Notebook Paper

Hey guys! It's Mandi here!

If you're anything like me, you've got lots of scraps of paper lying around in piles. Sometimes reminders, sometimes lists, sometimes, uh... bills... or notes from friends. This week's challenge is to use the abundance of notebook paper, that, let's face it, we all have. You could layer paper from different pads, leave the frou-frous on the edge, rip the paper, paint over the paper, or just leave the lovely lines show through. If you're really feeling *green* you could reuse paper that has already been written on. In my layout, I used a note from one of my scrappy friends. You decide what you want to do with the notebook paper, and post a link here when you've finished.

On another note, we've got some big news this week at TAIF! We are very happy to have the incredibly talented, witty, and super cute Ashley Wren join our team! Her picture should be up there on the left with the rest of us very soon!

And we are also extremely excited to have the amazingly creative Kristina Contes join us this week only as our guest designer! She is one of my favorite designers and is a very inspiring artist.

Here's what she had to say...

"notebook paper...ahh the lovely lines. when i was thinking about this prompt, so many ideas came to mind. vintage ledger. holes. frays. so many options, but i became really focused on the texture created when you rip them from their spirals. turning something you would find on the floor in a classroom (or maybe not anymore, damn am i getting old) or stuck to your shoe into art. thus finding art. thus busting out the gel matte medium. rock."

here's her layout:

and here's what our girls came up with!

Ashley's layout:



Kara's layout:
(she gessoed over the paper)

Mandi's layout:

Rhi's layout:

annnnnd last but NOT least- CHRISTINA! aka Tina Lynn! You are the lucky winner of Kara's journal! Be sure to PM her your address so she can get that off to you.

Thanks everyone for coming along this week, and we look forward to seeing what you come up with!

EDIT:

I am so excited to offer this AWESOME handmade notebook made by the amazing Kate Bing as our RAK. So get your projects uploaded and entered in it!

Note-

If you are interested in hosting a RAK, possibly through your Etsy shop or to bring more attention to your product. Email me at-- karahaupt @ gmail.com. Thanks!