Scrappy Sunday with Shimelle: Part 1

So this weekend over at Shimelle's blog she was a bunch of scrapbooking challenges. I really wanted to do some this weekend. Lo and behold they inspired me and I became creative and super scrappy. This is good because for the past week I was in a creative rut. I would think about ideas in my head and then when I sat down to the kitchen table I could not seem to transfer it to paper. The challenges gave me a direction to go and some cool stuff came out of it. I am still working on them and probably will through out the coming week. I am just excited that I got my scrappyness back!
I am going to post the challenges separately so you can visit Shimelle's site and see how they all relate to her challenges.

For challenge one we were to scrap lift a page. Which basically means copy it, but make it your own. Below is the page from Jamie that we were using to scrap lift from.

Here is my scrap lift:

This picture was taken on my scrap table. (aka the kitchen table)

 Scrapping gone wrong! Kidding. I was trying to experiment on where to take the pictures of my creations I was wondering would the harsher kitchen light be better or the more subtle light over the kitchen table. I took these pictures Friday evening, so there was natural light coming in from the sliding glass door to the kitchen table. I took the picture above on the kitchen floor. As you can see, my blue heeler Jackson wanted to see what was going on. Actually, this is a pretty cool picture of him. Normally he runs in fear of the camera.

So here is the kitchen floor picture, minus my dog. I added  a little journaling spot, but the journaling might expand beyond that. I think I kept a journal during that trip or least wrote some observations down, so I want to take a look at those first. Below are the inspiration points that I took from the original layout:

Inspiration Points:

• general layout of page
• small picture
• washi tape
• 2 elements at the top & bottom
• scattered embellishments (mine turned out more clustered)