It's never difficult to find volunteers when it's time for a BasicGrey weekend inspiration! Enjoy working your way through these beautiful projects brought to you by our design team and a very special guest.
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Jaimie loved the fact that the Mellow die cut shapes are so different from the traditional. The Mellow range has a good mix of feminine and masculine patterns without being too babyish for her almost 10 year old son. Jaimie layered the brown Alpha stickers over the the green in her title, to make them pop on her page. She certainly has created an "All boy" LO.
With her two youngest children having birthdays only two weeks apart - Jaimie has decided to hold a joint birthday party. She has used ASS cardstock as a background for the Basic Grey Mellow paper which holds the birthday information and has decorated each invite with the die cut shapes from both the Obscure and Mellow ranges and the Mellow buttons - a little bit of pen doodling, sewing and bling and she has created very simple yet eyecatching birthday invites.
TIP: If you have to mass-produce party invites take a tip from CD Muckosky - Create one traditionally then photograph or scan (high resolution) then print multiple copies. You then have the original for your childs album or as a keepsake and you have saved time in the process.
Nic also used Mellow to glorious effect here complementing this photo of her daughter in her favourite winter garment, her poncho. In this layout it's because the stained glass colours of the poncho are so different to the autumn tones that the photo stands out, and it still creates a unified whole because of the brick tones in the background.
Nic created her own foliage and flowers from the papers and layering them under and over rubons.
Donna isn't much of a 'heritage' style scrapper - as much as she likes the 'look', her personality is best reflected in those brighter colours that aren't always as popular. This being said, the bold, but muted tones of Basic Grey's new 'Recess' range of papers seems to fit under both banners. Donna loved that the collection of Recess papers can be manipulated to fit virtually any theme or style - I guess that's why BasicGrey is a scrapping power to be reckoned with!
The fun colours of the BasicGrey obscure range match the bright colours in Caz's girl's bedroom perfectly.
Caz painted the reverse side of one of the BG Obscure skull die-cuts with glitter paint and added a couple of Love You More gem brads for eyes. She teamed this up with some painted and glittered Lil Davis chipboard swirls to create funky accents for the page.
Suz loved the look of Periphery the moment she saw it and secretly wants to decorate her house in it. But until they start coming out with wallpaper rolls of it, she has to be satisfied with smaller projects. With thanks to the lovely Raylene Wilkinson for the stunning photo of her son, though it's true that Periphery would make any photo look a masterpiece. It's beauty lies in its ability to stay in the background and keep the focus on the photos, but also make that background a very beautiful place.
And Nic's layout here is a perfect example of that. She has combined and layered the papers with her usual consummate skill adding glorious details like the rubon three behind the title.
Jaimie found a different colourway in the Periphery range where the soft greys suited this winter photo of Jaimie's daughter. Simple additions of the XL playing card, rubons, buttons & florals accentuate the photo and the combination of large ghost alphas and Periphery sticker title compliment every aspect of this sentimental LO.
We finish this weeks marathon post with some true eye candy from the incredibly talented Iris Babao Uy. As we scout about the internet looking for inspirational talent to share with you in our weekend posts, occasionally we strike serious gold, and finding this artists work was very much like striking gold. Funnily enough, a few days later she was announced as one of this years Memory Makers Masters, and we congratulate her on a very deserved win. Enjoy the magic she has created with these earlier BasicGrey ranges -Dasher, Urban Couture as well as Infuse.
