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Paper Bakery Sketch Challenge 10

It's time for a new sketch challenge on the Paper Bakery blog. Sketch Challenge 10 is live!!! Here is my latest sketch for Paper Bakery and my take on the it using the August Scrapbook Kit.

INSPIRED BY | Paper Bakery Sketch Challenge 10

I switched it up a bit when I created my layout, by flip flopping the placement of the everything from the original sketch. Because of the position of my subject in the photos, I felt they looked better and helped draw your eye into the layout by placing them on the right hand side of the page. I then cut some strips to create the banners from various pieces of patterned paper using the August Scrapbook Kit. I then layered them and my photos onto a large rectangular piece of patterned paper and a piece of cardstock to create the base and background for my layout.

Love This Silly Girl Layout by Juliana Michaels for Paper Bakery using the August Scrapbook Kit

I created part of my title using my Silhouette and my own handwriting which was super fun, and some of my all time favorite letter stickers by Jillibean Soup that also included in the August Kit!

I then created a vertical "border" with the wood veneer hearts from Freckled Fawn and heart confetti that are included in the August Scrapbook Kit! They were so much fun to play with!!!

SUPPLIES | Paper Bakery August Scrapbook Kit

Carta Bella/ Hello Again; Freckled Fawn/ Wood Veneer; October Afternoon/ Travel Girl; American Crafts/ My Girl; Jillibean Soup/ Alphabeans

Make sure you stop by the Paper Bakery blog for all the details! You have until August 24 to play along for your chance to win a $10 coupon to the Paper Bakery Shop which is full of all kinds of yummies from custom flair to sequins!

I hope you enjoy the new sketch and I can’t wait to see how it inspires you! If you ever have any suggestions about things you would like to see in future sketches, just let me know!

My Favorite Things August Scrap Guest Designer | Part 1

Little did I know a few months back that when I guest designed for Laina Lamb using some of the stamps and dies that she designed for My Favorite Things that I would be asked to guest design for My Favorite Things!!! I was thrilled when I got the email asking me to do so! Of course, I had to use some a combination of dies and stamps designed by Laina since her style really speaks to me! I will be up on their blog twice this month. Today and then again on August 23. The layout I am sharing with you today is about my recent 40th birthday. It was a low key day, but my husband never fails to surprise me. This year he bought me my favorite coffee and then had a surprise birthday party for me at his sisters!

INSPIRED BY | The Products

I have always said that the products I have to play with are what inspire me and that was certainly the case with the dies and stamps from My Favorite Things! I knew immediately upon seeing the Laina Lamb Designs Reel Life die that I wanted to cut it out of different colors of paper and scatter them around on my layout and layer them under my photos. As I was cutting them, I had the most awesome trash from the negatives that I couldn't bear to throw away. I was then inspired to use these to create the border along the right hand side of the layout. After that I gathered some stamps from the Laina Lamb Designs Right This Way set. I stamped them onto white cardstock using black ink and then fussy cut them before adding them to my layout.

Celebrate Good Times Layout by Juliana Michaels using My Favorite Things Stamps and Dies

TRENDS | Arrows/Triangles

They are still going strong and I love how they can help guide your eye as you look at a layout. I also used them to create a border around the outside edge of my layout with the help of the Laina Lamb Designs Mod Borders set and a gray ink pad.

SUPPLIES | My Favorite Things

Dies: Laina Lamb Designs/ Accent It - Reel Life; Accent It - Celebrate

Stamps: Laina Lamb Designs/ Document It - Right This Way; Border It - Mod Borders

Other:

Patterned Paper: Jillibean Soup/ Happy Camper, Soup Staples II and Country Pumpkin Chowder

I hope you enjoyed the layout I created and shared with you today using the fabulous My Favorite Things products! I know I thoroughly enjoyed playing and creating with them!

