Ombré in scrapbooking

There are so many fun ways to add the ombré effect to your scrapbooking pages.  You can use paper, watercolor pencils, ink, misting etc. to give your background or embellishments a fun and trendy look.  Challenge 6 in Super Stashbusters was to use the ombré on a layout in some way. I opted to follow the sketch and used paper in my background to create the ombré.  I found that I didn't have a ton of patterned paper that would go together and create the look I was going for, so I had to use some background stamps to add some visual interest to my plain old cardstock.

Here is the final result:

Products used:

Flaxen ink Z2642

Desert sand ink Z2118

Bamboo ink Z2103

Cocoa ink Z2114

Glacier ink Z2641

Clay ShinHan maker

Peacock green ShinHan marker

White daisy cardstock

Desert sand cardstock

Bamboo cardstock 

Cocoa cardstock

Glacier cardstock 

Hopscotch paper X7149B

D1540 in the background 

E1030 handwritten 

A1150 charming chevrons 

C1618 Year>>Noted (only available this month for $5 with a $50 purchase on my website)

Stamp from the hopscotch scrapbooking workshop on the go

Junebug puffies Z3038

Teal shimmer trim Z1918

Tags Z1684

Aqua dots Z1853

All of the above is available on my website at Sharesa.ctmh.com

Challenges

Nothing like a two for one right? I had two challenges this week (one from super Stashbusters and a CTMH one) and I decided to combine them into one layout. Here is the finished layout:

I wanted a layout that I could hang in my house to show our goals for 2015.  (Challenge from CTMH).  I followed the sketch from Super Stashbusters challenge numer 7 (yes I skipped challenge six and will come back to it later).  I used the paper from the Year>>noted paper (January National Papercrafting Special), along with the gold foil stickers and stamp set. I love this list and am so excited that it only cost me $5 with a $50 purchase. 

Here are a few close ups:

See those white dots? Those are the reduce, reuse, recycle part of the challenge from Super Stashbusters and are pieces of paper from my three ring hole punch.  I am loving this layout. I love that is has all our goals and a picture that shows how old we all are when these goals were made.  It uses our word for the year and is a pretty reminder of what we are striving for this year.

Products used:

Desert Sand cardstock 1273 or in cardstock combo Basics X5933

Year >>Noted paper 

Flaxen ink Z2642

Glacier ink Z2641

Light orange ShinHan marker

Clay ShinHan marker

Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge Z1686

Artbooking Cricut cartridge Z1906

Tags dimensional elements Z1684

Teal Shimmer Trim Z1918

Auqa Dots Z1853

All of the above are available on my website (Sharesa.ctmh.com)

Happy Friday!