Scrapbooking challenge :: Half Page Designs
This idea of how individual pages make a full album is something that’s on my mind so much recently. It applies to that idea of adding in more photos or writing to help things make sense, but it also applies to the design. We can create pages with so very much in that 12×12 space – plenty of photos and patterned papers and accents. As we turn the pages in our albums, those sorts of pages become less appreciated when our eyes get a bit tired from taking in all the details.
Every once in while, I love the break from a really detailed page to go with something simple that leaves plenty of room for your eyes to relax. It helps if you really love the patterned paper, like this lovely and simple floral from the Ever After collection by Pebbles. That helps a minimal design not look too stark, but still less overwhelming than some more crowded pages. So this page will work like that – with the design kept to just two colours and half the page space!
One other product I love from Pebbles that is easy to miss – Candy Dots. They are simple little dots in pearls, jewels or buttons, with a glue dot there on the back so you can just add them without any messing about with the adhesive. This pink and green wedding was accented with grey, so I used grey Candy Dots in the middle of each butterfly. They are such a simply way to dress up a layout with that special something!
How about a challenge? Create a layout that only uses half the page. It can be whatever half you would like, but somewhere around half the page space needs to be breathing room!
Many thanks to Pebbles for sponsoring this challenge! You can find them on Facebook and Twitter, so be sure to follow them!
One entry will be selected to win a prize pack of scrapbooking supplies from Pebbles. Entries close at midnight next Sunday (21st August 2011).
Feel free to use the comment section to chat about this challenge, as the entries should go in the linky widget!
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14 August 2011, 12:37
This is a tough one! “Half-naked” layouts scare me:)!
14 August 2011, 12:41
A perfect challenge for me :) Your layout is so beautiful..I like how the colours “fits” with the photo.
Inga
14 August 2011, 12:46
Arrghh! I’m going to find this one so difficult, I tend to use almost all the 12×12 space that I can! That’s the reason they’re called ‘challenges’ though I suppose!
Love the colour combo. X
14 August 2011, 12:52
Adorable page with a great idea of blank space without being…well, blank.
BTW, how many more wedding pages do you have to do? Maybe you can have another weekend crop to help you finish up that big stack of pictures! : )
14 August 2011, 12:52
Another great challenge although I’m a minimalist usually almost Cathy Z minimalist. It’s only your beautiful pages Shimelle that get me to push those boundaries.
14 August 2011, 12:53
White space scares me so this shall be interesting!
14 August 2011, 13:02
I have been trying to implement a few of these in my pages and really struggle with them. My husband doesn’t help when he peers over my shoulder and wants to know what I am putting in the empty space! LOL
As it is now the wee hours of Monday morning where I am I shall have to save this challenge and any more that pop up in your day and finish them during the week.
I have had a great time squeezing in as many as possible over the weekend. Thank you Shimelle for organising this fabulous three days of challenges! Now to try and finish them all. This is a great way to keep me motivated.
14 August 2011, 13:05
I like white space on a LO, very much my style. Your page challenge yesterday that covered most of the LO in pp was out of my comfort zone!
Love the design of your LO.
14 August 2011, 13:27
Beautiful layout! Love the color combination. I used the same pink/green combo last night when I did my Stickery Challenge layout. What a great challenge.
14 August 2011, 13:41
This was so my bag. I’m all for clean LOs with space. Your LO is amazing. Love your colour combination x
14 August 2011, 13:52
I had fun with this and created something a bit different – almost minimalist, for me at least XD
14 August 2011, 13:54
I’m proud to be a scrapbooker because I have a hobby which is fun to do and teach my GodDaughter too.
14 August 2011, 14:06
So pretty, sweet and simple. Love pink+green. It’s one of my fave color combos.
14 August 2011, 14:30
Done! That was a quick challenge! Although my page is nothing where the eye can relax… but I have used only the half page, so I think it counts!
14 August 2011, 14:39
Fun challenge! Not sure I have ever done that before!! I have some of those candy dots, thanks for mentioning them…i’m not quite sure where mine are!! Time to go looking through my stash!
14 August 2011, 15:10
I have only just did 2 pages like this they are up on my blog if you wanna take a look? http://miss-hippy-chick.blogspot.com/
14 August 2011, 15:15
I love this layout, the soft pink is so pretty. I learned about “white space” I think it was called in a design class I took. It really lets you focus on the photo.
14 August 2011, 15:31
I saw someone say that they were scared of white space. I’m the complete opposite. I love it. It pairs well with my graphic, linear style.
14 August 2011, 15:34
I often leave white space on my layouts but the really are white space so using a whole sheet of patterned paper will be the challenge for me. Thanks for another push to try something new.
