A share from our Guest - Louise Nelson :)

Hey everyone, 

I am here today to share another awesome layout by our Guest Designer Louise Nelson. Louise has created up a storm with our May Cupcake Kit and I have adored everything she is sending in. 

Here is a page she created of her lovely friend Nat, you can check out Nat's blog here. 

Louise has used a piece of white cardstock from the Cake Mix Cardstock pack available in the store as her background.  She has doodled around the edges to add interest. I just love the SEI Mint Green Mist and the affect she has created here, it looks a little like watercolours. She has then used a pink mist from her own stash with the Studio Calico mask in the kit. She has finished the layout off with some of the doodlebug alphas to create her title, a scattering of punched flowers and leaves from the papers, some sequins, enamel dots and thread (from her own stash). Just so funky! 

Layout title: You are so cool. 

Here is a close us shot of her cluster around the photo and the misting.

Love this mask, looks great!

Thanks so much for another awesome page Lou!

To find out more about the kit Lou used look here:

Guest Designer Share - A second page from Lou Nelson

Hey everyone,

I am here today to share a second page from our talented guest Lou Nelson. 

Louise has designed with out May Cupcake Kit this month. There is still one left in our store, click the kit image below if you want to snap it up :)

So here is the page Lou came up with. I love how she has used the MME papers as a strip down the left side. Louise has also used a variety of punches with the MME papers to create her own embellishments. For example, the pink flowers below, where she has finished them with an enamel dot. Louise has also used the exclusive 'Smile' flair on this layout. 

CLose up of the flair, alpha stickers and SEI Mint green mist. 

Close up details of the photo and embellishments.

Looks great Lou, thanks again! 

More shares to come from Lou soon :)

Babies and friends!

Hi everyone!
I have got it all covered this month! I have baby photos and crazy, fun friend photos that I have scrapped this month with the once again awesome kit!!! Just shows how versatile these kits are!!!

This first one is one of my all time favourite photos of Maya as a baby. her tiny, wrinkled feet. Once I saw the very cute exclusive "Give a girl a blog" stamp I knew i wanted to scrap an old baby photo so I went and had some re printed especially!

So here is my layout...............


I have used white cardstock and some Distress Ink to create my background and then added some machine stitching to highlight my tiny photo.
I have cut up two of the echo park journalling tags and layered them underneath my photo as well as a torn piece of the gorgeous starry vellum! I also cut the little verse from a tag also.

I have used one of the Heidi Swapp tags and cut some circles from the various patterned papers ( some of the colours you see are also from the journalling tags!)

 I have used some sequins ( from my stash as the pink was a little bright for this particular layout) and used a star punch to cut out some small stars! Also used is the twine, the flower , the gorgeous stamp,various stickers from the sticker sheet and an older release "cherry flair".

Ok , so from soft and sweet to loud, bright and crazy!!!
So I have a confession to make, I made a big boo boo on this layout :(!! You will spot it straight away I am sure and I apologise to my gorgeous friend Sharmaine I didn't mean for your face to be red!!!! As we all do I decided I needed some red splatters, and yep I splatted on my photo and i tried to fix it which made it worse !!! :( Oh well I, the joys of handmade!!!! I still love this layout.

These photos were taken at "escape to create" retreat which I was very lucky to attend earlier this year.
I got to meet some fantastic, funny, inspiring ladies and also catch up with some other dear friends!

Lots of Dylusions sprays on my background mixed with a Heidi Swapp journalling tag, strips of paper,an awesome "cherry flair", some echo park stickers and the cute little sequins.
I have also used the exclusive stamp here by just stamping the small stars. Love it mixed in the clusters of sequins!

Well I will be back with more shares soon !
Eb xx

May Guest Designer Share - Louise Nelson

Hello everyone, 

Well I am excited to share with you the first page from Louise Nelson our Guest designer for the month of May. Louise worked with our newly released style 'Cupcake' kit and also our Cake Base cardstock pack. 

We love Louise's style at APOCD and were looking forward to what she was going to create for us. This is the first page she has shared with us. 

I love how Louise has used the gorgeous S.E.I Mint mist in splatters and the Studio Calico mask has been used like a stamp, so effective! Add the little scatterings of neon sequins, enamel dots, our exclusive Cherry Flair and voila - stunning! 

A close up's of some of Louise's amazing background detail, and the flair only available in the kit.

Hope you loved Louise's first share as much as I did.

There are still 2 more of these Cupcake kits available in the store, you can find them here 

http://apieceofcakedesigns.com.au/category_1/Current-Kit.htm

A share from a friend at APOCD Michelle :)

Today I am here to share a bit of a step by step from a loyal APOCD subscriber and long time friend Michelle. Michelle is the lovely lady who behind the scenes helps me to pack your scrumptious kits each month :) We normally do this over a big coffee and lots of chatting about the latest and greatest supplies and what we are loving or want!

Michelle's Blog: Gettin her craft on....One day at a time

Here is the layout Michelle created for the current May Colour Challenge for Life Paper Scrapbook challenge site where she is on the design team. Michelle is a Project Life-r at heart so normally she uses our kits to make her PL spreads.  This time she has created a layout,  think you have definitely channelled your 'inner Raquel' Shell, :)

Here is what she has to say: 

This is the colour combo to play with this month YUM YUM would love a Macaron right now!

Normally I would create a Project Life layout for this, however I was so excited when I received the MAY Cake kit from A Piece of Cake Designs (now sold out) that I knew I wanted to make a layout instead. The colours are perfect! Especially the Heidi Swapp tags that were in mine.

