Scrapbooking Day Challenge 2 :: Create a triangle
Two things you should know about The Boy and I.
We really like coffee.
And we really like, well… knowing stuff.
The Boy is probably more dramatic about this than I am, but it’s a little contagious. You take something that’s a passing interest and then you have to become as much as an expert about it as possible. That’s why I don’t just like Kit-Kats, but I can bore you all day with amazing Kit-Kat trivia. And The Boy couldn’t just watch Heston Blumenthal cook with a water-bath thingamy – he had to crack open an electronics kit and build one in our kitchen. To a point where it would keep a more stable temperature than one he could special order from some sort of special restaurant supplier. Of course.
So we don’t just like coffee. We’ve studied beans and origins. We (he!) hacked a grinder to get it just right. We watch the World Barista Championships. So for his birthday, we took an all-day intensive course in making coffee. Doesn’t everyone get an Australian culinary qualification as a birthday present?
During the beginning of the class I could take some pictures, so these were some of the first drinks we made that day, including learning the different designs favoured by various coffee shops in Melbourne. It was a crazy amount of coffee.
But this doesn’t have a crazy amount of embellishment. Just three things really: the label above the title, the stamp shape to the left of the top photo and the flower sticker in the bottom right corner. Together they make up a triangle – three things of a similar colour, size or shape placed in three different parts of the page so if you drew a line connecting them, you’d have a triangle shape, ideally with your photos inside the lines. When I first started teaching scrapbooking workshops, this was the biggest design concept we used. Now it seems so simple, but I thought it was worth bringing back today and seeing how you would interpret it in your own style. So there’s Scrapbooking Challenge 2: Create a triangle. What will you scrapbook?
A note about all the Scrapbooking Day challenges here: You can enter any time between now and Sunday, 15th May, so you have a full week to do as many challenges as you like. Unless otherwise noted, winners have a choice of prize – an online class pass or a gift pack of scrapbooking stash. I’ll also be choosing three winners from all the links and comments left today (Saturday the 7th of May) on any post, so just participating and saying hello gives you another chance to win!
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7 May 2011, 07:46
Oh thank goodness we have a week to do all of these. I have tons going on this weekend & your challenges look fun. I can’t wait to find a moment to sit & do them prizes or not : )
7 May 2011, 08:23
I am loving this idea and glad you have given us some extra time to play!
7 May 2011, 08:41
My husband bought his immersion circulator on eBay. I can so relate!
7 May 2011, 09:19
Enjoyed this one! Thanks :) My triangle is the three flowers (buttons, punch and jewels).
7 May 2011, 09:30
That coffee looks yummy. Adorable page. I hope to be back later in the week with a link-up.
7 May 2011, 09:33
I’ve linked and my triangle is the three journalling spots.
7 May 2011, 09:42
This time a really obvious triangle!
7 May 2011, 10:02
Interesting! Coffee looks so pretty. Love the triangle challenge!
7 May 2011, 10:03
We can’t tell you a thing about coffee here (we are waiting until we grow up to drink it LOL), but if you need any TV/movie trivia or a famous Biblical quote, we can probably help you out!
7 May 2011, 10:41
I really like this one Shimelle – I think the bordered photo just makes the page!
7 May 2011, 10:58
I wish I could play today but we are off to Edinburgh to see Grease the musical in a couple of hours. But DH has promised to take the little man out for an adventure walk tomorrow morning so I can scrap :)
7 May 2011, 11:35
Visual triangle and rule of thirds are often my go-to design principles.
Rinda
7 May 2011, 11:35
Oh just look at all that coffee….sigh….that looks fabulous. Why is it that I get into such a mess with coffee (don’t answer that! lol)…coffee plungers & I don’t seem to get on too well…..eeek.
7 May 2011, 11:39
Oh I did a triangle earlier this week and found that it’s not my cup of tea but I’ll give it a go again and see how it turns out!
7 May 2011, 11:55
My husband is just like that with pizza. He has built his own pizza oven by hacking an old Weber grill and a turkey fryer. We eat a lot of pizza at our house.
7 May 2011, 11:55
Thanks for arranging these challenges Shimelle.
Have seen quite a few different people/organisations this weekend with challenges but they are all such short deadlines. With two children I need that extra bit of time. So thanks for allowing us a week to complete these challenges.
Must say I am really liking the examples you are giving for the challenges and have scraplifted the first 2.
Keep the fun coming x
7 May 2011, 11:56
Thanks for the inspiration today Shimelle! It was just what I needed to get a page created today.
7 May 2011, 12:02
I’m still locked-in on the visual triangle design concept. Can’t help it; it just really works for me.
7 May 2011, 13:34
A coffee qualification, eh? So now, if scrapbooking no longer pays, you can open your own cafe and invite us all to come and be customers (a ready-made customer-base perhaps?).
