Want to be a Guest Designer for Graphic45? Wonder what you have to do? Upload your layouts and projects in the Community Gallery and our Design Team members will be secretly voting for their favorites. On July 15th, we will announce the winners and send out the newest Graphic45 Collections to work with to show of in September, October and November!
This is a pic of my daughter (right) and myself.
I started scrap booking about four years ago, with the encouragement of my daughter, who bugged me a couple years to get started! But back then, I worked 12 hr. days, and knew I would not be able to spend time scrap booking, so waited till I quit work, and have been scrapping ever since! I LOVE the vintage style, it’s my first love! I bought chalk and inked my paper edges since day one, and also tore a lot of my papers too! I have advanced to a lot heavier distressing method for an even more vintage feel! I am always willing to try new ideas, but always go back to the vintage style! I love the fact that you can tell a story with creative journaling and pictures! Scrap booking and gardening are my two passions aside from family!
So we teased with a description of the upcoming new collections, and boy did we hear about it. So to make it up to we are going to share the signature page from each collection. We really hope that you like them.
Domestic Goddess
The Domestic Goddess Collection is a playful celebration of women's traditional roles drawn from the days when they proudly wore aprons and vied for blue ribbons at the county fair. Designs featuring a rich mix of reds, yellows, blues, and greens, were inspired by vintage tea towels, table linens, food labels, and images of cooking, sewing, laundry, and other household chores. For collage, paper crafting, cards and layouts, this collection is endlessly versatile, offering a smile and a nod to the Domestic Goddess in all of us.
Renaissance Faire
The Renaissance Faire Collection is a sophisticated journey to the golden age of fabulous art, music, and literature. Designs combine famous paintings, architectural elements, opulent textiles, wallpaper, and old text to create images worthy of royalty. An antiqued jewel tone color palette adds to the elegance of the motifs and patterns. This beautiful collection is perfect for collage and paper crafting, holidays, weddings, special occasions, heritage projects, card making and more. Renaissance Faire offers a fresh approach to timeless treasures.
Christmas Past Collection
The Christmas Past Collection evokes memories of Grandma’s house, with the heady fragrance of gingerbread baking in the kitchen, a Christmas tree decked out in its holiday best, and carolers at the door. Angels, heirloom ornaments, Rudolph, Santa and the elves— they're all here, wrapped in a heartwarming color palette of red, green and gold with the patina of age. Holiday images seeped in Christmas Past—a terrific way to share and celebrate Christmas Present.
And if that were not enough, we will be releasing our three new collections in paper pads that contain each paper and a die cut set! All three collection will be available and shipping early August!
Welcome to my all about me. I am pretty plain to those that know me and to others, they might think that I am a bossy, sassy, opinionated and outgoing individual that means well and has a heart of gold. At the end of the day, everything I do is for my kids. My name is Sasha Holloway.
I have been scrapbooking for 3 years now. I love this hobby; it is fun for me and very relaxing. I just love sitting around and using my glue gun to hold all my elements together. I love all things buttons and circles. I am very big about journaling on my layouts and or trying different styles to work in. I am still growing and learning from so many talented individuals out there. I currently design for Graphic 45 manufacturer, and 3 Challenge Blogs: The Design Experiment, Forward Progress Now and The Story Matters. I am currently re-hosting Wacky Wednesday Challenges on my blog every Wednesday with cool and funky prompts.
I have been a part of the military lifestyle since I was a baby. My mom and dad were both Army and I myself am active duty Air Force alongside my fabulous husband. We are both going on 15+ and I am very blessed and happy to be able to provide a different avenue and or adventure for my children as I was shown, by traveling the world and teaching them different cultures.
Aside from scrapbooking I have several other interests and another hobby. I make baskets; I took a basket weaving class while stationed in Japan. I am a reality T.V junkie; Phase 10 lovin, Jenga winning and Monopoly losing nutso. I just love having a great time with family and friends. One of our new favorite past times is the Trike .. I have my Masters Degree, but not the best speller and I use comma’s in places they do not belong. I am me and I am human. I totally excited about being apart of Graphic 45’s Design Team.
This week we have a sketch DT member Stacy created. It's such a lovely sketch you really should give it a try. Love the circle shape!
DT member Susan Dupré got her Graphic 45 papers and created a wonderful layout. Isn't it amazing?!
