14 Friday Mar 2014
Posted in Scrapbook Steals
Note: This is my second post today, check below for the first part of my Paperie Card Kit Reveal!
I have a product post up at Scrapbook Steals today and I’m just a bit in love with the product! As a matter of fact, the more I used it, the more I wanted to play!
Remember the sneak peek from the other day? Interested to see more? Go check out the full post here!
S.
24 Thursday Oct 2013
Posted in Scrapbook Steals, This & That
I’ve been busting with this news and today I can finally let you all know – I’m on the Scrapbook Steals Fall/Winter Design Team!
Go check out the official post here and take a look at the awesome girls who I get to work with – I can’t wait to get started!
S.
28 Friday Jun 2013
Posted in Card Kit, Mixed Media, ScrapBook
I have two LO’s left to share with you from the card kit, but I’ll only be posting one today. I have a couple of guest posts happening over on The Paperie blog through July and I’m holding onto one LO for those posts. I’ll let you know when to go check it out!
The card kit had a great sheet of pink cardstock in it that would make a fabulous card base but I couldn’t make it work for the picture I wanted to use, though I did want the pink. So I altered it to suit – in my mind, being able to change product to suit you is the number one best thing about mixed media!
I used matte multimedium to adhere some Ranger Tissue Wrap onto the cardstock. Over that I painted some layers of white gesso. Although gesso is normally used as a base and primer, one of my favourite ways to use it is to tone down colours and patterns.
I left some areas brighter, with less gesso, than others on purpose, like the title area:
I really wanted to focus to be the title and photo, so I grounded my pic with layered strips of Allison Kreft paper and some washi tape, with a bit of twine tied around the photo itself. I finished that section with a brad and a punched border, all to draw your eye into that area:
And overall, it’s pretty subtle, with just the right hint of pink for my girl and I:
This LO was about a conversation Molly and I had approximately three weeks before Gabe was born – see how I can’t get the bottom button of my coat fastened? – and she was only 20 months old. It was pretty easy to get her to promise to “always be my baby!”
S.
19 Friday Oct 2012
Posted in ScrapBook
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Krista blogged her regular 5 for Friday today and one of her 5 was about how a particular card would look great “on a layout-opening up and unfolding like an accordion. It would be a nice way to hide some journaling and supporting photos.”
And I immediately remembered a certain LO I did many years ago.
The Paperie used to have an inhouse design team of which I was a member. I remember applying, then making it as a finalist. The last step I had to go through was to pick up a sample pack, a small kit really, and do a LO – all the finalists got the same kit. I walked into the store to get mine and saw Chris and Janna, the owners, sitting on the sofa that used to be in the old location. And they were watching me intently. Weird. Then I got the kit and they burst out laughing. Apparently they had been doing that all day, just watching the finalists faces as we saw what we had to work with – big, black floral BG paper from the Black Tie collection and super wide black ribbon, among other things. We were all horrified and terrified at the same time. What the heck to make with that?!?!?
Well, here’s what I did (click on any pictures to view them larger):
It was almost a year after our wedding and I had never scrapped this particular picture, taken on the deck of my family cabin. I figured flowers must go with a wedding picture, right? There were more pictures that I wanted to use as well but then, as now, I veered towards single photo LO’s and hidden journalling – so I made an accordion album behind the flower to showcase the other pictures.
And I hid another piece of that floral paper behind the main photo and added my journalling to it.
I called it done and was more than happy to be finished thinking about what to do with that paper! Obviously, it wasn’t a terrible LO since I made the design team and loved every minute of it – though I grumbled a lot under my breath since everything I did those days was full of fussy cutting….. But that’s a post for another day!
Have a great weekend everyone! I’m taking Krista’s kit making class tomorrow and heading out with the kiddies for Pumpkinfest at Lester’s Farm Market – there should (crossing my fingers) be some good pics to show next week!
S.
