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cha summer 2013: echo park

Reflections is the main collection from Echo Park for this release, with a beautiful main line, an autumn line and a Christmas theme.  There’s also additions to the Photo Freedom range with Oh So Thankful and a fabulous Jenni Bowlin collection.

 

 

 

weekend inspiration: echo park papers

 

 

When Leeann saw the birthday wishes collection by Echo Park she knew the photos she wanted to use. Leeann loved the colours in this collection and loved the sticker elements sheet also. It all coordinates perfectly and made creating this page super easy! That yellow chevron pattern paper is something! This was the staring point in this page. Leeann creating layers under her photo using the journal accents, she also trimmed a few sentiments from them. She made tiny Polaroid frames from the pattern paper and embellished with a sticker and stitching.

 

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Leeann used the fabulous Everyday Eclectic line for this layout and the following one.  Their fun bold designs lend themselves to subtle layering effects, and we love how she has matted each layer with kraft to add give each design a neutral base.

 

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Leanne created this quick and no fuss background by using assorted 12” masks with mists, and paper-pieced patterned paper shapes  in layers over the background.  The combination of the starbust design and the chevrons can’t help but draw your idea to the focal point – the photo of her gorgeous daughter.

 

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Kim has used the Photo Freedom Volume 1 range from Echo Park.  Although the various Photo Freedom ranges are designed to work with the divided page protectors that are available as part of the range, Kim has shown how easy it is to also use these papers to create standard 12x12 pages.  Kim says that she loves using paper ranges that include "phrases" in their papers or embellishments and that is why she enjoyed working with the Photo Freedom Volume 1 range.

 

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We have some fabulous pages created by Chantelle Huizenga who has used a mixed of echo park papers and embellishments, from some of the oldest to the latest collection! Thank you so much Chantelle for allowing us to share a few of your creative pages. You can see more of Chantelle"s work here.

 

 

 

 

These next lot of layouts and card were created by Susan Springfellow who happens to be a design team member for echo park. All of her work is truly inspiring with so much detail added to each piece. Thank you so much Susan for letting us share some of your fabulous creations. You can see more of Susan’s work right HERE.

weekend inspiration: echo park papers

 

 

Leeann loves anything with spots and chevrons plus having the pattern papers that are double sided with lots of paper accents gives you so many more choices when designing pages. Leeann wanted to use a bit of everything and created a collage page, each piece of paper and accent just overlapping with a bit of machine stitching for added texture.  She finished the page of by using the stickers from the sticker sheet and throwing in a few buttons.

 

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Jane added quite a bit of detail to this card, lets see  - she cut up the puzzle paper and used the words as a frame, uneven areas and corners were filled in with a cut-out star square, she added small pieces of the Washi tape behind the sprocket gears and glued them in place. Jane also used the gears embossing folder with the blue paper and sanded it to tie it all together.

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Jane has a thing about arrows at the moment and they work really well on male cards! The chevron Washi tape was trimmed to look like arrows and a row of metals game spinners were added to create more interest. The number wheel sticker can be pointed to the recipients age or if they are older you could place numbers stickers over one area!

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We would like to thank Chantelle Huizenga for letting us share a few of her fabulous creations using echo park scoot collection. This page is full of fun and pops all those primary colours.

 

On this page Chantelle has made  great use of all the accent cuts and stickers, by framing the focal point.

 

 

and lastly coordinating the papers and accents to work with different types and colors of photos.
You can see more of Chantelle's work here.

cha winter 2013: echo park papers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

weekend inspiration: echo park papers

 

 

Here Leeann has used Echo Park for the record 2 collection. When Leeann had the papers in hand she knew she wanted to find the perfect photo to match with the bright colours. Leeann kept the page design simple but packed a punch by creating rows of arrows using assorted papers from the collection. And finished it off by using the coordinating chipboard embellishments!

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The Echo Park Ballet Collection kit is perfect for making those special cards for daughters, nieces, friends and anyone girl that loves to dance! The kit comes complete with these gorgeous cardstock stickers and wonderful co-ordinating double sided papers.  Add a bit of a bling and they will be any girls dream card!

 

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Another fabulous design team member for Echo Park is Davinie Fiero who created both these fabulous pages using for the record 2. We love the designs and how the colours really pop on each one. Thank you so much for letting use share a few of your pages.

 

Erin Yamabe has created the above layouts and card using the Everyday Eclectic range by Echo Park.  Erin has fun photos to captured the playfulness of the papers in this range.  Please sit back and enjoy Erin's fabulous creations.  Thank you Erin!

 

Finally we have a few projects created Tamara Tripodi who also happens to be part of the echo park design team. We love the details and colour combo in this card using For the Record2 Documented.

