I normally look online or in my scrapbook magazines for inspiration and ideas. Sometimes it's a color scheme, subject matter or a piece of the design that get my own ideas rolling and a page is born. On occasion I look through the other magazines I get and that gives a good jumping off point too. That's what happened with the page below after I looked at the cover of my June Real Simple.
I loved the 3 linear lines, with fun colors on each of the lines. I was also drawn to that bluish green color. I think it's a gorgeous color. I took a quite literal approach to my layout and this design and came up with this for my page:
I kept the 3 tiers and placed photos in with various colors. I had taken these at the holidays of the little details in our house and wanted to compile them on one page so this design was perfect! I have been dieing to use this KI Memories calendar paper and the color to me screamed the same bluish green on the cover of the magazine. And those Studio Calico butterfly rub ons?! LOVE!! I'll be needing more of those for sure!
So there you go, some Christmas in July and Real Simple inspiration!
Have an amazing Thursday!
Great layout, Christine! Love your inspiration, too!
Posted by: Meghann | July 28, 2011 at 08:43 AM
i love how you interpreted your inspiration onto page.love those butterflies!
Posted by: Kimber-Leigh | July 28, 2011 at 09:23 AM
Oh I LOVE this! Great layout! :)
Posted by: Pamela Young | July 28, 2011 at 09:31 AM
Love your layout! Love what you did with the butterflies too!
Posted by: Jenny A | July 28, 2011 at 09:52 AM
my favorite colors~awesome LO!!!!
Posted by: Connie M | July 28, 2011 at 10:00 AM
GORGEOUS layout Christa! Really love this and your inspiration!
Posted by: Jenni Hufford | July 28, 2011 at 11:00 AM
Isn't this pretty! Love all the journaling :)
Posted by: papirdiva.wordpress.com | July 28, 2011 at 11:04 AM
I really love how you mixed multiple SC kits.
Posted by: Holly H. | July 28, 2011 at 11:26 AM
This is gorgeous, Christa! See, you ARE using your SC kits. :) Dinner was so fun last night, glad we finally got together.
Posted by: Amy Coose | July 28, 2011 at 11:33 AM
this is amazing! love the design and colors!
Posted by: sophie | July 28, 2011 at 11:34 AM
Ha! Slowly but surely making my way threw them! I had a great time chatting at dinner and time went way too fast! Cant wait to see baby boy Coose very soon!
Posted by: Christa Paustenbaugh | July 28, 2011 at 01:31 PM
Beautiful LO! Love your multi-photo design! :)
Posted by: Sylvia | July 28, 2011 at 02:01 PM
Wow!!! Love it!!! Love the mag too!!!! The colors and design are wonderful!!
Posted by: lynn | July 28, 2011 at 05:15 PM
can i just say that you are amazing! i love your interpretation of the cover and the color scheme is perfect and the details are stunning. gorgeous layout my friend!:)
Posted by: Michele H. | July 28, 2011 at 06:36 PM
Thank you so much Michele!
Posted by: Christa Paustenbaugh | July 28, 2011 at 07:05 PM
I love the colors you chose for this- perfect. And your butterflies?? LOVE!
Posted by: Ashley Stephens | July 28, 2011 at 07:15 PM
Super page! Great idea for the inspiration!
Posted by: Sarah Webb | July 28, 2011 at 07:19 PM
Love your inspiration cover and the layout is fantastic!
Posted by: Account Deleted | July 28, 2011 at 07:33 PM
What a wonderful interpretation of that design! Love it! I need to do this more often, use an inspiration piece I mean.
Posted by: Ursula | July 28, 2011 at 08:20 PM
Love how you broke out of the little grid on this paper with bigger photos - what a great page!! Can totally see how that magazine cover inspired you.
Posted by: Valerie M | July 31, 2011 at 08:13 AM