Hi Studio Calico friends! I wanted to share a little about how I use outside inspiration when designing a scrapbook page. I was flipping through the May/June issue of Marie Claire Idees (Yes, it's a French magazine, and no, I can't really read it. It has gorgeous photos and projects and I always walk away from it inspired!) and I came across this page:
The first thing about it that caught my eye was the strings with beads and accents in the upper right corner. I immediately knew I wanted to use the idea on a scrapbook page. I also chose to pull some less literal inspiration from the magazine - when I looked at the shapes and text on the page, it helped me see where a photo, title and journaling should go.
From here, my layout went together quickly. You can see that I followed the basic design from my notes, though I added a few more accents. Since my circle accents were larger than those in the inspiration piece, I used fewer rows of them, and I layered the Hambly rubon banners from Lawn Party under my accents. I also added a Girl's Paperie "party" pin above the photo and a Crate button from Clear Skies alongside the title.
Supplies: kits - Lawn Party, Pink Lemonade, Paper Lanterns and Clear Skies ; pins - Girl's Paperie ; staples - Tiny Attacher
I hope this inspires you to look at your magazines in a new way!
Nice to know where your inspiration came from on this one!! It was my favorite layout in the gallery this month! Thanks for sharing! :)
Posted by: Amanda J | 05/05/2011 at 12:21 PM
How fascinating! Thank you for sharing. You have opened up new worlds for creative inspiration!
Posted by: Claire | 05/05/2011 at 04:43 PM
love seeing your how you interpret your inspiration. and i think that's such a lovely picture of you with sam :)
Posted by: Kimber-Leigh | 05/05/2011 at 05:05 PM
Awesome, Thanks for sharing. I love taking ideas from things other then scrapping.
Posted by: Jeanne | 05/05/2011 at 05:48 PM
This is beautiful, Lisa! I love seeing your inspiration; thanks for sharing :)
Posted by: Geralyn | 05/05/2011 at 07:53 PM
thanks for sharing your inspo!!! love it!
Posted by: ShellyJ | 05/05/2011 at 09:00 PM
Very cool blog post! I love seeing the inspiration and how you translated it and I love how you designed the blog post itself with the sketch on the inspo piece!
Posted by: Brianaj | 05/06/2011 at 02:41 AM
I love your layout...and knowing how you were inspired! Love your work!
Posted by: janet dlugokenski | 05/06/2011 at 08:01 AM
amazing tip, lisa! i love this magazine, too. and the layout you created is gorgeous.
thanks for sharing!
Posted by: ale | 05/06/2011 at 08:52 AM
This lo is so incredibly awesome!! I just LOVE it! It was also great to see how you took something from print and made a lo out of it:-)
Posted by: Michelle Wedertz | 05/06/2011 at 09:37 AM
my fav layout from your gallery this month! it's cool to see how you came about the idea! thanks for the tips :)
Posted by: kim smart | 05/06/2011 at 11:10 AM
LISA!!! This is probably one of the most inspiring, informative blog posts I've ever read! Honestly. Drawing on top of the magazine layout was an amazing visual for me. A lot of times challenges involve magazine pages for inspo and it's hard to translate sometimes. YOur work is always stunning and it made me think as to why I don't follow your blog yet!! I'm off to follow!
thanks again! beautiful layout. :)
Posted by: Donna C | 05/06/2011 at 11:28 AM
I loved this layout! So neat to see how you were inspired! Thanks for sharing!!!
Posted by: Lindsay k. | 05/06/2011 at 12:02 PM
Love seeing how you were inspired!
Posted by: Diane Payne | 05/06/2011 at 02:32 PM