We love the way Tamara used the Everyday Eclectic collection on this box. Those stickers sure do pop and add such a fun element.

weekend inspiration: echo park papers

 

Danielle was drawn to the colours and shapes in Echo Park's For the Record Documented range, but wanted to keep things loose and simple for this page. Doilies were cut out of one patterned paper to be scattered over the background, a second sheet of patterned paper with the added vibrancy of acrylic paint. A journaling spot - from a third sheet of patterned paper, this time from an Echo Park mini theme - is used for visual balance as well as a handy spot for story-telling!

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Echo Park's Mini Themes are small collections with a variety of styles. Danielle has used The Great Outdoors mini theme - a camping range - for this cute outdoorsy layout of her youngest son and his cousin. The adorable forest critters and motifs in the collection feature on the background paper as well as on cardstock stickers, and paint has been swiped around the background paper to soften the graphic effect a little. Result = cuteness!

 

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Chris created this little wall hanging using the Everyday Eclectic collection kit.  Everything is in the kit to create fabulous creations like this including the lovely stickers.  Chris used the Sizzix fancy square frame and added some Prima Mini Crystal swirls and Zva Creative Crystals.

 

 

There are some fantastic images on selected papers in the Everyday Eclectic Collection kit.  For this card Chris has used the reverse side of the 'cameras' paper which has these fabulous theme park pictures on it.  The pictures are quite faded and made Chris feel a little nostalgic which then made her miss her sister.  Chris used the alphabet letter stickers to create the sentiment.

 

 

And lastly Chris made this fun card which would be great to give to someone you're about to go travelling with!  How fabulous is the Kraft Clouds paper?  Perfect for backgrounds on cards!

 

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Check out how Cathy Harper has used the Echo Park Everyday Eclectic range!  We just love the way Cathy has layered the papers and created this fun, fully individual sunburst design.  Thank you Cathy!

 

Janice Daquila-Pardo has also used many layers of the Everyday Eclectic range for this super layout!  We love the Kraft Cloud paper peeping through in the background!  Thanks for sharing Janice!

 

 

 

Andrea Ewen has shared these stunning two cards with us today.  Andrea has masterfully created these cards using the beautiful Fall themed paper called Chillingsworth Manor by Echo Park.  We also spy some gorgeous Zva Creative gems on this card too!!  Thank you for inspiring us Andrea!

weekend inspiration: echo park papers

 

 

Iris always turns to Echo Park papers when she wants to do a project that is on the whimsical side. The sticker elements are perfect for adding bits and pieces of details. To create this page, she used a card stock with a resist pattern on it and sprayed light green and pink colors of glimmer mist. She then used pan pastels to shade and add more color to certain areas. The layering of papers, stickers, and buttons come in easy and quickly sets off the page.

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Janine loved playing with this bright and colourful Echo Park line, Hello Summer.  She loved the large floral sheet that gave some wonderful flowers for hand cutting and the matching papers in the line were so bold it really gave her page punch.  She mixed this with some dashes of masking with Glimmer Mist for a fun and slightly arty page.

 

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Sharon Thomson has created this stunning page using Echo Park Sweet Day Collection of papers.  She has combined masking and misting on this layout for a fabulous arty effect. Thanks so much for sharing this LO with us Sharryn.

 

 

Thank you so much for sharing this gorgeous layout with us Luz Maria Bruna.  Luzma (as she is known online) created this stunning page using the Echo Park Hello Summer Collection.  She has perfectly captured this fun summertime photo on this layout.

 

 

Pia Lopez is part of a dynamic husband and wife team. Her husband Jeff is a hobbyist turned pro photographer who takes amazing pictures of their children, and Pia turns these into gorgeous scrapbook pages. In this layout for her daughter Erin, Pia created  different pinwheels and arranged them in a chipboard flourish to make it look like flowers in a stem/branch. According to Pia, Pinwheels are easy to make embellishments to add depth to your layouts.

2012 cha summer: echo park papers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

weekend inspiration: echo park papers

 

 

Iris Uy shows how easy it is to combine new and previously released lines from Echo Park in one layout. This page showcases papers from the new "This and That: Graceful" collection and the "Yours Truly" collection. Echo Park continually delights paper crafters with their fresh designs while still maintaining the classic look of patterned papers. This makes mixing and matching of different lines easy.

 

Danielle enjoyed combining elements from different Echo Park ranges when creating this layout. This & That Graceful paper and cardstock stickers form the bulk of the design, with the timber-style paper from This & That Charming as well as highlights from the Style Essentials range. This convinced Danielle of the versatility of the ranges and she particularly liked the way that the Style Essentials papers lend themselves to enhance all sorts of other ranges.

 

Here Danielle Flanders has used Echo Park's Wintertime collection to create this adorable layout. She has a tutorial on how to replicate her design here.

