Lotus Paperie: Challenge 132

Booyah! Another week down and some more smokin' hot layouts to top it off! Summer is ticking along, the weather is amazing and I don't know about you but my collection of photos to scrap over the cold months is steadily growing... Can't wait to get them printed and fill up my albums that seem to gather dust a little this time of year.

At my house, we're settling our new puppy into the family routine with as much ease as can be expected...but of course, there's the inevitable puddles and poops (hey, that sounds like a layout waiting to happen!). I miss sleeping through the night but this little dog is so stinkin' cute! She might just get her own album :) You can see photos of her here.

Remember, you are invited to scraplift any or all of Gretchen's layouts that she shared with us here...upload the link in the comments section of that post by the end of the month!

This week, we're working from a fantastic sketch created by the one and only fabulous Tania - who's on holidays with her fam this week - I love what this sketch invoked in me...I used 12x12 rather than 6x12 (which you're totally allowed to do!!) and really loved using my old OLD baby photo.

If you've never participated in our challenges, check out the 411 page to get the scoop! Are you ready? Let's go!

Vanessa

Tania D

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Lotus Paperie is a challenge blog designed to inspire you and gently nudge you outside of your comfort zone. We work with a new challenge posted on Friday mornings - sometimes a sketch and sometimes just a prompt- and our gorgeous design team share their layouts created from those challenges to help get your mojo going.

On Tuesdays, we bring you great techniques & tutorials from the creative brains of our Design Team...Don't miss out!

We also welcome a new Guest Designer at the beginning of each month. We want you to take any inspiration you get from her amazing pages and share them with us by linking that designer's introduction post. There's always a link to that post on the sidebar and it stays up for the whole month.

And just when you thought it couldn't get more fun and creative, we thought we'd pick a few favorite layouts from our Flickr Group, let you vote on YOUR favorite and give the lucky winner a box full of scrap-love...yeah, you read that right. Free. Scrap. Stuff. Read all about the details in the 411 page

So come back every week and see what kind of creative genius we can cook up together!

8 comments:

Gretchen said...: love these layouts girls!!; July 10, 2009 at 7:50 PM
Anonymous said...: Love the layouts this week girls .. oved this sketch!; July 10, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Keely Livings said...: Beautiful layout, ladies! I love this sketch!; July 11, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Jenneke said...: This is my first time playing with you!! LOVE this blog and the layouts made by the DT!
I uploaded my layout in your Flickr-group and you can also see it here at my blog.
http://jenneke-justwhoiam.blogspot.com/2009/07/lotus-paperie-and-dreamgirls.html
Thanks for looking!; July 12, 2009 at 1:23 PM
Daniella said...: I am also here for the first time!! I know Marit from the dt, so I followed her here!! The dt rocked the sketch, and the sketch rocks too!!
QUESTION: do we put the weekly challenges on the flickr group only, or do we link them to out blog?
ALSO....Vanessa, I found you!!! If you remember I left you a blog post about your new puppy, and now, I know where I have seen you!!!
Glad to meet you finally!! and glad to play along!!; July 13, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Unknown said...: Danielle, get the scoop on our 411 page...glad you're joining us!; July 13, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Marit said...: Great work DT, and HI Danielle!!! Yes, this sketch is awesome, loved working with it!!!; July 14, 2009 at 4:49 AM
Michelle LaPoint Rydell said...: This was so much fun! Here's my layout:

http://www.scrapinstyletv.com/portfolio/view_layout.php?layout_id=180802&gallery_type=main

Thanks for the inspiration!; July 16, 2009 at 10:31 PM