Member Monday with Ro Philippsen

This weeks LO of the week was chosen by Ro Philippsen. She chose this LO by Leila Cassimira Cardoso.



Here's what Ro had to say about the LO: "Leila created an amazing and very romantic layout. The monochromatic colors are gorgeous, and the handmade flowers, perfect. I really fell in love with this page!"

Ro also asked Leila a few questions to help us get to know her better. Here's what she had to say...

Why do you scrapbook? I do scrapbook to save the moments of life, love making pages for my children, I believe they have all their memories and wonderthey portrayed adults recalling all those moments through the scrap.

What is your favorite source of inspiration? I'm addicted sketches, but I am also inspired by music and color combos, although color combos can be a bit more difficult. But I must confess that my greatest source of inspiration are my children!

How long do you spend on your average layout? I usually do a LO in two or three hours.

What is your favorite color combination? I love all colors, but I like it and wear it pink and blue on my pages, yellow is another color that I use too ...

Describe your style. Wow .. I do not have a defined style yet, I passed them all, but I confess that I prefer and am more inclined to abuse the elementsin the "happy"style!

Fun Tip Friday with Ro Philippsen

Today I am going to share an idea for a little gift to please your teacher.



ITEMS YOU NEED:
clothespin
cardstock: one neutral and another colorful
distress ink
thickers
small plastic bags
candy (I used MM)
ribbon

How do it:

Step 1: cut out two tags, one of withe cardstock, and other of colored paper--one slightly larger than the other.

Step 2: Ink all edges.


Step 3: Adhere the white tag to your colored tag.


Step 4: Glue a small strip of paper of the clothespin and ink all edges

Step 5: Fill the bag with candy, fold over the top, then clip it onto the card using the clothespin.

Step 6: Tie a ribbon around the clothespin.

Step 7: Add a title and you're done.

Design Team Challenge Update

There are only a few more days to participate in the May/June Design team challenge. The challenge ends June 5th. To be eligible for a $10 gift certificate to the AMM store all you need to do is make a LO based on this sketch ...





...and using this color combo.




Once you've done that upload your LO to the AMM gallery and post a link to it in the May/June challenge thread.

Here's our most recent submission to the challenge.

"On Top of the World" by Jean Marmo

What's Up Wednesday with Jennifer Longenecker

With this being the last week of school for many people a couple of our designers are going to share a few teacher appreciation ideas. I love vintage looking things and wanted to do something with an embroidery hoop. This may not be very "vintage" but you get the idea.

For this project you will need an embroidery hoop (I chose one of the smaller hoops), canvas circle cut larger than the embroidery hoops, 3 paper circles, 3 AMM vintage flowers, chipboard letterers, alpha stickers, embroidery floss.




Step 1: Glue your AMM vintage flowers to the center of your pattern paper circles.




Step 2: Cut small slits in the paper around the vintage flowers.




Step 3: Glue the flowers to the canvas and pull up every other petal on the pattern paper circle you just cut.




Step 4: Add your sentiment, then place your canvas circle inside the embroidery hoop.




Step 5: Add stems and leaves to the vintage flowers using embroidery floss. Cut the edges of the canvas ....




... and you have a cute little gift for a special teacher.

Member Monday with Jennifer Longenecker

Sorry I'm a bit late posting this. We've been at the lake house this weekend and got back in time for a quick Memorial Day party.

This week I got to chose the LO of the week. I chose this fabulous LO by Nayda Rocha.

"Sou Coruja" by Nayda Rocha



I love everything about this LO. Especially the colors, texture and photo sizes. Thanks for sharing your work with us Nayda.

**NOTE**
You are going to be seeing a few things change here on the blog. One of the changes we will be implimenting to make things a little easier on our design team will be the dates we post our tutorial projects. Our tutorial projects will now be posted on Wednesday and Friday.

May Design Team Challenge Update

It's time to check in with all our fabulous members and see what y'all have been creating for the May DT challenge.


This month's challenge is to create a LO based on this sketch by Jennifer Longenecker ...




... and using this color scheme.




Check out this fabulous LO from Nayda Rocha.

Design Team Inspirations

This LO by Deanna was chosen for our April Design Team Inspiration LO, but things got really hectic for each of our design team members so I haven't been able to post this until now. The team chose to lift this super fun LO by Deanna Misner.

"Girls, Giggles, and H2O" by Deanna Misner

and here's how Deanna's LO inspired our design team...

"Best Friends" by Marie Ramirez

"Sweet Boy" by Ro Philippsen

"The Beginning of Forever" by Jennifer Longenecker

Technique Tuesday with Ro Philippsen

OK, you know I love trying new and interesting materials in my designs. So today I'm going to show you how to use cupcake liners to make cute embellishments for your projects.



Lets go! I used two white cupcake liners, so I can paint it whatever color I want.

Step 1: Fold the cupcake liners in half, like the picture.




Step 2: Using Maya Mist spray each one with one color.




Step 3: Glue trim to the inside. And the two liners will look like this:




You can use this embellishment on cards or pages, as I did this.





Be creative and Enjoy!

Ro Philippsen

Member Monday with Marie Ramirez

This weeks Layout of the Week was chosen by Marie Ramirez. She chose this gorgeous LO by Nayda Rocha.

"AMO Scrapbooking" by Nayda Rocha

Here's what Marie had to say: "This layout has beautiful colors it flows nicely and love the layers."