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July's Basic Grey Class

As some of you know, I teach a class monthly using the Basic Grey retailer's kit.  We always have lots of fun and get quite a bit of scrapbooking done too.  Besides the double page layout that Basic Grey provides, I also design two more one page layouts from the "leftovers".  I've had to be quite creative some months to produce those extra layouts.  This month I tried an experiment and I think it worked out well.

First we made this layout.  It's pretty simple, a beautiful background paper and lots of pictures set up in a grid style.  Then fun embellishments with some fussy cutting and border work.

 

The second layout is where I tried something new.  I started with the red background paper.  Then I took the large circle paper and we cut out the center of it.  I believe that this center piece was used for something on the BG layout.  Then I had them score the paper and fold it back so that the back side of the patterned paper was shown.  

It was a fun way to save paper and learn a new folding technique.  If you live around the Birmingham, Alabama area and would like to get involved in this class please email me and I will get you in contact with the right people. :)

I've got three project reveals this week for my design team work.  Petaloo is having a fun school themed blog hop, SRM Stickers is showing my mini calendar idea, and Papercrafter's Corner is having "Button Week" and I've got a couple of projects being shown.  I'll post about each one when it happens.

At home we are hoping that Hurricane  Isaac does not knock too hard on our door but we are bracing for some pretty wet weather for sure. Stay safe everyone!

Basic Grey's National Scrapbook Day Sketch Challenge

Well, I've completed another sketch challenge.  This sketch was created by Valerie Salmon from Got Sketch for one of the Basic Grey's National Scrapbook Day Challenges.  I instantly loved it and couldn't wait to get started, but because baseball, diaper changes, and laundry took precendent over scrapbooking until yesterday, I wasn't able to give it the earlier start that I wanted.  But as you can see I did finish in time to submit it for the challenge so I'm happy about that.

For my layout I used Basic Grey's What's Up? paper and embellishment collection with a little washi tape from Bella Blvd and stamps from Paper Trey Ink.  Other than that it is all Basic Grey baby!!  :)

I really love these papers.  I really don't think my photography does the paper justice.  It looks flat to me and it is really more vibrant in real life.  I used a lot of the cardstock stickers and a couple of flags.  My favorite embellishment, though, is the stitched felt and puffy cloud.  Too cute for words!!  Here is a close up of those embellishments.

This photo highlights something I'm pretty proud of.  I recently got my Cameo Silhouette and I am loving it.  Not only for the shapes that I can buy but for the ones that I can make myself.  The fancy open bracket border, we'll just call it that for now, is a Studio file that I created myself.  I am hoping to share some tips of how I did that really soon.

Another closeup of the embellishments on the top of the layout.

Loved the sketch for this challenge and even though the deadline is near, tomorrow, eeks, you still might be able to join me if you hurry.  

Thanks Valerie for a wonderful sketch and thanks Basic Grey for the challenge.