20 Minute Scrapbook Page Challenge

I’ve been given the above sketch and 20 minutes to make a scrapbook page.  Now to be quite honest with you, I hardly ever make single page scrapbook layouts, so I’m going to push myself a little further, I want to make a 2-page layout in the 20 minutes.  I have to admit, I’m going to be pushing it and it’s going to have to be kept simple, but here we go.

I grabbed up two sheets of Kraft (soon to be renamed as Crumb Cake) cardstock, the Itty Bitty Backgrounds stamp set (retiring), Close to Cocoa craft ink and of course my pictures.

Here are the pictures I plan to use.  These pictures were taken Bayside at Bethany Beach last year.

I had a 8″x10″ picture that I decided to cut in half and use as the horizontal strip across the page.  Being as my pages are 12″ wide and picture is only 10″ wide I had to use a little ingenuity but nobody will ever know when they see the finished project.  I have mounted the water pictures on Not Quite Navy cardstock.

Before putting the strips of picture across the pages I stamped the bottom of each page with the Itty Bitty Backgrounds stamp set in my Close to Cocoa craft ink.

Whew!  Believe it or not I finished early!  I considered trying to add a little something extra but then thought better of it knowing I’d end up going overtime just from sitting there thinking about what else I could add.  Needless to say, moving at the pace I was going, I didn’t have much time to take pictures along the way.

Here’s the right hand page of the layout.  This is the page most in line with the sketch I was given.

And here’s the left hand page.  I used the Go Go Boots Big Shot dies to cut out the title for these pages.  I kept it nice and simple considering my time restraints!

Here are the pages together.  What do you think?  Like I said, it’s a very simple but I was pretty impressed with myself getting that much accomplished in 16 minutes!

Thanks for stopping by!  I look forward to what next Fridays challenge holds!