Graphic 45 & Core'dinations Blog Hop Day 1!

Hello G45ers!

Happy Halloween and welcome to another awesome week of craft fun here at Graphic 45! We hope you all had a fun weekend and are enjoying this spook-tacular day! In the spirit of fun and creativity we've doing a fabulous blog hop with Core'dinations all week long! There will be some super inspiring Graphic 45/Core'dinations crafts on both our blog and the Core'dinations blog. Plus you'll have the opportunity to win some terrific prizes! Check out this great prize pack that we're offering this week! A Core Impressions Timeless Sandable Card Stock 12x12 paper pad, An ABC Primer 12x12 Paper Pad, Core'dinations Signature Series 12x12 paper pad, Trim Staples and Chipboard Button Staples! It's a fabulous Graphic 45/Core'dinations combo pack of fun! All you need to do to enter to win is to leave a us a blog or Facebook comment! We will be giving away this prize pack to two lucky winners, one from our blog and one from Facebook! Core'dinations is also offering a super prize this week! Check out their blog and Facebook page and leave a comment for your chance to win! Winners will be chosen randomly and announced on Friday, November 4th!

Today's amazing crafts from Sherry Cheever and Nancy Wehtington combine the elegance of Graphic 45 with gorgeous Core'dinations cardstock and tools. Check out this beautiful mini pizza box by Sherry Cheever! Decorated in enchanting Fashionista papers and Core'dinations Timeless Card Stock and Signature Series, this darling creation is a classic craft gem!

Here is the mini pizza box decorated in the Core'dinations/Graphic 45 Timeless Collection sandable cardstock. Just look at those gorgeous vintage patterns and colors!

Supplies:

GRAPHIC 45:  Papers:  Fashionista Collection – Debutante, Vintage Cherries and Lefluer; Fashionista Tags
CORE’DINATIONS:  Core Essentials Collection – Graphic 45 Timeless Collection; ColorCore Cardstock Signature Series Graphic 45; Sand It Gadget
SPELLBINDERS™:  Grand Calibur, LF-005 Grand Peony Creations, S4-161 Labels One, S5-049 Carnation Creations, S4-328 Foliage, E8-003 Classic Triple Scallop Edgers
RANGER INDUSTRIES:  Matte Accents; Pitch Black Alcohol Ink; Ink Blending Tool with Felt; Inkssentials 1x1” Memory Glass and 1” Frame; Mister; Vintage Photo Distress Ink; Peeled Paint Distress Stain; Heat It Tool; Craft Sheet
SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L:  MyStik Permanent Tape
COLORBOX:  Creamy Brown Fluid Chalk Ink
OTHER:  Tsukineko Ink Sweeper; Seam Binding; Hot Glue Gun

Next up is this marvelous "Wicked Times" layout and tutorial by Nancy Wethington. This enchanting LO is perfect for fall. With its soft colors, rustic central images, and delicately layered embellishments, this LO is a celebration of Autumn! You can also see how beautiful the Core'dinations Timeless cardstock looks with The Magic of Oz, A Proper Gentleman,  An ABC Primer and Graphic 45 Staples. It's hauntingly beautiful! Nancy has even prepared this wonderful video tutorial to share her unique tips for creating this terrific LO! Check it out!

 

Supplies:

Graphic 45 Papers:
An ABC Primer: Calico Kids; Grammar School
A Proper Gentleman: Timely Point of View
The Magic of Oz: Goblin Gazette; Journey to Oz; Magic of Oz Tags 2 
Graphic 45 Staples: Envelope Tag Staples

Partner Products: Core'dinations Vintage Collection; Decades; Scrapbook Adhesive MyStik Permanent Adhesive and 3D Foam Dots; Imaginarium Chipboard

Other supplies used: Bazzill black cardstock; Tonic Edge Distresser; Maya Road Bingo number

Well, that's all for today. We want to thank Sherry Cheever and Nancy Wethington for their amazing crafts. We hope you will all pay a visit to the Core'dinations blog and Facebook today for more inspiration and prizes! We can't wait to read all of your comments this week on our blog and Facebook page as well. Also, don't forget to check out the Graphic 45 Products page where you can see the entire collection of Tropical Travelogue today! That's right, every single beautiful paper, sticker, cling stamp and chipboard die-cut is on display right now on our website. You've got to see it! Thank you all for stopping by. Happy Halloween!

Your Pals in Paper,

Team Graphic 45

 

 

Thank You Card Challenge

 Thanksgiving Card Challenge!
It's easy! Create a thank you card using Graphic 45, post it on our Facebook, and you could win!

OK G45ers, Here's How it Works:

Make a Thank You Card using Graphic 45

Load it onto our Facebook Page

Label photo "Thank You Card Challenge"

 

Submit by November 10 at 12pm PST

On November 11, we announce 3 winners!

 

Winners will get a PRIZE PACKAGE from our Christmas Emporium Collection!

Click on our Facebook page to begin:

Happy Papercrafting,

 

Your friends at Graphic 45

 

Rules:
 You can submit as many times as you'd like,
but you can only win once.
Three winners will be chosen randomly.

Check out more of Gloria Stengel's creations on her blog: Click Here!

 

Sneak Peeks of Tropical Travelogue, Craft Inspiration & Tutorial!

