World Card Making Day | The Pinterest Challenge

Good afternoon! I hope you are having a wonderful day! If you are anything like me... any excuse to stay in jammies, turn on some project life and make some beautiful cards is a good excuse!!! It's world card making day and Studio Calico wants to celebrate with you! We are hosting a new challenge every hour from 10 a.m. to 6p.m. today some come on over and join us in the fun!

I am hosting a Pinterest inspired challenge, I have a pin for you to gather inspiration from and run with! Think color, shape, theme, movement.. whatever grabs you.. RUN with IT!!

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I had big ambitions of making it close to the inspiration piece but ended up doing something a bit different that worked with the products I had. Studio Calico stamps are perfect for this challenge! Just gather up all your favorite itty bitty stamps and bring them all together!

I can't wait to see what you do with the challenge! Make sure to post in the Studio Calico gallery/forum for your chance at a prize!!! 

go.be.inspired.

Shanna

Digital Stamps | 6x12 Project Life Stand Out

I wanted to make a stand out 6x12 insert for my project life highlighting Jaden and Jonathan's recent mission trip to Mexico. I plan on sending these over to Persnickety Prints and this will be the front and back of a 6x12 insert. I wanted to design them so that they worked nicely togehter if you posted them one on top of the other. I think they flow nice into each other. To start I looked for inspiration, so where did I head? PINTEREST!!! Of course!

Isn't it lovely? Now mine doesn't come close to this awesomeness, but it has photos of my family and stories they have told, so I will keep it :) 

The digital stamp at Studio Calico are one of my favorite items in the store. For SO MANY reasons! I love that I can use them over and over again, size as need and get the color perfect ANY time!

If I were NEW to hybrid scrapbooking, I would make the Project Life digital stamps my first purchase, why? That xoxoxox stamp is something I see myself using OVER and OVER again,.... like you are going to have to tell me to STOP using it type of thing! :) 

Bluegrass Farm Project Life Stamps

Also, the "today" stamp = true love! 

Bluegrass Farm Scrapbook Stamps

What are your thoughts on the digital stamps?

xox

Shanna

Let's MIX it up!!

With the NEW class at STUDIO calico I am wanting to try some new things. New techniques, new mediums, new COLORS, new words that inspire me, ... whatcha say? Are you with me? I started a Pinterest board to help us INSPIRE eachother as we gear up for this amazing class. Let's jump into class with a running start of where we want to take our skills. I am looking for contributors for my board on Pinterest to help us inspire eachother to TRY new things in the coming weeks. If you would like to join me (I would just love to have you) please follow the board here and leave a message with your Pinterest link :)

Mixed Media Class

Hiya friends! Thank you so much for stopping by! My poor neglected blog, it's time to get her working again! Today I am SUPER excited to be talking with you about the NEWEST class at Studio Calico- MIXED MEDIA with two of the most inspiring people in our community!

Celine Navarro

and 

Anna- Maria

Mixed Media is something that inspiring me, and what I love about it is that there is always something NEW to try, and that is exactly what I want to do in this class, TRY ALL THE THINGS!

YAY! I love a sale a Studio Calico! Here are some goodies I will be picking up for the class

Anything with a roller = exactly what I need! Pick these up first! 

I seriously love this stencil! Hello beautiful bold alpha! Yes please hop in my cart!

My gel medium is all used up so I am super happy to be able to pick some up at SC! 

People.. it's like MAGIC in a bottle,... seriously! 

Also while I was shopping I found THIS BEAUTY!!!! BE STILL MY HEART!

I will try to leave some for you guys.. but seriously HOW CUTE ARE THESE!?!?!

Lisa asked me to make a printable for this class, and I have to tell you...

 I had a TON of fun making these cuties!

So, whatcha say? Will you be joining us for this fun class?

 If you haven't already signed up, do so HERE

Oh! Oh I almost forgot! I am starting a Pinterest Board for all sorts of inspiration! Let's inspire eachother! If you would like to contribute, please let me know by leaving a link to your Pinterest profile in the comments. You have to be following me for me to add you, you can find me here . Just a couple things I will be adding as we speak.. 

I LOVE this MINI from Mimi, so playful!

and 

This beauty from Christin I LOVE how she uses COLOR!

talk to you soon!

xox

P.S. It's good to be back!

A closer look at "Go BE the LOVE"

YAY! It's reveal over at Studio Calico!!!! Instead of showing you all my layouts in one long post without much detail, I thought I would take them one at a time and share a little more on the though behind the process as well.

The first thing this layout was inspired by: the amazing colors in the kit. Particularly I fell in love with the Nvy Blue and the Lime Greens in the kits. I never knew how much I loved them until this kit came into my craft room! For this layout I mainly use:

Copper Mountain Main Kit

Sling Shot for the Alphas!

and High Point for those GEO TAGS!!! Oh my heavens I love those!

These Peerless watercolors also helped me to create this dreamy background!

To start I sat down with my thoughts, and my photography of my beautiful daughter  LOL jK!!! I went shopping!!! I bought this watercolor paper at my local art supply store that is called a "brick", esentially it means both sides of the paper are glued to the pad so that when you paint the paper it doesn't bubble up!! How awesome is that!? Why didn't anyone tell me about this sooner?!

The moment I got home I saw this image on pinterest (I am a preschool teacher so I follow a lot of other teachers)

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When I taught Pre-K one of their favorite things to do was bubble paint (which is slightly different than the image above, but it sparked the memory) bascially what you do is put some dish soap, watercolor, muster huey or paint and water in a small cup, or bowl. Stir it all up and grab a STRAW! Yup! A STRAW!!! Then you start blowing bubbles in your solution (like when we use to blow bubbles in our chocolate milk) until it floats to the top, then you take your paper and lay it on top and it creates these lovely watercolored circles. Now this really isn't an exact science, its very organic so just go with it! 

Once I was done with the watercoloring I was really able to see where I wanted this layout to go. Using the ncy cardstock to give this dreamy layout an achor I pulled other colors that were similar from the kits. I knew i wanted that bird paper in there some where, so I just add to add a little snip of that!  The title came from the sermon I had heard the Sunday before and it just stuck with me, I love that sentiment! 

I thought I was done before I added the geo tags, and I am so glad I thought to add those later because they are one of my favorite parts now! 

If you try this technique I would love to see! Link me up!!

talk to you soon, enjoy creating!