SPECIAL GUEST - Stephanie Buice

I'm SO EXCITED to announce this next lovely lady as our special guest who has been busily working with some of our Cherry Flair designs, Stephanie Buice. 

I have admired Stephanie's work on Instagram for a while now and was so pleased that she agreed to be a guest with us. 

Here is a little bit about Stephanie in her own words. 

Hi, I'm Stephanie! I live in Alabama with my husband and sweet baby boy, I love being a mommy.

I also love to create, and I love to create with color. Scrapping is my passion so if I'm not running around

with the baby or changing diapers you can usually find me in my craft room. I currently serve on three

manufacturers DT's and couldn't be enjoying life more. Thanks for having me here A Piece Of Cake Designs.

You can check out Stephanie's gorgeous pages at her blog here

Congrats Stephanie for recently becoming a Crate Paper Gal! Go you!

Stay tuned to our blog for Stephanie's first share and more shares from the awesome APOCD girls!

SPECIAL GUEST - Lory Bucaria - Our neverending story

Today I am here to share our last layout by our special guest Lory. Lory has recently had some exciting news and is now on the creative team for Studio Calico! 

Here is her layout where she has used a flair from our One Little Word Cherry Flair pack. I love the frames and design of this layout. Plus that little shaker frame she made is too cute!

A close up of our flair:

Thank you so very much for being a special guest at APOCD Lory! We have loved having you! xxx

SPECIAL GUEST - Lory Bucaria - Right here

Today I have another gorgeous share from Lory to share with you all. This time Lory has completed a layout using the 'Right here' flair from the Everyday Olive Cherry Flair pack. 

Layout title: Right here

I love how Lory has used a bright thread the same colour as the flair to gather under it. How gorgeous!

A close up:

Love, love, love the vellum star banner Lory has used:

Stay tuned for more shares!

Only 13 more days to apply for our design team call :)

SPECIAL GUEST - Lory Bucaria - Project Life Layout

Today I am here to share Project Life layouts from our lovely guest Lory. These layouts are just so gorgeous and I love her Project Life Style! Lory has used the Everyday Olive and I {heart} Coffee Cherry Flair on her page. 

Here is the first side of her Week 30 layout. 

A close up of the flair available in the Everyday Olive pack

And the other side! How awesome is this?!?

Close up of the I {heart} Coffee flair -

A close up of the flair available in the Everyday Olive pack

Look at that gorgeous bow! Love, love love it!

I can't wait to share more with you soon, plus, if you missed it. We are having a design team call, click the image below for more details.

SPECIAL GUEST - Lory Bucaria - "Fun"

Today I am here to share the first layout from our lovely guest Lory! Lory has a fun, unique style and I am so pleased that she agreed to create some pages with our Cherry Flair :)

Lory used the camera flair from the One Little Word Cherry Flair Pack

Thanks so much for sharing your 'fun' layout with the APOCD followers Lory! You can see more of Lory's layouts on her blog LOVE SCRAP LIFE

Guest designer sneak peeks!

Today I am here to give you a little sneak of what our amazing guests have been up to this month.

Firstly, here are a couple of sneaks from Gina Rodgers. Gina has used the Main Cake kit this month, and from the sneaks we are in for a treat!

Here are her sneak! Amazing hey!

Our next sneaks are from our international guest Lory. 

I love what Lory has done with our One Little Word Cherry Flair set!

We certainly have an inspiring month coming up! Stay tuned for our guest pages as well as page shares from our DT member Ebony :)

Raquel xxx

Introducing our latest guests! .... GIna Rodgers & Lory Bucaria

Introducing the talented Gina Rodgers! Gina will be creating pages with our November Main Cake kit :)

Hi, I live in the Huon Valley in southern Tasmania with my partner Mark and our two teenage girls Rhiannon and Jem. I’ve been scrapping and making cards for about 6 years and also enjoy art journaling and often using these techniques on my scrap pages. My girls are the main inspiration for my pages as well as nature and everyday life. I’m a design team member at Citrus Twist and Kraft it Up and also an Jenni Bowlin Studio Ambassador. I’m very excited to be guest designing this month at APOCD!

Our international guest who will be working with our Cherry Flair is the lovely Loredana Bucaria. I was fortunate to meet this bubbly lady when hubby and I were doing the travelling thing in 2008-2009. I attended one of the most organised scrappy events I have been too, PACS Italy, which Lory helps to organise. Will have to dig up some photos over the coming month ....