 Hello G45ers,

A very happy Friday to you all! Welcome to our blog and thanks for joining us for more crafting bliss! There's a lot of fun in store today! We've got gorgeous craft inpiration from the amazing Tara Orr. We're also unveiling even more images from our new Tropical Travelogue collection that we're sure you're going to love. The entire collection of Tropical Travelogue will be available to view on Monday on our Products page on our website. Every gorgeous paper will be on display along with all of the coordinating chipboard die-cuts, cling stamps and stickers. This amazing new collection will be arriving in stores in late November. We simply cannot wait to see what you will all dream up with this lavish new collection. With that in mind, we have some winners to announce for this week's blog prize. We asked you to leave us a Facebook or blog comment all this week for your chance to win the entire collection of Tropical Travelogue. We got so many amazing comments and we want to thank each and every one of you who shared your inspiring words with us this week. Our two winners, chosen at random from our blog and Facebook page are...

-Elena Panagushina

-Eniko's Playhouse

Congratulations to our winners! Elena and Eniko, please email us with your shipping information at info@g45papers.com to claim your prize. And many thanks again to everyone who commented this week. We will have another fabulous blog contest on Monday and we hope you will all participate! It's going to be great!

Here we have more beautiful images from Tropical Travelogue. Behold the gorgeous island-inspired beauty of this marvelous new collection!

"Tropical Travelogue"

"Paradise Postage"

"Exotic Destination"

And now get ready for even more inspiration as Tara Orr brings you this amazing altered tea box that contains stunning Steampunk Debutante coasters! It's so beautiful and clever! Plus there's even a great tutorial by Tara that shows you how to create some beautiful multi-dimensional roses with the Graphic 45 Metal Flower Staples! It's all so beautiful and fun! Take it away, Tara!

"I really wanted to do something a bit out of my shabby chic comfort zone - something a little more grungy/masculine.  I had purchased a wooden tea box from my local thrift store (ahhh the thrift store again!) and knew I wanted to alter it with something metal!  The Steampunk Debutante papers were perfect as were the metal doorplates, hinges and buttons from Graphic 45's Metal Staples collection.  I couldn't resist adding some flowers to the project but felt they looked out of place with so much metal. Solution - create shabby chic roses from the metal flowers!" -Tara Orr

"The Metal Flowers from Graphic 45's Staples collection are wonderful to work with.  While some people prefer to use them 'as is' (more of a 2D bloom), I prefer my flowers to have a little more meat on the bones! I decided to layer several flowers together and discovered that they were quite easy to transform into more dimensional roses. Below I have included a step by step tutorial for you to make your own metal flowers." -Tara Orr

Step 1: To make your shabby, metal roses you will need Tacky Glue, needlenose pliers, acrylic paint (optional) and Graphic 45 Metal Flowers

Step 2: Each rose requires 3 Graphic 45 metal flowers

Step 3: Begin by taking one of the petals and bending it tightly 

Step 4: Bend your petal upwards towards the centre of your flower

Step 5: Take another petal, opposite the one you just bent and bend it in the same way

Step 6: Continue bending each of your flower petals - each slightly less than the other so that they fit snugly around one another 

Step 7: Almost done! Notice how each petal is wrapped around the other?

Step 8: Once each of the petals have been bend and folded upwards, use your pliers to squish the flower tightly together

Step 9: To finish, take the outermost tips of each petal and bend each slightly downwards.  You have now completed the centre of your rose

Step 10: Take another flower and bend each of the petals just slightly

Step 11: Apply a generous amount of tacky glue to the centre of your flower

Step 12: Next, place your centre flower on top of your 2nd flower layer. 

Step 13: Begin folding each of the new petals towards the centre of your rose - you can actually do this by hand

Step 14: Each petal wraps itself around the other - hugging the centre flower

Step 15: All your petals are now folded upwards.  Once again, use your pliers to squish the entire flower together tightly

Step 16: Take the outermost tips of your second flower and slightly bend each one downwards as you did to the first flower.  You have now completed the second layer of your rose.  If you like - you can keep your rose like this. A little smaller but it most definitely looks like a rose at this point.

Step 17: Continue with the above steps 10 - 16 for your last flower and you will have the completed shabby metal rose.

Step 18: Allow the glue to dry completely.  Should you wish to adhere to your projects, a generous amount of tacky glue does the job wonderfully

Step 19: As a final step, you may chose to paint the outer tips of your rose a cream colour for that shabby chic look.  Again, this is an optional step if you like the rose the way it is.

Supplies:

Graphic 45 Papers:
Steampunk Debutante Collection: Time Warp, Tags, Nouveau Artistry, Steampunk Debutante, Eclectic Emporium

Graphic 45 Staples:

Metal Flowers

 Metal Hinges

Metal Buttons

Ornate Metal Door Knob

Geometric Metal Door Plate

Metal Tags

Stickers, No. 1 Sheet

Tombo: Permanent Adhesive Roller

Decoart: Acrylic Paint in Buttercream

Aleene's: Tacky Glue

Ranger: Distress Ink in Vintage Photo

Big thanks to all of our readers today and thank you to Tara Orr for her fantastic crafts! We hope you all have a fantastic weekend! If you have any Halloween festivities planned for this weekend we wish you a fun and safe celebration. Some of us here at Graphic 45 have big plans for Halloween and we're really excited to party down in our crafty costumes. Plus there's a lot of candy to eat! It's very exciting stuff!

Happy Halloween Partying and Papercrafting,

Team Graphic 45

 

More Tropical Travelogue Sneak Peeks & Craft Inpiration!

Hello G45ers,

Welcome to another awesome day of sneak peeks and craft inspiration, Grapic 45 style! Today we're unveiling more delightful papers from our new Tropical Travelogue collection! We also have beautiful Christmas crafts from Yuka Hino and Nancy Wethington of our design team! It's going to be an amazing day! Don't forget that there's still time to leave us a blog or Facebook comment for your chance to win the entire collection of Tropical Travelogue! We will be announcing two randomly chosen winners on our blog tomorrow! We will also be unveiling the full collection of Tropical Travelogue the Graphic 45 website tomorrow! It's going to be fantastic and you wont want to miss out. So lets get to it! Feast your eyes on today's gorgeous sneak peeks! Behold these stunning paper designs from Tropical Travelogue!

