The One with August 2011 American Crafts Layouts


Monday, August 15, 2011

First of all, I'm super duper excited about this bit of news:
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INTERNATIONAL

Cindy Stevens – from New Brunswick, Canada

Lilith Eeckles – from Bertogne, Belgium

Michelle Clement – from British Columbia, Canada

Piradee Talvanna – from Singapore

Revlie Schuit – from Roelofarendsveen, The Netherlands

Shimelle Laine – from London, England

UNITED STATES

Amy Heller – from Newtown, CT

Cindy Tobey – from Kentwood, MI

Corrie Jones – from Dallas, GA

Heidi Sonboul – from Torrance, CA

Jamie Harper – from Phoenix, AZ

Jenny Chesnick – from Brooklyn, MD

Leah Farquharson – from Lauderhill, FL

Leslie Ashe – from Fort Worth, TX

Mandy Koeppen – from Hastings, MI

Melissa Mann – from Pensacola, FL

Paige Evans – from South Pasadena, CA --- that's me!

Pamella Brown – from Santa Rosa Beach, FL

Rahel Menig – from Gilroy, CA

Suzy Plantamura – from Laguna Niguel, CA

Soooo so so looking forward to working with such a talented group of women from literally all around the world!

Here are my two monthly creations for American Crafts for the month of August:
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THE MAGIC OF DISNEYLAND

Journaling says: We've been taking Fox to Disneyland pretty frequently since he was only eight weeks old. (Teach 'em while they're young, right?) He seems to really love it! Especially rides with lots of colors, lights, and music like It's a Small World. We know he won't remember ever going, but hopefully he'll see the pictures and layouts and recall the magic of Disneyland.

Tips and tricks: So this layout took like four hours to make, no joke. Lots of trial and error! First I created a star in Adobe Illustrator and connected all the points to the center, printed it out, cut out each section, traced the sections onto patterned papers, cut the papers out, then sewed them onto a kraft cardstock background using green thread. Up until now I've only ever used white, cream, brown, or black thread, but I branched out and got a rainbow of colors that I'm excited to use! And let's back up a bit, before I sewed anything down I punched clusters of stars all across the background then adhered some of the stars that were punched out with foam dots and sprinkled in some jewels. Theeen, I dipped a piece of brown/white baker's twine in Mod Podge, wiped off the excess, and pressed it down around the star to make a border. I wrote the journaling around the baker's twine so it becomes part of the design. Next I sewed on some mini pictures around the edges, added a focal point picture popped up with foam squares to the center of the star, then made my title from Thickers. Piece of cake, haha.
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Supplies: Cardstock, patterned paper, letter stickers, pen, adhesive: American Crafts; Baker's twine: Divine Twine; Jewels: Mark Richards; Star cluster border punch: Martha Stewart Crafts; Sewing machine: Brother; Thread: Coats & Clark; Decoupage medium: Mod Podge by Plaid


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THE MANY ADVENTURES OF FANTASTIC MR. FOX

Journaling says: At just ten months old, Fox has already been on 18 flights, visited seven states, been to Disneyland a dozen times, gone to the zoo, attended a wedding, and much more. He sure is one lucky boy and we love him so much!!!

Tips and tricks: I started with 12 mini pictures and adhered them around the edge of a white cardstock base. The Thickers title came next then I had fun embellishing around the title with stickers, brads, a button, stickpins, and more. I used a ruler to draw straight lines with a brown pen at the top left and bottom right corners of the white cardstock then wrote journaling. And finally, I stitched some "x"s with cream floss across a few of the photos.
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Supplies: Cardstock, badge, ribbon, letter stickers, chipboard borders, dimensional vinyl mountain sticker, dimensional monster and star stickers, button, brads, pen, adhesive: American Crafts; Dimensional felt cloud sticker, stickpins: Pebbles; Floss: DMC; Needle: Dritz

That's all for now!
And thanks to Veronica for letting me come over and use her computer and internet while our power was out for six hours :)

36 comments

  1. Congratulations Paige...so happy for you. Lovely LO

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  2. They would have been crazy to let you go! :) Congrats!!!

