Design Team Monday!!

Happy Monday all!!!  The Design Team is back with another round of projects for you!!

This week, we are using the below piece as inspiration....

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Michele

I really enjoyed doing this layout. Obviously what hit me was the negative letters effect and I wanted to try this for so long, this was the time!!

Papers: My Mind's Eye - Lost & Found Two Collection (Blush)

Inks: Brown Pigment ink pen, Chestnut Cat's Eye chalk ink and Chocolate Cherry Glimmer Mist

Ornaments: Glitter Chipboards, brads, buttons, paper embellies are ALL from My Mind's Eye - Lost & Found Two Collection, and there is also a small piece of polka-dotted miscellaneous ribbon and 4 plain brads

Tools: Crafter's Workshop Template - Branches 

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Tracey

I went around and around in my head with this one. I just could not get past the grid thing. So, that is what I did with this one. I figured it was my brain trying to tell me something.

Supplies:

My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Two Collection (Breeze)

Distress Ink (Walnut Stain) 

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Virginia

I played around with the design a bit and leveraged a chipboard package as a sort of mask for this layout to mimic the colourful design of the inspiration piece:

Supply list:

My Mind's Eye - Lost and Found 2, Rosy collection

Maya Road journalling pieces

Basic Grey Letter stickers

Basic Grey Brad

Prima flower jewel 

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Julie



Products used:

My Minds Eye Lost and Found 2 paper collection

My Minds Eye Lost and Found 2 embellishments

Prima flowers coloured with Ranger Ink Stains

Misc. cardstock and gems

Design Team Monday!!

This week the ladies are working with this fabulous inspiration picture put forward by Julie!  There is a lot going on in this picture and that means a lot to be inspired by!

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Virginia

I was inspired by all of the roundness of this image as well as the colour blocking of colours in the middle surrounded by a solid colour.

This is one of the most simple layouts I've ever done - just punched a bunch of circles and then used pop dots to make the edges pop out

Supplies:

Authentique Patterned paper - Blissful collection

American Crafts Pop Dots

Bazzill Cardstock

Kraft Cardstock

Corner Chomper

Thickers

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Michele

Papers: Authentique Paper - Wonder collection, Bazzill cardstock

Inks: Blue, gold and yellow acrylic inks, white gel ink

Ornaments: Bling, dew drops, buttons and baker's twine

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Julie

Products used:

Authentique papers and title/journaling die cut - Uncommon collection

Maya Road Chipboard

Prima bling flourish

miscellaneous black cardstock

miscellaneous flowers



Design Team Monday!

We have a new challenge from our fantastic Design Team.  This week they are once again working from an inspiration picture.   I love seeing all of the different interpretations on this.

And here is what the team did from it........

Michele

Here is my layout. It's strange how people see things in a different way... With this inspiration picture, I saw a subject on the bottom right hand corner and it seemed to burst out towards the top left. DH and I were discussing this and he said he saw the opposite: A subject flying in from the sky and landing on the bottom right corner!!

The black and red really hit me with a Steampunk style, actually, that's the first thing I saw. So this is what came out of it.

The journaling: (I was inspired by Jenn's article on journaling!!)

Everyone adored her,

She was a young widower;

Aurore, my grand-mother.

She was a lady like no other.

She was patient, generous & kind;

A Saint in my mind.

Her kitchen was never too small

And she always stood tall.

Her heart was so big,

She was as sweet as a fig.

She's the one who raised me,

Part of my soul, she'll always be.

(And the part in white around the corner says: Here is my grand-mother when she was 20 years old, in 1923.)

Paper: Bo Bunny Timepiece collection, beige and brown cardstock.

Inks: Rangers Vintage Photo Distress ink, Cat's Eye chestnut roan chalk and pigment inks, Smooch and

Glimmer Mist alcohol inks. Brown pigment ink pen and white gel pen.

Ornaments: Bo Bunny Timepiece collection chipboard and trinket, Prima flower, beige and brown ribbons

and Harmony measuring tape ribbon, Tim Holtz metal sprockets and key, leaf pins, Maya Road kraft

envelope, brads and shrink plastic keyhole ornament.