14 August 2011, 15:36
Wow! Love the colours in this layout!
14 August 2011, 15:38
Simple and beautiful layout! This will be a challenge for me :)
14 August 2011, 15:39
Half page, ok! I’ll give it a shot!! Some awesome entries already..
14 August 2011, 15:43
I’ve done, and love the result. Thanks for the inspiration, as always :) x
14 August 2011, 15:56
This helped me scrap the single photo I had of the Cape Hatteras lighthouse from our vacation. Thanks for the challenge!
14 August 2011, 15:59
Oh no not white space!LOL I will really try hard on this one. The examples are beautiful. I can do it!
14 August 2011, 16:10
Great challenge, Ive already linked mine up…think that must be something of a record for me to be so quick :0)
Kate x
14 August 2011, 16:47
I stop now, for today. I am half way all the challenges. But my arm and neck says it’s enough. So the rest will be for the rest of this week. I really loved the weekend. Looking forward to the next. Big hugs from the Netherlands
14 August 2011, 17:12
Looking forward to trying this out sometime this week…I hardly ever create LO with this much white space so it will certainly be a challenge. I love looking at your LOs for inspiration and you seem to cover ever angle available, hehe!
14 August 2011, 17:17
Thanks for a great challenge! I love the pink and green layout- so soft and pretty!
14 August 2011, 17:27
Although I often do layouts with plenty of ‘white space’ and often in just one half of the page I don’t think I have ever done one with such a busy bkgd so that for me was the real challenge.
14 August 2011, 17:39
Simple, yet beautiful. This might be my favorite challenge so far!
14 August 2011, 17:41
Loved it, loved it, loved it. Thank you Shimelle x
15 August 2011, 01:17
Love this idea, and I try it often. But usually I can’t help but keep adding more to my white space!! I’ll try much harder this time :-)
15 August 2011, 01:17
…ah wonderfull idea…many thanks.
15 August 2011, 04:16
I’ve used my Counterfeit Kit to do this challenge – perfect for a busy, dark photo as it let’s you focus on it rather than a load of other bits and bobs!
15 August 2011, 07:58
Love the idea of ‘white space’ but do find it hard to achieve, but have done my best!
15 August 2011, 08:15
Perfect opportunity to use some pretty papers.
15 August 2011, 10:09
I loved this challenge so much it finally convinced me to partcipate for the first time! Very pretty layout with all that pink.
15 August 2011, 11:43
Great challenge, simple but beautiful.
15 August 2011, 11:58
I had already created a page that fits this before i read your post!! so thought I may as well link it! Thanks for the inspiration as always
15 August 2011, 16:24
I thought I would have a hard time with this one—I’m not used to leaving so much space. But I found it very freeing. I love the look of it, the simplicity of it.
15 August 2011, 18:12
This is another one I love … I am a huge fan of “white” space.
16 August 2011, 07:31
Loved this challenge & I was able to use a previous weekly sketch from Shimelle as the starting point – double whammy!!
Emma x
16 August 2011, 09:40
Just my LO, blog post will be done later!
16 August 2011, 10:09
Loved the simplicity of doing this LO :)
16 August 2011, 10:27
I’m going to be able to use this again and again – love it.
16 August 2011, 10:42
I LOVED doing this layout of my sweet little son!! Thanx for this challenge Shimelle!
16 August 2011, 11:37
Combined this with the retro photo challenge, but it was really hard to resist putting more on the page!
16 August 2011, 13:52
Fun Challenge! This is the first challenge, after the sketch of the week, I have tackled! I am happy with how it turned out! It actually started the theme for 2 additional pages. Thanks!
16 August 2011, 14:53
These challenges are great for my Albums! I am never able to do the “white space” pages although I love them and so jelous that I am not able to hold back! I am pleased with my LO this time though.
16 August 2011, 20:41
I usually like filling my page, so this was tough one. Fun though. Thanks.
17 August 2011, 06:09
Done, kept it easy by using scraps.
17 August 2011, 09:37
Hooray I can at last leave a message here! Been trying for 2 days! Loved the challenge of leaving blank space although I cheated a little as my PP was a picture background!
17 August 2011, 12:05
I don’t know how you make white space look so good. My page just looks empty.
But I did the challenge and have learnt some things to avoid LOL.
17 August 2011, 17:59
I enjoyed the half page challenge – I sort of found myself still working on the ‘threes’ challenge, even though I’d submitted that, but this could go in either! A pretty background is great to show off, and this is an idea I’ll try again, for sure!
17 August 2011, 18:34
Scary – blank space always looks half finished for me but I managed a layout using some gorgeous patterned paper and I am really pleased with the result – thank you for helping me to work outside my comfort zone on this one!
