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Inspiration From The Everyday: Concert Poster

Hi Everyone! I've been so looking forward to working on this because I love finding inspiration in everyday things and watching them unfold on paper. Well, in this case my inspiration was already paper (a poster actually), I just put my own spin on it to create a layout using "The Good Life" line. It's actually funny because both pieces involve nieces of mine. Two different neices :) The inspiration piece I chose was a poster from a venue advertizing the band my niece Neely's is in. (Neely is the one with the longer hair in the middle). I thought it was a interesting and cool design.
Recently I was honored to get to take my niece Lynsay's senior pictures, and was excited to use one of them in a layout. So ... the inspiration piece and the piece I created involve two of my sweet beautiful nieces. I had so much fun with this.
 
Fancy Pants Designs Supplies:
The Good Life: Patterned Papers
The Good Life: Sticker Fundamentals
The Good Life: Layered Stickers
The Good Life: Stamps
The Good Life: Buttons
The Good Life: Chipboard frames

-Vicki Chrisman

Inspiration From The Everyday: Pie Charts

Have you noticed how popular Infographics have become? I love how they graphically present complex information quickly & clearly, using signs, maps, pie charts & stats. I thought it would be fun for to use pie charts for my Everyday Inspiration.





Using the Country Boutique collection, I created this page. I made a layered pie chart using pretty papers & shaped banner die cuts; the perfect addition for a page about my wedding day.  




The soft colors & understated designs made using x7 different designs so simple. Nothing over shadowed anything else. The result is soft & pleasing, so reminiscent of our special day.

Fancy Pants Designs Supplies:
Country Boutique: Papers
Country Boutique:  Banner Die cuts
Country Boutique:  Die cuts
Off to School: Rub-ons & Chipboard
Alphas: Artist Edition

Other Supplies:
Buttons
Plain twine

Thanks for stopping by the Fancy Pants Designs blog! I hope I have inspired you to try pie graphs too on your next scrapping project.


-Kim Watson

Inspiration From The Everyday: Orchid

Hi there everyone, hope you guys had a great weekend and are ready for a fun week ahead. For today's Inspiration From The Everyday post, I thought I would share a little something that I picked up at a local market this past weekend. This gorgeous orchid plant/flower....


I absolutely fell in love with this when I first saw it among the 20+ plants that the sweet lady had... love the freshness of the colors and especially those pink polka-dot flowers. And it's these colors and the fresh flowery feel that inspired me to create the following cards using the gorgeous Time For Spring collection.

For my first card here, I drew inspiration from that fresh feel - reflected here with the mix of fun colors...


On the second card, it's the flow of butterflies that I associate with flowers....


And on this card, I focused on the colors - the soft pink and green ...


Fancy Pants Designs Supplies:
Time for Spring: Gringham Dress pattern paper
Time for Spring: Honeycomb pattern paper
Time for Spring: Tea Time pattern paper
Time for Spring: Pour Me Out pattern paper
Time for Spring: Sweet'ner pattern paper
Time for Spring: Tea Towel pattern paper
Time for Spring: Die Cuts
Time for Spring: Alpha Stickers

Thanks for stopping by everyone and what inspires you today?

-Piradee Talvanna

Inspiration From The Everyday: Vintage Poster

Hey, hey Fancy Pants blog readers ... it's summer & cause to celebrate! I feel inspired by sunshine, warmth & fun times and hope you will be too, by the project I have to share today.

I love vintage print, posters and ads. I love the colors used, fonts, and overall design of yester-year, hence my need to have a folder on Pinterest filled to bursting with inspiration I can draw on. This poster caught my eve for today's "Everyday Inspiration" post.



Looking at the page design, I felt challenged by the unusual color blocking & image placement. I thought interpreting it into a scrapbook page would be great fun for us to try. Please find below a sketch to help our creative process.





As per the poster shown above, I placed my blue panels at the top of the page to become my "sky" & I divided up the bottom red panel into "red & yellow" representing "sand". Keeping a central focal point by clustering the photos in the middle just as they did, grounded the page perfectly. I found by adding 'playful' accents around the photographs, a sparkly sun & fun title, softened the very graphic page layout. In keeping with the inspiration piece the addition of white stitching along the angles added interest & texture.

