Happy Monday! We hope everyone had a great weekend. For those of you who joined us at the Creativ Festival...it was great to see you. We always love the opporunity to meet our readers and we hope you enjoyed all the fun projects and make n' takes. What a fun filled two weeks it has been with both ScrapFest and the Creativ Festival. We can't wait to see everyone again in Toronto and Oshawa in the fall.
Looking ahead to this week we have a fun filled week on the SCT blog. Joining us today and Wednesday is Celeste Smith whose artwork and style we adore. And, lucky for you, Celeste has even offered some great free downloads for you!
"Hey there! I’m so excited to be the guest designer this week on the Scrapbook & Cards Today blog. Pinch me! This year I’ve made it a goal to read 100 books. Yes that’s right 100 books, work full time, and keep up with my scrapping too. A little ambitious maybe? So far I’m on track to make it, barely. My son, Adam is joining me and he’s having a much easier time of it. He’s been reading up a storm. In order to document his love of reading, I decided it was high time I put together a layout about it.
I knew I wanted to include some book paper on my page so I dug into my stash and found a packet of vintage papers from Jenni Bowlin Mercantile. I had a lot of choices in the pack, but I was drawn to this dictionary page because I had already decided my title would be devour and this page is actually one of the DE pages! Fun!
Of course, I couldn’t start my page without the kraft cardstock base, it is my go-to choice lately. Selecting the rest of my product was a breeze, I simple dug into my Jenni Bowlin Mercantile April Kit and pulled product from there. The colors in the kit look great with the yellowed book paper! I added the yellow block to ground my elements then strips of papers from the kit – the blue paper is actually Pink Paislee packaging and the green is tissue paper! I spiced up the wooden alpha title by replacing the letter O with a wooden button threaded with some ribbon. I decided to journal on a manila tag and used a typewriter like font to go along with the vintage book paper. I printed my journaling on regular white computer paper, then I adhered the tag to the paper and ran it through the printer again.
So here’s my challenge to you. Find some paper that has text on it – it could be vintage book pages or it might be new scrapbook product – and incorporate the paper into a layout, card or project.
If you don’t have any in your stash, you can visit one of these sites and print some!
Pugly Pixel
http://www.puglypixel.com/2010/05/16/free-clip-art-paper-buffet-all-you-can-eat/
Agence Eureka
http://bibigreycat.blogspot.com/
The Graphics Fairy
http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/
Just Something I Made
http://justsomethingimade.com/2010/09/free-vintage-digital-images/
Percy & Bloom
http://www.percyandbloom.com/the-vintage-moth/2010/9/11/antique-ledger-pages-free-images.html
Be sure to come back here and link up your projects so I can see what you create! I’ll be back this Wednesday to share a couple other projects with a couple of downloadable freebies that you can use on a digital page or print to make a hybrid one! Until then, happy crafting!
-Celeste Smith
To learn a little bit more about Celeste, be sure to visit our website HERE where we have asked Celeste a few questions and asked her to show us her favourite layout right now!
That is a beautiful page, and a very cool idea to incorporate the paper that way.
Posted by: Bobbi-Lynn | April 18, 2011 at 10:36 AM
you know i love that dictionary page and kraft combo!
Posted by: Monika Wright | April 18, 2011 at 10:50 AM
Thanks for those links, Celeste - LOVE your page!
Posted by: Cheryl Overton | April 18, 2011 at 11:15 AM
Wonderful layout Celeste! Thanks so much for the links and the inspiration! :o)
Posted by: Nancy | April 18, 2011 at 11:16 AM
Beautifully done! love the text element here!
hugs
Posted by: Maria Matter | April 18, 2011 at 11:19 AM
fab layout (as always), and i love the challenge! woot woot!
Posted by: Aly Dosdall | April 19, 2011 at 12:21 AM
Congrats on being featured Celeste! Fabulous layout!
Posted by: Cassandra aka Scrap Savvy | April 19, 2011 at 01:09 AM
What a great layout. This would be perfect for my daughter who is a voracious reader, too.
Here's my card using text paper from the Basic Grey Kraft pad.
http://ninabdesigns.blogspot.com/2011/04/happy-brithday-flower.html
Posted by: Nina | April 19, 2011 at 04:14 AM
great page. i love how you incorporate the dictionary. tfs
xo Felicitas from Germany
Posted by: Felicitas | April 19, 2011 at 10:02 AM
Beautiful layout! Thanks so much for the links.
Posted by: Nancy Damiano | April 19, 2011 at 01:00 PM