I love those designs on top of the drinks – so clever!
A triangle… sounds so easy, but I bet it’s not as simple as it seems… I feel a challenge attempt coming on!
Thank you Shimelle!
7 May 2011, 14:20
m so glad we have a week..there are so many great challenges out there for NSD..hope to get a couple of yours done Shimelle!
Alison xx
7 May 2011, 14:23
Great layout, I just wish I liked coffee :(
7 May 2011, 14:26
Sounds like the perfect gift! I hate coffee except frappuccinos & had my first one of the summer today :)
7 May 2011, 14:42
I would love to do a class like that! Love coffee :) And love knowledge, too!
7 May 2011, 15:15
Loved this!!! I created a triangle using my pictures :)
7 May 2011, 15:28
Your challenges are such an inspiration, I love them all! :-)) And it’s great that we have a whole week time!
7 May 2011, 16:22
you could just have something there Shimelle, …a scrap cafe!! lol! another super challenge,will link mine tomorrow x
7 May 2011, 17:12
One of the assignments on a photography course I am doing was to take portrait photographs with triangles in them! Very glad you are giving us a week to work on these!
7 May 2011, 19:34
Wow – great coffee designs! I think that’s a cool birthday present!
7 May 2011, 20:35
Love a good coffee and visual triangles – a match made in heaven really!
7 May 2011, 23:17
This challenge was more difficult than I thought it would be. But…it resulted in a completed page so I’m happy! :) I linked up!
8 May 2011, 04:25
I submitted my ‘first holi’ layout. It sort of was inspired by your 4×6 layout this month at two peas, but lacks the correct number of pictures. Adding more just threw the balance off and I ended up trying to make a triangle with the photos themselves. thanks!
8 May 2011, 06:26
I love using visual triangles in my layouts. It really keeps the eye moving around the entire page.
8 May 2011, 09:03
coffee pics are very cool… always wondered how they get it to do that?!?!!
thanks for another great challenge…. NEXT :)
8 May 2011, 13:29
Posted the link on the right page this time! A triangle formed by the title, row of butterfly stamps and punches and single stamped flower and punched butterfly. Thanks for the format from 4X6 photolove from March.
8 May 2011, 17:14
Just added my page. Not sure I’d have scrapped on NSD if it wasn’t for your challenge. Not that I’m goal oriented/ deadline driven or anything like that …
8 May 2011, 18:27
Thanks again for all of these ideas! ~Jen
9 May 2011, 17:10
Love this layout, must bookmark it for another time. Mine? I don’t like it at all! We live and learn. xx
9 May 2011, 17:20
Hi Shimelle, this one really challenged me at first – could’t think what to do for it, and then I saw Rachel B’s page and loved it! I asked her if I could scraplift her page and she said ‘of course’! So I have also created a triangle using my photos. So thanks to you and to Rachel! x
9 May 2011, 17:44
Triangles are very handy! :) {Except in love! LOL!} But for scrapping it’s a basic thing … like coffee! :)
10 May 2011, 01:09
I was able to do three of the challenges – thanks for the inspiration Shimelle!
Rinda
11 May 2011, 11:24
I love using the triangle, it makes it so much easier to place items and find balance :)
11 May 2011, 15:58
The triangle technique is new to me, so I was happy to complete this challenge and have a new technique under my belt! Thanks for the great idea!
11 May 2011, 18:31
great challenge!
12 May 2011, 01:31
i am always inspired by your layouts. thanks for sharing great design concepts.
12 May 2011, 22:15
Loving these challenges!
13 May 2011, 11:55
Love your photos – my triangle is of 3 flowers
14 May 2011, 11:48
Just added my link too. Arggh, having trouble commenting.
14 May 2011, 13:10
I’ve made a triangle of penguins for this challenge!
14 May 2011, 16:06
This is a “rule” I usually always follow. Unintentionally!
14 May 2011, 18:34
I use this design principle a lot. The layout in my link was made using a triangle of embellishments and the colour scheme from this weekend’s colour combo blog hop, hosted by a fellow BBFS classmate.
14 May 2011, 20:12
I do visual triangles a lot. This one was a bit challenging since I did it across a two-page layout. I like the results though.
15 May 2011, 07:03
I created a pink triangle on one of my February mini layouts & have also linked some of my other designs that feature triangles in my post.
15 May 2011, 11:22
Liking the whole triangle idea and glad to have been able to join in thanks xxx
15 May 2011, 15:41
I remember the rule of threes from the days of art classes – always fun! What is it about odd numbers being so good visually? Thank you for the challenge!
15 May 2011, 17:38
Love butterflies and they are practically made for visual triangles ;)