The One with Studio Calico WALDEN Sneaks!


Sunday, October 26, 2014

November 2014 Studio Calico kits called WALDEN (including the main WALDEN kit and add ons: CONCORD, PINE HILL, and BAKER BRIDGE) are almost here - hooray! I don't know how they keep doing it, but month after month I am so inspired by the colors and supplies, I made 6 layouts (one is coming in a start-to-finish video on the 30th!). Here are my sneaks (in the order in which I made them) to enable you :)

BIRTHDAY GIRL - For my first WALDEN main kit only layout I used my Silhouette CAMEO and the background cut file I designed for November and a bit of paper piecing with some stitching.
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HAPPY DAY - My other WALDEN main kit only layout also was made with the help of my Silhouette CAMEO and backed the shape (it's a digital stamp brush-turned cut file) with patterned papers. You know the drill :)
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ALL OVER THE WORLD - I wanted to feature the Amy Tangerine stitching kit in the CONCORD add on and spent a morning hand stitching this large title.
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FREE AS A BIRD - I also designed some feather die cuts for November and had fun die cutting them (again with my trusty Silhouette CAMEO!) from patterned papers in all of the WALDEN kits: WALDEN, CONCORD, PINE HILL, and BAKER BRIDGE.
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DETAILS - This layout was Operation: Use all of the Maggie Holmes Open Book Ephemera Die Cuts in the CONCORD add on! I couldn't pick just one, I wanted to feature every single piece! Well, I skipped a few of the large black ones, but you get the gist :)
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WITH YOU - I have a start-to-finish video coming out on Thursday the 30th featuring paper scraps - my favorite :) I used bits and pieces from all of the WALDEN kits: WALDEN, CONCORD, PINE HILL, and BAKER BRIDGE.
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The Creative Team gallery for WALDEN kits goes up tomorrow at noon Eastern Time - I'll be back then to share these layouts in full!

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Studio Calico offers three types of monthly kits - Scrapbook, Card, & Project Life® - as well as add on kits and shop items to complement them. A new kit is revealed on the 27th of each month (at noon EST if you're a subscriber, at midnight EST if you aren't). For more information (or to start your own subscription!), visit StudioCalico.com!

The One with Bulky Trash


Saturday, October 25, 2014

This is one of those little anecdotes that I want to remember about living in Germany...

Once every six months or so there's this thing called "Bulky Trash" where you can put any big items that you don't want, things that are broken, or crap you're too lazy to sell out on the curb and the Germans will come by, load it up, and take it to the dumpster or somewhere, I actually don't know. 
I've seen things like old and used couches, chewed up chairs, dilapidated desks, wonky wardrobes, dingy doors, broken windows, musty mattresses, etc. Bulky Trash day is this coming Monday so people are already putting their stuff out, us included.

The funny/fascinating part is people drive from all over Europe to come pillage and plunder through everyone's discarded goods. We've seen license plates from Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, so on and so forth. It reminds me of the saying, "One man's trash is the next man's treasure." Literally, all day long today, I have seen huge vans and little cars towing big trailers (cuz there are no trucks in Europe!) drive around and around and around, just waiting to sort and sift through everyone's Bulky Trash. 

Early bird gets the worm!
We put out an old lamp and the random car rim that we got in Croatia after our bad car accident on the curb, and even as Chris was placing them on the ground they were taken away. Here's another van stopping to look at our collection of Bulky Trash. He didn't take anything though wah wah :)
 What do these people do with everything they take? Use it for themselves? Fix it up and sell it? So interesting. And I wonder if this is a Germany-wide service or only around army bases? Because I've seen "Bulky Trash" in the city of Grafenwöhr itself a few months ago. Any Germans care to chime in on this phenomenon?

