My Office Hour layouts

Studio Calico's Office Hours kits go on sale today, and they are gorgeous. If you're craving spring like I am, these kits are full of fresh, bright colours & beautiful embellishments. I am mad at myself for not getting more done, but I have a few layouts on the go and will share them here this month once they're finished. I have more ideas than time, and that is completely frustrating sometimes. ;)

Here's 2 pages I made with the main kit:

and my two layouts done with the add-ons:

I have a real soft spot for this page. I've hoarded this photo of myself for years, waiting for inspiration to strike. When I saw those MME stickers in the kit, that were a perfect colour match to my cute sailor outfit in the photo  I knew it was perfect timing. ;)   This one uses Coffee Break & To Do, and I really love how it turned out.

My son went on a big trip a few summers ago, and I knew when I saw the RAD die cut title that I was going to use this pic of him ( he's in the background in the photo) during his week at Scout Camp in Ontario, which was actually called ADVENTURE camp. I wanted to make this one colourful and fun to play up the youthfulness in the photo and I was inspired by SC member Ginny to get out my typewriter to journal. I have an old one that was given to me by a friend- the roller diesn't really work properly, and I have to turn it by had when I type, so this came out messy and spaced incorrectly. Also, major typos when I type! I decided I loved the look of the messy journaling, ( and was too lazy to retype, LOL) so I left it as is, and strangely enough, it doesn't bother me in the least! ( am I having a breakthrough?!)  I used bits from 2 add-ons here: Coffee break, & Rolodex. As I mentioned, I have much more I want to do with these kits and I need to carve out some time on the weekend to use up the leftovers.

If you're a subscriber, the BEST perk is being able to bundle your orders until tomorrow night ( end of the month). There are lots of pretty things in the shop to tempt!!

Happy Shopping. ;)

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A wee sneak, and Lisa's awesome colour theory class

I used to make layouts with a lot of colour , the brighter, the better. I was a big fan of matching different neon-ish shades of cardstock with little strips of patterned paper, like this:

 Then something switched in my brain and I started making pages with less colour, more white, and less STUFF. I think it was the result of DT overload, (even though these are technically "minimal", simple pages, they're much busier than the pages I tend to do now) and I needed to just make really simple layouts after my years of being on design teams and having to use said stuff. I still really love these pages, don't get me wrong. I've just gotten away from that look, and am now comfortably used to my white cardstock. If I had to pick only one product to scrapbook with for the rest of eternity, it would be white cardstock, hands down. So when I opened up this month's Studio Calico scrapbook kit, Office Hours, (available February 27th) and saw the luscious bright pink cardstock ( one that I already had several sheets of in my stash, go figure) I knew I had to use it on my layouts, if only in tinier quantities. Here's a sneak of a page I did for March's gallery, and I felt like I'd gone back to my roots. :) Had lots of fun with this page.

Anyways, this brings me to the Colour Studio class, coming up on March 1st at SC. If you're on the fence about using colour in your layouts, unsure of your colour choices when you scrapbook, or just want to jazz up your pages with a bit of pop, then this class should do it for you. Here's the details:

BY ENROLLING IN THIS CLASS YOU'LL RECEIVE :

• 4 videos from Lisa sharing color & design ideas
• 8 secrets for unlocking the color wheel and tips for using color effectively on your projects
• 56 perfect color schemes
• technique tutorials for adding color to your pages with ink, mist, watercolors, patterned paper and embellishments.
• PDF lessons posted each Tuesday & Thursday in March
• 40 all new projects, including layouts, Project Life® spreads and cards
• bonus color schemes in every PDF

WHAT YOU'LL NEED :

• Your favorite Studio Calico kits or products from your stash
• Ink,  Mister Huey's Color Mists and watercolors in your favorite hues
• Patterned paper, alphabets and embellishments in a rainbow of colors.
• Neutral papers in various styles that you can add color to - we recommend SC Grid paper, vellum and watercolour paper

 BONUS DIGITAL FILES:

• Printable journal cards, accents and labels from Hello Forever
• Cut Files from Hello Forever
• Color Studio planning sheet from Hello Forever
• Ink planning sheet from Hello Forever

This class is sure to kickstart your creativity, and colour = happy, which I think is very timely at this point in a VERY long, cold, and gray winter. I know I'm craving it bigtime. 

Hope to see you in class!

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Random. org stamp winner...

And taking into account the double posts. ;)  Becs, you are the winner of the 2 stamps. Please email me your address, (melaniedotlouetteatgmaildotcom) and I will pop these into the mail for you this week.
Thanks for all the great comments!

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A teeny give-away

I'm still sorting through my supplies, and it's been very rewarding and freeing to get rid of the things I've been holding on to for so long. A really, really great feeling. I'm going to try and keep it up on a monthly basis, and give away stuff I know I won't use from my kits. So, in the spirit of passing it on, one lucky person will receive these 2 Studio Calico stamps from this month's Sugar Rush kits, included the Gum Drop & Jelly Beans add ons.

 Both of these kits are now sold out, so if you missed out on them and wanted the stamp, then here's your chance! Just leave me a comment here telling me what kind of stamps you'd like to see in future kits- I think that would be a fun read. :) I'll draw a winner on Sunday evening.

Happy weekend!

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