Welcome to Week #5 of our weekly challenges, #scrapbooktechniques202305’s recipe is ready for your creative endeavors.
Lets Look at this week challenge in detail. This challenge is focused on creating a scrapbooking layout and should contain the following items:

S2305 – Little Stinkers – Stamp of the Month (May)
- Supplies
- Create a scrapbook layout – Any size or number of photos is fine, it can be a single or double page
- Focal Points
- Create a masculine themed layout
- Papers
- Use a metallic or shimmer paper in your layout
- Ideas
- #scrapbooktechniques202305 challenge
- Techniques
- Use a stencil and texture paste, mousse to create a raised texture area on your layout
- I will upload a technique video this week to show you how I created mine
- Colors
- Use Harbour or other similar deep blue color
- Tools
- Use a Stencil
- Coloring Tools
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- Use either colored texture paste or create your own to match using reinkers and white texture paste
- Embellishments
- Add a library card and pocket to your layout
- Creative 15
- We are going to rethink how we organize, so spend 15 minutes each day thinking and documenting how you reach for scrapbooking supplies
- This could be by color, theme, manufacturer, etc.
- How to enter
- Upload your finished project with the hashtag #scrapbooktechniques202305 to Scrapbook Techniques’ Facebook page
- Deadline
- Your entry must be uploaded by May 31, 2023 in order to qualify for our drawing of the May or June Stamp of the Month
Lets take a closer look at my poster for this challenge, which documents most of the various components of this week’s scrapbook layout challenge.
- Supplies –
- My layout is a 8.5×11 letter sized layout that will go into my 2023 weekly challenge binder inside a page protector
- Focal Point –
- This is a non photo layout since its all about documenting the challenge.
- SCRAPBOOK TIP: Don’t forget that you can also do non photo layouts to tell a story
#scrapbooktechniques202305 Weekly challenge
- Papers –
- I used one double sided patterned paper from Hey Handsome for the splashes of color in the top and bottom border
- One 12×12 sheet of Harbour Cardstock
- One 12×12 sheet of orange shimmer cardstock
- Ideas –
- All from this challenge #scrapbooktechniques202305
- Techniques –
- With a very light busy background, I choose dark cardstocks to emphasize my black & white challenge options.
- Colors –
- I used the Close To My Heart colors of Harbour & Paprika
- Tools –
- To create my borders on the top and bottom, I used the zip strips off of the 12×12 Hey Handsome paper pack and then added a black rick rack border to the bottom.
- Coloring Tools –
- Just a little black on my tag containing my logo (printed out on clear sticker paper) was about all the inking I did on this page
- Embellishments –Â
- I used several pieces of chipboard to add a few embellishments. These were all from my orange small embellishment stash.

Here is my completed scrapbook page planner so you can see how it might be used for this challenge.
I can’t wait to see what you create with this challenge and please ask any questions below.
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- Black Exclusive Inksâ„¢ Stamp Pad Item Number: Z2805
- X6062 – Harbour Cardstock
- X7292S – Hey Handsome – Paper packet + sticker Featured colors: Harbour, Rosemary, Pine, Paprika, Mink, White Daisy, Black.
- X7292S – Hey Handsome – Paper – Design 1
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