 

These two pages above have been created by Jean (aka Stripey Fish on flickr) using a range of Echo Park products. The first layout features the new This & That Charming range, while the next page highlights "Splash" and "Summer Days" paper designs. Both layouts use template from simplescrapper.com.

 

 

Angela Lauchengco effectively uses the bright bold patterns of Echo Park's "Summer Days" paper in this fun layout about being silly every now and then. She utilizes the classic linear and blocking technique while adding fun clusters of embellishments. Angela is a design team member of Valerie Salmon's Got Sketch? blog. You can see more of her work here.  She also dabbles in photography and is a certified scrapaholic!

 

Monika Wright of iloveitallwithmonikawright.com here shares a gorgeous project, an upcycled perpetual calendar which has been decorated with Echo Park's Summertime collection.

 

This gorgeous card was created by Echo Park DT member Tamara, AKA: Happy Life, Crafty Wife. She enjoys making off the page projects and altered items. This card is just one of the many amazing projects of Tamara. You can check out more of her work in her blog. Thank you Tamara for sharing this card with us!

2012 cha release: echo park papers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

christmas reflections: georgia

 

Georgia’s eldest daughter Lucy has always loved Christmas but this year seemed to be even more into the Christmas spirit than usual.  The little things became all important which lead to many photos of small details.  This close up of Lucy hanging an ornament on the tree is one example and the one Georgia chose to capture the story of Lucy’s fascination with all things Christmas.  As there are no faces in the photo Georgia knew she needed to keep the page quite simple to stop her image getting lost.  Echo Park’s Season’s Greetings was the perfect range for the job – lots of bright, layered embellishments which jump of the page, meaning Georgia could create a dramatic look with only a handful of pieces. The end result is a simple yet stunning layout which highlights the photo and tells the story wonderfully.

year in review: iris

While other people make year-end albums and pages, Iris makes it easier on herself by making one in advance. Here is a sample of how you can prepare for the coming year's events and photos.

This portfolio album from Pink Paislee comes with transparent sheets in different sizes. You can simply add scraps of papers from coordinating lines to come up with a simple design.

Once you have your photos, all you need to do is insert it in the slots and you are done.

christmas reflections: kim

 

 

The stickers and layered chipboard elements have been used to great effect by Kim to create a cute little Christmas scene, which balances the journalling and photo on the left of the layout perfectly. The fun Holly Jolly range is great to use for kids Christmas layouts. Don't forget to record the not so good stories, like Kim has done, when you are working on your layouts!

weekend inspiration: echo park papers

 

Louise loved the Seasons Greetings collection from Echo Park. With the papers and stickers already co-ordinated into a kit, it made it so easy to put together this seasonal layout. She used a generic tag from the stationery store as a detail behind the main photo and used clusters of circles to draw attention to the heading and secondary photo. Raising the stickers up on foam squares adds dimension and interest to them. Louise also used some bakers twine to add a burst of seasonal colour entwined through the layout and some punched leaves for some soft detail.

 

Jane spotted the street lamp on the sticker sheet and straight away decided to make a 'Welcome Home' card. Once again Jane mounted the sticker with foam tape to give the card dimension then she wrapped a Prima vine around it.

 

 

Jane couldn't decide which of the papers to use so she used a strip of each of her favourites to cover the card front! The wreath sticker was attached using mounting tape to give dimension and crisp wide satin was used to keep to the classic style.

 

This gorgeous layout by Maja Nowak caught Louise’s eye in the gallery with her fussy cut details and wrought iron gates. Maja has combined the Be Mine and Victoria Garden ranges from Echo Park to create a beautifully cohesive layout with lots of little details.

 

 

Jenny’s used the For the Record range from Echo Park to create this eyecatching and beautifully co-ordinated layout about her family. The little banner touches and small clusters of brads add sweet detailing, while the black matting helps prevent clashing of the papers, makes the photos stand out and adds colour balance to the project.

 

Kyoko has combined Echo Park’s Country Drive stickers beautifully with some Sassafras papers to create this busy, but not overpowering layout. The Echo Park stickers add the finishing touches and by raising some with foam tape, she’s managed to add some very cute and soft detailing.

echo park guest designer challenge: readers entries

We had the most enormous response to this call for a Guest Designer for Echo Park Papers, and thank everyone who contributed by sending in their pages. 

We’re thrilled to announce that Echo Park chose the winning entry of Fiona Lally!

Echo Park told us:  There were so many amazing entries. After looking through the projects, we fell in love with Fiona Lally's beautiful style and would love to work with her as a Guest Designer.

 

We didn’t envy them having to make this decision though, as you will see below there were many and varied unique entries, all using Echo Park fabulous papers.  Thank you to everyone who participated.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

guest design team challenge: echo park

Don’t forget – this month we’re offering another opportunity to win a super-generous prize pack AND be part of an amazing design team as a guest – the fabulous team from Echo Park Papers would love to feature you on their blog!  

