April 30, 2007
Our May Featured Designer, Sharon Jeffs has been hard at work to show you how to incorporate stamping in your layouts. This week she has been working with the gorgeous Fancy Pants Designs Clear Acrylic Stamps. Here’s a look at her creations:
Contemplating Mischief - Sharon used only one large corner stamp for this layout. She has created the circle out of wedges of paper scraps and stamped over the corners. The effect was the creation of a stamped circle to coordinate with the circle shape of the papers.
Tween - Sharon has used a swirl stamp to lengthen the floral bunch on either side as well as stamping the acetate with the two butterflies then folding and sewing them down. She has used Stazon Ink to stamp the plastic.
Summer - Using a distressed rectangle stamp to create a border over the 4×6 photo and finished off with a small corner stamp on each of the opposing blank corners.
If you haven’t been to Ali Edwards’ blog of late, it’s well worth the visit. She has created the most amazing album using My Mind’s Eye 4×6 inch transparency frames. I have wanted to use these frames for so long, Ali’s book was the perfect excuse. So here’s my scraplift of Ali’s idea.
The title of the album is Life Is Good and features Miss I and Baby A. I am trying to capture the immediate bond created between siblings from the moment they meet.
I have used the following products; C Thru Ruler Company Titles Rub ons, MME Printed Paper and transparencies, Prima Marketing flowers, butterfly and jewels, Making Memories Cheeky Clips Flat Neutral and Glue Dots Mini.
I loved how easy the album was to put together, i hand cut one of the 12×12 chipboard sheets from our store and covered it. My normal hole punch was strong enough to go through the chipboard and the printed paper - it was nice not to need any special tools.
I have cut up the C Thru Ruler Company Titles rub ons and used the words individually, this was really effective. You don’t need to use these rub ons as a title.
Miss I was so excited when she saw the Prima tin I was working from, i had to do some serious explaining to keep the gorgeous butterfly in my collection and not hers.
We had ice cream in our house this week - it was came in a really nice sturdy box … so when we finished i put the box in my office to use for packaging. My gorgeous four year old daughter asked if there is ice cream in my office. I explained the box was to be used for sending an order to one of my customers, her reply was “but they will see the ice cream box, open it and it will only be scrapping stuff, they’ll be sad”.
What would you rather? i think the answer is pretty obvioius!
Have a good day.
A
April 29, 2007
Congratulations to Lisa Hallett, the winner of our April Paper Challenge. Lisa’s gorgeous layout below incorporates Carolee’s Creations Easter Fun and Easter Description patterned papers. Lisa has won a $25 gift voucher to spend in our store.
The gorgeous Terri Holbrook reviewed our MME Transparencies this week and this is what she had to say:
I love the way they liven up a page without overpowering the whole thing. They were easy to adhere with a small dot of Dimensional Magic in each corner. They could also be adhered with brads,eyelets etc for that little bit of extra texture to your page.
The frames were the perfect way to actually frame the subjects in each layout, bringing it all into focus.
Terri’s layouts incorporating the transparencies are below.
This week the newsletter winners included a couple of my lovely friends. Annette L won the Crateboard Alphabet and Claire won the Crate Memory Can. Congratulations ladies.
April 22, 2007
We are looking for our June Featured Designer. We will be focussing on Collection Packs/Kits in June. A lot of manufacturers are putting together packs or kits containing coordinating products from their product ranges. Manufacturers such as Basic Grey, KI Memories, Doodlebug, Cosmo Cricket, Crate Paper and more have some stunning ranges for you to work with. We invite you to email us your layouts featuring Collection Packs/Kits to annette@thescrapbookestablishment.com.au by no later than 10 May 2006. The chosen Featured Designer will be required to create two layouts per week during the month of June and will be provided with four Collection Packs/Kits to work with along with a $50 gift voucher to spend in our store. We look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you so much to everyone for your submissions to our May Featured Designer call. We were overwhelmed with the quality of the layouts, you made our decision very difficult. Our very first Featured Designer will be Sharon Jeffs. We simply loved her work and look forward to seeing what she will create during the month of May.
We will announce the theme for the June Featured Designer call in our next store newsletter.
Here is Sharon’s submission for our Stamping featured layout:
We will announce the theme for our June Featured Designer submissions shortly.
April 17, 2007
I realised i had neglected to publish the Newsletter winners for the past two weeks.
The winner of the Cropper Photo Storage Box was Lynette.
The winner of the Cathy Zielske Clean & Simple the Sequel idea book was Jacquie.
The winners of the Heidi Swapp Tulip Masks were Jane and Susan.
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Lots of gorgeous products arriving again this week:
- Creating Keepsakes Idea Books - restock Ali Edwards and Photography for Scrapbookers
- Scrapbook Trends, Paper Trends and Card Trends Idea Books
- Glue Dots - Pop, Mini, Memory and Lines Adhesives
- Bumblebee Crafts Large Sequin Flowers and Fleur Discs
- Hambly Studios Rub Ons
- Fontwerks new release Clear Stamps
- Aussie Scrap Source Bare Books
- Basic Grey Precision File Set restock
- Cuttlebug Die Cutting Machine, Cutting Dies and Embossing Folders
