To quote the kid in one of my all-time favorite YouTube videos (David After the Dentist): "Is this real life?"
It has literally been a dream of mine ever since they started a design team many moons ago to be a Garden Girl. I've been bursting at the seams to share the news :)
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Description: The Soho Garden line is full of bright colors - my favorite! I purposefully chose bright colors for our Christmas card photoshoot so I could make a layout using Soho Garden papers. Tell me I'm not the only one who chooses clothes based on paper lines! I love how there are pinks and florals to use for more girly layouts but there's also lots of black, green, and blue so I've used this line for layouts for my son. I love when lines, like Soho Garden, can go both ways! Clustering embellishments is one of my favorite trends so I turned to layered stickers, jewels, pearls, and sequins to draw the eye across and around the page.
Journaling says: I remember the exact moment when I knew you wanted to be born. I was at the Princess Fantasy Faire at Disneyland and I got the strongest impression that there was a little girl of my own waiting impatiently for me to take her back there! Now here you are! I can't wait to take you back there someday and dress you in a pretty princess dress and tell you this story. I love you so much Jane!
How to: Die cut a large doily from scrap cardstock, place it over a dark blue cardstock background, spray over it with dark blue mist, then remove the doily mask. Take the outter negative pieces of the die cut doily, draw over them with a white colored pencil, then glue them into place on the layout. Go around the outside of the misted doily with silver glitter glue then once it's dry write journaling around the doily with a silver pen. Print a girl silhouette from the internet, cut it into pieces, trace and cut out the same pieces from patterned paper and photos, then piece them back together onto the layout. Make a "necklace" from pearls and a sequin and add fabric stickers over a couple of the paper blocks with foam dots. Place a title sticker with pop dots on the center, type up a bit of journaling on a vintage typewriter, add it below the title, then place a piece of scalloped printed paper trimmed from a tag below. Create two clusters of embellishments - one on the top left and one on the bottom right - using flower stickers, drops of white spray mist, dots of gold pen, sequins, stickers, pearls, jewels, and a date stamp.
Supplies: Cardstock, patterned paper, tag, stickers (butterfly, feather, flowers, pennant, sentiment, ticket), date stamp, ink, adhesive: American Crafts; Jewels, pearls: Pebbles; Glitter glue: Ranger; Spray mist: Studio Calico; Pens (gold, silver): EK Success; Colored pencil: Prismacolor; Die cut machine (Cameo), doily die (Silhouette): QuicKutz; Typewriter: Smith Corona
Description: The Soho Garden line is full of bright colors - my favorite! I purposefully chose bright colors for our Christmas card photoshoot so I could make a layout using Soho Garden papers. Tell me I'm not the only one who chooses clothes based on paper lines! I love how there are pinks and florals to use for more girly layouts but there's also lots of black, green, and blue so I've used this line for layouts for my son. I love when lines, like Soho Garden, can go both ways! Clustering embellishments is one of my favorite trends so I turned to layered stickers, jewels, pearls, and sequins to draw the eye across and around the page.
Journaling says: I remember the exact moment when I knew you wanted to be born. I was at the Princess Fantasy Faire at Disneyland and I got the strongest impression that there was a little girl of my own waiting impatiently for me to take her back there! Now here you are! I can't wait to take you back there someday and dress you in a pretty princess dress and tell you this story. I love you so much Jane!
How to: Die cut a large doily from scrap cardstock, place it over a dark blue cardstock background, spray over it with dark blue mist, then remove the doily mask. Take the outter negative pieces of the die cut doily, draw over them with a white colored pencil, then glue them into place on the layout. Go around the outside of the misted doily with silver glitter glue then once it's dry write journaling around the doily with a silver pen. Print a girl silhouette from the internet, cut it into pieces, trace and cut out the same pieces from patterned paper and photos, then piece them back together onto the layout. Make a "necklace" from pearls and a sequin and add fabric stickers over a couple of the paper blocks with foam dots. Place a title sticker with pop dots on the center, type up a bit of journaling on a vintage typewriter, add it below the title, then place a piece of scalloped printed paper trimmed from a tag below. Create two clusters of embellishments - one on the top left and one on the bottom right - using flower stickers, drops of white spray mist, dots of gold pen, sequins, stickers, pearls, jewels, and a date stamp.
