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NSD Challenge: Multiple Photos

Ready for your last challenge? It's a good one! 

Susan & Jen want you to use 5 or more photos in you layout. Think you can do it? I know you can!

Susan-

Supplies: FabRips FIlmstrip, Chevron One, Cameo Silhouette, Veneer Hearts. 

Jen-Supplies: Take Note Fabric Clips, Take Note Adhesive Badges, Paper Garland Woodgrain, Take Note Alpha Stickers, Wood Veneer People, Anywhere Thickers, Somewhere Else.

Post your layouts here by May 13th for you chance to win a collection pack from our stash of prizes!

monthly kit spotlight

I love Aprils's main kit, City of Lights. The Jenni Bowlin Stencil Lettering Guide is an awesome piece of paper that can be used in so many different ways, and there are a lot of great patterned papers included as well. I thought the Gold Glitter Pow paper and Mister Huey's Cameo and Dewey would be great additions to this kit, so I made sure to do some cutting with my Silhouette Cameo to incorporate those items. I'm a total sucker for butterflies so I was of course smitten with the Sassafras butterfly stickers, they are a great way to add a little extra oomph to your pages. I was also able to get some more use out of my Knockout punches, as well as my Dear Lizzy Roller Date stamp.  This page really came together super quickly, and that is thanks to an awesome kit. 

Jen's Tutorial

Hi guys! It's Jen here with a super quick and easy tutorial on creating the flower I used on my 1 Year layout from this months Brooklyn Flea Gallery. 

I love to use large embellishments on my page, and this is an easy way to create your own. The fun part is that you can use whatever paper you want and embellish it any way you want for endless possibilities. 

To begin, you'll need to cut about 6 or 7 strips of 12x12 paper, more or less depending on how large you want your flower to be. I like to have varying widths, so I cut my strips anywhere from 1/4 inch to 1 inch wide. 

Next, you'll take each strip and fold the ends in to the center so that they overlap a tiny bit. Do not crease the ends, just just gently fold. Then staple or adhere it in the center. I like to staple with my Tiny Attacher just because it's a little quicker. 

Now I just layer one by one. I start by layering 2 at a right angle, staple those together. Then you just add them as you go, layering them at different intervals. Staple each one a few times just to be sure it's sturdy. Once you get to the last few strips it can be a little difficult to staple, just work with it and you'll get it. 

Finally, I punch a circle and place 2 stacked American Crafts foam adhesive circles underneath and then place in the center of my flower. I then adhere the entire piece to the page with more foam adhesive.
Supplies: Memoir Collection Linen Paper, Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher, American Crafts Foam Adhesive, American Crafts Slick Writer, Brooklyn Flea Kit, Snow Cone Kit, More Kraft Kit, More Vanilla Kit

Hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial!

Journalicious Week

We thought an idea this cute needed it's own adjective. Whether you create a personalized journal, a fun notepad, or a one of a kind mini album the new Studio Calico journal kits make it fun and easy.  Not only are they versatile, they are simply adorable!

We're going to showcase the new journals here on the blog for Journalicious Week.  We've got lots of journals from the Design Team to share.  I created this one using the new woodgrain journal.

I love these new journals Studio Calico has put out. They are so perfect for just adding little bits and pieces of things, and documenting as you go. I decided to create a journal housing images of home decorating ideas that I've found on Pinterest. It's a great way to keep me inspired and keep me motivated to actually do some of these things. I love that I can add to it as I go, and there are a TON of pages in these journals so I won't run out of room anytime soon.

Supplies: 4x8 Woodgrain journal, Autumn Press Scarf paper, Autumn Press Preserves paper, American Crafts alphas, Elementary Alpha Stickers, Memoir Scraps - Tissue Trims, Calico Fabrips, Wood Veneer Hearts, Wood Veneer Asterisks, Wood Veneer Houses, Autumn Press Scrap Pads, Memoir Scrap Pads, Mister Huey's Clover, Mister Huey's Sunshine Mist, Mister Huey's Pony Mist , Divine Twine, Prima Jewels, Prima Fluid Chalk Farmers Jeans, Prima Fluid Chalk - Old Rose, Prima Fluid Chalk - Teal Damask, Prima Fluid Chalk - Moss Lawn, Uni-ball Signo white pen 

Stay tuned for more great journal ideas all week!

It's Davinie with your new Sunday Sketch based on a layout from Jen Jockisch's October Field Guide gallery...


Here's the card I created based on the sketch...
Supplies; Coredinations cardstock, American Crafts cardstock, Studio Calico Memoir patterned paper, Studio Calico chipboard clouds, Studio Calico kraft sticker alphas, MME bling, machine stitching

I was inspired by the general design of Jen's layout and thought it would make a really fun card.  This is a great design to use with those leftover paper scraps and tiny embellishments.

Now it's your turn!  Create a card or layout based on the sketch and post the link here by Monday, November 7th for your chance to win a SC GC!  Have a good week!