All you need to do is create and send us a layout featuring lots of Echo Park products to be in the running for a chance to win a prize pack of brand new Echo Park products as well a guest dt position on their blog using those products.  Email your layouts to [email protected] by Thursday 1st September.

And if the inspiration in this post wasn’t enough to get you started, we thought we’d share another here today showing off the fabulous Echo Park Be Mine collection, by Iris.

 

 

 

guest design team challenge: echo park

This month we’re offering another opportunity to be part of an amazing design team as a guest – the fabulous team from Echo Park Papers would love to feature you on their blog!   

All you need to do is create and send us a layout featuring lots of Echo Park products to be in the running for a chance to win a prize pack of brand new Echo Park products as well a guest dt position on their blog using those products.  Email your layouts to [email protected] by Thursday 1st September.

In the unlikely event that you’re unfamiliar with Echo Park products, here are a few of their recent collections that should be stocked in your local scrapbooking stores right now.  If you’re having trouble finding Echo Park products, leave a comment and we’ll try and head you in the right direction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And of course it wouldn’t be an Aussie post without a heap of inspiration to get you started !

 

 

 

 

 

Whilst Louise doesn't always incorporate a lot of patterned paper into her scrapbooking she confesses that she is still a patterned paper hoarder and without a doubt this line of Echo Park papers is included in it :).In fact she states that it is one of her new 'faves'! Louise thinks the colour scheme especially is just wonderful, she especially loved the coordinated sticker sheet [LOL we couldn't tell that from these 2 layouts Louise :)].

 

Some paper lines have such a wonderful and unique palette, such as this Ehco Park range and Janine adored creating with it. The pretty delicate colours, mixed with the fun and whimsical prints in the range, make for some really unique combinations of colour and design. Janine loved the little bird images and focused on those, yet they did not detract from the cute picture of her daughter.

 

Larissa Albernaz has an amazing way of mixing layers of patterned paper and embellishments and this is no exception. She has created so much interest with layers of paper and such wonderful colours from the Echo Park "For the Record" range. Thanks for sharing such an inspiring LO with us Larissa.

 

 

 

 

 

A huge bit Thank You to the talented Georgia Keays for sharing her fabulous Echo Park creativity!!!! Georgia you Rock Echo Park!! :)

2011 cha summer: echo park papers

New paper lines – Happy Days which can’t fail to make you happy, a halloween line and THREE new Christmas lines including additional colours for the popular Dots and Stripes collection.  See the full product lines here.

 

 

 

beyond the page memories: leeann pearce

 

 

Leeann totally thinks these receipt holders by “7 Gypsies” are the “BOMB” and would like to get a few more, especially for the kitchen and office areas. Her husband Quentin thinks the same…lol.

Leeann decide to turn this receipt holder into a treasured memory project. Jorja’s first time at the beach.

 

weekend inspiration: echo park papers

 

 

The Echo Park Little Girls is perfect for photos of little girls! Sue went back through her older photos and found these darling ones of her daughter Lily blowing bubbles at the park. One of the papers in the collection has a large scalloped circle image, which Sue cut out and used as the main design feature for her page. She layered the circle with two other patterns and added some whimsical stitching to create interest. The cute heart banner was also cut from one of the papers in the collection.

Echo Park have 12x12 sticker sheets for their collections and they are fantastic for providing the embellishments for your page. A little tip for using stickers is to apply baby powder to the back of the stickers to remove their stickiness. This allows you to shape the stickers with your fingers and add mounting tape to the back of them, as Sue has done with the cute little bird stickers on her page.

What little girl page is complete without a few flowers? Sue used a few Prima flowers and Glimmer Mist to complete the look

The Echo Park Springtime Collection is just beautiful and perfect for any fun and colourful layout. Carole had the perfect photos of Sarah having fun playing in the rain. This collection​ is just so sweet, and the stickers have some gorgeous elements to complement any page. First Carole created the background with Tattered Angel Glimmer Mist then she added cut out flowers and layered them with the stickers at the bottom of the layout, and created a cute little bird house for added interest.

 

Janine Koczwara used the striking Be Mine Collection here to highlight a special photograph of her daughter and another well-known little daughter in the scrapping world!  She has combined the pinks and blacks of the colour palette with both co-ordinating and contrasting Prima flowers for a luxurious effect.

 

This beautiful page was designed by Aussie girl Lisa Webb. Lisa says she adores the Be Mine collection from Echo Park. The soft pink and grey tones were perfect for the layout Lisa designed about her daughter Danielle. Danielle recently moved quite a distance away which has been particularly hard for Lisa. Lisa made use of the beautiful sticker sheet from the collection and complimented it with gorgeous Prima flowers. Thank you Lisa for sharing your page with us.