Partly Sunny Favorites

I completely forgot that I was supposed to blog yesterday. I'm really sorry. I went hiking in Boulder with the family then we had friends over for swimming and kabobs. It was a delightful day, completely void of any thought that I had a job to do! So I hope that perusal through the Partly Sunny gallery will make up for it. :)

Also I'd like announce the winner of Sasha's rub on challenge, it's Rimna! Please send your information to info@studiocalico.dom stating you're the winner of Sasha's Rub on Challenge for the week of May 24. Congrats! Here's her layout:


And now the DT gallery favorites, through my eyes. I decided to go backward through the gallery this time. So enjoy!

I had a hard time picking a favorite from Waleska's gallery this month, they were all fun and happy, but I think this one won because of the banner. I love how she stamped underneath it and then added the fabric swatches over top. And those faces? How could you not smile at them?

Not Tina's typical style, but it is totally fitting for the topic she journaled about here. I think that's why I love it. Her journaling is absolute joy on paper. Everything on this page has a reason of being there. Love how she chose her title too, it's a fun way to use the strip.
I wanted to pick Airplane Alert for my favorite, just because I loved it in Susan's sneaks, but come on, how can you not laugh and smile at that picture? I thing Susan's happy selection of papers and embellishment perfectly highlight an adorable baby. :)

I love the way Steph W. captures her 6 years with her sweetie. A fun way to look at things that can seem so day to day. I love hwo she used the MM flowers, the perfect little touches to a beautiful layout. And the paint and stamping balance so nicely with the K&Co paper lace, pretty.
Hee hee, Steph H. made this before she knew about twins and I think that's part of the reason this one is my favorite this month. I just LOVE the stamped starbursts around the circles, brilliant, but the journaling is the best part. Well, that and how she turned the 8 into an S. Um, cool.

I love how Sasha took a couple of different papers and used bits and pieces of them to compliment the Jenni Bowlin Coredinations paper. What a fun finishing touch to add the stitching. I love the "Impossible Nothing" she added with the MS punches. Very cool.

By no means is this kind of layout unique. Lots of scrappers have captured whole season on a page before, but the way Nicole S. has designed this one is so beautiful. Her strips of paper between the photos and the center so nice and clean allow the photos to shine.
This one by Nicole H makes me giggle for a couple of reasons. First, I'm at the bottom of the technology latter as far as it comes to phones. And I know when I some day convert as she has, I'll be the EXACT SAME WAY. Secondly, it's green. Could that be any more perfect? I also LOVE the look of the bubbles punched cardstock over the striped MME paper from Front Porch. Lovely.

Bright colors popping against the fun Cosmo Coredinations is one of the things that I loved about this layout, but then I noticed the green stitching and that won me over Maggie!

See how easy it is to bring momentos from your life into your scrapping? I adore how Lisa used the tag from her son's birthday/mother's day trip to a cupcake shop in her layout. It's front and center, but doesn't take away from the fabulous photos. Great way to use that stamp too!

I love how Laura can capture so much in such few supplies. Her stitching and type always pull me in to study. and then she does the cute little heart over the top of the yellow and it just makes me smile.


Yep, I was right. I knew I'd love this one by Kelly. The colors just POP on the dark cardstock and combined with those hilarious pictures of Brady, well this one went into my favorites pile pretty quickly. I love how Kelly used the banner stamp too.
Although she had a bunch of masterful layouts in her gallery this month, I REALLY LIKE Joy's idea. Pre-make a summer fun album and fill it in as you go. What a clever idea for capturing your summer before it slips away. You can tell this is a momma who's good at planning ahead. Since summer officially starts for me this weekend, I'd love to slap something together, now i have a template to copy. :)
Always one for her happy combinations of paper and color, Jenn did not disappoint this month. I love how sh used the cloud paper tucked into all her strips of color to represent a rainbow. Beautiful!

I knew when I saw her sneaks I'd like this layout. I was even more pleasantly surprised! the way Davinie brought in the fabric swatches with the Jillibean flowers from Front Porch makes this layout sing of summer.
Celine's album was so beautifully put together, I really loved how she combined the green/yellow/browns in the kit and made a fun album about her friends.
This alphabet set was the reason I bought Front Porch as my add on this month. I love how April took hers a step up and colored them. It's absolute genius! And what a fun look at her 9 years of marriage, congrats April and Greg!
Finally we come to Mou Saha's gallery. I love Mou's style, probably because we're both inot handwriting your journaling. It always pulls me in on her pages. I love the perspective on this photo, and the planes are just fun.

"Leftovers" Challenge Winner!

the random winner of this week's "Leftover's" challenge...

and a $5 Studio Calico gift card is.....

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.......................Geralyn!!!!

with this stunning layout that she created for Nic's old photo challenge!

congrats Geralyn...

