July Contest

I'm going to make this month's contest requirements real simple this month ...
... a summery layout with at least 3 photos.
That's it.
Leave a comment on this post by midnight EST July 31st, with a link to your layout and you will be entered into a drawing for a $30 store credit. Pretty simple ... right?

June Contest Winner!

This month's winner of the $30 store credit is ...

Leslie Langdon!

Leslie submitted two beautiful layouts (both using Up the Street kits)

I just adore Leslie's style and look forward to checking her blog every time she posts one of her new creations.
Congratulations Leslie!

Mayne Island from Michelle Clement

I just knew that Michelle would do something unique with the July kit. Feast your eyes on her first layout ...
If you've ever seen Michelle's work before, you'll know that walnut ink and stitching are two techniques she manages to use on almost everything she does ...

And at first I thought she had typed up journaling, but what I can now see is that she trimmed lines from one of the October Afternoon patterned papers. So wonderful ...

I love that she's used the Basic Grey micro mono stickers, not as a title or journaling, but more as an embellishment ...

Beautiful little details trimmed from patterned paper and tucked in amongst the layers ...

Crumpled and inky and distressed and stapled and stitched. I adore every little bit :)

Thanks Michelle!

Last day ..

... to get your entries in for the June contest. You have until midnight tonight to link to this post with your layout.
I'll be back with a winner tomorrow.
Have a great day!

Guest Designing for July ...

I was beside myself when Michelle Clement agreed to work with the July kit! Small confession ... I sometimes open her blog just to listen to her playlist ... it gives me the smilies :) Due to some timing issues, I haven't been able to upload any of her projects to the gallery just yet.
This time of year seems to be crazy busy for everyone. Check back in a few days for Michelle's work!
Michelle Clement is a 25 year old Animator/Aftereffects Artist by day, living a step away from the beach in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She needs to cut some paper on the daily - it becomes vital after doing it for 13 years! She is a quiet-but-chatty girl who thrives on a good indie film, wears skull shirts and steel gray nailpolish, and would kill for a daily year-round gingerbread latte. She has a big crush on bright colors, monsters, Tim Burton, knitting, handmade goodies, doilies, vintage needlepoint, moustaches, old books, and Edward Gorey, and can't live without acrylic paint, embroidery thread, her sewing machine, Stazon, and walnut ink. She's excited to be design-teaming for Sassafras Lass and her little paper company, Bubbly Shnooks, this year - and is also super-happy to be contributing to Crate Paper & Bella Blvd in early 2010, as well. In the past, she has been published in Creating Keepsakes & Papercrafts magazines, and has also designed for Pink Paislee, Fancy Pants Designs, Red Velvet Kit Club, and Kenner Road, among others. Alongside scrapbooking and her day job, she also likes to indulge in fun crafty things like illustrating, embroidering, printmaking, art-journalling, and book-binding - but it's her top choice to settle in for some messy creating with Regina Spektor playing and a good cup of coffee - because scrapbooking is her favorite! You can find her personal blog, Scissor Quirk, right here: http://www.michelleclement.typepad.com/blog

July Kits Available Now!

Happy Sunday everyone! I just wanted to let you know that the July kits are now up in the store and ready to ship.
July's Main kit ... "Homespun Appeal" ...
Patterned papers from the October Afternoon Thrift Shop line, Jenni Bowlin Homespun, Basic Grey and Cosmo Cricket ...
An eclectic group of embellishments from Basic Grey, K&Company, 7 Gypsies, American Crafts, Imaginisce ...

Prima, Tim Holtz, Jenni Bowlin, Maya Road ...

and Pink Paislee Press-ons ...

With Ranger Distress Crackle paint in your choice of Old Paper or Black Soot ...

Extra cardstock packs ...

July's Add-on "Thrifty Business" contains the remaining papers from the October Afternoon Thrift Shop line. So although this kit has quite a different feel from the main kit, it is a wonderful companion kit. All of the embellishments work perfectly with the papers in the main kit.I may have developed an unhealthy obsession with the Maya Road kraft envelopes ...

Also available are the 8x8 paper pads of Thrift Shop and Fly a Kit. All of the designs from the lines in a smaller scale. Wonderful for cards and mini albums ...

And I still have one of the stamp sets left ...

I will be taking the kids camping on the 1st, so any orders I receive over the next few days will go out before or on the 1st. After the 1st, I will be home only sporadically until the 9th.

If you have any questions about the kits, please contact me at upthestreet@isp.ca.

Have a great Sunday!

July kits ...

I sent out an e-mail yesterday to those of you who have purchased kits in the past, but I have a feeling that it's lost in cyber space somewhere. If you should have received the early purchase option and didn't, please e-mail me at upthestreet@isp.ca and I will resend it.