paper: Challenge 01 :: Lots of Little Photos | pretty paper. true stories. {and scrapbooking classes with cupcakes.}

Goodness me, I have a lot of photos from those twelve days. Thank goodness I dropped my phone and not my camera! Does a giant stack of new photos make you excited or intimidated? It is actually one of my very favourite things about scrapbooking: I never feel like I have to make it through every photo in the stack, so I’m excited by all the potential in those new photos! Of course, if I made them all single photo layouts, I’d need even more room to store all my albums, so let’s be practical with this first challenge of the weekend: create a new page with lots of little photos!

A few posts in the archives might be useful for this challenge: Glitter Girl’s Multiple Photo Mayhem adventure and a double page Sketch to Scrapbook Page spin both include process videos, and Formulas for Stretching Supplies shares four layouts from one kit to scrap seven small photos and one big one.

Now, to get you started on this first challenge, take a look at these fabulous examples from contributing designer Nicole Nowosad and guest artist Michelle Gallant.

Halloween is always a busy time of the year in our house, carving pumpkins and pulling costumes together. Every year I try to take photos of each of my kids for Halloween all dressed up and thought it would be fun to make a bit of a recap page on this project. I had so many photos to scrap that I was a little stumped at first at just how to pull them all together. I decided to print some smaller photos of each of my kids as well as their group photo for each year and then create mini flip outs on my page to keep them all together in one year!

I simply cut a 3“x 12” strip of paper and scored it every 4”, folding it accordion style to the inside of another 3“x 8” piece of folded card stock that I decorated with some die cut shapes, vellum, and wood buttons. I added in each of the small photos and stamped their costume to the empty area in the mini flip out before securing the little mini books to my page in a simple grid. It is a great way to tuck in lots of small photos in a simple and interactive way too!
- Nicole

I decided to use these photos of my kids because it was the first year we let them carve the pumpkins by themselves (with a little help with the cutting). They were so proud!

For my project I used mostly the Go Now Go collection. I love the colors of this collection, it was perfect for my pumpkin page!
- Michelle

I’m leaving all the challenges open until the end of the following weekend to allow more time to participate, but the special discount on the new class will be sent to those who upload a new project just this weekend – by the end of Sunday, 30th of October, 2016. This is for new layouts created this weekend, not archived layouts made previously. One discount applicable per person. You can upload your page to another site (blog, Instagram, Facebook, scrapbooking gallery, etc) and use the InLinkz button above to link to that OR you can upload a photo of your page directly with the same button rather than linking elsewhere. Either is fine! If you have trouble figuring out what to click, give a shout in the comments and I’ll email you with help. Thanks!

Today’s Guest Artist: Michelle Gallant loves taking photos, spending time with family and watching hockey. You can find more from Michelle on Instagram, and her blog.

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28 October 2016

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