Graphic 45 Sneak Peeks: Introducing Bird Song Cling Stamps!

Hello G45ers,

Welcome to another wonderful day of fun, sneak peeks and prizes here at Graphic 45! We are so happy that you are joining us today! We've got a lots of goodies in store for you during this great sneak peek week! Today you'll see the gorgeous new cling stamps from Bird Song, see who won yesterday's Bird Song prize packs and see stunning layouts from Sharon Ngoo and Jane Tregenza of our design team! Jane has even created a fabulous layout tutorial that you're sure to love. So get ready for another grand day of craft bliss! First lets start with the prize winners! We want to thank you all so much for your fantastic comments on yesterday's blog. It was such a joy to read all of your feedback about Bird Song! Remember that we're giving away 4 Bird Song prize packs every day this week! Just leave us a blog comment for your chance to win! All of this week's winners will receive a Bird Song 8x8 paper pad and both coordinating chipboard die-cuts! What fun! And the winners are...

-Judy Studer: "This is the most awesome Asian paper I have ever seen. They have beautiful colors. I love everything thing about this pack. Birdsong would work great in my Asian card plans, and the change to get it free - WOW Thanks for the offer Judy"

-Peggy Snodgrass: "Without a doubt Bird Song just became my favorite Graphic 45 collection ever. Spectacular!! I can not wait for this."

-Kathleen Rimer:  "OMGosh! I cannot wait to touch Birdsong! The designs and colors are so completely incredible. AND the birdhouse is so adorable. Thank you G45 for all you do for us!"

-Diana Caho: "YOU ARE KIDDING ME!! Where has this paper been hiding? love this kind of paper collection. Just when things got tight at home, a paper line that I have been looking forever for comes out. Oh man, what is a person to do? Gotta have this for sure."

Congratulations! Will our winners please email us with your shipping information at info@g45papers.com to claim your prize. We will be announcing 4 more random winners on tomorrow's blog so stay tuned!

And now it's time for more exhilarating sneak peeks! Behold these incredible Bird Song cling stamps! Just imagine the glorious works of art you could create using these beautiful stamps!

Bird Song Cling Stamp 1

Bird Song Cling Stamp 2

Bird Song Cling Stamp 3

And now it's time for some fabulous inspiration from our design team! Today we're featuring two lovely layouts that are sure to make you smile. This first layout was created by Sharon Ngoo and features our gorgeous collection A Ladies' Diary. Sharon combined beautiful paper distressing and paper layering to create wonderful depth and texture. She also added lots of lavish embellishments to make this LO a timeless treasure! Here is what Sharon had to say about this magnificent LO!

"Here's a layout I made featuring my daughter and the "A Ladies' Diary" collection.  I really love how the colours in this collection go really well with skin tones and I love all the little details in the images in this collection.  My little lady says that this layout is her favourite one so far!"

"And here are a few close ups of the gorgeous images found in this paper collection.  They go great with the crystal butterflies from want2scrap."

Supplies:
A Ladies Diary collection:
1.  Ageless Beauty
2.  Picture Perfect
3. Delicate Details
4. Moment in Time
5. A Ladies' Diary Chipboard Die-cuts 1
6. A Ladies' Diary Chipboard Die-cuts 2
7. A Ladies' Diary Alphabet Stickers
8. A Ladies' Diary Stickers
9. Trim Staples
Other supplies:
1.  Cream Cardstock - Bazzill
2.  Crystal butterflies - want2scrap
3.  lace and trim - my own

Wow, that was so beautiful! Next we've got an incredible layout creation by Jane Tregenza! This LO has a masculine charm and beauty that is out of this world! Jane used our Olde Curiosity Shoppe collection and fun layering techniques to bring this fun LO to life! She even included a marvelous tutorial to show you how it was made! Get ready for a creative journey, G45ers! Here is Jane Tregenza's "Feel the Rush" layout and tutorial!

Olde curiosity shoppe is proving to be one of my favourite collections from Graphic 45. I love the way it works for male or female photos. The colours are so vibrate and strong and the prints on the paper perfect. You can do so much with the patterns on the papers. Whether you use them as full sheets for cut the up and use them as pieces. It all works so well and the layouts come together beautifully. This layout is one I have done for my Son, the colours on his shirt did not go with the prints from Olde Curiosity Shoppe so I converted his photo to black and white.

