Happy Friday Sweet Shoppers! Can you believe that July is half way over? Where has the month gone? Seriously! But I do know that it is STILL the heart of Summer here in the Midwest. It’s HOT.HOT.HOT. We’re spending our days cooling off by the pool, playing sprinkler baseball and having dinners of only corn on the cob hot off the grill. PERFECT.  We’ve also have been catching up on the movies as well – Fantastic Mr. Fox, Toy Story 3 and we’ll see Despicable Me tomorrow! But more importantly – are you where you want to be with your July Portfolio? You do realize that you have an extra Saturday in July, right? And there also is 5 Blog Bonus Challenges this month as well.

This Friday I bring to you a scrapper that I hope will inspire you to stretch your creativity.  This week we are focusing on Zuzana Rajnakova {Zuzanar}.  You can view her gallery here.  Zuzana has been scrapping for almost 3 years and her favorite program is PS CS2.

It’s very hard to find my 3 favorite layouts, I like all of my pages, because I scraped my dear daughters there. :))

My LOs are my memories for the time I spent with them. Love these happy and sometimes crazy days.

I had a few questions for Zuzana to answer about scrapping and her style.

Q. What is your favorite element to work with?
– I don’t have favorite element. I like flowers, frames, leaves, bows…. everything which fit to my selected photo.
But my favorite thing of my scraps is the big blending. Love this action!!

Q. What would your ideal kit be?
My ideal kit has a lot of wonderful elements for crazy girly pages. It has beautiful papers which are suitable for blending. And of course fantastic alpha and WAs. It must be original, colorful and funny.But i am not sure whether my ideal kit even exists. I am still looking for it. :))

Q. What do you do when you are not online?
– Most of the time I spend with my girls – Alexandra and Viktoria, we love nature and amimals. Besides scrapping I like gardening and photography.
My NIKON is my third child. And I’m a big fan of reading books, but I don’t have so much time for them now.

Q. Where do you find scrap inspiration from?
– I love visiting different galleries for inspiration. And sometimes when my scrapping mojo has disappeared, I go taking pictures.
And then looking at the photos of my girls I always find the new inspiration.

Blog Bonus Challenge #3. Using Zuzana’s gallery for inspiration, create an original page with a photo blended in the background.  Please upload your layout using SSD products to the Gallery. Make sure you mark for July Portfolio with Blog Bonus #3.

REMEMBER: this challenge cannot be combined with any other portfolio challenge. It can, however, be combined with a New Release for a total of 2 points.

Here are some Babe Layouts to inspire you as well.

Meg used Retrospect by Dani Mogstad

And mine using Don’t Feed the Animals by Mandabean & Dani Mogstad:

Darla’s using Just Breathe by Lauren Grier & Kristin Cronin Barrow:

And Shannon’s using La’s and Kristin’s Everything you Are:

Have a fantastically fun Friday!! (: