It’s Monday and once again time for a new Daily Dose Challenge! This week we’re taking inspiration from Maureen Spell’s cool layout featured on the April 7 page in the Daily Dose Calendar. I love how she used an unrelated website to jump start her fabulous layout. There is a multitude of inspiration out there just waiting for us on the web. The best part? It’s completely free! So today I want to challenge you to create a layout based on inspiration from the web.

Challenge Seven:
Web Inspiration

Here’s a cool website to spark your creativity! Use it for inspiration or feel free to browse the internet on your own to find the perfect motivation for your next layout. Either way, post your layouts to the Daily Dose Gallery and provide a link to the site that inspired you. 

Need a jump start? Here’s how I along with my fellow CT members were inspired from design we found on the web.

Web Inspiration (www.thepioneerwoman.com)
The clean lines, large photos, vellum overlays, and design of this website inspired Steph to create this beautiful layout…

Tree Tapping Credits: Layout by Stephanie Vetne; Botanist Notebook No 2 paper pack; Summer Skies Solids paper pack; Sentiments and Greetings Hand Drawn Brushes; Remember Word Art; Word Label Strips; Cut-Up Black and White

Web Inspiration (www.christensencreative.com which we found through the posted inspiration site,  www.narrowdesign.com)
Both Wendy and I unknowingly picked the same site for our inspiration! (What are the odds? lol.) But it’s such a testament that two people can take the same inspiration and end up with completely unique layouts! I love that!

Enjoy Life Credits: Layout by Wendy McKeehan; Lolly Solids paper pack; Lolly Rub Ons; Lolly paper pack; Enjoy WordART No 01

Undeserved Blessing Credits: Layout by Deena Wuest; Stockhom Simple Page Set; MonoBlendz Paperie - Lima; Graphic Pop Border Strips; AL Constitution and Avenir Fonts

It felt like summer in the gallery with this lovely, fresh layout by lpate

Blue and white is such a classic color combo, and that photo is a classic beach shot too. I love how the long, horizontal cropping of the photo leaves lots of airy, free space around its subject. You could make use of the space by using one of Ali’s great overlays and/or journaling directly on the photo. The layering of the paper stips on the side adds perfect weight and extra interest to the layout. Lots of inspiration here, as Crissy and Fiona found out!

Credits: layout by Crissy, Laurel paper by Michelle Martin (coming soon), Vintage storyboard frames and notebook edge frames by Katie Pertiet, Golden Bay kit by Lynn Grieveson, Stitching and curvy corner stitching by Anna Aspnes, Staple its by Pattie Knox.

Credits: Layout by Fiona, Naturelle Paperie, Monoblendz True Taupe and Light textured neutral paperie by AnnA Aspnes, Watery Wahes No.02, Watery cornes and edges and Stitching holes no. 02 by Katie Pertiet.

~ Lynn

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This is nearly late! But its still early Wednesday where most of you are right? right!
This weeks itunes challenge is one of our favourite albums in this house.  And such artwork on the cover, the first time I saw it I just wanted to frame it! here it is in all its glory…

There is never a right or wrong way to take inspiration from these challenges you know. Be it the colours, the layout, the teeny tiniest idea or a total lift; the ideas are yours for the taking.
See the Creative Team’s fabulous examples this week….
Laura hit a home run with a fabulous lift. So like the cover and yet so much her own…

If your thinking of a total lift along these lines you might want to check out Cassie’s photo brush tutorial which is very helpful in making those face brushes…

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Terri took a little of the CD cover work and made this ooh-so-true clever layout,

And mine is somewhere between the two, a lift but not quite… if you see what I mean!

We really had fun with this layout, and I’m hoping seeing how the team ran with it will inspire you in all kinds of ways. Make sure you post your layouts for the challenge to the itunes inspiration gallery here - Cant wait to see them!

I’m a week late here I’ve wrapped up my Hugs & Kisses book and have a wonderful treasure to share and I hope you have too!

And now you can purchase the entire collection or if you prefer snag the page titles and design your own pages!

If you need some helpful tips to get your book uploaded to Shutterfly, read this post for more detailed instructions!

Thanks for playing along!