May Kit Reveal

Our May kit is here!  It was a little delayed, but we think it was worth the wait!

Destinations

This kit is such a versatile kit, and can take you to so many different destinations (pun intended! lol).  You can go in a Steampunk direction - masculine - travel - dramatic - elegant - the possibilities are endless!

We like to give you a close-up with the kit picture, but realize it's a little hard to see the papers included in those pics, so here's a pic of our Patterned Paper Add On.  The Patterned Paper add on always includes one extra sheet of the papers that are in the main kit, which gives you so many more options for your projects, it's not just two sheets of each paper, it allows you to use both sides, or if there's one design you really love, you now have a second/backup sheet of that paper!

If you'd like to see the full list of what's included in the kit, and all of the available add ons (we give you lots of options!), please stop by our website or store 

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And as always, Suepup has created an awesome new sketch to coordinate with the kit.  Please feel free to use it for inspiration - and if you do, be sure to enter the May Destinations Sketch Challenge on our forum for a chance to win a prize!  You don't have to use our kit to enter the challenge, just the sketch!

I hope you'll find inspiration in both our new kit and sketch, and that you'll consider entering our sketch challenge!

Thank you for stopping by, and have a great weekend!

~Melinda

Introducing our May Guest Designer!

It's with much excitement that I announce Solange Marques will be guest designing for us with our upcoming May kit (stay tuned - the kit will premiere on May 18th)!

 

I am Solange Marques, and I live in Curitiba, Brazil, with my husband, João, and some of my children. I have five children:  Camila, Alexandre, Bruno, Gabriela, Miguel and two  grandchildren: Clara and  Samuel. They are always present in my creations.
I am graduated in architecture and fine arts, but I have been working in a Bank for 24 years as an appraiser of jewelry. 

I have been in  love with Arts and Crafts since I was a child . I discovered Scrapbooking in 2004 and today I am totally crazy about it.
I love to use paints and texture in my layouts and I melt the photos with the background. I love mixing  a lot of techniques  and products in my pages, such as acrylic paints, watercolor, stamps, modeling paste and acrylic gesso.  
I love the artsy style! 

You can see some of Solange's work on her blog.

Solange's work is always amazing, and we can't wait to see what she does with our May kit!

Kim's NSD Challenge and a layout from Aida!

I wanted to share another layout with you today.  Aida Domisiewicz is guest designing for us this month, and she has just been rocking our Remember When kit!  Check out this fantastic layout she's done:

 Doesn't it just make you want to pull out your paints, mists, and mediums and work on a layout?!  Such an inspiration!

And the next thing I'd like to share is that Kim Arledge is hosting a wonderful challenge on our forum for NSD!  You do not have to be a kit club member or use any of our products to participate in the challenge, and we have a nice little RAK valued at over $65.00 fot the winner:

Playing along is fun and easy, stop by our forum to play!  NSD Challenge

Ayeeda's work with our Remember When kit!

I am beyond thrilled to let you know that Customs finally thought it was time to let Aida play with our April kit!

We're so excited that Aida Domisiewicz is guest designing for us with this month's kit, and let me tell you, waiting for Customs to release it to her was worth it!

This is the first layout she did that we'll be sharing with you, she based it on the sketch we included with the kit, and what a stunner it is!

Aida's layouts are always such an inspiration, and we'll have more of her work to share in the coming days, so please be sure to stop back!

April Design Team Reveal

Our April kit, "Remember When", revealed on April 17th, and today the ladies on our Design Team are revealing projects they've done with the kit - always an exciting day for us at Scraps of Darkness!

I thought I'd just share one project from each designer here today, and let you know that if you click on the designer's name above her project, you'll be able to see more of their fabulous work with the kit, and probably a few detail shots, as well...

Mandy Harrell

Lisa Novogrodski

Renea Harrison

Karen Zueger

Drycha

Michelle Phillips

Kim Arledge

Marianne Johansson

And unfortunately, Customs is having a little too much fun with Aida's and Elena's kits, I think, so we'll be sharing their work with the kit as soon as they give them up and let them have some fun with it!

Our April Guest Designer!

I am so excited and happy to announce our April Guest Designer, I am a fan of her work, and can't wait to see what she does with our April Kit!

Aida Domisiewicz

Hi everyone! My name is Aida Domisiewicz, I use a nickname Ayeeda. I live in a beautiful city of Wroclaw, Poland. I’ve just turned 40. I am married and I have two wonderful sons - 9 and 4 years old.

I think I've always had an artistic soul, but I really discovered my craft skills taking ceramics classes. Many years ago, we lived for two years in Perth, Australia and my husband worked a lot. I felt a bit lonely, trying to find something interesting to do. Classes were wonderful, opened my creative mind. Back in Poland I still enjoyed making ceramics, then I started to make home decorations, interior design, and finally I discovered scrapbooking and mixed media.

I create layouts mostly with lots and lots of media. But sometimes I create cards, tags and other project. I really enjoy creating process, closing memories on paper, but often I just let my emotions go on a paper – it helps :) For me each page is a separate, complete story to tell.

My style is still changing and developing, I’m not closing myself to just one style, I always look for original effect on the page. My projects are recognizable though as quite messy and rich with media. I just love to create with modeling pastes, gesso, paints, inks and mists. I love to use stamps, stencils and unusual embellishments in my projects.

I am honored and happy to be a Guest Designer in SOD .Thank You so much Melinda for this opportunity.

  Our April kit is revealing tomorrow, and our Design Team Reveal will be on Saturday, April 27th, so be sure to check back, I am sure we will all be inspired by what Aida and the ladies on our design team do with the kit!

March Layout of the Month

Each month, we chose one special layout to be our Layout of the Month.  

I'd like to share the layout we chose for our March LOTM, it was created by Michelle McDonald with our Karma kit, and we think it's just gorgeous!

Congratulations, Michelle!