"Island Jewel"

"Seaside Holiday"

"Hibiscus Heaven"

And now it's time for some crafts! This first delightful holiday creation is by Yuka Hino. This beautifully festive card is great for any holiday occasion! It's full of heart-warming colors, beautiful embellishments and trims. It's a wonderland of Christmas inspiration!

Supplies:

Graphic 45 Papers

Christmas Emporium: Believe!, All I Want for Christmas, Santa Express, 'Tis the Season, Joyou Noel
Graphic 45 Chipboards: Christmas Emporium Chipboard Die-cuts 1
Graphic 45 Staples: Metal Button Staples, Trim Staples, Core'dinations SigSeries G45 12x12 Asst Pack 30/PKG*

Scrapbook Adhesives By 3L: MyStik™ Permanent Strips Dispenser, 3D Foam Squares - Black Small
May Arts: Ribbon

Ranger Industries: Stickles

Tattered Angels: Mist

Tsukineko: Ink
Acrylic Color, Sewing Machine

This next creation is by Nancy Wethington and we know you're going to love it! She's taken a simple wooden flower box and dressed it all up in Christmas Emporium and Christmas Past! This is a perfect example of how you can take something super simple and turn it into something gorgeous! Here is what Nancy had to say about this wonderful work of altered art!

"I found this portable wood flower box at a local craft store.  It was end of the season and really cheap so it just had to come home with me.   I was going to keep it until next summer until I started thinking about Christmas gifts.  I remembered this little flower box and decided to alter it for Santa's letters and/or Christmas cards.  Christmas Emporium and Christmas Past papers from Graphic 45 mix beautifully together.  Adding the Staples Door Plate made the front of this piece look like a mailbox." -Nancy Wethington

Here's what I started with. 

All wallpapered and ready to decorate.

"The stockings were hung . . . "

The finished product.

Supplies:

Graphic 45 Papers:

Christmas Emporium: Christmas Emporium; Toyland; Merry & Bright; Santa Express; Tis The Season; Under The Mistletoe; Special Delivery; Cling Christmas Emporium 1

Christmas Past: Christmas Past Frames; Christmas Wishes; Christmas Past Tags

Graphic 45 Staples: Geometric Metal Door Plate

Partner Products: Colorbox Decades Inks: Photogenic; Dark Cashmere. May Arts ribbon.  Scrapbook Adhesives: My Stik; 3D Foam Dots
Other supplies used: Copic Markers; Stickles; miscellaneous twine; Claudine Hellmuth Matte Medium; Beacon's 3-in-1 Craft Glue; Sakura black and clear Gel Pens

Thank you all for joining us today and big thanks to Yuka Hino and Nancy Wethington for their wonderful projects. We hope to see you all back here tomorrow as we announce our blog prize winners and unveil the full collection of Tropical Travelogue! It's going to be a lot of fun and excitement! We can't wait! We hope you have a terrific day!

Hugs and Hibiscus,

Team Graphic 45

Introducing Tropical Travelogue Coordinating Sticker Sets!

Hello G45ers,

Welcome to another day of spectacular island fun as we unveil more sneak peeks of our new collection Tropical Travelogue! We are so glad you're joining us! Today we're going to show you something very special! For the first time ever we're releasing gorgeous 12x12 coordinating sticker sets with Tropical Travelogue! As you can see from these amazing images, Tropical Travelogue is going to be a tremendously fun collection with tons of possibilities for creativity! With so many vibrant new designs and vivid colors, your imagination will take flight! We are proud to introduce these beautiful new stickers from Tropical Travelogue!

Also, today we are celebrating the birthday of one of our beloved design team members, the fabulous Jane Tregenza. Jane's work is an inspiration to all of us and it is always a pleasure to feature her crafts on our blog. Her love for crafting is obvious in every single gorgeous piece she creates. She has an impeccable artistic vision and warmth that shines through in her work. We appreciate everything that she adds to our Graphic 45 family. Jane is a true artist and a fabulous lady. We wish her a very happy birthday! You're the best, Jane!

Today we're featuring some awesome crafts that Jane has made. The first one was a birthday gift that she made for Diane on her birthday. Since we've got this fun birthday theme going on today we thought it would be nice to show this amazing piece. It's got all the class and sophistication of true Jane Tregenza craft creation!

"When Charee asked me if I would like to make something for Diane’s birthday, I knew exactly what I wanted to make. I love this style of scrapbooking/altered art. It also gave me a  way to use lots of Diane’s wonderful papers and embellishments. Charee was able to send me some photos and I got more from Facebook! The frame size is 50 inches. This means there are about 144 1 ½ x 1x1/2 inch squares needed to make a collage this big. I find that 40 photos and 104 squares works the best. Some squares are bigger and count for 4. It’s a great way to use all those favourite emblements that on a 12x12 layout would just get lost. I love words and quotes, so I have included lots on my project. I hope Diane enjoys it as much as I did making it. Happy Birthday, Diane!" -Jane Tregenza

And here we have a gorgeous layout also by Jane Tregenza! She's even created a fun and inspiring tutorial so you can create one of your very own! There are some great techniques in this tutorial! We know you're going to love it!

"I love using Graphic 45 print papers for my layouts and I love the challenge of using prints from different collections that you would never normally think to put together. This layout is a case in point. The Print paper Magnigique and Woodland Fantasy are two papers that you would not think to match together, but they work perfectly for this layout. I love the strong colors’ of magnitique and woodland fantasy is one of my all time favorite Graphic 45 prints. I love this photo of my daughter Kate taken one day while she was working. I decided to use the terra cotta colors’ in the card stock to bring out her skin tone. This also allowed me to  use all the pretty flowers in strong colors’ from Bohemian Floral ( another favorite) and my trusty pointy scissors for some fussy cutting! I used a butterfly from Imaginarium as a base and added the flowers and leaves to make it the feature on my layout.  I love the simple look to the layout, the strong colors’ from the Graphic 45 papers and the fact that the photo is the focal. I have done a tutorial for anyone wanting to have a go." -Jane Tregenza

Supplies:
Graphic 45 print papers – Magnifique, Woodland Fantasy, Hautee Courture, Curtain Call, Sweet Heart of Mine, Time flies, Bohemian Floral.
Cornations Cardstock
5 ¼ x 7 ¼ inches Olive
5 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches Rustic
Color box inks – olive pastel
Imaginarium Designs Chipboard
IDP0005 Just You
IDS0002 Butterfly with cut out wings
TDT0011 Oval Frames
Ribbons
Please note all measurements are in inches:

Instructions:

1.       Use the 12 inch x 12 inch (Magnifique) print paper as your base paper. We will be layering all the other papers on top of this one.  If you want to, you can ink around the edges.

2.       Cut your black cardstock back to 10 ½ inches x 10 ½ inches and tape it down to the middle of the base print paper.

3.       Cut your next piece of print paper (woodland fantasy) back to 10 ¼ inches x 10 ¼ inches, ink around the edges and tape to the middle of the black cardstock.

4.       Cut your cream cardstock back to 9 inches x 9 inches. You can ink it with green ink.  Don’t tape this one to your other papers at this stage. We will work on it and tape it down later.

5.        Measure up from the bottom of the cream cardstock 1 ½ inches and make a mark on the cardstock. Do this at each end of your page. This will give you a line to place your tape onto your page; you can then add the ribbon to your page.  Wrap the ends of the ribbon to the back of your cream cardstock and tape them down.

6.       Cut a piece of Hautee Courture to 2 ½ inches to 7 ½ inches, ink it and tape it down to your page. To place it correctly measure in from the right side of the cream cardstock ½ inch and measure up from the bottom of the cream cardstock ½ inch.  You should have about 1 inch space at the top.

7.       Cut a piece of Curtain Call to 1 inch x 12 inches. To place it correctly, measure in from the right side of the cream cardstock 1 ¼ inches. This means it will be in the middle of your Hautee Couture print paper. Fold it underneath the cream card stock, top and bottom Tape it down.

8.       Cut a piece of Sweet Heart of Mine to 3 inches x 4 inches, ink around the edges. To place it correctly measure in ¼ inch from the right edge of the cream cardstock and measure up 1 ¼ inches from the bottom of the cardstock.

9.       You need to ink your title “just you” with green ink. You can embossing this with a stamp with clear embossing powder, to do this you will need to ink your title, dry it with a heat gun. This is important, as this will stop the powder adhering to the whole title. Stamp the title with the stamp of your choice with embossing ink and place into the powder. Blow to remove excess powder and heat with a heat gun. Glue to your page in the bottom right corner.

10.   Cut out the butterflies from your Time Flies sheet. You will need one large, two medium and two smaller ones from the back of the papers. You can cut some leaves from this sheet as well (you need them to add to the chipboard butterfly. You will need to finish the rest of the page before sticking your cut out butterflies on.

11.   Cut Flowers and stems out of the Bohemian Floral print paper.

12.   Put glue only on the back body of your large cream butterfly. This will let you bend the wings up slightly. Glue it you your page as shown in the photo, it will fit over your title. Attach your large flower to the middle of the butterfly with double sided foam tape. Add all the smaller stems/flowers to your butterfly with foam tape. Make sure you tuck all the ends in under your middle flower.

13.   Use some of your leftover woodland fantasy to back your chipboard oval frame and glue it down as shown in the photo.

14.   Add four black photo corners to your cream square and tape it down to the base papers. Make sure it is in the middle of the green print paper.

15.   You can now place your butterflies on to the page wherever you like.

16.   Cut a 7 ¼ x 7 ¼ inch from the olive cardstock. Cut a 7 ¾ x 7 ¾ inch piece from the Rustic card stock and tape them together. Add your photo and tape it to your page to the left of your layout.

You are now finished!

Well, that's all for today! We want to thank Jane Tregenza for her stunning work today and wish her a fabulous birthday! We hope you will all join us tomorrow for more Tropical Travelogue sneak peeks and design team projects! It's going to be another unbeatable day of inspiration! Remember to leave us blog and Facebook comments this week for your chance to win the entire Tropical Travelogue collection! Thank you all for stopping by today! Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Happy Papercrafting!

Team Graphic 45

 

Introducing New Tropical Travelogue Cling Stamps!

Aloha Crafters,

Thank you for joining us today! Wow, yesterday was such an awesome day! We got so many great comments about our new Tropical Travelogue collection! Big thanks to everyone who left us a comment on our blog and Facebook page! It was such a joy to read all of your feedback about this beautiful new collection. We can't wait until to see what you will all dream up with Tropical Travelogue! We're continuing the fun today as we unveil the gorgeous cling stamp sets that correspond to Tropical Travelogue! Check out these beautiful designs! Just imagine the dreamy crafts you could create with these little beauties! All this week we will be revealing more sneak peeks from Tropical Travelogue. Leave us a blog or Facebook comment for your chance to win the entire collection!

Tropical Travelogue Cling Stamp 1

Tropical Travelogue Cling Stamp 2

Tropical Travelogue Cling Stamp 3

Today we're also featuring some festive Halloween crafts from Nicole Eccles and Gloria Stengel of our design team! Halloween is fast approaching and we thought these great crafts would help inspire some last minute Halloween crafting! There's still time to whip up something marvelously spooky! Check out this amazing Halloween lantern by Nicole Eccles! She's going to shine some light on Halloween inspiration with this amazing work of art! Here's what Nicole had to say about this clever creation.

"This fun Halloween lantern was created using the 5x5 Graphic 45 Altered Art Box!  So simple to create, all you need is the altered art box, colored vellum, a craft knife, clip light, small low watt light bulb, some wonderful Graphic 45 papers, and a little imagination!    ** Clip lights can be found at your local hardware store, created to clip into small openings, great for lanterns, small Christmas houses, and altered art boxes!!! To create the perfect window for the vellum, use a craft knife to cut an opening thru the flap directly under the cover.  Using the opening on the cover as a guide to cut the layer underneath. Before adhering colored vellum between the flap and cover, make sure to cut a hole in the back for a small clip light and low watt light bulb. For the hole in the back, measure the diameter of your clip lamp and draw a circle on the back center of the box.  Cut the circle out using a craft knife.  *This time you are cutting thru 2 layers of chipboard, so be patient! Now colored vellum may be adhered between layers.  Last, glue the top cover shut, and decorate with Graphic 45 papers!   Embellish as inspired!!" -Nicole Eccles

 

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Supplies:

Graphic 45 Papers:

The Magic Of Oz: The Magic Of Oz

An Abc Primer: Calico Kids

Graphic 45 Staples: Metal Buttons, 5x5 Altered Art Box

Colorbox Decades Inks: Photogenic, Venetian Lace

Coordinations: Sanding Block

Martha Stewart: Apron Lace Border Punch

Ranger: Rusty Hinge Distress Stickles, Metal Clock Face, Platinum Stickles

Fiskars: Trimmer, Craft Knife

Cricut: Seasonal Halloween Cartridge

Tombow: Glue Stick

Other:  Chipboard for star, Small Halloween Decorations(Skeletons, Hand),

Metal Stamping, Small Clip Light, Small low watt light bulb, Colored Vellum, Black Cardstock, E6000

This next wickedly clever creation is by Gloria Stengel. She's created a fabulous Magic of Oz table decoration that is out of this world! Each unique panel is bursting with beauty and the festive spirit of Halloween! Here is what Gloria had to say about this gorgeous piece of holiday decor!

"I enjoy creating unique and fun decorations for the holidays. For this faux screen table decoration, I simply attached thick chipboard to the back of cardstock to create a "screen" to act as my canvas. I cut cardstock to 6x12 inches, scored at 3, 6, and 9 inches. Then I glued chipboard to the back of each of the four panels to make the screen study. Each 3x6 inch panel is  decorated in a Halloween theme." -Gloria Stengel

Supplies:

Graphic45 Papers
The Magic of Oz: Journey to Oz, Goblin Gazette, There's No Place Like Home, Wicked!
Hallowe'en in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter
Graphic45 Staples: The Magic of Oz Chipboard Tags 1 and 2; Flowers
Clearsnap: Colorbox Chestnut Roan, Creamy Brown Chalk Ink; Colorbox Decades Photogenic Dye Ink
Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L: EZ-Runner, 3D Foam Squares
Other:
Grafix: Bulk chipboard
Bazzill Basics: Raven, Kraft cardstock
Neenah: Natural White cardstock
Stampers Anonymous: Tim Holtz Collection Odds and Ends
Clear Art Stamps: Halloween Fun
Autumn Leaves: Ticketed
Tsukineko: StazOn Timber Brown
7 Gypsies: Glass bottle
Idea-ology: number plate, long brads, game spinners, clock
Glue Dots: adhesive craft dots
Craft supply: twine; brads; glue

Well that's all for today, Crafters. Thank you all for stopping by and big thanks to Nicole Eccles and Gloria Stengel for their magical work today! We hope you'll all come back and see us tomorrow as we reveal more images from Tropical Travelogue as well as more fabulous inspiration from our design team. You wont want to miss out! Don't forget to leave a comment on our blog or Facebook page for your chance to win this week's blog prize! Just tell us what you'd create with Tropical Travelogue if you had it in your possession right now! Fun!

With Love and Tropical Pretty Paper,

Team Graphic 45

Sneak a Peek of our New Collection Tropical Travelogue!

Hello Crafters!

Today we're premiering our brand new Tropical Travelogue collection! You'll get a sneak peek of this gorgeous new collection today and more to come all week long! We all know that you're super excited to see the latest creations from Graphic 45 so lets get to it! Ladies and Gentleman, we are proud to introduce you to our magnificent new collection, Tropical Travelogue!

Set sail on a sunny island adventure with Graphic 45! Introducing Tropical Travelogue, a bold and adventurous new paper collection that will exhilarate your senses like a warm island breeze. Inspired by stunning vintage island imagery, this unique collection features lavish flora and fauna, exotic seascapes and radiant wildlife designs. You’ll find paradise on every rejuvenating page of Tropical Travelogue. Its lush and vibrant color pallet includes oceanic turquoise, lime green, dazzling coral, sunny yellow and coconut brown. The collection will include two coordinating sticker sets, a Graphic 45 first! Tropical Travelogue will also include 12 double sided gorgeous new paper designs, 12x12 and 8x8 paper pads, two coordinating chipboard die-cut sets, and three sets of cling stamps. So many options to inspire you! Let your creativity swim with the gentle current of this captivating new collection. With Tropical Travelogue all of your craft creations will shine like a brilliant island jewel!

