Greetings, scrapbookers! This week we’re celebrating the week leading up to National Scrapbooking Day 2012 (Saturday, May 5) with the theme “scrapbooking around the house.” Each day we’ll host a variety of activities to get your scrap on, including tips, challenges, and prizes GALORE on both the Creating Keepsakes and Club CK blogs. On Saturday we’ll continue the festivities in both places, and we’ve also teamed up with Big Picture Classes to bring you a FREE 12-hour Creative Crop (sign up to reserve your spot today).

As we scrapbook around the house, today we’re visiting the LIBRARY. Let’s see how CK Dream Team member  Autumn Baldwin approaches it.

Hi there! I created a video teaching you how to create these beautiful dimensional flowers from paper torn from an old book. I think you'll find it super easy! Here's a list of the scrapbooking supplies I used:

• pages from a book
• circle punch (mine was 2 1/2" in diameter)
• ink
• scissors 
• dry adhesive (such as a tape runner)
• a brad for the flower center

Watch this short video (under 4 minutes!) and find out how quick and easy it can be to create pretty book paper flowers for scrapbooking and card making.

Challenge

Create a flower using my tutorial and use it to embellish a scrapbook page, card, tag, picture frame, or other project. If you don't have book paper handy, any paper will do. Upload a picture of your artwork to the Club CK idea galleries and you could win a sweet scrapbooking prize containing tons of paper and embellishments from  BoBunny Press and  American Crafts!

I hope you enjoy this flower tutorial!

--Autumn Baldwin, CK Dream Team member

Create a flower using my tutorial and use it to embellish a scrapbook page, card, tag, picture frame, or other project. We'll randomly choose one challenge participant to receive a scrapbooking prize from BoBunny Press and American Crafts.

If you'd like to participate in the challenge, here's what to do: 

1. Create a project based on the challenge above.
2. Upload a photograph or scan of your layout to the Club CK gallery. (how to upload to the gallery)
3. Leave a comment below with the URL link to your layout in the Club CK gallery; for example, your comment could look like this: "Thanks for the great challenge! Here's my project: http://clubcreatingkeepsakes.com/media/p/31086.aspx."

Note: Previously created layouts are not eligible; images and comments must be posted on or after May 1, 2012, to be eligible.

Your images and comments must be posted before 9:00 am MDT on Monday, May 7, 2012, to be considered for the contest.

Congrats to our winner, readmorebooks! To claim your prize, watch for a message on your profile page.