Supplies:
Olde Curiosity Shoppe
Mercurial Masterpiece
Olde Curiosity shoppe
Counting down
Race for time
Tim Holtz Book plate
Assorted Brads
Chipboard clocks and title from Imaginarium Designs
Colourbox inks and Smooch Spritz sprays – Silver foil and Vanilla Shimmer

1.       Cut the cream edge from Mercurial Masterpiece, ink around the edges and adhere it your black cardstock

2.       Cut your piece of Counting Down print paper to 10 ¼ inches x 10 ¼ inches and ink around the edges. Adhere it to the middle of your Mercurial Masterpiece.

3.       Cut the border from your Olde Curiosity Shoppe print paper.  Make sure you leave the gold edge on the outside and the yellow edge on the inside attached. It should measure about ¾ of an inch wide. The total measurement is 10 3/8 inches x 10 3/8 inches wide. Cut it in one piece and ink around the edges.

4.       Cut your sheet of Cajun to 10 5/8 inches x 10 5/8 inches wide. Adhere your print paper to it with the same amount of Cajun showing all the way around.  Remove the middle bit of the cardstock so a little bit of the Cajun is showing on the inside as well. The cardstock should measure about 1 inch wide all the way around. Ink around the edges.

5.       Ink your large chipboard clock black and place it on your page. Hook your border over the clock at the top and left side of your page. Tuck the border under the clock on the right and bottom side of your page. Make sure it fits on your page within the border printed on your bottom print paper. Once you are happy with where it is, use foam tape on the top left border corner and bottom left border corner to adhere it to your page. Use flat tape to adhere the border to the right and bottom of your page.

 

6.       Cut your first photo mat out of the black cardstock, cut it 5 ¼ inches x 7 ¼ inches. Cut your second mat out of the Cajun cardstock, cut it to 5 ¾ inches x 7 ¾ inches and ink around the edges.  Adhere the two together. Tuck the bottom left corner under your clock and the top left corner over your clock. Mat a piece of optical oddities with black cardstock and tuck it under your photo mat. Once you are happy with your placement, adhere it to your layout.

 

7.       Match up your cogs, use the above image as a guide. Some you will need to ink black and some will need to be sprayed with silver spray.  Ink a large chipboard clock brown with distress ink and glue it onto a piece of print paper and cut around the edges. Use a piece of raw chipboard and put it through the sizzix machine to cut out a key and key hole. Ink the key with brown ink. Use distress embossing powder on the key hole and heat it with a heat gun.  Allow the distress powder to cool. Lightly rub your fingers over the key hole and then rub more distress ink over it. Cut a small piece of print paper and glue it under the key hole opening. Use a scrap of print paper and glue your book plate onto it and cut around the edges. Lay all the cog, key, key hole, small clock, and book plate on top of the clock and use brads to attach all the items. Once it is finished glue it onto your layout. Add a brad at the end of the key to attach it to your page.

8.       Ink your title “feel the rush” with distress ink, and spray it with some shimmer spray. Bend it slightly and glue  it onto the large black clock. Use micro brads to hold it to your page.

Finished.

We hope you all had a fantastic time today! We want to thank Sharon Ngoo and Jane Tregenza for their remarkable creations! We had such fun getting to introduce you to our new Bird Song cling stamps! We hope you'll join us tomorrow for even more sneak peeks, prize winner announcements and crafts! Don't forget to leave us a blog comment today for your chance to win this week's Bird Song prize pack! We wish you all a lovely day!

Happy Papercrafting!

Your Friends at Graphic 45

 

 

Comments

[Jean Marmo]

Love the layouts!! THank you for the inspiration!!!!

[KONNIE WREN]

The peacock, dragon and fan are absolutely fabulous! I cannot wait to get my hands on them. The layouts shown are gorgeous as well. If only someone around here actually sold Graphic 45...but they don't!

[Vanessa Hayden]

Fun stamps and clever pages! Thank you once again!!

