Hi everyone! I'm back with a new layout this time for BasicGrey. The collection I used here is "Paper Cottage". I think you will notice that BasicGrey's line of embellishments has been continually growing and with this new collection, you will be treated to some beautiful layers of stickers and die-cuts, felt fabric embellishments, wooden buttons, and a lot more!
Check out some of the products I used here and start creating your own Paper Cottage projects. Thanks for your visit!
It will be CHA again soon and once again we will be drooling over the new BasicGrey releases. I thought of making a pre-CHA review post here of the recent releases. Sharing with you first a few layouts from "Kioshi"
... and Plumeria
and here is one more "Plumeria" layout that I just finished tonight. Had a go with my new silhouette again and cut the butterfly and flower strip. Layered lots of gesso, glass bead gels, mists, Pan Pastels, Distress stains, and Inka Gold here as well. Chipboard pieces are by Dusty Attic.
I'll be back in a few days to post some layouts on "PB& J" and my personal favorite "What's Up?!" Till then! Thanks for your visit and your comments!
Hi everyone!!
Here is a sneak peek of a challenge I am doing at BAsicGrey involving "templates"! It's so much fun! Hope you can join us. It will go live on 12:00 noon CST on saturday.
To go to this challenge click: http://blog.basicgrey.com/?p=2833
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Next is a sneak peek another challenge/ project I am doing over at BasicGrey for the NSD celebrations this time invloving sizzix dies!
Hope you can come and join us...
This will go live 1:00 p.m. CST on saturday
Click: http://blog.basicgrey.com/?p=2820
See you there!
Hugs!
Iris
I'm really loving the Kissing Booth Line from BasicGrey. The collection went really well with some photos I took from my daughter Nicole's recent 7th birthday. She and her classmates had an afternoon of crafting with the theme of a tea party. They made cupcakes, mini albums and all of those girly stuff.
I also used the new dies from Cheery lynn, Dutch Scallop, and Dainty Dutch Deco. It's actually a set of two dies in one. There is a suqare frame, and a small doily inside. I used the two doilies for this layout.
Here is one of two layouts I made for the event...
And since I had to make two layouts - one for Nicole and one for Cheska, here is the 2nd layout using the same collection from BasicGrey...
Love it yet?! It's really amazing and will be perfect for your coming Valentine's photos!
Thanks for your visit and an advanced Happy Valentine's Day to everyone!
Happy new year everyone! A brand new year... a brand new set of goals... and a brand new opportunity to live a better life, to pursue one's dreams, to maybe let go of some and set new ones.
This year I hope to be able to go back to the very reason why I have kept myself in this industry - and that is because I enjoyed the process. But as I have gone through the demands of creating for shows, publications, design teams, I realized that I have been creating more for the need to "get the job done" rather than to satisfy the need to create and to record memories. I have always been in-love with mixed media and make it a point to include techniques in my classes. I hope I can do more of that too in my daily pages and projects.
I am still part of manufacturer teams that I admire and respect but this time I took one step further and will be creating with a couple of mixed media companies also - laser chipboard pieces and embossing powders. I think that will be a pretty fun mix right?
So to start off the new year of creating for me, my very first layout for 2012 was created with the brand new collection from BasicGrey - "Kissing Booth"! When I first saw the preview of this line, I have been continually asking when we will be able to get our hands on it. Let me show you why...
BasicGrey comes up with some of the most vibrant vintage patterns and colors and then complements it with stunning embellishments like these chipboard pieces...
die-cut sticker shapes...
dimensional stickers and letter stickers in varied sizes...
then... to make it more my own, I added this lamp post chipboard piece from Dusty Attic, texturized with gesso, paint and WOW embossing powder in "Sierra Sunset".
another chipboard from Dusty Attic this time with the WOW Bubblegum powder layered with Sierra Sunset powder.
on this part I used Ranger paint with WOW Gummybear Green powder.
The new WOW embossing powders by Suzy West will be launched soon at CHA. There are so many colors to die for! If you want to take a peek - check it out HERE.
Thanks for your visit everyone! Happy new year once again!
