sassafras

a share from megan

While back to school shopping for my boys this year, I fell in love with the Converse One Star shoes. I couldn't resist not buying the pink ones for my little girl, Ella. I snapped a few pics of her little feet the other morning while the boys were waiting for the bus. Yes, my boys already started back to school. It seems crazy early, but they were so excited!   The star logo is my favorite part of them and I knew I wanted to try to recreate them on my page.   Starting with my smallest punch, I punched out a row of stars.

Then, using the larger star punch, line it up directly over what you already punched from the pink paper.

Punch a large star out of white cardstock and layer the punched pink star on top... easy peasy!

Here are the stars on the layout.

 Megan

a share from gaelle

Hi everyone ! I love to coordinate any embellishment to a line of printed papers, using some spray inks. In the layout "so very proud", I misted pink dots on the "Sweetly Smitten" background. I put a bit of green ink on the flag banner. I also created coordinated flowers, using pink and green inks on some canvas shapes. I mixed those elements with some beautiful Sassafras flowers : In a Stitch Blossoms and Paper Whimsies.

 Have a wonderful day ! 

Gaëlle.

 

the july winner!

is . . . AZ!

Congratulations! Send us your mailing adress and we'll send out your box of goodies.

Also today, how about another fabulous card share from Marla?

Check in tomorrow for the August challenge!

some cards to share

Look at this beautiful card by Marla!

And check out this beauty from Kyoko!

A view inside

Have you made cards with Sassafras? We'd love to see them!

 

technique from the team with anna

For this layout I used my three favourite techniques:

1. misting (as a photo background; I used a round mask here)

 


2. using filters in Gimp/Photoshop to make the photo look more vintage

 

3. layering: I almost hear the foldies, sweet treat stickers, in stitch blossoms, chipboard stickers and paper whimsies calling me to pile them creating fabulous dimensions on layouts :D

to make the flowers or leaves of foldies or whimsies stand out more I use 3D foam tape, sometimes a double layer at the very edges of paper embellies.

hope you'll find my ideas useful :)
enjoy,
Anna

off the page with kyoko

Hi! this is Kyoko. I'm living in Japan and there are 13 hours (or 14 hours)
between Japan and New York.

I often wonder "9:00 a.m. EST is which hour in Japan?" Therefore, I made this.


There are two clocks in this house.




Japan standard time is displayed here.

and EST is displayed here.

The side view:




Hope you love this. Thanks.

michelle's cha challenge

Hi, guys!

It's Michelle here with a summer-inspired color challenge for you, today! :)

When I'm looking for inspiration - or, perhaps, not even looking intentionally for it - it always seems to jump out at me, anyway. I'm always skimming magazines and noting color combinations or ooh-ing and aah-ing over a beautifully designed lookbook or website.

I peeked at Anthropologie and Ruche's lookbooks last week to get inspired for summer, and it struck me just how well these beautiful photos, sets, and outfits opitimize summer. The colors, the design - it's all there, already coordinated for you on a page - simply pull a few colors from the photos that call out to you, note the lines to use in your design, and you have an instant page idea!

Here are the images that inspired my summer-full page:

All images from Ruche and Anthropologie.

And here's the challenge page I made, with those in mind:

I was mostly inspired by the lovely muted-but-bright pops of color and the vintage feel of the photos, and my idea went really well with this summer photo I took last year and some Sunshine Broadcast (which was perfect!).

I challenge you to be inspired by the images/colors/design lines gathered above - add some ethereal beauty to your next page! I can't wait to see what you make!

kimberly's cha challenge

Kimberly's challenge is to scrap your summer traditions.I'm sure there are things you do every summer. Why not take a few moments to document them using Sassafras?

See how Kimberly even indicated the date? GENIUS!

 

Best of luck scrapping those traditions! We can't wait to see what you come up with!

marcy's cha challenge

Hello everyone!  Hope you're enjoying our challenges for you this week!

I'll be the first to admit that it's hard for me to think outside the box.  I usually start scrapbooking and glue stuff down.  Then before I know it my page is done and I didn't try something new!  So today I want to challenge you to use letter stickers for something other than a title.  Try using them more as a design element than an actual header.

For my page I decided to run written numbers across the bottom of my page.  (I was super lucky that they fit perfectly).  I highlighted my daughter's age by using a different color of alpha for "eleven".

Here are some close-ups:

Be sure to link your layouts back here to this post... and come back tomorrow for another challenge from Kimberly.

megan's cha challenge

Hi everyone and welcome to todays CHA Week Challenge! Today, I am going to focus on journaling.

It is the "who, what, where, & when" of a scrapbook page that is just as important as that beautiful photo you are focusing on.

Remember that years from now your loved ones will cherish seeing those photos, but they would also love to know who is in them. Or simply where the photo was taken.
 
With that, my challenge to you is to creat a layout that focuses on journaling.
Go ahead, write it down...every wonderful detail!
 
In my example, I knew I wanted the journaling to tell how we were flying over Chicago on our way home from Jamaica. Something no one would know unless I recorded that information.

 

 
I can't wait to see what you all come up with for this challenge!

Happy journaling everyone!

Megan