Design Team Call!

It’s that time again – The Studio needs YOU! We’re searching for the new Studio design team!

We are a chilled out, drama-free team and are looking for some new designers to join our family.

What is required from our DT members:

1. Maintain a regular presence on our blog and our private DT area.
2. Leave genuine feedback on followers' blogs and encourage those who enter our challenges
3. Create 2 scrapbook pages per month for our regular Sunday challenges. We may also ask you to create an occasional extra project for special events
4. Set occasional challenges and other ad-hoc requirements, such as scheduling blog posts.

Our site does not run for profit, just fun, so there is no payment (money or stash!) for your work. Products may be supplied to the DT on occasion by sponsors. Of course, you also have another string to add to your scrapbooking resume!

So, to apply, please email amanda@scrapbook-101.com with DT call in the subject field, and include the following:

1. THREE projects which showcase your best work (image files no bigger than 1MB please – failure to follow this guideline may result in your email being rejected by our mail server)
2. A paragraph about who you are, why you’re PASSIONATE about paper and glue, and what you could bring to our team.
3. A link to your blog and any online galleries you have, Facebook, twitter – anywhere you share your work.
4. A list of any current or past design teams you have belonged to. Previous experience is not required – we love to see NEW talent! Your passion and enthusiasm are what’s important!

Our DT call is open to everyone; past DT members are also welcome to re-apply. International applicants are welcomed and encouraged to apply. If you have any questions regarding the call please email me at amanda@scrapbook-101.com

The call is open now, and will close on 15^th July 2012. Those selected will be notified shortly after that date.

The term for successful applicants will run from 1st August 2012 – 31st January 2013.

Good luck to all who apply, I can’t wait to see your applications!

17th June - Negatives (with Jenni Bowlin DT)

Everyone up for another challenge?!

Today is all about Negatives, interpret this however you like! You could use actual photo negatives, negative space, or even negative pieces from your stickers, punches or die-cuts.

We are joined again by the lovely Jenni Bowlin Design team as well as our DT so we have loads of great inspiration for you!

Anna

This is a great challenge to use up those scraps that you have used for punches, I used lots! I also created a negative rectangle (by the title) with my misting.

Daphne

Those "All-over-the-Page"-Punches are perfect for this week's challenge! I used a Pinking Circle Punch by Martha Stewart to create the fourteen windows in my background paper and then glued paper behind the holes. Perfect for every kind of scraps you can find in your basket and waiting to be used!

I also cut out bigger circles to stick around the background paper, sewed some transparencies and filled them with different kind of confetti and some of the circles even have hand stitched parts around them!

To finish it off just a little bit of bling and you're done!

Jan

Instead of taking the border punch all the way across the bottom of this card, I left a little on the ends so I could use the negative space along with the punched border. 

I layered the butterflies, with the fuzzy bottom paper adhered flat and the top layer lifted a bit.

Jules

I used two lots of punch waste, from the large and small circles, and the edge of a label sticker to frame my title

Katherine

It's great to have some of the Jenni Bowlin girls joining in with the challenges this month, so it was the perfect excuse to use some beautiful JB papers.  The picture I chose is from a lithograph of my Mum, I just scanned it in and had it printed and it came out really nicely.  For the negative element of the challenge I die cut some butterflies from a tag and then added stitched swirls and lots of distress ink and paint to keep it all vintagey.

Valerie

As soon as I hear 'negative space' I can't help think of die cuts - whether from a manual or digital machine - I save a good portion of my negative cuts because I love their potential. For this challenge, I used a digital cutter (a Silhouette) to cut my title, which also serves as a frame for my photo. I backed it with a simple grid pattern so it wouldn't overwhelm the page.

Here are the LOs for this challenge from the JBS team :) They have done an amazing job again with this challenge!

Briana Johnson used the negative space within several thin frames to create structure on her page.

Corrie Jones made a festive layout with punched stars, their negative spaces, and even a vintage slide negative.

 Dina Wakley hand cut some hearts from a piece of patterned paper for one layout and then used the negative space as a design element on this layout.

A mini-album from Jill Sprott in which the pages are a mix of patterned paper, overlays, and the negative spaces left behind from the stars that she had used on another layout.

Louise Nelson punched three little stars from red cardstock and then backed the negative space with kraft cardstock to make a sweet embellishment.

 A graduation gift card from