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Reveal Night Giveaway

We've got a fun Reveal Night Giveaway for you... win a set of weekday badges from Marcy Penner's Hello Forever shop.  In honor of our March kit, Story Hour, leave a comment sharing your favorite book/story/tale... we'll draw a winner this week!

Layout of the Week

Eleven Years, the layout of the week, is brought to you by Allison Waken.  You can visit her blog or her gallery at Studio Calico for more fabulous inspiration.

Each week, the layout in the gallery is linked, so you can add it to your favorites easily.  This layout has been added to your favorites more than any other layout in the SC community gallery for the week of 2/19 - 2/25.

Congratulations Allison! Because of this you have won a $10 gift card to be used on any new purchase at Studio Calico.  Want a chance to win next week? Be sure to upload your projects to the SC gallery, and support your community by adding special projects that catch your eye into your favorites! It could be YOU next week!

Geralyn's Insider Tips

Hi everyone! It’s Geralyn here today, and I wanted to show you how I used Studio Calico’s super fun new Airmail stamp set from the Abroad collection to create the design of my travel layout.
I started out by stamping the polaroid stamp several times on a sheet of Folio paper. Then I cut out each polaroid frame so I could move them around and arrange them on my page until I was satisfied with how they look.

After figuring out the design, I decided which polaroids would have photos and which polaroids would be embellished. For added interest to the page, I also stamped some of the phrase stamps from the Airmail stamp set around the arrangement of polaroids.

Once I decided where the photos and embellishments would go inside the polaroids, it was just a matter of adding a title and journaling, as well as a few more embellishments around the page. Super simple right? :) I also used the cute luggage tag stamp in the corner so I could date the page (I cut off the JFK part since these photos were taken in San Francisco).


Look for all the new Studio Calico stamps to arrive in stores this March. Hope you enjoyed this little peek into my process of putting together a layout and I hope you’ve been inspired to pull out your stamps and use them on your pages!

Happy Little Moments

Just a reminder that registration for our March class, Happy Little Moments, is still open!  We've sold out of our class kits but Marcy Penner, contributor to the class, will be showing you an example of how to follow along in the class using your own stash. 

Here's a peek of some of Marcy's pages using the class instructions and her own supplies:

Looks awesome, doesn't it?  Hop over to Marcy's blog to learn more and don't forget to register for the class by February 29.  See you in the classroom!

Winners

Congratulations to our new winners:

Please send an email by 2/29/12 to info@studiocalico.com to claim your prize and include the following information:

• Name:   
• Contest: Sunday Sketch
• Prize: $5 SC GC

We've got a great Sunday Sketch and Weekly Challenge going on this week so be sure to check those out!

Weekly Challenge

This weeks challenge comes from our February Guest Designer, Julie Fei-Fan Balzer.  She created this awesome image showing cool ways to use the stamp in the Daydream Believer kit to make patterns on tags:

We want to challenge you to break out your stamps and create a fun tag - you can follow Julie's recipes for using the Daydream Believer stamp or pull another one out of your stash.  Link up your tag here by Monday, February 27th for your chance to snag a SC GC.

Sunday Sketch

We've got another great Sunday Sketch to share with you!  Here's Geralyn's awesome layout from her Daydream Believer gallery along with the sketch:

Talented message board member Sharyn Tormanen (Torm) took her turn with the stetch and look at what she came up with:

Sharyn says: "I loved working with this sketch! When I very first saw it, I thought what a fun way to add a lot of element and focus!  In the end - I didn't get quite as many as Kelly did - but I do enjoy my results. From the sketch I pulled the placing, the bit of journaling and title work.  In 211 I was fortunate to be part of a hot air balloon crew, and I have literally hundreds of photos to select from, but on this layout, wanted to focus on my two little boys and how well they behaved and enjoyed crewing as well. 

The stamp is from a Studio Calico Kit from a couple years ago, and I couldn't resist putting it to work here. I used the more current alphabet from Stepping Stone for the title. Both are colored with my Copics."

I especially love the colored in Stepping Stone letters - what a cool look!  Play along and link up your layout using the sketch by Monday, February 27th for your chance to win a SC GC.  Have fun!

Layout of the Week

Always Rember, the layout of the week, is brought to you by Marcy Penner.  You can visit her blog or her gallery at Studio Calico for more fabulous inspiration.