The One with Insta-Lately October 24th Edition


Friday, October 24, 2014

It's been over two months since my last "insta-lately" update! Here's a little bit of what we've been up to according to my phone and instagram (@paigetaylorevans):

Dreaming of hot weather again to enjoy ice cream cones - I'm afraid we've seen the last of the sun for this year! This was from our day trip to Karlovy, Vary in the Czech Republic.

We went to Kraków, Poland. That was a fantastic trip with lots of cool sight-seeing!

Grammed a picture of one of my mom's darling tassel garlands! Doing anything and everything I can to promote her little shop :)
The stitching on this layout took four hours - totally worth it :)

Me'n'my guy. Mouth full of bread and all.

This girl. She'll be the death of me! But I love her so :)

Fox and his spooktacular Halloween quilt made especially for him by @thatswhatlindseymade

Grumpy Jane. See. Told you she'll be the death of me!

Thoroughly enjoyed reading Goodnight June by Sarah Jio for the Noble Paiges Book Club back in August.

The dining room table is my scrap space - that way I can work on things a little here and a little there throughout the day.

Looking up at the Schloss Fantaisie on another day trip.

Cute Bavarian village.

Sometimes he prefers Jane's toys and that's A-OK!

One of the last pics of me with long hair - I chopped it! Keep scrolling.

Chris celebrated his 10 year anniversary of leaving on his mission to Tacloban, Philippines.

Über cute building in Vilseck, Germany. Mint green and pink flowers!

It was a pink shirt kind of day.

Fox started soccer! I'm a soccer mom!

How handsome is this dude?

All day er' day. Play play play.

Received my order from Stephanie Bryan's shop called Stephanie Makes! Need to make some time to dive into these beauties.

Stitched paper leaves.

Emma Hughes is 13 years old and scraplifted one of my layouts - isn't she awesome?

Flea marketing in Nuremberg with my favorite girlies!

Pre-church photos of the kiddos.

The PINK couch. 'Nuf said.

Vintage Christmas bits and baubles from an antique shop 20 minutes away.

This is the main square in Grafenwöhr. Gosh I love it here.

Kits all ready to go to teach my workshop at Scrapbook Werkstatt!

Pretty patterned paper triangles.

Jaaaaaane.

Scrapbook Werkstatt aka Heaven on Earth.

Touring the super duper stinkin' cute Gelnhausen, Germany with some scrappy friends!

Finally was able to bust out my Halloween Polish pottery that I got back in February from Bolesławiec, Poland!
 
Happy World Card Making Day 2014! Well, it was back on October 4th anyway :)

Oh to be 2! PS - that's our church in the background, very different looking from the LDS chapels in the states! But its claim to fame is it used to be a bar where Elvis Presley sang when he was stationed here in Grafenwöhr back in 1958.

Chris' parents came to visit so we took them on a day trip to Prague. Yes, we can day trip to Prague. #spoiledrotten

I also took Tom & Margi to Speinshart Monastery - this jewel is only 10 minutes away! COME VISIT!

We got our family photos taken by the amazingly talented Summer Lavine for our 2014 Christmas cards. Can't wait to share them all!

A lil' peek-a-"boo" for a layout coming out next week! Eeeeek!

I chopped my hair. Well, I myself didn't, but Chelsi did! And I feel 10 pounds lighter!

Last Saturday was a BEAUTIFUL fall day at the United States Army Garrison Bavaria. The leaves are all wonderful colors of red, orange, yellow, and brown and the sun was shining just so on the water tower.

Another labor of love! Can't wait to share on Monday!

Pretty in pink in Prague.

LOVE this string art piece I ordered from Nailed It String Art. I'm pretty much obsessed with Halloween and set up this entire backdrop just to take a picture of it to gram :) And the tassel garland was made by my mother dearest - check out her etsy shop!

Step 1 - die cut feathers. Check! Step 2 - figure out how to use all of them on a layout! Coming soon!

These two. Can't live with them. Can't live without them.

And that's what we've been up to the last couple months in a nutshell!
Paige Taylor Evans © // Quinn Creatives DESIGN