The bright, summery papers & accents from the Summer Soul collection perfectly complimented these crazy photos of my little guy & his friend at the water chutes.

I encourage you to look for inspiration in the most unlikely places. One can be inspired by just about anything.

Happy Wednesday!

-Kim Watson

Inspiration From The Everyday: Beach Scene

I found this image on Pinterest. What a lovely place! I just love the juicy colors in it! So, I have decided to use this color scheme – pink, orange, yellow, turquoise and white for my page.



Of course, I chose a beach theme for this color scheme!

Fancy Pants Designs Supplies:
Summer Soul: Luau Patterned paper
Summer Soul: Beach Towel Patterned paper
Summer Soul: Cards Patterned paper
Summer Soul: Grass Skirt Patterned paper
Summer Soul: Rubons
Summer Soul: Trims
Summer Soul: Buttons
Summer Soul: Element Stickers
Summer Soul: Chipborad Pieces
Summer Soul: Flocked Transparency
Childish Things: Flocked Transparency
Artist Edition: Filter Embelishments
Wave Searcher: Trims
Beach Babe: Flowers
Beach Babe: Chipboard alphas

Other Supplies:
punches
white dew drops

I hope I have inspired you today! Thanks for stopping by the Fancy Pants Designs blog.

-Yuki Shimada

Inspiration From The Everyday: Wall Decor

 

Hey there! Nic Howard here with a layout inspired by the everyday. I was recently flicking through a home decor magazine when I came across this photo of a green wall with photo frames across this middle. It had gorgeous heavy painted architraves and straight away I decided I could do a scrapbook page with those elements.

I started the layout by building a base – just strips of heavy card, painted white around the edge of a piece of cardstock. This set the scene for my layout built with ‘photo frames’. I chose 5 favourite photos and I shuffled them on top of some Wave Searcher ‘summertime’ paper which was the perfect green (yessss! Love it when that happens!). I decided I wanted my ‘wall’ to have more than one background colour so I added some patterned paper from the Winterland range to the bottom half.

After papering my wall and framing my photos, the last thing to do was to embellish. Some easy embellishing from the Be You range and I was set. I love the little quotes and rub-ons in this collection, so the embellishing was easy to do!





Thanks for joining me with my little piece of inspiration from the everyday. I’d love to see how you decorate your ‘wall’. It’s so easy to do and will suit being in a scrapbook or on a little easel in your home!

Fancy Pants Supplies:
Wave Searcher: Summertime patterned paper
Winterland: Blustery patterned paper
Be You: Strips patterned paper
Be You: Rub-ons
Oct. 31: Alphas


-Nic Howard

Inspiration From The Everyday: Book Cover

Hi everyone! Thanks for stopping by the blog today!  Today I am sharing how I was inspired by a book cover to create a fun layout. I have to admit, I do not own this book, it was one I came across on the internet. The concept is interesting, but I was much more interested in the design of the cover. Here's the book:

I loved the lines of words next to the tall cat. I could immediately see stitching as lines, and multiple alphabets for words, as well as one cut out figure from a photo. So, I took the challenge and created this layout:



I think it turned out very cute!  I used the fun new Be You collection.  I cut pieces of paper for the lines but also added the stitching.  I just love this photo of my daughter and it went nicely with the design I was going for. 

Fancy Pants supplies:
Be You: Lazy Days patterned paper
Be You: Gametime patterned paper
Be You: Hide and Seek patterned paper
Be You: Marbles patterned paper
Be You: Be You Cards patterned paper
Be You: Daffodils patterned paper
Be You: Forget Me Not patterned paper
Be You: Nesting patterned paper
Artist's Edition: White chipboard alphas
Artist's Edition: Black chipboard alphas
Artist's Edition: Brown chipboard alphas
Beach Babe: Pink chipboard alphas
To The Moon: Green chipboard alphas
To The Moon: Buttons
Summer's End: Alpha Stickers
Off To School: Buttons

Other supplies:
white floss
adhesive
craft knife/scissors

Well I hope you found a bit of inspiration from this post today! If you do a layout or project inspired by this post, please share it with us on our Facebook Wall! 