"Botanica"

"Garden Isle"

"Oceania"

Now that you've seen some sneak peek images, we bet your mind is spinning with ideas! This week we are giving away the entire Tropical Travelogue collection to two lucky winners! Leave a comment on our Facebook page and/or right here on the blog!  We will be choosing a random comment from Facebook and one from our blog and announcing them this Friday, October 28th! Look for Tropical Travelogue at your local scrapbook store late November!

We hope you all enjoyed today's sneak peek! We will be unveiling more images all week long. We will also have some terrific projects from our design team to share with you! It's going to be a sincerely inspiring week so we hope you'll join us! Thank you all stopping by and seeing us today!

Happy Tropical Papercrafting!

Team Graphic 45

Pages of Beauty: Introducing Susie McGuire of Creative Cafe

Hello Crafters,

Happy Friday and welcome to a very special edition of the Graphic 45 blog. Today we're featuring the work of Susie McGuire, a very talented crafter! Today you'll see some examples of Susie's remarkable talents and get to know a little bit about what inspires her to create such dazzling works of art! But before we get to that, we wanted to quickly announce this week's blog prize winner! Big thanks to everyone who left us a comment on our blog and Facebook page about our new fabric collaboration with Wilmington Prints! It was amazing to read all of your feedback! Our random winner is...Kristina M. Anderson! Here is what she had to say on our blog about what she'd create with these great new fabrics!

"There are so many things you can make with fabric. Book covers, pillows, scarves, vest, chair cushions, and so much more. You could also frame it for great artwork (the fabric is so pretty)." -Kristina M. Anderson

Congratulations Kristina! Please email us with your shipping information at info@g45papers.com to claim your prize!

And now it's off to the enchanting land of Suzie McGuire from the blog Creative Cafe'. As you will see, Susie's talents are astounding. Residing in South Central Missouri, she has an extraordinary knack for creating gorgeously detailed mini albums that perfectly capture the essence of each individual paper collection. She has a unique eye for making each project come to life. Every page of her mini albums have their own clever personality and she obviously takes great time and care with every stunning detail. If you check out her blog (which we strongly recommend you do) you'll find a world of inspiration. Not only does Susie love to create for herself and the ones she loves, but she also loves to share her creations with her crafting community. Her blog is full of terrific videos, loads of photos, tutorials and sweet descriptions about each wonderful piece. Truly, Susie is a crafter who adores what she does and it's obvious when you look at the quality of her work. Below you will find some amazing examples of her Graphic 45 crafts. We are happy to introduce you to the amazing Susie McGuire of Creative Cafe'!

"I have always enjoyed doing various crafts and only started scrapbooking about 11 years ago when my daughter was in grade school. Back then I used what I would call BLAH paper (it was just that) and a lot of stickers to embellish with. I didn’t know that such beautiful projects could be made from scrapbook paper until I purchased my first paper crafting magazine. I saw a paper bag mini album that was absolutely gorgeous and thought to myself, "I can do that." I started out doing paper bag minis and now I do mini albums out of anything I can find to alter. I got my first glimpse of Graphic 45 about 4 years ago at a scrapbook store that I stumbled on when my husband and I were traveling. The papers caught my eye immediately. I love anything old and vintage. Graphic 45 gives me that. It has become my favorite line of paper to work with. I like to keep my mini albums simple, so most of the time I don‘t use a lot of flowers, bling or embellishments. I think the paper should speak for itself. Once again Graphic 45 that does exactly that.  I enjoy sharing my projects with others and I love to do tutorials for those wanting to know “now just how did you do that?” I believe we all have a creative side and sometimes I think we give up a little too quickly. If you will stay with it, your creativity will come shinning through." -Susie McGuire

Here is one of Suzie's astonishing Magic of Oz mini albums. It's so pretty and full of lots of love!

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Check out this amazing Hallowe'en in Wonderland purse that's also a mini album! How clever is this?! It's also so beautifully decorated! It is such an eye-catching piece! So unique!

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"This album was made using Graphic 45's new paper collection "An ABC Primer" and 9 x 6 catalog envelopes. On a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being the greatest) of the most fun mini's I've ever made, this one is a 10+ ! I didn't think I would like this particular paper collection, but since Graphic 45 is my FAVORITE paper line, I decided to buy it anyway. Sooooooo glad I did! This is now my all time favorite album to date. I used some of my left over cork board in this album, I think it incorporated nicely with this theme." -Susie

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Here is a beautiful Christmas Emporium mini album that is just perfect for the holiday season!

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Next we have this exquisite Once Upon a Springtime mini album by Susie. Each page overflows with a whimsical beauty all its own!

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Here is Susie's ultra classy Curtain Call mini album! The contrasting colors of black, cream and vibrant red looks so amazing in this show-stopping mini! Plus all the beautiful lace and trim help give this mini that unmistakable look of pure vintage elegance.

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Here is one of Susie's sweet Deluxe Edition Christmas Past mini albums. Here again you can see her amazing eye for creating beautiful dimensions and layers. This mini is like taking a journey through a winter wonderland of craft bliss!

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Next up is this festive altered wooden cigar box and printer's tray that contains a beautiful Christmas Emporium mini album! It's an altered art piece and mini album combined into one! It's just amazing! 

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"The mini album was made with the G45 Black Policy album and on the inside I have used one G45 chipboard button for each flap.  I have 4 categories: Traditions, Dinner Menu, Guest List and Gifts. 

There is a journaling tag in each pocket and a place for one picture on the following page." -Susie

 

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We want to say a huge thank you to Susie McGuire of Creative Cafe! It was an absolute pleasure to feature her work today! We hope you will all go and check out her blog. You will fall in love with all of her glorious creations! We also hope you will all come back and join us on Monday. We will be having a sneak peek of our brand new collection! Yes, you read right! A sneak peek of a brand new Graphic 45 paper collection will appear on our blog on Monday! There will also be a new blog contest! It'll be a glorious day and we hope to see you all there! Have a wonderful weekend, Crafters!

