Day 5: Layouts, Reminders and Videos...OH MY!
First a bit of a reminder...with all the Tombow Love going around we didnt want you to forget about the Renaissance Faire May Madness Contest!
Who is up for a Graphic 45 contest? We are looking for creative projects using papers from our Renaissance Faire collection, anything from an altered art piece to a layout, and everything in between.
Please post your project to our Graphic 45 - Unique Papercrafting FAN CLUB Facebook page.
**To qualify you must reference "Renaissance Faire May Madness Contest" by May 31st.
Two winners will be selected. They will receive an assortment of five paper pads! This prize pack includes Renaissance Faire, Le' Romantique, A Proper Gentleman, On the Boardwalk, and Transatlantique —and retails for over a $100!! Winners will be announced Wednesday, June 2nd.
Here is a wonderful layout that our design team member, Christie Bryant shared with us.
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On to a beautiful layout by Tracey Locher, the vibrant colors really mix well with the sepia of the background paper. Lovin all the flowers...now that takes a lot of adhesive!
I love to pull colors and details out of my pictures and use them to help design my layouts. For this layout, the rich teal in Sarah’s shirt made for a perfect accent color and the sparkle headbands Catalina and Anna are wearing just POPPED off the page when I added small rhinestones to the felt flower boarder and as well as white accent dots. Adhesive is also VERY important to making a layout work. There are five layers on this layout and Tombow’s Permanent Mono Roller was the perfect tape to keep them all together. I also used Tombow’s Mono Aqua Liquid Glue as it is one of my favorite adhesives! The pen tip dispenser is perfect for adding a tiny dot of glue for buttons or small rhinestones. No more blobs of glue or glue that runs on your layout. This is one product that travels with me to every crop or class that I teach!
Supplies:
Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Paper: Graphic 45 Renaissance Faire Collection – Masterpiece #G45500113, Romantique #G4500112, Tags #4500117
Title Letters: Graphic 45 Collection – Die Cut Alphabet #4500011
Adhesive: Tombow Permanent Mono Roller and Mono Aqua Liquid Glue; Pop Dots
Flowers: Prima Marketing
Felt Boarder: Queen & Co. – Felt Fusion, Flower 2 Black
Buttons: Rusty Pickle
Ink: Delta – Dye Based Ink Pad
Pen: Uniball Signo
Rhinestones: Darice
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I also wanted to share another video from Laura de la Rosa, these flowers are to die for!
Thank you for pulling up a chair and joining us in our Tombow Blog Swap!
Happy Crafting,
The Graphic45 Team
I loved this tutorial, I often make my own flowers and this was beautiful!
Posted by: Teolinda | May 26, 2010 at 10:10 PM
Enjoyed your tutorial, your flowers are beautiful and of course the papers worked fabulously!
Posted by: Natalie | May 26, 2010 at 10:28 PM
Lovely flowers and so easy to make!
Posted by: Sandy | May 27, 2010 at 12:28 AM
These flowers are fantastic! Love the colour combination on the Tracey layout.
Posted by: Veronica | May 27, 2010 at 04:32 AM
Wow! What a great flower tutorial! I love these flowers. I am going to try this with my Le Romantique papers! Thanks so much.
Posted by: Vicki Robertson | May 27, 2010 at 04:55 AM
Wonderful tutorial!!! Can't wait to try this. Making a lo for a wedding and it'll be perfect.
Posted by: Denise Jensen | May 27, 2010 at 05:22 AM
Yep - the great flowers on the layout definitely need a heavy duty adhesive! Thanks for sharing the flower video!
Posted by: Barb V #2975 | May 27, 2010 at 05:37 AM
Question, please ... can you tell me how/where I can post a photo of a card I made using your products? Thank you!
Posted by: SuZeQ | May 27, 2010 at 05:46 AM
Love your tutorial on the pretty papers, a must to do!
Posted by: Janet Weser | May 27, 2010 at 05:59 AM
Thank you ladies for the wonderful comments!
SUZEQ- Please visit the NING site, this is where you will post all your projects made with G45 papers.
http://graphic45.ning.com/
Once there look to the right hand side for a sign up box. Create an account with us and start posting away! We really want to see your art work.
Please let me know if you have any further questions.
Laura D.
Posted by: Laura De La Rosa | May 27, 2010 at 06:13 AM
Christie & Tracey your LO's are so Beautiful. I love how the children are show cased in each LO. The colors for both are amazing.
Thanks so much for sharing!
Hugs to my G45 Sisters xoxo
Laura De La Rosa
The Vintage Key
Graphic 45 DT
Posted by: Laura De La Rosa | May 27, 2010 at 06:17 AM
Oh my gosh...that layout is gorgeous!!!
Posted by: tammy k | May 27, 2010 at 08:02 AM
great tutorial am definitely going to try this ..looks incredible with the papers
Posted by: Lynda M | May 27, 2010 at 08:34 AM
Very nice! I'm looking forward to using the template and trying this out! Thanks for taking the time to do this!
Posted by: Scrapycandy | May 27, 2010 at 12:05 PM
Fabulous job ladies! You ALL rocked it:)
Posted by: Trisha Ladouceur | May 27, 2010 at 01:34 PM
Sweet-a great reminder to take lots of pictures, as well!
Posted by: Jenna Kellso | May 27, 2010 at 02:36 PM
I really love the layouts.. they are so eye catching.. TFS
Posted by: Laurie | May 27, 2010 at 02:47 PM
I've been having such a ball this week on your blog. Today is no exception. Love these layouts. The Dress Up lo colors are so striking! Tx
Posted by: Karrie Adams Johansson | May 27, 2010 at 03:20 PM
The color combination with that paper and various colored flowers is so pretty. It isn't necessarily typical, so I love it even more!
Posted by: Jill Dosser Coody | May 27, 2010 at 05:01 PM
Enjoyed watching the video :) Love those layouts.. they are gorgeous!!
Posted by: mica | May 27, 2010 at 05:34 PM
Love the layouts!
Posted by: Tona | May 27, 2010 at 05:42 PM
Love the layouts. Great video.
Posted by: Michel E | May 27, 2010 at 07:34 PM
great tutorial:-) gonna try this for sure:-))
Posted by: gisele julien | May 27, 2010 at 07:45 PM
Amazing. I have really enjoyed this week. I'm going to make G45 a daily stop on my blog list.
Posted by: Beth W | May 27, 2010 at 08:06 PM
Great video, thanks for taking the time to make it.
Posted by: Btrflywmn | May 27, 2010 at 10:14 PM
cool flowers!!
Posted by: Debby | May 28, 2010 at 05:33 AM
Christie and Tracey's LO's are fabulous! You can't go wrong with Graphic 45 on a creative piece. Enjoyed Laura's take on making her flower. Great video! I love my Tombow adhesive too!
Posted by: Linda B. | May 28, 2010 at 06:39 AM
love the flower clusters, thanks for the video too!
Posted by: sandra m. | May 28, 2010 at 07:21 AM
Wow! Tracy's layout is gorgeous! And Laura's video is fabulous! Laura is SO great on those videos! :-)
Posted by: Christie | May 28, 2010 at 09:00 AM
great pages!
Posted by: laura stewart | May 28, 2010 at 08:12 PM
Thanks for the info on making these.
Posted by: Char- D | May 28, 2010 at 09:23 PM
Hey Laura,
You are getting very good at making your videos. Great job on the flowers, too!
Posted by: michelle b | May 31, 2010 at 01:23 AM
Grrrreat tutorial, Laura! I immediately made flowers following your simple instructions...thanks soooo much!
Posted by: Lety Kalmikov | May 31, 2010 at 09:44 AM