February Echo Park Design Team Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Echo Park Paper Design Team Blog Hop! Today the Echo Park Paper Design Team is showcasing projects from our latest collections. Be sure to follow the blog hop list below as you hop from one blog to the next. Return to the Echo Park Paper blog at any time for the next blogger on the list in case you get lost or confused! ONE winner will be selected from each blog to receive an Echo Park Paper collection kit of their choosing. To qualify for the kit, comments will be due by midnight EST, Sunday, February 24th to qualify for the drawing. Please leave me a comment with your name included. The winner will be announced on each blog Monday, February 25th  so be sure to check back to see if you've won.

 Here are the links so you can start hopping :)

Echo Park Paper

Laurel Seabrook

SusanStringfellow (You are Here)

Linda Auclair 

Wendy Sue Anderson

TamaraTripodi

Olga Vasilieva

Lowri McNabb

Nancy Damiano

Kandis Smith

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Now for a little inspiration! Don't you just love the little 6x6" paper pads that coordinate with the collections? I like to use them for cards and anything that I am going to punch because the small scale patterns are perfect for smaller pieces. For this layout that I am sharing today, I wanted to make a sort of quilt block background using 1" squares. This is a perfect time to use the Scoot 6x6" paper pad! Scoot is a bright fun collection with some of the cutest stickers! I used several word stickers and stars along with the great alpha stickers.  Do you guys buy the 6x6" paper pads - if so how do you like to use them?

 

 

 

Thanks for visiting my blog guys! Check back often for more inspiration and giveaways :)

Happy Valentines Day! and a winner!

Just wanted to wish you a very Happy Valentine's Day with all your friends and family from Creatively Savvy. Savvy put on a tie for the occasion :) "bow ties are cool"

And NOW for the winner of the DCWV goodies from the Kidlet/Arctic Wishes Giveaway. I had my husband pick a number and he picked 10 so that's MICHELLE!!!! Congrats Michelle! Send me your mailing address and I will get these in the mail tomorrow! Thanks to everyone for visiting my blog - and check back often because there is another giveaway coming VERY soon! ;)

Michelle said...
These cards are so cute Susan!!! Love the Dino's!! My fav stack has to be the Safari Chic!

11:18 PM

My Sunshine and Sequins

I have recently gotten a few of the New DCWV releases and my total fave stack is the My Sunshine Stack. Its great colors that go with my photos and really great designs. Some are glossy or have glossy accents that really nicely done.

I also had a Disney challenge that was about the Hollywood theme so I found a photo of my husband at Disneys Hollywood Studios (was MGM at the time). He was sitting in front of the Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant while we were waiting for the parade. I had a little recipe card from the Derby that has a recipe for their famous grapefruit cake on the back and I wanted to include it on the page so I made a pocket behind the photo. I also had to play a bit more with that fun cork in the new DCWV 6x6" adhesive Cork stack. I just hand cut chevron/arrow shapes and peeled the backing off - instant cork sticker. I think you guys might get sick of cork showing up on my layouts because this stuff is fun.

Anyway, it's a Hollywood challenge so I figured there must be a bit of glitz, right? Sequins are showing up more in scrapping and since I have a million sequins from my ornament making days and from both of my grandmothers, so I am always wanting to use them. You can just use glue to adhere them, stitch them to the page using a seed bead in the traditional manor, or just stitch right thru them which is my fave way - its faster and you don't have to wait for glue to dry. :) Give it a try sometime.

Kidosaurus Valentines & Giveaway!

Before we talk about the giveaway, ... Don't you just love kids' Valentines! I saw a couple of the papers in the New 6x6" Kidosaurus Stack by DCWV and just had to make Valentines.

The sentiment and dino are all on the page right there waiting to be a card so these were pretty simple. I just cut the dino out and layered it over the background for one. On the other I have cut the sentiment out and attached it inside the card.  Also as promised in yesterday's post I have used the New DCWV 6x6" Adhesive Cork Stack to punch out some little cork hearts and then misted them red.

 

 

 

 

 

Now for the fun part - How about a giveaway. Would you like a chance to try out some of the New DCWV specialty papers? I will choose a randomly drawn winner to receive the following: Arctic Wishes Matstack 4.5 x 6.5", the Kidlet Stack 6 x 6", and one sheet of each new specialty 6x6 paper - Cork Stack, Fiber Stack, Fabric Stack, and Corrugate Stack

What is your favorite DCWV Stack that you have used? For a chance to win the goodies above, do these two things, follow my blog and leave me a comment with your answer about your fave stack. I will announce a winner on Valentines Day February 14th. Thanks so much :)

Cork Stack fun!

Have you seen the NEW 6x6" adhesive Cork Stack by DCWV? I played with it a little bit today and you are going to be seeing me using more cork for certain. LOL! There are thin cork sheets with an adhesive and it can be cut with the die cutting machines like the Sizzix Big Kick and its dies and that is very cool but even better, you can use punches with it as long as you are sensible and don't try to use an ornate punch. How fun are these!?

 

And of course you could use acrylic paints to paint them but guess what? You can mist them! I found that they take the more opaque types of mists better. Just look how cute these little red cork hearts are.  CLICK HERE for a couple of Valentines where I use these cork hearts 

Photo Freedom 2013 page 1

Check it out  - only one month later and I actually have page one done for 2013! LOL! Well, I do not know exactly how often I will do layouts but my first page is sort of the cover page with New Years Eve and day. I use Echo Park Paper's Photo Freedom system for my pocket pages and for this page I used some older papers from the Echo Park Note to Self collection and a couple of stickers from the "Times and Seasons" collection.


I wanted to do some bubbly sequins for the year block but after that I just played with the papers and things til I liked the way it looked. The large pocket is 6x12.5" so you really have to treat it like a layout, and notice I said that it is 12.5" so I like to add a strip to fill that gap, otherwise the panel that you put in there will want to tip to the side and fall out.

Also since I made a pocket for a card behind the photo, I cut a slit with an Xacto knife and that helps to hold the piece right where I want it as well. I have journaled on the back of that little tag.