Have a wonderful day!


-Pamela Young

Inspiration From The Everyday: Gift Wrapping

Over the recent festive period I was inspired by the beautifully wrapped gifts which my family were fortunate to receive.

The twirled gift ribbon particularly caught my eye and inspired me to attempt to incorporate paper twirls in to my next scrapbook page design.

Whilst putting the page together I knew I didn’t want the twirled paper to take away focus from the main image, so set about using them as an extension of the page accents in hope of drawing the viewer’s eye across the page.



By cutting thin ribbon strips of patterned paper I was able to achieve the twirled effect by gently drawing the paper across the blade of my scissors and thus creating gentle twirls which tumble from the top to the bottom of the page design.



Inspiration certainly is all around and I hope I have inspired you today to try adding paper twirls to your page or project designs!

Fancy Pants supplies:
It’s The Little Things: Strips patterned paper
It’s The Little Things: Gerber Daisy patterned paper
It’s The Little Things: Bird Cage patterned paper
It’s The Little Things: Shuffle patterned paper
It’s The Little Things: Cards patterned paper
It’s The Little Things: Chipboard
It’s The Little Things: Design Embellishments
It’s The Little Things: Paper Flowers
It’s The Little Things: Trim
It’s The Little Things: Brads
It’s The Little Things: Buttons
Artist's Edition: Chipboard Alphas

Other supplies:
black cardstock
kraft cardstock
adhesive
3d foam pads

-Tracie Hudson

Inspiration From The Everday: Children's Books

With my two little girls, we spend many moments reading together. Some children’s books are real gems for their drawings and the stories they tell. I already took a lot of inspiration from children’s book to realize my layouts so I immediately thought about doing this to show you one of my everyday inspirations.

I chose a book entitled La colère de Banshee (Banshee’s Wrath) written by "Jean-François Chabas" and illustrated by David Sala. I love this colored and enchanted universe. It seems to me that this universe is itself inspired by one of my favorite painters, Klimt.







So I took my inspiration from the colors of the drawings to create this layout entitled "Smiles". I created a frame with superimposed flowers and buttons, just like the illustrator did in the book with his recurring colored circles. I also cut the wave of a Beach Bum paper to recreate the wave on the drawing. Finally, I wrote the journaling part like the way it is written in the book.



Getting your inspiration from children’s books enables you to create layouts using different collections. To make this one, I allowed myself to combine many different papers: Beach Bum, Saint Nick, Off To School papers with a Baby Mine Flocked Transparency and flowers and buttons from various collections.



I hope I succeeded in getting you inspired by my vision of this theme. Happy new year to you all and happy holidays!


-Bénédicte Raphalen

Inspiration From The Everday: Light

Hi everyone! Thanks for stopping in today! I believe you can find inspiration anywhere! Recently I was sick and spent a lot of time on our couch. And I was inspired  by this:



I saw the cool design the light was making above the curtains. I could also see photos instead of the curtains and a basic sketch in my head. So, I took the photo with my phone and later made this page based on the inspiration:



I hope you can see the design in my layout. I not only was inspired by the design, but was also inspired to play with light a bit. I just love the photos I used. I just hand cut those pieces that I used above and below the photos. I used a little bit from several collections. 

Fancy Pants supplies:
Saint Nick: Stocking patterned paper
Saint Nick: Garland paper
Saint Nick: Gleaming patterned paper
Summer's End: Harvest patterned paper
Summer's End: Abundance patterned paper
Summer's End: Windy Day patterned paper
Summer's End: Chipboard Elements
Summer's End: Rub-Ons
Summer's End: Trim Card
Summer's End: Element Stickers
Off to School: Flocked Transparency
Off to School: Chalk Sticker
Artist Edition: Chipboard Stickers--Alphabet (white)

Other supplies:
floss
white pen

I hope you are inspired to actively look around you and see what inspiration you can find! Have a fabulous day!

-Pamela Young