Other: Stickles and Glossy Accents

Tools: I used a «Sprightly Sprocket» Spellbinder and a Tim Holtz «Timeworks» clock mask and a paper distresser.

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Julie

Bo Bunny Gabrielle paper

Bo Bunny Chipboard accents

Misc letter stickers, gems and twine

This L/O is actually surprisingly simple....3 full circles layered, then one circle with the centre cut out to allow the base paper to show through giving the illusion of another circle. Then I just added the gems, the butterflies and the twine.

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Cherie

Cardstock: Bazzill Basics

Patterned Paper: Bo Bunny Ad Lib

Letters: American Crafts & Doodlebug

DieCut: Jillibean Soup

Border Die Cut: Quickutz 

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Virginia

This image kind of reminded me of space which was perfect for the papers that I had this month but then for some reason the dots on the paper reminded me of a type of mask so I got this idea to use the negative sheet from a sheet of cardstock stickers as part of my background.

Supply list:

Paper - Bo Bunny Blast Off

Bazzill metallic cardstock

Sticker sheet - Sassafrass Lass

Chipboard Embellishments - Bo Bunny Blast Off

Letter stickers - Basic Grey, American Crafts

Design Team Monday!

A new week = a new challenge! 

This week the team has an inspiration piece for you.  Once again, they have used their Nikki Sivils goodies to create masterpieces to inspire you.

First up, is the picture to provide the inspiration.....

Now, let's check out what the team did with it....

Cherie

Cardstock: Bazzill

Patterned Paper: Nikki Sivils Beatrice

Die Cut Title: Silhouette

Sticker: October Afternoon

Die Cuts: Jillibean Soup

Flowers: Unknown

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Julie 

Nikki Sivils paper - We Are Family

Maya Road ribbon

Maya Road coaster

Smooch Sprtiz

misc buttons

Stickles

Cuttlebug embossed cardstock

blue cardstock

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Michele - Here is mine. I will give it a couple coats of sealant so that this calendar can be carried in a purse without worrying about damaging it. But I took photos first to avoid light reflection while taking photos. So this is before coating with the clear sealant.  The front page (January) is inspired the ad above, oh-so-cool and inspiring indeed!!

Pop back here on Wednesday to get a look at the rest of this gorgeous calendar.

Material Used:

Maya Road coaster set

Paper: Nikki Sivils Max & Mollie collection

Maya Road Bingo card

Bazzill card stock

Inks: Smooch Spritz-Cherry Ice

Cat's Eye chalk ink

Black Memento ink

Gold Perfect Pearls

Black, brown and white pens for doodling

Copics to recolour here and there

Ornaments: button, brads, eyelets, metal corner and flowers

Thats's right, besides the brads, I hardly used anything on this calendar, it's ALL in the Nikki Sivils beautiful papers and a little ink for extras!!! This makes a great gift at Christmas time (this one is for grandma).

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Virginia - I had SO MUCH FUN with this challenge - I definitely went out of my "comfort zone" of scrapping a clean and simple lined page but that's the fun of a challenge right? I even (gasp) misted freehand! Up till now I've only ever misted on chipboard or through a mask but to me this page is all about how chaotic my life has become since having my son (in a good way!) so I wanted to visually represent that with this layout

Supply list

Patterned Paper - Nikki Sivils Summer

Mist - Smooch

Cardstock - Bazzill

Letter stickers - Cosmo Cricket, Basic Grey

Embellies - Maya Road, October Afternoon, Girls Paperie, Prima

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Jenn

Products used in the layout:

Nikki Sivils - It's Your Day paper line
Maya Road Bingo Chip and Card
Bazzill Cardstock
Funky Clear Ribbon with Coloured Stars
Thickers - White
EK Success Stickers - Black
Tiny Bright Button Brads

We would love to see what you create using this ad as an inspiration.  Link your projects up here to this post so we can stop by and leave you some love!