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  3. wooohooo! HUGE congrats! love these pages!

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  4. big congrats!! your work is always amazing so thats no wonder they´ll keep you on the team♥

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  5. Woot! That's awesome!! Congrats:)

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  6. Congrats to you! LOVE your layouts, Fox is just so cute!

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  7. That star page is just amazing, Paige! I know you'll do more wonderful things in this coming year at AC- what amazing team they have put together for you to work with.

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  8. Paige! I am so excited to be working with you:)
    I adore your layouts, you little guy is so cute!

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  9. Um, Paige? That star layout.... IS THE BOMB DIGGITY!!! I LOVE it!! And I LOVE your title work with the Fantastic Mr. Fox!! Awesome!! I CANNOT wait to work with you this year! Eeek!

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  10. Hi Paige!!! I can't believe all this! It is so incredible! You do GREAT title work. LOVE it! I am so excited for this year.

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  11. Congratulations! I always love your layouts, and look forward to many more great ideas.

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  12. so happy to be working with you again Paige! love the layouts too ;)

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  13. OMG both of those layouts are awesome! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the many fonts on the Fantastic Mr. Fox page...just adorible.

    great job...congrats on the DT! :)

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  14. Congrats Paige! Always love the work you do with AC :)

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  15. Congratulations, Paigerini! You are very talented and I am proud of you. :-)

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  16. i can not get over how talented you are. seriously. every single time. you amaze me!

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  17. Hey! I love your posts! I love that Fox gets into DVDS!! Same with Lyssa! What a mess, I hate cleaning it up lol! Those Vacation pictures look like fun! Can you believe summer is almost over? And our Babies are just growin up!!

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  18. Hey! I love your posts! I love that Fox gets into DVDS!! Same with Lyssa! What a mess, I hate cleaning it up lol! Those Vacation pictures look like fun! Can you believe summer is almost over? And our Babies are just growin up!!

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  19. Congratulations! Knew ur blog before and i'm happy u made it! Cant wait to see ur layouts with AC stuff on it!!!

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  20. thrilled to be working with you, Paige!! You're the best! Congrats on another term with AC!

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  21. Paige.. both of these pages are the bomb! That Magic of Disney page... unbelievably sweet and the star design you created is amazing. Love the lil' pix, the colors, everything :)

    And no surprise that you made the AC team again! You so deserve that ... big CONGRATS!

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  22. I am super duper excited to be working with you on this fab AC team! Seriously did some dancing when I got the emails from Stephanie and you!Love both of these layouts!

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  23. CONGRATS & i always adore your work and am so excited to be working with you again!!!

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  24. Congrats!! Just saw the 2nd LO on 2peas. Love them both!

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  25. Congrats, Paige!! Love, love your layouts! And I think it's so cute that you've named your son Fox... ;)

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  26. You blow me away with how talented you are! Fox sure is lucky to have a mom like you!

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  27. Seriously cute pages! Congrats!

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  28. OMGosh your star page is FABBY! I love how creatively you use you Thickers too! Congrats on another term with AC! :)

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  29. Congrats on the AC team! I have to tell you, I love your projects - they are always SO creative! You definitely think "outside of the box" - love it!

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  30. LOVE LOVE LOVE this LO!! Congrats on making the team--you are super amazing!!!

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  31. I'm going to say it again...YOU are so creative I can't see straight! I LOVE your layouts. Mr. Fox is one lucky boy to have you as his mama making all his memories come to life!

    Love these creations and am so happy to be working with you again at AC! CONGRATULATIONS Paige!!!!

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  32. Big Congrats to you!!!! Your work is always amazing!!!

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  33. Thanks for popping into my blog Paige:) Congrats on the AC DT gig...that will be great fun. Love that star page with the twine around it....very cool!

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  34. congrats! such sweet LOs and cute!

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  35. HUGE congratulations, girl! Woohoo! LOVE these layouts! So many fabulous features to possibly pick a fave! LOVE!

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  36. Yay!! :) I'm so happy to work with you this year, Paige - your pages are *awesome*!

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