A New Design Team

Oh goodness I am so excited to finally share this wonderful news with you all. I was contacted several months ago by my sweet friend Anna (most of you know her by the name Finnabair) to see if I would be interested in joining a new Design Team with her! Of course I said yes!

The name of this new venture is called 7 Dots Studio.  They have launched their first two collections and they are over the top gorgeous. Each line consists of six double-sided, high quality scrapbooking papers made of heavy weight cardstock. In each collection you will find stickers in two sizes – 12×12 and 6×12 and a sheet of die-cut stickers.
The first collection, designed by Finn herself, is called Dreamer:

The second collection beautifully contrasts the dark, grungy colours of the first with a soft and airy pallette as well as romantic designs and beautifully selected imagery. It is called Elise Rebel, designed by Anna Iwanowska-Pietkiewicz.

Interested in learning a little more about this fantastic new company, its talented team of designers and WINNING these TWO NEW collections??? Check out the 7 Dots Studio Blog for all the details. You have until October 22nd!!  GOOD LUCK!!

Be Thankful

Today over at the Bo Bunny Blog, the designers were asked to focus on their Noteworthy products.  I LOVE these little papers so much!! Each collection from Bo Bunny comes with coordinating, die cut shapes in various sizes and designs and they work wonderfully with your cards, altered items and layouts.

In addition, they can be tucked underneath your photos and other white spaces for added dimension and deapth.

The gorgeous orange crystal flourishes and rose blossoms are from ZVA Creative. You can see here how I've layered various pieces of Noteworthy papers under my photo.  There is a scallop piece directly under the photo and to the left, a long strip with flowers and on top of that strip, a smaller polka-dot piece.
LOVE the rustic feel to the Forever Fall Brads. The tiny key was from Bo Bunny's Welcome Home Collection. I've simply glued it to another Noteworthy piece which I've transformed into a tag.

Thank you so much for stopping by today!! Hope you're all having a wonderful week!

On This Day - Lifted

Happy Friday to you! I wanted to share a layout with you using some of ZVA Creative's new CHA releases. The cool thing about this layout is that its been lifted - from me!

Have you ever created a layout that you REALLY love? Or have you ever designed a project that you are super happy with but wish you had done this or that instead? If yes, I say give it another try! Lift one of your own designs!

I had created this project for ZVA Creative's last November and really liked the design. Simple, but still quite eye catching.

I decided to give it another go with a different photo and I love how its turned out (well, I had a pretty good idea of what it was going to look like from the get go of course...) Its pretty well copied to a "T" isn't it?? LOL!!

I hope the next time you're stuck on a layout you'll give yourself a scrappy break and 'lift' an old favourite!