17 August 2011, 23:19
I finally managed to complete this challenge. And I surprised myself, I really liked the finished product! So much so, that the page I completed after this one had more white space on it than normal LOL
18 August 2011, 03:41
I loved this challenge because I love to see lots of space on a page or to put it another way, a concentrated area of scrapping :)
18 August 2011, 06:58
Very challenging this one – half the size of a normal LO and it seemed to take me twice as long!!!! I had the final bit of black cardstock on and off about 10 times – it just was too bare for me without it – and about 3 feet outside of my comfort zone!!!!
Thanks Shimelle, I was really pushing my boundaries here
18 August 2011, 08:42
Loved this challenge! I uploaded my layout :)
18 August 2011, 09:02
Just uploaded my layout. Love the way this puts the focus squarely on my photo!
18 August 2011, 21:34
Linky, linky :)
19 August 2011, 08:45
This one was quite tricky for me as my I do my layouts on 8×8 and although I picked my picture quite quickly there wasn’t that much room to play with. I’ve loved challenging myself with all of these projects and thinking outside my usual box.
19 August 2011, 08:47
loved this one…and did a simple page so you could see the lovely tim holtz paper like you said!!! yum xxx
19 August 2011, 12:51
lots of empty space..I have the urge to stick something in it! Mines uploaded
19 August 2011, 15:00
Love this empty space layout! I will certainly do this more often.
19 August 2011, 15:03
This wasn’t so easy for me. I like to full my pages. But I did it!
19 August 2011, 16:16
Love the ‘white space’ on this LO. Thanks for the inspiration!
19 August 2011, 16:52
I was able to complete a few layouts this week thanks to all your great challenges, Shimelle. I enjoyed the simplicity of this one, being limited to only using half the page.
19 August 2011, 17:44
The page I did for this drove me mad, but I really love the finished LO. Thanks so much.
20 August 2011, 04:30
Don’t usually like using ‘white space’ But this didn’t look to empty.
20 August 2011, 07:01
A tough one for me as I scrapped my dad for the first time since he passed last year xx
20 August 2011, 14:31
I don’t usually do this kind of LO, but I have a cool Project 365 digital template that Shimelle made a couple of years ago, which I use a lot. I don’t trust myself to get this kind of page right, but I trust her.
20 August 2011, 20:34
This was the simplest layout I ever made! Thanks for the inspiration…..
20 August 2011, 22:41
I did not expect to do this one – but I was carried away by inspiration! Love it!!
21 August 2011, 00:13
I LOVED this challenge. I’m going to have to do it again sometime.
21 August 2011, 03:04
A good challenge for as I rarely use patterned paper as a background,but I love the result. x
21 August 2011, 06:04
This was a great challenge – I always usually feel the need to spread out on a page – it was good to limit it to half the page!
21 August 2011, 06:30
I really enjoyed doing this, keeping it minimal yet using 6 photos, great challenge thanks :-)
21 August 2011, 09:33
Struggled with this one but really liked it in the end. How many more can I fit in?!
21 August 2011, 10:43
I use a lot of white space on my layouts so this one was easy!
21 August 2011, 10:57
Hi – this is my 2nd attempt at this challenge. I couldn’t get the right combo of photo and pp so I started over and I’m much happier now. I actually really enjoyed it once I got going and will definitely use the half page idea again. :-)
21 August 2011, 11:06
This is so much my stlye I had to do this challenge even though it’s almost a last gasp. Thanks for a great weekend of challenges.
21 August 2011, 13:07
I just love the simplicity of this half-page style of layout. The white space really creates impact for the whole.
21 August 2011, 14:27
This one was quite a challenge for me….as my pages are usually very full….but love the result.
21 August 2011, 14:33
gotta love white space :)
21 August 2011, 14:38
Love your example LO more than my own, but definitely a technique I need to try more. Thanks a million Shimelle!
21 August 2011, 15:47
Another great challenge! And another wedding photo scrapped!
21 August 2011, 16:50
Creeping a litte into the top half, but I think I get away with it! :)
21 August 2011, 17:31
I always love a little breathing room:)
21 August 2011, 18:16
I found this one daunting… until I found the right paper for the background!!! :D ~Jen
21 August 2011, 18:46
I’ve had the background paper in my layout for years… it’s finally got used thanks to this challenge. Thank you!
21 August 2011, 20:17
Thanks for a great challenge!
22 August 2011, 00:12
Wonderful challenge. I love the simplicity of the half page layout and don’t make myself do the often enough :)
22 August 2011, 06:51
Here is the post with a the layout!
30 August 2011, 14:48
So I know I am too late, but I loved this layout and couldn’t wait to have fun with it. Thanks!