Supplies: Cardstock, patterned paper, tag, stickers (butterfly, feather, flowers, pennant, sentiment, ticket), date stamp, ink, adhesive: American Crafts; Jewels, pearls: Pebbles; Glitter glue: Ranger; Spray mist: Studio Calico; Pens (gold, silver): EK Success; Colored pencil: Prismacolor; Die cut machine (Cameo), doily die (Silhouette): QuicKutz; Typewriter: Smith Corona
One Thursday of every month I'll have a video tutorial as part of the "SCRAP YOUR STASH" segment - this series equips you with ideas for making a dent in the papers and stickers and goodies you've collected and it'll be taught by Nancy Damiano, Jill Sprott, Amy Heller, and myself. I've never made a movie before so we'll see how this goes!
I can already tell that 2013 is going to be a great year!
Paige, are you serious?! This is one of the most beautiful pieces of art. It took my eye a few seconds to register the silhouette. Seriously blown away. Congrats on the Garden Girl status! I honestly didn't know you weren't already one :) Cheers!
ReplyDeleteWow! Congratulations! What great news to start the new year with!
ReplyDeleteWooooooo hooooooooooooo!! CONGRATS!!!!! So happy for you!!! I loveeeeeeeeeee your lo!! Absolutely GORGEOUS!! Happy New Year!!
ReplyDeleteEEEK!! this is SO INCREDIBLY EXCITING!!! Congrats to you this is TOTALLY well deserved and GORGEOUS layout!
ReplyDeleteWay to GO Paige! Congrats on being a Garden Girl! I'm so excited for you!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!
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Congratulations!! Hugs, Shelly
ReplyDeletecongrats! what's a garden girl? sounds awesome!!! happy new year!
ReplyDeletewow Paige, this is awesome, you totally deserves this title of Garden Girl! your layout is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteCongrats! This is so awesome and so well deserved!
ReplyDeleteyay! congrats on being a garden girl!!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats Paige! You make amazing work so this is no surprise, I'm so excited for this new year!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Paige - that layout is incredible!!!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Paige!! Awesome news for you (and us!)
ReplyDeleteCongrats, they are so lucky to have you!!! I'm so excited for you. Love your layout!
ReplyDeleteCongrats! What an amazing opportunity...they and the rest of us 2p's fans are so blessed to have you~
ReplyDeleteCongrats and gorgeous page!! :)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! I love that layout above. So beautiful. And I agree with your commenters above ... It's amazing art! Yay for video tutorials!
ReplyDeleteI'm very proud of my Garden Girl!
ReplyDeleteI'm very proud of my Garden Girl!
ReplyDeleteCongrats Paige. Ur stuff is amazing. Cant wait to see your videos.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Paige! :)
ReplyDeleteThat is so exciting! You are very talented.
ReplyDeleteBiggest accomplishment ever! So happy you're a GG. Can't wait to see what you post on the Two Peas website! That layout you made has so much detail, don't know how you think of it!
ReplyDeleteCongrats! You deserve it!
ReplyDeleteCONGRATS!! That LO is absolutely gorgeous. WOW.
ReplyDeleteThis is the. Coolest. Layout. Ever. Congrats on the team Paige, your work is amazing! :)
ReplyDeleteHuge congrats!Excited to see what you will create!
ReplyDeleteThis is amazeballs! You deserve it, your work is unique and stunning and always inspiring. I'm so happy for you. Congrats!
ReplyDeleteawesome news, paige! congrats...you garden girl, you :)
ReplyDeleteThat is so stinkin exciting!! SO proud of you! YAY! :-D
ReplyDeleteso exciting!!! you're amazing and it great that they recognize it! lota love ( and a bit of jealousy ;) ) coming from me.
ReplyDeletewoohoo!! You rock Paige! Congrats.
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome news! Congratulations...I'm looking forward to seeing all your Garden creations! :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats ! I'm just starting to follow your blog :))
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