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Inspiration Gallery Spotlight!

In our spring issue we fell in love with the "you are my sunshine" layout on page 72 by Laureen Wagener and wanted to know a little more from Laureen about this project! Here is what Laureen had to say about it!

"I was away on vacation with my parents and wanted to scrapbook so I took some supplies with me! Of course I couldn't bring my beloved Silhouette so I needed to get creative with the idea I had in mind. I saw a painting of an umbrella catching raindrops and I immediately knew I had to transform that into a layout.

I drew the shape of an umbrella and the different sections of it and traced them onto patterned paper and simply pieced them together. Stitching gave the final touch. I wanted to use a picture of me and my best friend and decided to turn the raindrops into little hearts ;) The supplies I had on hand were absolutely perfect for creating a long title with different letters!

Thank you so much for reading how this page came together - I definitely had fun creating it and it was a nice change to scrap without many supplies on hand!" ~ Laureen

You can find more of Laureen's work at the links below:

Blog: http://www.madamerosenrot.blogspot.de

IG: http://www.instagram.com/madamerosenrot

Spring time with Doodlebug Designs!

At SCT HQ's we are looking out at the window at a great deal of snow which is only making us long for spring today! We spent a little time this morning on the Doodlebug blog and suddenly if felt like spring is just around the corner. We could not resist sharing some of the treasures their design team has created including our very own design team member Virginia Nebel!

Accordian mini album by Virginia Nebel

Layout by Virginia Nebel

And then there's a little Easter too!

Does this give you a little taste of spring like it does us? We sure hope so!

Reader Spotlight: Angie Blom

Good morning! It's Card Cafe Thursday and we're pleased to feature SCT friend, reader and Crop & Create teacher Angie Blom! Angie has designed for Unity Stamps for many years and is best known for her Angie Girl series. In our winter issue we featured Angie's 100th Angie Girl when she submitted this beautiful card below for our Inspiration Gallery.

If you look closely you'll even see where Angie hid "100" in the card! We asked Angie to share how she created this beautiful card and she was only too happy to offer her steps. 

"I love the clean and simple way of showcasing a stamp. By using copics and some neutral layers you can easily achieve this look.

1. Simply stamp image onto white cardstock.
2. I stamped this image using Memento black ink. I find for my copic markers this is the best ink to use.. do not use archival or permanent inks as they tend to ruin your markers.   
3. Using a variety of copic markers  just start to colour your image. Adding shadowing and depth to your image.  
4. Then using your favourite die cut to frame your stamped image. 
5. Simply layer onto your card base with pop dots. 

I am one that just uses the same colour to add the shadows where needed. I do this by going over one part of the image with the same colour, it might take me 2 or three strokes on the same area. 

For the background I use a light blue and lightly stroke in the background colour. if you are looking for the  copic colours, I used B00 or B000 for this look." ~ Angie

Thanks so much for sharing Angie! Here are all the places you can find Angie and more of her designs:

Blog-   http://angieblomdesignstwo.blogspot.ca/

Unity Stamp Company- https://www.unitystampco.com/?s=Angie+Blom+&post_type=product

Facebook Artist wall - https://www.facebook.com/Angie-Blom-Designs-177653862272019/

 

 

10th Birthday Celebration - Day EIGHT!

"Happy Birthday SCT!!!!  What an awesome milestone…10 years!!!  I am so happy to be contributing a little something to help celebrate!!!  I have a thing for tissue paper flowers!  I make them for birthday parties, Grad parties and mini ones to decorate gifts!  Tissue is inexpensive and comes in a rainbow of colors so it makes for the perfect material!  

Here are a few super simple steps to help you create these pom moms of fun!!!

Gather some pretty tissue paper.

Make sure to layer 7+ sheets of tissue.

Fold the papers in 1”-1 1/2” folds “accordion” style.

Secure the folded tissue in the centre with twine, floral wire or a pipe cleaner and round the ends with scissors.