With Love and Pretty Paper,

Team Graphic 45

Altered Art Box Magic By Gloria Stengel!

Hello Crafters,

Happy Thursday and welcome to our blog! We hope you are enjoying your day where ever you may be in the world. We are settling in to the cool Fall weather and enjoying the beautiful trees as they transition into vibrant color. This weather is quite conducive for crafting, wouldn't you say? Today we're bringing you a marvelous craft creation and tutorial by Gloria's Stengel. She made a gorgeous ABC Primer altered art box and mini album that is going to knock your socks off! Our new Kraftboard Altered Art Boxes are so much fun and versatile. The box that Gloria has created today is a perfect example of how easy it is to create something simply stunning! With a few simple techniques, you too can create a marvelous and unforgettable craft creation! Get ready for some spectacular inspiration as Gloria takes you step-by-step on her creative process!

 

Supplies:

Box and Mini Album - Graphic45 (5x5 Kraftboard Altered Art Box w/Album)
Cardstock: Bazzill Raven
Designer Paper: Graphic45 An ABC Primer (Bedtime Stories, One Two Buckle My Shoe, Games and Playtime, School Days, Calico Kids, Happy Go Lucky, Grammar School, Jumping Joan, Alphabet Soup)
Embellishments: Ornate Metal Door Knob and Metal Tag Staples by Graphic45, Chipboard Tags 1 and 2 by Graphic45 An ABC Primer
Paint: Deco Art White
Trims: Graphic45, May Arts, fabric store
Tags: Office supply store,  Graphic45 packaging
Library card: teacher supply store
Tools: Sand It Gadget from Core'dinations, Anywhere hole punch from Fiskars
Adhesive: Scor-tape, ATG tape and foam tape from Scotch 3M, Glue Dots, Tombow Mono Metal glue

 

Instructions:

1. Cut papers to cover the outside of the art box. (The Art Box measures 5.25" W x 5.25" H x 2" D when closed.) For the front panel, trim out the opening with a kraft knife. Sand all edges. Use: One Two Buckle My Shoe and Jumping Joan papers.

2. Paint Ornate Metal Door Knob and a Metal Tag Staple with white acrylic paint. Allow to dry. Attach the knob to the top left edge of the front panel. Attach the metal tag to the side panel opposite the box opening.

3. Attach decorative papers so that they show through the opening in the box. Use School Days and One Two Buckle My Shoe. Glue chipboard elements and images cut from Grammar School paper to decorate the front of the box. Distress as desired.

4. Attach papers to the inside sections of the box, sanding all edges. Decorate with elements cut from the paper. Use One Two Buckle My Shoe, Games and Playtime, Alphabet Soup, Bedtime Stories, Grammar School papers.

5. Remove the album from the box and add a decorative panel to the inside of the box, if desired.

6. The album has four panels to decorate. The album is 4.75" x 4.75" when closed and 4.75" x 19" when opened. We will decorate the front and back of each album page.

7. To decorate the cover panel, trim image from Happy Go Lucky and attach to the front cover of the album. Tie twine to the clock button chipboard die cut, and attach it to the upper right corner of the album with glue. Make sure to sand all edges.

8. For the next two pages, attach Calico Kids to the panels, making sure to sand all edges. Trim out the ruler images from An ABC Primer paper and cut to size. Attach one ruler to the bottom of page one and one ruler to the top of page 2. Add photos or photo mats (approximately 3.5" x 4") and cut images from Grammar School paper, attaching with foam tape. Make sure you can slide photos under the images.

9. To create a pocket for page three, first cover the panel with Happy Go Lucky paper. Then, trim the flash cards from One Two Buckle My Shoe paper to size, and place adhesive on three sides. Glue to the panel, leaving the top open. Attach twine and twill to chipboard tags and manila tags, then tuck them into the pocket.

10. Flip the alum over and decorate the back of each panel as shown. For page four, attach Bedtime Stories paper to the panel, then attach a strip of Grammar School paper to the center,. Make sure to sand all edges. Attach a photo mat and an element cut from Grammar School paper.

11. For the page five, attach Calico Kids paper to the panel, making sure to sand all edges. Trim out the ruler image from An ABC Primer paper. Attach the ruler to the bottom of the page. Add a photo mat and an image cut from Grammar School paper. Use foam tape to attach the images, and make sure you are able to slide your photos under each image.

12. To create the tag on page six, trim Graphic45 packaging (use packaging from one of the Graphic45 Staples products) to fit the panel, and cover the bottom of the tag with black cardstock. Round the bottom corners. Tie twill to the opening, and decorate with an image cut from Grammar School paper.

13. To create a pocket for page seven, first cover the panel with Bedtime Stories paper. Then, trim Grammar School paper to size, and place adhesive on three sides. Glue to the panel, leaving the top open. Attach twine and twill to chipboard tags, manila tags, and library cards, then tuck them into the pocket.

Enjoy creating your very own school memory box and album!

Okay Crafters, that's all for today. Big thanks to Gloria Stengel for her amazing work today! Don't forget that there's still time to enter this week's blog contest! Just leave us a blog or Facebook comment telling us what you'd create if you had some of the new Graphic 45/Wilmington Prints fabric in your possession right now! We will be picking a random winner and announcing them here on the blog tomorrow! We hope you'll join us for this fun announcement and more craft inspiration! Tomorrow is going to be a very special day with lots of fabulous crafts to ogle. You wont want to miss this! We wish you all a terrific Thursday!

Happy Papercrafting!

Team Graphic 45

 

 

Perfect Magic of Oz Crafts for Fall!