We love to see work published using our papers. And because of that we are going to show you some amazing work in print.
Lucy Edson send us these scans where you can see her fabulous work published. Thanks for sending us Lucy! Your work really rocks!
My Name is Kim Arledge. My family and I live in the big ole state of Texas. I have 3 beautiful children and a husband who is pretty amazing. He puts up with me and my endless amounts of scrapbook purchases so he must be a good man!!!!
In 2006, I began to dabble with scrapbooking and quickly became obsessed. Over the past few years I have tapped into a part of myself that I did not even know I had and I am so thankful that I have found something that I am so passionate about. More importantly, I am creating memories for my kids to treasure for years to come. If you don't find me in my scraproom, you will find me online talking, researching, or obsessing about scrap stuff.
My scrapbooking style is still evolving because I am always up for new challenges. For the most part, I want my pictures to tell the story.
I am extremely honored to be featured here at Graphic 45.I have been a huge fan from the first time I laid eyes on the beautiful prints and colors of all the Graphic 45 lines. Thank you for this awesome opportunity!!!!!
Please feel free to come by and see me at http://mylittleinspirations.blogspot.com/ or
http://www.scrapbook.com/myplace/index.php?mod=galleries&u=149311
So here it is! A little sneak on the upcoming Summer CHA releases:
The Domestic Goddess Collection is a playful celebration of women's traditional roles drawn from the days when they proudly wore aprons and vied for blue ribbons at the county fair. Designs featuring a rich mix of reds, yellows, blues, and greens, were inspired by vintage tea towels, table linens, food labels, and images of cooking, sewing, laundry, and other household chores. For collage, paper crafting, cards and layouts, this collection is endlessly versatile, offering a smile and a nod to the Domestic Goddess in all of us.
The Renaissance Faire Collection is a sophisticated journey to the golden age of fabulous art, music, and literature. Designs combine famous paintings, architectural elements, opulent textiles, wallpaper, and old text to create images worthy of royalty. An antiqued jewel tone color palette adds to the elegance of the motifs and patterns. This beautiful collection is perfect for collage and paper crafting, holidays, weddings, special occasions, heritage projects, card making and more. Renaissance Faire offers a fresh approach to timeless treasures.
The Christmas Past Collection evokes memories of Grandma’s house, with the heady fragrance of gingerbread baking in the kitchen, a Christmas tree decked out in its holiday best, and carolers at the door. Angels, heirloom ornaments, Rudolph, Santa and the elves— they're all here, wrapped in a heartwarming color palette of red, green and gold with the patina of age. Holiday images seeped in Christmas Past—a terrific way to share and celebrate Christmas Present.
And if that were not enough, we will be releasing our three new collections in paper pads that contain each paper and a die cut set!
I am Jing-Jing Nickel. Pronounce it like there are nickels in your pocket making that jingling noise! *laugh*
I was born and raised in Shanghai, China. My teenage years were spent in Dakar, Senegal, a West African nation. I went to college in Minnesota and hold a graduate degree in mathematics from the University of Arizona. Now I work full time in the Twin Cities, MN, as an I.T. engineer.
When I started scrapbooking in 1999, it was the most perfect extension of my love for traveling and travel photography. Then with the birth of my first daughter, a new dimension of scrapbooking as well as a new realm of creative possibilities was born with her. Today and every day, I scrap my family, my trips, and my family on trips.
After nine years of scrapbooking, I finally began submitting to publications in June 2008. I was honored to be named one of the runners-up to the Memory Makers Master 2009 Contest. I have publications in Memory Makers, Scrapbook Trends, Scrapbooking and Beyond, Cards, and most recently, I was named a winner in the "Amazing Pages" contest by Creating Keepsakes.
I am beyond extremely thrilled to be a part of Graphic 45 "vintage powerhouse." My hope is to inspire everyone to fall in love with these gorgeously elegant vintage themed papers and use them for everyday, modern day projects! Find me on my blog: http://thislittleartofmine.blogspot.com/
This week DT member Susan Lui created a layout using a sketch DT member Hilde created. Susan mixed up a lot of collections, here's a list of the papers she used:
Fashionista Le Fleur
Fashionista Potpourri
Transatlantique Paris Post
Times Nouveau Glad Rags
Times Nouveau Hey You
Botanicabella Ode to Butterfly
Have fun with this weeks sketch!