Please send an email to info@studiocalico.com with the following information:

• Name
• Contest: Sunday Sketch
• Prize: $5 Studio Calico Gift Card

:)

Stamp Challenge Winner

Thank you all so much for playing along. I loved seeing all the SC stamps you used :)

The (random) winner is Geralyn:

Congratulations!!

Challenge Winners!

Susan here (one more time this week) to announce a couple of challenge winners...

First, the winner of the "Tiny Banner Challenge" chosen at random (which by the way, had SO MANY fabulous entries!!!)... is Leah!!!

With her super-fabulous "Cousin Fun" page...



And next, the winner of this week's Sketch Challenge is... Aimee (adripofcoffee) - with her gorgeous "Paradise" layout...

Congrats Leah & Aimee! You both win a $5 Studio Calico gift card. Please email me at seweinroth@gmail.com with the following:

* Name

* Address

* Contest/Challenge you won

* Prize - $5 Gift Card

:)

Weekly Challenge Winner!

This week's winner is Shelly J with this incredible layout:

how much does this layout ROCK?? i adore it.
shelly, email me at stephaniehowell8(at)gmail(dot)com
and i'll send your info on to april. you won a 5$ SC gift certificate!
thanks for playing along everyone, happy Sunday!

Challenge - My Take and a Winner!!

Thanks to everyone that joined in on this week's challenge! I am glad you had fun with it! I know I did! I love using lots of different patterns on one page.... Usually I have so many favorites from the kits each month and this makes it easier because then I don't have to choose just one or two! I can use them all! :)

My tip for using lots of different patterns on one page is to use small doses of each pattern. This helps to keep them from getting too crazy and overpowering the layout completely. I also like spreading the patterns out like this or at least leaving a little room in between each one because it gives them each room to breathe and allows each one to stand out on its own!

There are lots more great ideas in the layouts that everyone did for the challenge. I especially love the grids that many of them used to line up the patterns in. Some used grids of squares and others used random grids where each piece was a different sized rectangle. I seriously found some great ideas on every single layout so be sure to go and check out each one. Just scroll down to the initial challenge post and then go into the comments to click on the linked layouts! Thanks for all of the inspiration ladies!

I created a layout with no photo for this challenge. I really wanted to just focus on recording some of the things I am grateful for right now. I wasn't quite sure what direction I was going to go with the challenge and then the idea popped into my head to punch lots of different circles and then simply write the things I am grateful for around each circle. So, it ended up being a list but not in a traditional list format which makes it kind of fun and whimsical!

So, now onto the winner of the challenge. I drew the winner at random and it is:

penny said...

Too much fun - and so many great papers from the kits to choose from. Here's mine:

http://www.studiocalico.com/forums/galleries/show/16854

November 18, 2009 10:39 AM

Congrats Penny! Thanks again to all who played along!

April takes on the challenge!

I'm so glad I was able to participate in the challenge this week. As soon as I saw this ad, it inspired me to get out my Cotillion kit.

I was inspired by the colors and the more boyish looking theme, so I created this layout using the Cotillion kit plus a couple other supplies.




The stamp set used is from the CKC class I taught last month. It will only be available in the CKC class kit, and as soon as I know the schedule for 2010, I'll post it here. Feel free to sign up for the email updates (via the Feedburner link to the right) to stay updated.

I've really enjoyed looking through your layouts and sources of inspiration. Thanks for your participation! Davinie will post the winner of the $5 gift card tomorrow.

Blog Challenge Winner

First of all, let me say thanks to all of you for participating in the challenge. Your cards and layouts were so creative and you really inspired me! I'm so proud of you for taking little tidbits and things that some people would look at and then throw away and making them into such wonderful works of art.

Everything was so wonderful that we decided to do a random drawing for our winner.....and the winner is......

abbsparks!!

Here is what Abbey said about her layout when she posted it to the challenge message board:

i apologize for the crooked photo. This is for the blog challenge. Used stickers from bags to create scallop, packed w/love card (the hearts), sticker from trim, twine to create the Xs, butterfly stamp and K stamp :) tfl

Abbey make sure to send me an email at lorie@studiocalico.com to claim your $5.00 gift card!

Like I said above, I was really inspired by your creativity so I put together a layout for the challenge too!

I used AC vanilla and chestnut cardstock, AC Nutmeg Glossy Alpha - spinach, SC Pinked Circle stamp on Bazzil Honey Dotted Swiss cardstock, Storytime alpha stamps, bicycle strip and "packed with" words from my Packed By cards, brown baker's twine, a More Calico sticker cut into starburst pattern.

I also thought that I would leave you with a couple more layouts and a card created by some of our incredibly talented design team. These weren't specifically created for our challenge this week, but show some other ways that you can use the promo cards and tidbits that we send each month!

Two layouts from Stephanie using promo cards:

And a card from Joy using a promo card:

Well, another blog week has come to a close and I hope that you have all been challenged, uplifted, inspired and that we have left you hungry for more! Thanks again for all of your comments and participation this week. I'm looking forward to my next blog week.....CHA winter in January!!

Have a great night!

Lorie