Hello Crafters,

Happy Wednesday and thank you for joining us! We have a bunch of beautiful crafts to share with you today! We're bringing you some gorgeous Magic of Oz craft ideas from the amazing Gloria Stengel and Jane Tregenza of our design team. You are going to love these marvelous ideas! There's a stunning card by Gloria and two wonderful layouts by Jane! All of these crafts are just perfect for Fall as well as Halloween! You're guaranteed to find some serious inspiration today! So let's get to it! Check out this first adorable card creation by Gloria Stengel. This card is great for all occasions but looks particularly fabulous with it's elegant Fall colors. Behold the magic!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Bazzill, Stampin' Up!
Designer paper: Graphic45 The Magic of Oz ( Journey to Oz, Yellow Brick Road)
Ink: Clearsnap Colorbox Chalk Blackbird
Pin: Maya Road
Tools: Grand Calibur Machine by Spellbinders, Die templates by Spellbinders (S5-053 Lace Doily Motifs)
Adhesive: tape by Scotch 3M, glue by Tombow

Next we have this sweet and beautiful layout by Jane Tregenza. This LO is another example of a great Fall/Halloween craft. Jane's classic style looks absolutely flawless in this great LO. Here is what she had to say about the inspiration for this lovely work of art. 

"The Magic of Oz Collection is wonderful. It  works so well on all levels, whether it’s layouts or mini projects.  This time I used it for a page on my son. As soon as I saw the Scatterbrained Scarecrow I wanted to use it on a layout. I had some photos of Josh taken when he was 12 years old. He decided to have a veggie garden, so he spent the day digging up a patch of our back yard. By the end of the day he was over it. It took Malcolm one whole Saturday morning to fill it all in. I used a sheet of Yellow Brick Road for the base of my layout mounted on black cardstock. I cut a frame from Domestic Goddess- Happy Homemaker. I added black brads in the middle of each flower on the border  and worked the rest of my page with the frame. I cut the scarecrow images from Scatterbrained Scarecrow and used foam tape to build them up. I cut the pipe frame as well. The round scarecrow piece came from an 8x8 Magic of Oz pad as the image on the 12x12 paper was too large. I added another square in middle of my layout mated with black bazzill and photos. To finish my page I added corners and a title from Imaginarium Designs. The title was inked with a mixture of inks to get the right colour and sprayed with Iridescent spray to give it a shimmer. I even managed to do some journaling as well!" -Jane Tregenza

Supplies:

Graphic 45
Magic of Oz – G45 00341 Yellow Brick Road, 2x G4500342 Scatterbrained Scarecrow, G4500340 The Magic of Oz,
Colourbox – Dark Brown fluid chalk
Imaginarium designs - IDC004 Swirl Corners, title “country at Heart”
Bazzill
Black Brads
Straw
Memories Mists - Iridescent
Double sided tape, foam tape, and glue.

Here is another amazing Magic of Oz layout by Jane Tregenza. It combines a timeless style with a heartwarming sentiment. It's super inspiring and simply beautiful. Here is what Jane had to say about her stunning LO.

"This year my three daughters had a trip of a life time. Beth has promised Anna a trip overseas for years. Anna found a website that does Harry Potter tours of England and Scotland. She really wanted to do the tour, so Beth offered to take her, Anna asked if Kate wanted to come with them and of course she was delighted! They did England and Scotland for 15 days, spent one day in Paris and four days in USA doing Harry Potter world and some of the theme Parks in Orlando.  They had an amazing time together but I was so glad to see them home. So when it came time to do a layout with a photo taken at the airport before they left, the magic of Oz collection was my first choice. I love this new collection from Graphic 45. It is so versatile and can be used for any occasion. The papers work so well together and the theme of the balloon for travelling was great. The Poppy fields paper is one of my favourites and had to be added.  I cut borders from the wicked print paper and Emerald City. I made a banner, covered them with paper and  put Domestic Goddess alphabets with epoxy dots on top. I used a chipboard clock, which I inked and sprayed with Iridescent spray. I added a cut out compass from the back of the Wicked Print paper. On top of it I put a chipboard compass from Imaginarium Designs and added a chipboard Graphic 45 compass from chipboard tags 1. On top of that is a compass which actually works.  I used it to list some of the places they visited.  I love Poppy fields so I cut lots of the flowers and layered them with foam tape on top of a picket fence. The Emerald city paper gave me the man in the balloon which I cut out and used as a journaling piece. All I needed to add was some chipboard travel words sprayed black to finish my page. Once again Diane and Graphic 45 have come up with another wonderful collection that is perfect for many different projects." -Jane Tregenza

Supplies:
Graphic 45
G4500347 Emerald City, G4500348 Goblin Gazette, G4500351 Wicked, G4500344 Poppy Fields. Domestic Goddess collection G4500131 Domestic Goddess alphabets
Chipboard Tags - Magic of Oz Tags 1 & 2
Colourbox inks – Dark Brown
Imaginarium Designs -  IDS005 Clock Face, IDW0019 Compass with Travel words. IDB005 Heart top picket fence.
Epoxy Dots
Ribbons
Compass
Bazzill
Tsukineko Brilliance Pearlescent Thyme
Memories Mist-Iridescent
Foam tape, double sided adhesive tape and glue

That's all the magic for today's blog. Big thanks to Gloria Stengel and Jane Tregenza for their amazing creations today. Crafters, don't forget to leave your comments for this week's blog contest. Just tell us what you'd create if you had some of the new Graphic 45/Wilmington Prints fabric in your possession right now. Leave your comment on our blog or Facebook page for your chance to win! Thank you all for joining us today and we hope you'll come back and see us tomorrow. We'll have more crafts and inspiration to share with you!

With Love and Pretty Paper,

Team Graphic 45