Pebbles Design Team 2013-2014

I am thrilled and honored to share with you that I am one of the new Pebbles Design Team members!!! I got the email inviting me to join their team as I was waking up one morning. I like to read my emails in the morning on my phone before I get out of bed to help me wake up. Well needless to say, I was awake in 2 seconds flat the morning I got the email inviting me to join the Pebbles Design Team!!! My poor husband was not yet awake and I think I nearly gave him a heart attack with my jumping up and down and screaming!!!

Pebbles 2013-2014 Design Team

The team is made up of an amazingly talented group of designers. I am looking forward to working with all of them and getting to know all of them better!

Thank you so very much for sharing in my joy and excitement! I can't wait to share my Pebbles projects with you throughout this upcoming year!!!

SRM Sticker Stitches

Today I am sharing a layout I created for SRM Stickers using one of my SRM favorites...Sticker Stitches! I immediately thought of using them as an alternative to a sewing machine. This is of course, a rather literal take on the idea of the stitches. Nothing new there, but I also had the idea to attempt to create a the look of a patchwork quilt using a combination of different patterns of paper.

INSPIRED BY | Pocket Page Scrapping

This whole idea of a patchwork quilt was inspired by the ever popular pocket page style layouts. I can't help it, but when I look at them, they remind of a quilt. They are really nothing more than squares and/or rectangles of patterned paper. So, I guess this is my take on a pocket page style layout without the pockets! This could certainly be translated into a pocket design very easily and wouldn't the Sticker Stitches be a fun accent?!

TRENDS | Multiple Patterns

One of the current trends is to incorporate multiple patterns together. This can be seen everywhere from home decor to fashion. It is also becoming quite popular on layouts, with many people attempting to use as many patterns and colors as they can! It is quite fun and by using a set of papers from a collection, the guess work on what will work together becomes much easier.

SRM Stickers Sticker Stitches Together Layout by Juliana Michaels

TECHNIQUE | SRM Sticker Stitches

To create the actual patchwork quilt look, I cut each sticker 1/2" shorter than the width and/or height of each square/rectangle of patterned paper. Then, I adhered each sticker around the outside edge of each piece based on the measurements. I used 9 of the 17 different stitch styles to choose from on each sheet of stickers and overall, I only used two sheets of Sticker Stitches. The only exception was that I had to use one more strip from another sheet of Sticker Stitches in order to be able to make a stitched border long enough to go around the edge of the long orange strip at the bottom of the layout. I also have plenty of stickers left to complete several more projects depending on what I decide to do!

SUPPLIES | Stickers:
SRM Stickers - Sticker Stitches Black

Other Supplies:
Flair: Paper Bakery
Patterned Paper: Lily Bee
Wood Veneer: American Crafts
Cardstock: American Crafts
Digital Cutting File: Howdy Sunshine by Juliana Michaels | 17turtles

I am so happy you stopped by to visit today and I hope you come back again real soon! And if you leave me comment please make sure I have a way to reply back to you! I'd love to visit your blog too!!!

Bo Bunny Design Team Member

I am thrilled and honored to share with you that I have been asked to return as a member of the BoBunny Design Team!!! I still can't believe that I was asked to continue designing for them! I have loved BoBunny for so many years. This is such an amazing company to design for and I feel so very blessed to have been a member of their design team since September 2009. To continue to be able to design for them is truly like a continued dream come true!!!

Along with myself, you will see several returning designers, however, there are 15 new designers joining us. The new BoBunny Design Team is full of amazing talent and a wide variety of styles! And in true BoBunny fashion they have chosen another team from around the world! I encourage you to take a little hop around the world to check them out and to congratulate them!!!

BOBUNNY DESIGN TEAM 2013-2014

Agnieszka Bellaidea - Canada

Amy Voorthuis - Netherlands

Bernii Miller - Australia

Denise Van Deventer - South Africa

Evgenia Petzer - South Africa

Gabrielle Pollacco - Canada

Ilene Tell - Delaware, USA

Irene Tan - Malaysia

Juliana Michaels - Ohio, USA

Kaori Fujimotto - Japan

Keri Babbitt - Utah, USA