Separate and gently pull the tissue towards the centre.  Fluff as you go.  I like to work on one side at a time.

Tada!!! You have a lovely pom pom tissue flower!!!

You may have seen these a time or two in a few of my photos…

Can’t wait to see how you use tissue flowers to decorate at your next celebration!!!  Happy crafting!!!" ~ Vicki Boutin

 Day EIGHT - Giveaway

Prize 1: Pink Paislee

C’est La Vie is a sophisticated, new paper collection featuring bright colors, rustic textures, and chic typography. Fun new products like Mirror Stickers, Cork Glitter Heart Stickers, and beautiful Spiral Notebooks, allow you to easily create on-trend, upscale projects in a flash. Ooh la la!

Prize 2: Your Next Stamp

Happy 10th birthday SCT! We are so pleased to offer a Your Next Stamp prize package for your readers that includes:

Party Animals stamp set

Stripe-tastic Hearts die set 

Ice Ice Baby Sparkle Gumdrops 

Prize 3: PinkFresh Studio

Document noteworthy memories and details of everyday life with Life Noted collection from Pinkfresh Studio designed by Kinnari Zaveri. This collection will cheer you up with it’s bright and happy colors and graphic lines along with a bit of gold. 

Hooray! What an amazing "loot bag" from Pink Paislee, Your Next Stamp and PinkFresh Studio. To be entered to win, please be sure to leave a comment below by Wednesday, April 6th! Please also join us each day as we thank our partners for their wonderful prizes and for all their support for SCT over these TEN years by clicking on the links below for their Facebook pages. We have loved seeing our readers visiting their pages and guess what? They LOVE hearing from you!

Pink Paislee

Your Next Stamp

 PinkFresh Studio

Day EIGHT - Challenge

Hidden throughout the spring issue are 10 little cupcake/dessert images. Each day we will share the image you are to find and at the end of the 10 days, when you've found all 10 cupcakes that coordinate with the image we share each day, you'll email us and be entered in to the draw to win a $250 mystery box! OH MY! If you don't have a physical copy of the magazine, you can view or download the spring issue HERE. This is today's image you're looking for: 

We are just days away from our grand prize! Would you like to know what it might be? It's worth over $800...any guesses?

~ Catherine

Publisher, Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine

We want to see you...in the next issue!

  

Hello friends! Not sure if you've seen, but we have not one but TWO different calls for artwork submission coming due! We are working on a special card issue releasing this fall and we would love to see all your creative cards!  We are also hard at work on the fall issue and our reader's gallery is always a favourite!  For more information on these calls and our easy submission process, be sure to visit our website here!

We look forward to seeing your artwork!

 

 

Reader's Spotlight Wednesday!

Hello and thank you for stopping by on Reader's Spotlight Wednesday!  This is one of our favourite things to do and I promise you we are going to do it more often.  Like once a month!  On the last Wednesday of each month we are going to feature YOU, our reader!   Thank you to all those that submitted, we LOVED seeing your work!  Here are several that caught our eye...

From Wendy Antenucci - love that photo!

From Sandy Clinton - love the 3D effect of these cards!

From Jean Coto - a beautiful mini album cover Jean!

From Violet Verhoog - just stunning Violet!

From Crystal Schneider - absolutely adorable Crystal!  Cutest mouse ever

So great ladies!  Thank you for sharing and to all that submitted!  Please feel free to send us a quick image of what you're working on anytime.  Put "Reader's Spotlight" in your reference line and you might just see your work right here.  

Now go and have a creative day friends!  Our team is in multiple directions this week putting the final touches on the beautiful spring issue, attending our Crop & Create Markham, ON event and getting ready to WOW you with our brand new Blossoms & Breezes spring kit!  It's never dull around here!

Join us tomorrow as one of our favourite card designers, Melissa Phillips will be joining us!  See you then!

~  Catherine