Each week, the layout in the gallery is linked, so you can add it to your favorites easily.  This layout has been added to your favorites more than any other layout in the SC community gallery for the week of 2/12 - 2/18.

Congratulations Marcy! Because of this you have won a $10 gift card to be used on any new purchase at Studio Calico.  Want a chance to win next week? Be sure to upload your projects to the SC gallery, and support your community by adding special projects that catch your eye into your favorites! It could be YOU next week!

 

Member Spotlight: Stephanie Baxter

Stephanie Baxter has been a long-time member at Studio Calico and we love the contribution she brings to the message board and gallery.  She's just all-around inspiring and fabulous with her creative layouts and her positive attitude.  I'm excited to get to put Stephanie in the spotlight this month!

Name: Stephanie Baxter
Studio Calico Username: *paperandglue*
City, State, Country: London, UK
Blog: http://stephaniebaxter.blogspot.com

When did you start scrapbooking and what got you started? I first became aware of scrapbooking about 7 years ago when I got a Saturday job in a little scrapbooking store near where I lived. Through that, I found my way to the online world of scrapbooking and kept up with things that way, although I didn’t do much scrapbooking then! It’s only been in the last 2-3 years or so that I’ve really gotten into it properly and made it my hobby.

What are your top 5 favorite products and why? There are SO many to choose from!! I guess I’d have to say patterned paper (I love American Crafts, October Afternoon, Crate Paper, Pebbles and SC, of course!), Thickers, punches, white or vanilla cardstock and dimensional adhesive. I use these products on pretty much EVERY layout I make!

What is your favorite Studio Calico product and why? I am LOVING all the wood veneer stuff right now...I think the asterisks are my favourite! I also can’t wait for the new camera ones. Mister Huey’s is also a definite favourite.

What is your favorite go-to or signature technique? I’m not really a technique-y kind of scrapper, but I do love to use dimensional adhesive on all my pages, either to use on the photos or on a journaling spot or something...I just like the dimension it gives and the way it makes stuff pop off the page. I also love to mix and match different patterned papers...I can’t get enough of paper!

Where do you find your inspiration? Pinterest is a huge source of inspiration for me right now. I find all sorts of random images on there that I try to use as a starting point for a page. I also love looking through the SC gallery at both the DT work and the member’s layouts...so many inspiring people there, it’s unbelievable!

What is your favorite color and/or color combo? This is something that changes for me all the time! If you asked me next week, I’d probably say something completely different! Right now, I absolutely adore grey with soft and pretty pinks, greens and yellows, a la the new Dear Lizzy Neopolitan line.

Tell us a bit about your design process. I try and start with something that inspires me...this might be an image from Pinterest, a quote or just a new product that I can’t wait to use. From there I pick a bunch of products that I think I might want to use, lay down my photos, pieces of paper and embellishments without gluing them down...I spend quite a bit of time moving bits around before committing to adhering them down! I agonise and deliberate for ages about where things should go, although you’d never know that from looking at my pages since they are often quite simple! I always do my journaling last. Always. I like to look at the whole page with the photos on it to give me some sort of emotional response which then helps me phrase what I want to say.

Tell us a bit about what else you do since we know you are creative in more ways than just scrapbooking. I have to be quite creative in my job sometimes since I teach 6 and 7 year olds...we’re always doing some sort of arty project! I actually made a display with the kids that took a bit of inspiration from Kelly Purkey’s amazing map layouts!! Our topic is Africa and the display is a massive collage map of Africa showing the different environments (rainforest, desert, savannah, etc.)...before sticking the collage on the wall, I made a larger map and used it as a mask before going to town on the board with some Mr Huey’s!! Many thanks to Kelly for the amazing idea! I also love photography, although since starting teaching I don’t really have much time for it. Working with children has really given me a passion for children’s photography though... I’d love to do that some day!

Thanks for sharing a peek into your process and world, Stephanie!  We love having you as a memeber at SC.

Winners

Announcing our new winners:

Please send an email by 2/24/12 to info@studiocalico.com to claim your prize and include the following information:

• Name:   
• Contest: Weekly Challenge or Sunday Sketch
• Prize: $5 SC GC

Please send an email by 2/14/12 to info@studiocalico.com to claim your prize and include the following information:

• Name:   
• Contest: Sneak Night Winner
• Prize: Downhome Amy Bib

Thank you to all who entered this week!