Hi everyone!! I recently made a post focusing on BasicGrey's "Little Black Dress" collection. This time, I'm doing a post on one of my favorite BasicGrey collection... "Indie Bloom". You will love every bit of this line including all of the embellishments AND the stamps!!
1. Pretty In Pink
materials used: Indie Bloom collection including papers, canvas borders, fabric circle stickers, layered stickers, chipboard stickers and element stickers.
2. "Loving Each Day"
materials used: Indie Bloom collection including papers, layered stickers, chipboard stickers and element stickers. plus Hero Arts and BG Lauderdale cling stamps, Hero Arts and BG Indie Bloom Stamps
3. "Fancy Ice Cream"
materials used: Indie Bloom collection including papers, layered stickers, chipboard stickers and element stickers.
Thanks for your visit! I'll be back soon with "Picadilly" next time to be followed by "Nordic Holiday". Then I can't wait to get started on the new line "Kissing Booth"! That one will be lots of fun for sure!
It's been one exciting day for me!! I came home tonight to find two wonderful news posted in my fb page...
the first one is this...
Scraptastic Event - Belgium October 2012
I still could not beleive it until I saw this up tonight... wow... pinch pinch!! What an amazing opportunity! I'm excited but also scared to death to be teaching in the same event as these ladies! Oh and yes the first thing I will probably do is go up to Donna Downey and Teresa Collins for a signature and a picture!!
The second big news is this..
WOW! What a process this has been! We were floored by the amount of amazing submissions we received for our first ever BG Design Team call. Thank you so much to all of you who applied.
We’re excited to put these 28 women to work! Yes, 28! Although our original call stated we were looking for 25 total traditional and digital designers, we added three talented woman to our team as altered artists. We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be working with the following designers for the next year :
TRADITIONAL DESIGN TEAM
DIGITAL DESIGN TEAM
ALTERED ARTS DESIGN TEAM
Welcome to the BasicGrey team, ladies – we can’t wait to see your first projects!
I am so excited about this!! My scrapbook friends, my buddies here, know how much I love BasicGrey. I have been hoarding their papers since the days of Pheobe and Romani! To be part of such an amazing company and to work alongside this bunch of amazing ladies is such an honor. Thank you so much BasicGrey!!
Before I go, I just wanted to share a few of my BasicGrey layouts from the new and the previous collections (yeah I really am crazy about BasicGrey).
So I was giddy with excitement when I received a box from Basic Grey filled with all of the recent CHA releases and I kind of went on hibernation mode cause I just kept looking at the papers. Well, ok I also started hand cutting the patterns as you can imagine. Anyway, I just had to start with this one... my favorite from all the oh so gorgeous collections. Thank you BASIC GREY! I love everything.
Here is "Picadilly"
Beautiful patterns, rich and vibrant colors, stunning embellishments... I love it! I'm sure you do too.
I also wanted to share that Basic Grey has a blog already and it is up and running with some really big news!! Yes, A DT CALL! Check it out here.
Thanks for your visit!
I'm so happy to have a few spare days this week to sit down and work on the new BasicGrey lines that I received a few weeks ago. I have to say that all four lines are beautiful but my favorite so fas is "Hello Luscious". Here are a few layouts I made using the new collection...
Ist Up... "Hello Luscious"
added a Tim Holtz timepiece metal embellishment...
and a paper clip and canvas tag from an older BG line.
Here is another layout featuring "Hello Luscious". Nicole just turned 6 here and we took this picture of her with her grandma Helen at Hongkong Disneyland...
added a few really old random embellishments I had lying around in my stash.
Now on to the brighter, funkier, retro feel collection "Lauderdale"... This one is really fun. I had a blast with this collection...
Added a chipboard tree sticker from BG Lemonade
Lauderdale canvas tags and BG fabric flowers..
BasicGrey Lauderdale on Basics paper...
Added chipboard shapes from "Olivia" collection.
Thank you BasicGrey for all the collection packs. I will definitely be back with more BG layouts. I'll be working next on the "Life of the Party" and "Sweet Threads" collection.
Thanks for your visit!
Iris