[RebeccaB]

I've been a digiscrapper for 5 years and only just a month ago, started physically scrapping....Graphic 45 Olde Curiosity Shoppe being my first collection. I've absolutely devoured the entire paper stack, chipboards, stickers and stamps and am loving it. Bird Song will definately be my next purchase - the papers are absolute stunning artworks in themselves and the cling stamps, if edible, would be delicious...the spectacular colours, the peacock, the dragon, absolutely magnificent, can't wait :)

[Nicole Mullen]

Eep!! These stamps are AMAZING!!!! Sorry for shouting but they are just stunning, I can't wait until this are out so I can get my inky little fingers on them!!

[Karen R]

I love all the new stamp sets, I don't know which one is my favorite.

[Deborah WIsmer]

The stamps are amazing. Can't wait to get this Asian graphic 45. All I can say is wow.

[Debbi Sarazin]

This new collection, Bird Song is a beautifully gracious example of the wonderful work we have come to expect from Graphic 45! Another hit!

[Pat Von Minden]

Absolutely adore the Oriental design!

[Miriam Prantner]

LOVE the new stamps! Must have! And that layout with all the gears is fabulous!

[Sue W.]

These new stamps will be PERFECT with the papers. I especially love the cherry blossoms.

[kathleen schriber]

i might need a couple packs of this paper, one for my projects and one just to look at. great stamps.

[Marilyn B. Hughes]

Beautiful stamps and both layouts are awesome!

[marie sierra]

wow!!! amazing layouts! thank you for the details on how to do! also the bird song stamps are too much!! i love this line!!!

[cathy]

Love the projects, Love Graphic 45 for all my projects. I tell everyone about your papr designs.

[Sara Nell Langland]

I am loving the dragon stamp! But I think I am more enamored with the two beautiful layouts today. Thanks for the tutorial on layering. Excellent and imagination provoking.

[Charo]

Love all the projects!

Charo

[Maryanne Degiorgio]

I love the stamp sets cant wait until they are released along with the paper.

[Julie Tucker-Wolek]

Those stamps are amazing!! I loveeeeeee the peacock (my grandmothers maiden name!!!) and love love love love the lo's!!!! Absolutely GORGEOUS!!!

[Carol G.]

what fabulous stamp sets. can't wait to get a few.

[Martha Richardson]

Oh my...The whole BIRD SONG collection will be mine...this is so me!

[Jo Anne Mason]

Love the Bird Song stamps. Really need the peacock!!

[Beth D]

The stamps are lovely. The details are great and these could be used for so many things.

[Katherine B]

Bird Song is awesome! I can already see so many projects in my mind! Love the papers, love the stamps - you rock G45!!

[Geraldine]

Gorgeous projects and loving the stamps for Bird Song, especially the cherry blossoms from the first stamp set.

[Dorothee]

Yummylicious! i love the Bird Song Cling Stamp 2 set. The fans are absolutly gorgeous.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful collection with us.

[Jennie Harper]

Wow, what a beautiful line Bird Song is! LOVE the Cling Stamp set 1!!! Can't wait to see it in person :)

[Deborah]

This is a lovely collection and the projects today are amazing!

[Sharon Y (sharona62)]

Oh boy, these stamps are fabulous! I can see a lot of uses for the cherry blossom and I love the peacock and the dragon. Thank Sharon and Jane for inspiring us with your layouts.

[linda williamson]

These stamps are over the top! great projects from Sharon and Jane.

[June-Marie (mermaid49)]

Not sure which new collection I love more!...keep them coming!

[Kate]

Oh my goodness! These stamps are gorgeous! I must have them all! The details are fabulous! And I love the subject!

[Tari Eilbeck]

you continue to awe me from your first papercollection to now....hated to cut papers at first now more daring thanks to design team!

[Kaatje]

wow this bring stamping to a higher level. they are awesome

[Kathy Bumb]

Beautiful paper collection as usual from Graphic 45. More designs from the most talented designers. Great work.

[Melissa Merritt]

I want to color the peacock stamp. All the stamps are great, can't wait to use them.

[Pam]

I love the peacock & the dragon! These stamps are fabulous.

[Sarah]

Put me in a cage and shut the door...with the Birdsong Collection, please. This collection gets sweeter with each reveal!!!

[Aline]

Oh my god, what a wonderful collection,
The stamps are fabulous, perfect for an album of trip to Japan !

[Angie Ayres]

wow, the stamps are great! love the pages too! now i can cope with the day, i`ve had my graphic45 fix! xx