Sunday Sketch

Hi there everyone, it's Jen here with your Sunday Sketch for this week.  The sketch is based off this beautiful layout from Kinsey's October Field Guide gallery...


And here's my take on the sketch using the new Autumn Press products...
Supplies: American Crafts cardstock, Memoir Heirloom paper, Memoir Cupboard paper, Memoir Book Jacket paper, Memoir Lovebird paper,  Memoir Preserves paper, Countryside Barn Swallow paper, Wood Veneer Stars, Mister Huey's Cameo, State Fair die-cut tags, Kraft Butterfly Stickers, Elementary Alpha Stickers, American Crafts Thickers, Prima rhinestones, Pebbles buttons, Silhouette

Use the sketch and link up your layout here by Monday, November 1 - you'll have a chance to win a SC GC!  Have a good week everyone!

Hi everybody! So I was racking my brain trying to think of a challenge, and I looked at this photo of Nora and thought "Awww...she is such a pretty pink princess." And so then I decided to do a layout about it, and what better way to reinforce my title than to use pink and ONLY pink on my layout?? (I really used to hate the color pink, but after having 2 girls I've kind of had to learn to love it.)
Supplies: American Crafts cardstock, Autumn Press Rosebud paper, Autumn Press Preserves paper, Autumn Press Steamer Trunk paper, Autumn Press Fall Fashion Paper, Autumn Press Frolic Paper, Countryside Barn Swallow paper, Wood Veneer Alphabet, Addy Alpha - Pink, Sentiments Stamps (Addy Font), Countryside die-cut tags, State Fair die-cut tags, Countryside Label Stickers, State Fair Label Stickers, Mister Huey's Piglet, Tim Holtz Tony Attacher, American Crafts Precision Pen, Versamark stamp ink, Grapefruit Zing, American Crafts Mixtape, Martha Stewart buttons and rhinestones, misc. twine

This challenge was really difficult for me since I love to use color on my layouts and play with different color combinations, but I had a lot of fun with this. The new Autumn Press collection has a ton of pink in it too so that made it a little easier. I can't wait to see what kind of one color pages you guys can come up with!

Link up your layout here by Monday, October 3 for a chance to win a SC GC!  Have fun playing!

Sunday Sketch

Hey everyone! This week's sketch is based on this gorgeous layout from Jen's Boardwalk gallery.

 

And here's my take on the sketch
Supplies: Boardwalk kit; More White Add On; Chipboard butterflies, Kraft ticket - Maya Road; Rhinestones, Yellow brad - My Mind's Eye; Stitched blooms - SassaFrass Lass; Alphas - Jillibean Soup; Paper Clip- Tim Holtz; Needle and thread.

I was inspired by a couple of things.
Her title. I was reminded of this favorite photo of mine. I scrapped this particular photo before, but already given the layout to my sister and I wanted one for my album.
The two circles on the sketch - of course mine multiplied to 9 circles seeing that I have a love affair with circles right now.
The color yellow - I took the color from that strip on the lower left hand side of her layout and used it repeatedly on my layout.

So you see, despite being inspired by Jen's layout, mine turned out different. More me, if I may say so. I hope you'll play along! Post your layout by Monday, August 30 for your chance to win a Studio Calico giftcard!

Weekly Challenge

Hi everyone! Our four year old daughter Ayla has been super obsessed lately with drawing animals (specifically dinosaurs, her favorite) and coloring them and then cutting them out and creating stories for them. She does such a good job and of course we are always impressed with her creativity. I really wanted to get some of them in a scrapbook page, so I asked her to make me a few extra. I used those for this page, I just adhered them to the sides and built my page from that point.

She is growing up so fast and I know that all too soon she'll have moved onto boys and makeup, but at least I will always have this little slice of her four year old life on paper.
Supplies: American Crafts cardstock, Memoir Rosebud paper, Memoir Frolic paper, Memoir Scarf paper, Memoir Preserves paper, Elementary Show Your Work paper, Documentary f/stop paper, State Fair Label Stickers, Weekdays Pink rub-on,  Veneer Alphabet, Bonny Blue Mister Huey,  American Crafts rhinestone brads, misc. twine, American Crafts Precision Pen, Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

My challenge to you this week is to use your child's artwork on a page. Or, if you don't have kids, use your own. Or maybe some ephemera; tickets from a concert or a movie, a pamphlet you picked up while traveling, a letter or card you've received. Use your imagination and have fun with it!

4th anniversary PDFs

We've got yet another anniversary celebration for you - 4 step by step project PDFs featuring our State Fair and Countryside lines. Download them and print them out, and you'll have a little Studio Calico inspiration to take with you wherever you go!

(click here to download the PDF for Waleka's "Happy Shakes" layout)

(click here to download the PDF for Jen's "At the Cabin" layout)

(click here to download the PDF for Tina's "Like Forever" layout)

(click here to download the PDF for April's "Happy Birthday" card)