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Good morning! We have a treat for you! Sarah Hodgkinson has put together a beautiful package of cards for you using her favourite combination - Core'dinations and Jillibean Soup. In fact, it is kind of like a card class...for free!
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Good Monday morning! Hope everyone had a great weekend! Easy, Detailed, Expert is one of our most popular articles in each issue. It is always so interesting to see how one designer takes their layout through the paces and shows how to incorporate different elements to build a layout. Vicki Boutin recently taught an "Easy, Detailed, Expert" class at ScrapFest featuring Imaginisce's Apple Cider line and we asked her to share it with us, along with instructions, so that you can have a quick and easy layout idea for today! We will share her Detailed and Expert layout on Wednesday. Today's challenge is to create a fall themed layout and adapt this layout to fit your style!
Supplies: Pattered paper, Imaginisce; Chipboard stickers, Imaginisce; brads and buttons, American Crafts; cardstock, Core'dinations.
To create the Give Thanks 12x12 layout: EASY
1. Trim a 7” x 10 ½” piece of the green doodle paper and round all four corners. Attach the paper 1” from the left side on the green cardstock and ¾” from the top.
2. Trim an 11” x 2” strip of the word paper and attach it along the left side of the layout, 5” from the top.
3. Trim an 8” x 1 ½” strip of the wood grain paper and cut a “v” shape in both ends. Attach on the word paper, 3/8” from the right side.
4. Add the “give thanks” chipboard piece with adhesive foam squares to the wood grain paper strip.
5. Punch two 1” circles from the orange cardstock and attach them on either side of the chipboard title. Add buttons and raccoon chipboard shape.
6. Photos: 2- 5 ½” x 3 ½”
Have a wonderful Monday and join us tomorrow as Sarah Hodgkinson shares some beautiful holiday cards!
~ Catherine
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The 2011 PageMaps Sketch Calendar is off to print today and we could not be more excited about to release it! From the beautiful design to the stunning artwork, from the techniques to the bonus sketches, from the sponsors that provided our designers with great product to the wonderful practicality of it. We really are thrilled to share it with you in...less than 2 weeks! This limited edition calendar we are sure will be on your bookshelf long after the year has come and gone with it's 26 never before seen sketches that will keep you inspired for some time.
Since its Friday and you know how much we love to give things away on Friday's, we thought why not give away TEN calendars! Want to be one of the lucky ones to have this calendar before it hits the stores? Just leave a comment below and we will choose TEN winners. And, who knows, one of the ten winners might receive one of the calendars that has the famed "golden ticket" in it to win a very special prize. Good luck! (we have only about 100 remaining so if you would like one, order here)
Want to know who won last week's amazing Imaginisce prizes? Here are the lucky winners:
the i-top tool goes to:
and the i-rock goes to:
I love that the i-rock can be used on paper AND fabric. I have a couple of projects I can't wait to try this tool on. It is going on my Santa's wish list! Thanks for the link to the Imaginisce website. Their site has some very cool ideas. Posted by: Mary K | November 16, 2010 at 04:05 PM
Congratulations ladies! Please be sure to email us your address with "I won Imaginisce" in the reference line to ideas@scrapbookandcards.com and we'll get that prize out to you! A special thank you to Imaginisce for sharing these prizes with our readers!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone! See you on Monday for another great (and I mean GREAT!) week!
~ Catherine
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Just a quick post to let all our Project 12 followers know that we have a surprise for one lucky person who completes all 12 months! A BIG surprise! There is still plenty of time to catch up as we will not finish up 2010 until January 15th! If you want to learn more about Project 12...click here! December's sketch will release on November 27th so be sure to join us right here!
Want to know what tomorrow's giveaway is? Well, as we are entering the season for suprises, why don't we start right now! Join us tomorrow :)
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Back in September I did a demo of the Parisian Anthology papers from House of 3 with Rebecca of Pink Paislee. I admit to completely missing the boat with this product but after trying them out I had to get some for myself. Although I consider myself to be a far more graphic scrapbooker I was really taken in by the simple artsy nature of these papers. I really love the idea of taking something artsy and making it fit my style. So I challenged myself to get out the papers I bought back in September and take them for a test drive. I used a sheet of “Beautiful Butterfly” and a mix of inks from Ranger to get this custom one of a kind paper I used on this layout.
(Supplies Used: Bazzill Cardstock, Patterned Paper from Cosmo Cricket and Pink Pasilee, Alphas from Basic Grey, Buttons from Fancy Pants, Inks from Ranger, Mini envelope from Maya Road, Stampin Up Punche, Sticker Accents from Cosmo Cricket, misc Gemstones, Font Arial Narrow)
Take a look at how I transformed the Parisian Anthology papers …
What I found so fun about this paper was that the more I played the more the paper transformed right in front of my eyes. I could easily make it fit any layout by simply changing up the colors. To get a better idea of how these papers work check out this wonderful video from Pink Paislee http://pinkpaislee.com/category/videos/
Thanks for joining me today outside my comfort zone!
~ Summer Fullerton
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A fun digital product I like to use are digital overlays. A digital overlay is similar to transparencies in paper scrabooking. They typically look like a large frame or border so part of the image is transparent. You can print them directly onto your layout or onto inkjet transparencies to be used on top of you layout.
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Here's my layout:
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EEk, I'd love to win!! That card was SUPER adorable and only gave me another reason to need the i-top, lol!! - April W Posted by: April W | November 12, 2010 at 11:03 AM