May Challenges: CSI Scrapbook cases 281 and 282 Curious Pets and Favorite Things

Case 282: The Cat Lady Illustration 

On my green/orange Mr. Curiousity page, the elements I took from the illustration were-stripes from the wallpaper, fuzzy sticker (Dollar Tree for the win), loose color inspiration. My dog loves investigating everything in the house and his ears hear everything. It's usually the first thing that people say about my dog when we walk by THOSE EARS! A long time ago in a scrapbook magazine I had read about cutting out the negatives for the alpha stickers. I still try to do that now to be thrifty and toss less in the trash can.

This other page that goes with Mr. Curiousity uses the elements from the illustration of textured paper, diamond shapes (also wallpaper in the "scene"), and the inspiration sketch given this month (maybe this is a new feature of the challenge or a special occasion!)  gave me the use of a large circle on the page and 3 cluster of square/rectangle. Instead of using a calendar for the journal inspiration, I did my dog's to do list.

You can find the CSI challenges for May here. 

Case 281: The Travel Theme hand-drawn illustrations

For this case file, I opted to still do the favorite things journaling prompt but not make it travel based. The elements the case used were wood, labels, stamp, type writer. The illustration also had hand drawn items and a lot of neutral white space-so I tried using stickers with a similar feel and putting the 8.5 x11 neutral over the busy floral pattern. I miss those American Craft sticker books for the hand drawn stickers, I found them at a scrapbook show years ago.