Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Local Designer!

So, my day job allows me to travel many local little towns in SD and I sometimes have a bit of down time between my appointments. I have discovered so many sweet little shops in some of these little towns and my favorite one up north is a scrapbook store, of course! Lori, the owner, has gotten to know me quite well over the years and last week she asked me to help her design a kit! Now don't get too excited, I won't be quitting my day job but I was excited for the challenge and the experience really does make me feel like a designer! Lori asked me to use the collection On Trend from Crate Paper, an old favorite of mine. I had certain pieces to work with and had to stretch her available supply into 6 kits, this was such a fun way to make me stretch...

With that, I introduce my first layout...
I had these two pictures from Graci's tenth birthday that I've been treasuring and found a layout at Studio Calico's creative gallery by Julie Campbell to inspire me. The circles were cut randomly from the patchwork of papers on the bottom and I used pop dots with alternating punched circles to layer on top. A few buttons and brads add a subtle pop of texture on a few of the circles.

Here is the next one that I love! I've had some fun pictures from the holidays that I knew I wanted to use on a special layout because there is just so much joy from these memories. I found total inspiration from one of Lisa Dickinson's layouts and my scrap lift using On Trend is here...
And my final layout is a double using pictures I just discovered from a few years back of Eric and I ziplining in Jamaica...here is the first page
and 2nd page...
This one is much more simple to put together but I had fun with it and added a few bark stars to finish it off. My first design challenge complete...now I'm hoping to make a few cute cards with the precious scraps! :) Happy Wednesday!







1 comment:

  1. I LOVE all 4 pages!!!! My fav is the first page (life is good)! The pattern papers you chose were perfect for the design of the layout. And the colors are sooo you!
    Getting to know you over the last few years has been a wonderful benefit of running my store....but getting to "work" with you is an absolute privilege! I am both thrilled and honored to have you on my design team!!! I hope you enjoyed the project and can't wait to see more of your work/talent in the near future!

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