You Make Me Smile {Bramble Fox NSD Challenge}

Bramble Fox is having a huge event for National Scrapbooking Day this year, with loads of fun challenges called "Can't Live Without." Each design team member is posting a challenge to use one of her favorite products. My challenge is to use WORDS--word stickers, rub-on words, embellishments featuring words, text patterns, etc. I love how they add extra color and interest to my page and also help to convey the story I'm telling. They also do a great job of moving the viewer's eye around the page.

Here's a page I made for this challenge, another one for one of my students.

Here are some details. My first Bramble Fox Perspextive I used is this awesome smile frame. For those who've been following me for a while, you know I love monsters for scrappy pages, and Sassafras Lass' monsters are my all-time favorite. I added some words to my page in the form of speech bubbles I fussy-cut from patterned papers, as well as this frame.

More words in this shot--this fave tab, one of the Perspextives in a recent Fox Box. You should really subscribe to the Fox Box because each month you get a lovely assortment of embellishments.

These darling hearts from the Hearts Galore pack are a perfect accent for any page. I cut that frame from the Sassafras Lass monsters paper and added old Doodlebug rub-on letters for part of the title. Those letters are over 15 years old, but they rubbed on like butter! And seriously, how cute are these monsters?

Confession: This is one of my favorite papers ever, and I had bought 3 sheets, I think. I was so worried I'd run out of monsters, I went in search of this paper. I looked all over the internet until I found what was probably the last sheet--and it was in a pad of paper, so I bought a 20-dollar-plus-shipping pad of paper to get two sheets of these funky monsters!

So, I hope you'll come play in my challenge. If you have Perspextives, we'd love for you to use them on your page, but you don't have to have them to play--and this would be a perfect opportunity for you to win some of these amazing embellishments. The DT got to pick out the prizes for our challenges, and my pick is my very favorite Perspextive, Jar of Hearts:



Add your layout to my album on the Bramble Fox Friends Facebook page, for chance to win this lovely piece. You're welcome to combine this challenge with any other challenges out there--my other favorite challenges are Paper Issues challenges and CSI:  Color, Stories, Inspiration.

Oh, and as a bonus, there's a discount and a special



Each designer will award their favourite Perspextive set (plus some mystery pieces). Plus there will be overall winner who will receive this goodie bag of Perspextives.