple Stories Summer Fresh and Authentique Genuine.
Step 5: For each "burst", you will want to flip over the paper that you want to use and lightly adhere the numbered template piece, number side down. You adhere to the back so your numbers doesn’t show. You must remember to also flip the template piece over, and adhered it number side down, so that once you cut your piece and turn it over, your "burst" will be going in the right direction.
Step 6: Trim each "burst", place it in the appropriate spot on your page. Whether it be a plain sheet of cardstock or the paper you are actually going to use for your layout.
Start with the corner pieces, and adhere them first. Then work your way in with the rest of the pieces. Don't worry if a piece or two slightly overlap.
Step 8: Make sure and SAVE your template pieces that you cut out from cardstock, so that you can use them over and over on additional layouts ;) I keep mine in a Ziploc bag.
My layouts showing 2 variations of this template
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Hello everyone, we here at About a Girl (AAG) are so excited today, why you may ask? Because it is our very first FULL challenge here at AAG! We hope that you enjoyed our mini sketch challenge and now you are ready for the big leagues! Since this IS our first challenge I would like to get to know the little ladies your life. So I would like for you to create a layout of your choosing introducing her or them to us. Please include her/their names somewhere on the page. It can be in your title or your journaling, or hidden journaling just tell us it’s there. That's the only criteria for this challenge, easy right?
This month's challenge is being sponsored by 7Dots Studios. 7 Dots Studio was born in October 2011 from dreams and for dreams -and it is a baby of a group of scrapbooking friends, who created a perfect team having different experiences and skills connected to scrapbooking industry. From the very beginning we intended to create a scrapbooking brand providing great mixed-media quality papers with a bit alternative look. We wanted to be as versatile as possible – from clean, graphic designs to mixed-media, grungy collage look. I think we achieved our goals and we’re happy to see that many crafters and artists are interested in our designs! You can check out 7Dots at http://7dotsstudio.com/encza.
Please upload your layout to the right and label it with your name and date of challenge, for example: Brenshevia –May. 1. You have until May 28th to upload both challenges. I can’t wait to see all the wonderful layouts featuring the young ladies in your life and please don’t forget to mention us on your blogs! Remember you can't win if you don't play! Also please remember to link your entry back directly to your post so we can comment. Thanks!
Now let’s check out the wonderful pages from our talented Design Team members!
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