Mixed Media Monday

Good morning everyone!

Today I have two gorgeous projects to share with you on this Mixed Media Monday!

The first is a project from Lisa Griffith using the

Scraps Of Elegance 'Lynne's Garden Terrace' 

She loves this paper by BoBunny called "Garden Journal' that looks like watercolor prints from an old book. She did not want to cover up the beautiful flower illustrations. She decided to go ahead and use it as a background paper and she loves how it turned out. She added some watered down gesso to soften the background and then did some masking for texture.

Here are a few of the details

she used set of water color paints for this one and just had loads of fun with blues and purples.

She used some of the Prima butterfly flowers from the kit.

 

Now I have another gorgeous layout to share....

This one from Patricia also using the 'Lynnes garden Terrace' kit

It is a gorgeous layout with fabulous techniques!

here are a few of the details

Thanks for stopping by!

Lisa's beautiful creations!

Today I wanted to show 2 of Lisa's gorgeous layouts!

the first one is just stunning!

The Prima Roses from the add on flowers are white, so she sprayed them with Color Shine from the add on color kit. She used a die cut the photo mat from a Spellbinders die using card stock from the add on card stock kit and colored it with my Lindy's Stamp Gang new Industrial Chic sprays designed by Limor Weber!

Look at all these wonderful details...

Her second project is just as gorgeous!

Again she colored the flowers beautifully with the mists!

she die cut the leaves then sprayed with the industrial chic sprays

told you you would be inspired!

September Kit Premiere

Our September kit is here!

Simply Shabby Chic

We're bringing you some gorgeous, brand new Prima, some oh-so-shabby Fabscraps, and lots of other sweet goodies in this kit.  If you'd like to see the full list of kit "ingredients" and our coordinating add ons, stop by our website or our store!  We have just a few left, so you won't want to miss out...

Along with the new kit, we have a new sketch, and a new sketch challenge.  Suepup has created this beautiful sketch to inspire you, and our September sketch challenge will be based on this sketch - the only rules to the challenge are to use the sketch, and have your layout submitted in time (don't worry, you have a whole month to complete it!).  And as always with our challenges, you don't have to use our kits to enter, you can use items from your own stash.  Here's the link to enter!  Simply Shabby Chic Sketch Challenge.  And here's the fabulous sketch for this month:

We know you don't just want to see a kit and sketch, you want some eye candy, and we surely have some of that this month!  I thought I'd share a few projects from the ladies on our design team, and if you want to see more, just visit their blogs, you kind find links to all of them on our sidebar...

Cathi O'Neill - our Sept. Guest Designer!

Lisa Nazario-Gregory- her 1st layout as an SOE Sponsored Designer!

Mandy Zimmerman

Nadia Cannizzo

Romy Veul

Kathy Mosher

Keren Tamir

Helena Johansson

Renea Harrison

And we'll have more inspiration coming throughout the month, so be sure to check back!

Thank you for stopping by, we appreciate it and always love your comments!

~Melinda~

Meet our April Guest Designer!

I am SO excited, honored and thrilled to introduce you to our April Guest Designer...

Lisa Gregory

Hi, My name is Lisa and by profession I am a registered nurse. I am married to my high school sweetheart and we have 2 children who are now successful young adults.  I have been a crafter my whole life. I sew, embroider, crochet, paint and have dabbled in many crafty things in my life. Back in 2005, when my son was doing his senior project with his girlfriend (who is now his wife) They were creating a scrapbook of their lives. They elicited my help as I was the crafty one. We took a ride to The Dollar Tree (our local dollar store) who had a section dedicated to scrap booking  Papers, albums, embellishments, flowers, and we grabbed everything we could find. I knew about the new way of scrap booking, but never gave it any thought until that trip to The Dollar Tree. After helping the kids create their albums , which by the way turned out fabulous, I was curious as to where I could get more "scrap booking stuff". So I drove to our local Michaels and Joanns craft stores. That is when I became hooked. Then I sought out the local scrapbook stores and found stuff I didn't even know existed until then. I shopped and shopped and shopped some more. I found Scrapbook.com and saw the kind of scrap booking the artists did. I was amazed at the styles. It just wasn't cut and paste and stickers. It was 3 dimensional, it was gorgeous, and oh so inspiring. So I created a gallery, created my first layout and the rest is history. My style has changed a bit throughout the years, but playing with paper and scissors is still so therapeutic for me. I am so incredibly honored that Lisa and Mel have invited me to Guest Design for Scraps of Elegance.

You'll be able to see Lisa's work with our April kit on April 10th, when we have our Design Team Reveal.  And I have to tell you, I'm really excited to see it, myself!  When I first began to scrapbook, Lisa was the first artist I really started to follow.  She provided me with so much inspiration, and the first tutorial I ever attempted was one of hers,  On top of that, I've chatted with her numerous times over the years, and have to tell you she is one of the nicest people you will meet!


I'd also like to add a note here thanking Jennifer Snyder for the beautiful work she's done for our club during her time on our team.  We will miss you and wish you well, Jen.