Hello everyone ,
I’m Lory and I come from Italy!
I knew scrapbooking in 2003 thanks a friend and a little journey in a Funfair Park where I was actracted by a scrapbooking book full of colors and of die cuts ! Since then I made a long internet research about this hobby and Iwas really lucky to discover a new wonderful world !
Since then my life is changed ! Scrapbooking is become my lifestyle, it helped me in bad moments, like my dad’s death, I met new good friends around the world by internet , all thanks to scrapbooking.
I love scrapbooking because it makes me happy, free, with the scrapbooking I forget all the ordinary worries, all the bad thoughts and only the page, the photos, the story about the photo exist ! I loves to be sitted down on my chair ,close to door of my scraproom and be in my scrapbook space with music in background to scrapbook her pages full of colors, of several and sometimes unusually materials. All for fun and for relaxing ! I have a big dream : to can teach around the world, it should change my life, I’d do what I really want to do! In Italy I have organized an international convention of scrapbooking and mixed media for three years (2008-2010) knowing the most famopus scrapbookers and enjoying so much everything!It was a dream came true! I am solar, joyful, full of things to do but I love my everyday life even if something is not like I would.I’ve got married with the love of my life and now I have a new so cute home that I improve day by day.I love my life even if I am not a Hollywood star!LOL

CANNOT WAIT TO SHARE WHAT THESE LADIES HAVE BEEN UP TO! 

- Raquel x

APOCD and Scrapbook Creations Magazine Blog Hop......Cherry Flair Lovin'!

Welcome to the Scrapbook Creations and A Piece of Cake Designs blog hop! Join us today as we take an online tour around the internet to show you some of the amazing creative people using flairs out there.

Here is the full hop list:

Scrapbook Creations 
(SC online team: Natalie M – Renee I – Jenny G)

Kayla M 

Alison C 

Lizzy H 

Sharmaine K 

Michelle S 

Kylie C 

Holly C 

Natalie E 

A Piece of Cake Designs

And guess what? There's something in it for you for following along! All you need to do is leave a comment on all of the hop blog posts or you can post a flair project to your own blog and link to our blog hop, you go into the draw to win!

ONE Major winner: $25 gift voucher to APOCD and a one-year subscription (six issues) to Scrapbook Creations 

TWO Minor winners: Variety of flairs from APOCD and a six-month subscription (three issues) to Scrapbook Creations

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Now the business side is out of the way, lets get onto some Cherry Flair Lovin' sharing!
I am so honoured to be hosting this hop with Scrapbook Creations Magazine and to be a part of this amazing talented group of ladies, all sharing projects with a common love.....FLAIR, FLAIR and more FLAIR!
Today I have two guest designer layouts to share and one from little ol' me!
Our first share is from our October Guest Sharmaine Kruijver.....lucky you all get to be inspired by her twice as she is also part of the hop! :)

Layout title: Yum Cha in Sydney

This is certainly a 'Cherry Flair' loving layout by Sharmaine! Here she has used a combination of our Painted Version 1 and Painted Version 2 Cherry Flair packs....as well as using our October Main Cake Kit contents.



Here are some close ups of the Flair: This is from the Painted Version 2 - A great way to highlight flair is to add a circle of embroidery thread or regular cotton behind them.

And the Painted Version 1 -

Totally Awesome hey! I agree :)

Next we have a share from our special international guest Magda Mizera. Today Magda's project we are sharing as part of this hop is a card and a stunning one at that!



Card: Dare to Dream

I think this card by Magda really highlights the versatility of Flair, in particular my Cherry Flair :) They can be used as an embellishment on a layout or as the 'statement piece' on a card. So stunning! Magda has used a flair from the Dare to Dream set.

And isn't Magda's photography of her project just beautiful!?!



Gorgeous Flair, gorgeous layers:

And lastly I have a project from myself to share. If you don't know me, I'm Raquel and I am the owner of APOCD and creator of the Cherry Flair featured throughout this post and blog hop :)



Layout Title: Dummy Love

Incase you were not aware, each of the Scrapbooking kits I release each month contains sets of Cherry Flair that are exclusively designed for that kit. Meaning, you can only get those particular flair designs when you purchase that particular kit. This layout was created using parts of the October Cupcake kit, some extras available in the APOCD store and the heart flair which was exclusive to the October Main Cake Kit.



I love to cluster and layer my embellishments, a Cherry Flair is the perfect addition to any cluster and adds a perfect amount of dimension to a page :)

Journaling close up:

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Well I hope that you enjoyed the hop! Your final stop is the Scrapbook Creations  Magazine Blog, where you need to leave a final comment that you have completed the hop :)

Don't forget to leave a comment here too to go into the draw.

You can add us to your bookmarks if you have liked what you see here. I update our blog regularly, so there is always loads of inspiration to be had!

Also, just a little sneaky plug; We were a featured store on the Scrapbook Creations blog last Friday and I am running a little competition over there, you may want to check this post out too.....there may even be a special surprise there as well!

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Lastly, you can pop over to our store to purchase Cherry Flair (or gorgeous kits!) at
www.apieceofcakedesigns.com.au

I have a flat rate postage charge for FLAIR ONLY orders, just select that option in the cart :)



Thanks for visiting,
Raquel xxx