Studio Calico

NSD Challenge: Letter Stamps

Are you ready for the next challenge?

Nicole S, Geralyn and Kinsey want you to get our your letter stamps and ink pads!

Nicole-

Supplies:  Classic Calico II Basic Grid and Tiny Chevron patterned papers; Stepping Stone stamp set; Stazon Black inkpad; Tin Can Chalk Ink;Sunset, Taxi, and Passport Mister Huey's; Veneer Stars; More Vellum; fine tip paintbrush and water

Supplies: Destination paper, First Class paper, Abroad adhesive badges, Abroad fabric paper clips, wood veneer stars, Versafine onyx black ink pad, Dear Lizzy roller date stamp

Kinsey-y-

Supplies: Take Note 6x6 paper pad, Mister Hueys Boss Lady, Circles mask, Plano mask, Anywhere thickers, veneer people, Abroad tags, fabric paper clips, Stepping stone alpha stamps, Noah alpha stamps. Hero Arts: Soft brown shadow ink. Jenni Bowlin: Chewing gum ink pad. Prima: Old rose chalk ink edger. Other: sponge daubers, white and kraft cardstock, tiny attacher, foam dots.

Post the link here to your project that has been posted in the member gallery by May 13th for you chance to win a collection pack from one of stash of prizes!

 

NSD Sketches

It wouldn't be a weekend dedicated to scrapbooking without some sketches!

Here are 5 new sketches from the design team galleries.

based on Geralyn's layout.

based on Susan's layout.

based on Davinie's layout.

based on Kelly P's layout.

based on Nicole H's layout.

Have fun! Post your sketch layouts here!  

sunday sketch

Happy Sunday everyone! We've got a another wonderful sketch for you to try this week. It's from Geralyn's City of Lights gallery. 


Magdalena aka Rockersmorsan is our sketch contributer this week. Here's her take on Geralyn's layout.


Here's what Magdalena had to say about the sketch.

I was inspired by the number of photos and the polaroid look. I'm a messier scrapper than Geralyn so I scattered my pictures over the page, rather than using straight lines. I used a border like her, but I made mine vertical. Then I splattered my layout with paint, paper slivers and veneer asterisks. Such a fun sketch!

Play along with the sketch this week and link us up to your layout by Monday, April 23rd for your chance to win a SC GC!

weekly challenge

Hi everyone! It's Geralyn here today with this week's challenge. If you're like me, you take lots of snapshots of food: delicious meals you ate, photos of your child's favorite foods right now, maybe even photos of some new recipes you've tried out. However, the photos often end up staying in the computer folders and never get printed out. My challenge to you is to print out some of those food pictures and make a page documenting the story behind the photos! 

Here are some recent layouts I've made about food:

Supplies: Daydream Believer kit & add-ons, Fountain Pen dye ink, Uniball white pen

Story Hour kit & add-ons, Fountain Pen dye ink

I hope you have fun! Link your layout back to this post by April 2nd for a chance to win a SC gift card!

Geralyn's Insider Tips

Hi everyone! It’s Geralyn here today, and I wanted to show you how I used Studio Calico’s super fun new Airmail stamp set from the Abroad collection to create the design of my travel layout.
I started out by stamping the polaroid stamp several times on a sheet of Folio paper. Then I cut out each polaroid frame so I could move them around and arrange them on my page until I was satisfied with how they look.

After figuring out the design, I decided which polaroids would have photos and which polaroids would be embellished. For added interest to the page, I also stamped some of the phrase stamps from the Airmail stamp set around the arrangement of polaroids.

Once I decided where the photos and embellishments would go inside the polaroids, it was just a matter of adding a title and journaling, as well as a few more embellishments around the page. Super simple right? :) I also used the cute luggage tag stamp in the corner so I could date the page (I cut off the JFK part since these photos were taken in San Francisco).


Look for all the new Studio Calico stamps to arrive in stores this March. Hope you enjoyed this little peek into my process of putting together a layout and I hope you’ve been inspired to pull out your stamps and use them on your pages!

Sunday Sketch

We've got another great Sunday Sketch to share with you!  Here's Geralyn's awesome layout from her Daydream Believer gallery along with the sketch:

Talented message board member Sharyn Tormanen (Torm) took her turn with the stetch and look at what she came up with:

Sharyn says: "I loved working with this sketch! When I very first saw it, I thought what a fun way to add a lot of element and focus!  In the end - I didn't get quite as many as Kelly did - but I do enjoy my results. From the sketch I pulled the placing, the bit of journaling and title work.  In 211 I was fortunate to be part of a hot air balloon crew, and I have literally hundreds of photos to select from, but on this layout, wanted to focus on my two little boys and how well they behaved and enjoyed crewing as well. 

The stamp is from a Studio Calico Kit from a couple years ago, and I couldn't resist putting it to work here. I used the more current alphabet from Stepping Stone for the title. Both are colored with my Copics."

I especially love the colored in Stepping Stone letters - what a cool look!  Play along and link up your layout using the sketch by Monday, February 27th for your chance to win a SC GC.  Have fun!

Sunday Sketch

It's Geralyn, with your Sunday Sketch this week!  The sketch is based off of Lisa's layout from the November Handmade gallery...


Here's my layout using the sketch:
Supply list: Wallpaper paper, Lovebird paper, Scarf paper, Frolic paper, Memoir 6x6 paper pad, Teal label stickers, Memoir chipboard buttons, Noah alpha stamps, Storytime alpha stamps, Amy Tangerine mixtape, American Crafts white cardstock, Uniball Signo white pen, Jenni Bowlin dye inks

I used the new Memoir and Autumn Press paper which are now in the shop!  Link up your layout using the sketch by Monday, November 21 for your chance to win a SC GC.  Have fun!

Weekly Challenge

Hi everyone! It's Geralyn and I'm excited to host my first challenge here at the SC blog. My challenge for you this week is to scrap some polaroid photos. There are lots of ways to do this...maybe you have a stack of Fuji Instax photos that are waiting to be scrapped. How about using a polaroid stamp? You can also create some faux polaroids by matting your photos onto white cardstock.

Here's the layout I came up with for this challenge. I love these photos of my sweet newborn nephew. I made some faux polaroids by cropping the photos into squares in Photoshop and leaving a white edge around the photos when I trimmed them.
Supplies: vanilla cardstock, Countryside die-cut blue Topographical, Grove paper, County Line paper, Harvest paper, Guess Your Weight paper, Barn Swallow paper, Type fabrips, Yellow fabrips, 6x6" Labels - orange, Countryside tags, Addy alpha - green, wood veneer heart, Uni-ball Signo white pen
I hope you have fun with the challenge! Remember to post your layout and link it up to this blog post by Monday, September 26 for a chance to win a SC gift card. I can't wait to see what you make.