So this is what I came up with

 

I had the layout pictured as I was pulling out the kit ingredients and I assembled half of the page before I had even chosen the photo I was going to use.

My recipe is as follows
- I started with a piece of Kraft cardstock for the base, and splattered it with Mint Green HS Color Shine
- Next I trimmed down the vellum to 8x8inch. Scrunched it up then slightly flattened it out so that it sat out from the page.
- Then I cut off a strip of the yellow sunburst paper 'Serendipity - New Day' to approx 2"x11" and roughed up the edges with a pair of scissors.
- Next I sprayed one of the Heidi Swapp tags with the Mint Green Color Shine and left it to dry while I roughed up the edges of the 'Beautiful' banner card with scissors. Then cut both tags in half to use in 2 places on the layout
- Once I finally decided which photos I wanted to use, I printed them out 3x5" size and sanded the edges to give them a rough white border
- Then I took some of the white cardstock and cut it slightly larger than the 2 photos I had and dabbed lightly all over it with my pink Hero Arts ink pad, then adhered the photos to the top so that part of the cardstock was showing below.
- This is when I eventually started sticking things down properly with tape and staples - LOVE my tiny attacher!
- Scattered a few pink sequins around the page, then glued them down once I was happy with their placement

- Next I added the Bling.. A Cherry barcode flair from the April release at A Piece of Cake Designs,  plus a flower that was in the May cake kit. I broke the yellow bead off from the middle of the flower and glued it back down with a sequin to make it sparkle a little more.

- I cut a banner from the white glitter tape and stuck it above the flair.

- Then I wound some of the pink twine from the kit around the flair and flower, then under the beautiful tag and over to the other side of the page with a few loops, and adhered to page with glue and tiny attacher.

- Last of all I cut up some left over white cardstock into thin strips to write my journalling on and attached them with foam tape. 

- and I added the kraft banner with heart cut out onto the right hand side of the photos, and the birdie paper clip onto the top right of the photos.

I hope this has inspired you to get creative!

Sponsors for this months Colour Challenge are The Scrapbook Store, who are kindly offering one of our lucky readers who play along, a $20 voucher for their online store! 

Head on over to the Life Paper Scrapbook page to see what the rest of the Design Team have whipped up this month :) You won't be disappointed. 

Thanks so much for allowing us to share this Michelle. Don't forget to check out Michelle's blog and the challenge at Life, Paper Scrapbook to join in. If you managed to snap up a May kit, you could even use that :P

May Releases Contents Revealed

Hey everyone,

Well tonight is the night!

I am here to share with you today the contents of the May Main Cake Kit and our May Cupcake Kit :)

Kit Contents 

Papers 12"x12" - The Cake Mix

• Simple Stories 'Vintage Bliss - Journaling Card Elements' Patterned Paper
• AC Amy Tangerine 'Yes Please - Consistent' Patterned Paper
• AC Amy Tangerine 'Yes Please - Fulfill' Patterned Paper
• AC Dear Lizzy 'Lucky Charm - Blue Skies' Patterned Paper 
• Heidi Swapp 'Serendipity - New Day' Patterned Paper
• Studio Calico 'Sundrifter - Love Wins' Patterned Paper
• Studio Calico 'Atlantic - Jamestown' Vellum Speciality Paper
• 1 x Kraft Cardstock
• 1 x White Cardstock

Embellishments - The Filling

• Simple Stories 'Vintage Bliss' Expressions Cardtstock Stickers
• Give a Girl A ... Exclusively Designed Clear Stamp Set
• 2 x Prima 'Avante' Flowers (colours will vary in kit)
• 1 x Prima 'Lady Bird' Metal Paper Clip
• 1/2 Pack of Heidi Swapp 'Colour Pop' Memory File tags (designs will vary)

Other - The Icing

• 1 x Pink Washi Tape
• Selection of yellow & white flowers
• Length of American Crafts Glitter Tape - White
• Length of pale pink and orange twine
• Selection of purple and green sequins 

The Cherry on top

• Packet of 3 'Cherry Flair' handmade by 'A Piece of Cake Designs' and exclusive to this kit.

Kit Contents 

Papers - The Cupcake Mix

• Twelve 6"x6" Double Sided Patterned Papers from the My Mind's Eye 'Find Your Wings and Fly - Up & Away' 

Embellishments - The Filling

• Doodlebug Designs Teensy Type - White
• S.E.I Tumble Dye Mist - Mint
• Studio Calico Huey's Mask - Circle Graph
• 1/2 Packet My Minds Eye 'Find Your Wings and Fly - Up & Away' Enamel Dots

Other - The Icing

• Length of Bella Boulevard Pink Chevron Washi Tape
• Length of green and brown twine
• 1 x Anchor Charm
• 2 x Studio Calico Wood Veneer Cameras
• Selection of fluro pink and black sequins
• 4 x Pink Tickets

The Cherry on top

• Packet of 2 'Cherry Flair' handmade by 'A Piece of Cake Designs' and exclusive to this kit.

And the Cherry Flair being released tonight too!

Hope to see you at the sale

www.apieceofcakedesigns.com.au

May Cupcake Kit - A Video!

Hey everyone

Well I have attempted to make a video of the contents of the May Cupcake kit 

Please be kind as it is my first video of any kind. Next time I will make sure it is more in focus too!

Hope to see you at the sale night on Monday! 

Stay tuned to this blog and our Facebook page as I will be revealing the Main Cake Kit Contents and the Flair tomorrow :)