Sunday, September 21, 2008

I love a challenge!

I have 10 stories planned to tell on 10 of my up and coming layouts.
I have some brand new beautiful pieces of paper and cardstock.
I have some gorgeous embellishments and rubons - even some that haven't hit the stores here yet that were a gift from my dear friend, Severine
... but what was lacking was the inspiration.

So, I remembered seeing a gorgeous layout by the talented Amanda Hall. And I recalled Nicole Southworth from the Remember When Blog saying to scrap your childhood memories. I even had Severine Di Giacomo challenge me last night to use the following on a layout - circles, chipboard and 2 pieces of patterned paper. It all fell into place today and I love the result. Thank you so much girls for the much needed inspiration - what do you think?

14 comments:

amanda hall said...

oh wow Leanne.

This is amazing. You clever chook! Am very amazed and honoured that I inspired YOU!

wow go figure! LOL ;-)

Love the flower and the rub on and how perfect is the 'once upon a time' title! this rocks.

alexandra s.m. said...

THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL LEANNE!
BRAVO!

Maryanne Ridgway said...

love your LOs, [and amandas], but was so funny seeing this, as today I was scrapping photos of my sister and I when we were little, and was thinking of the stories I would journal.One of my most vivid memories is of me being so in love with barbies,[i was soo girly] they were my most treasured things in the whole wide world, and my sister was a total tomboy, who collected matchbox cars and was so not into barbie.For her to play barbies with me I would have to endure playing matchbox cars!![ugh].One day she decided the barbies would look better with shorthair, so she got real bloody scissors and cut their hair short!!Needless to say I was absolutely devastated, and tried valiantly to put their locks back on with sticky tape!! anyway was so funny thinking of this today, and then reading your LO about cutting barbies hair!!

sandra said...

this is stunning Leanne.

Séverine said...

OMG! This is such an amazing layout! I totally love the topic and the design!
The title work is gorgeous! and the flowers are the perfect touch!
You're too good my friend!

Unknown said...

Very pretty Leanne!

Anonymous said...

Beautiful Leanne, as always!

Anonymous said...

Such a cool page! Love the idea behind it.

Rachel said...

Oh, so pretty!! (LOL at Eye of the Tiger :) I wish I still had some of the tapes I made as a kid.
How cool would that be!

Rach

Anonymous said...

Leanne,
I am a huge fan of your style, very inspiring..... Amanda Hall is awesome and I can understand getting inspiration from her work.
take care and I hope hope the mojo sticks around
love naomi x

HIME said...

Hello Leanne

Your new page is amazing. Love your style definitively

Hime

melissa deakin said...

Leanne,
This is absolutely gorgeous.
I love all the details and the script font is just gorgeous.
Absolutely lovely!

OohLookBel said...

Your page is beautiful, and what a brilliant idea. Was just planning to scan my old childhood photos and scrapbook them. Thanks for the inspiration!

neat freak said...

I think this is BEAUTIFUL, I so love the design and colours - WOW Leanne!

Lorraine