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Top Trends {Ombre With Bold Colors}

May 9, 2012 By Mahlin 9 Comments

Hi there..

Mahlin here today with my thoughts on the Ombre trend.  You´ve seen Janna and Piradee takes on Ombre earlier this week, so I bet you already have a pretty good sense of how awesome the Mistables collection is to make this trend come to life in your scrapbooking.

As I have such a crush on bold colors, I tend to play alot with mistables and paint of all sorts, and the thing I always try to master is the graduation of it all, since it tends to get too heavy on the design if I use all bold colors. Blending the color, having it fade in or out, or graduating it in and out is such a beautiful effect.

On my layout, I used strong warm orange, letting it pour out into a soft yellow, the colors graduating within the neighboring color. I also wanted to use some hot pink, so I used a Mistables paper as a background, letting the mist air dry in between layers of misting, also I held the bottle from different angles and distances to make the hot pink graduate in the background.  Then I added some gesso for more white areas.

Here is a closer look on the graduation of the orange -> yellow on my flowers. I think I used about 5 different brands of mist to get different shades of these colors.

Adding some layering on top, everything doesn´t have to be OMBRE to be trendy, mix it up how you like it.

You should not be afraid to mix up different collections, especially not Pink Paislee, since they go so well together.  I have mixed everything from mistables to Spring Jubilee and London Market. Play with it and have fun!

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Top Trends {Experimenting With Ombre}

May 8, 2012 By Piradee 9 Comments

Hi Everyone, Piradee here today to share my take on this latest trend…Ombre.   When I first read the assignment details for this week, I was at a lost as to how I would incorporate this trend into my project.  I love the idea of the shades of colors and also how they gradually get lighter and lighter, but how to do this on a layout was the biggest question for me…

But then with some of the Color Magic pattern papers from Heidi Swapp and a bottle of the distress stains in hand, I started experimenting with how to create that ombre look.  I started by applying multiple coats of distress stain to get the dark color shade, then followed by other lighter coats until the last piece – where I first sprayed some water on the Color Magic pattern paper before lightly (as lightly as I could) adding the distress stain.

Then I used the gorgeous Prairie Hill collection to complete the layout. I absolutely adore the vintage color tones in this collection and also not the mention the fun embellishments – aren’t those tags just too cute!

And I think one of my favorite embellishment from this collection is the sticker pack – loving all things with clouds, suns and cameras at the moment. LOL

Thanks everyone for stopping by and we can’t wait to see how you incorporate the fun OMBRE trend in your projects.

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Top Trends {Ombre}

May 7, 2012 By Janna 9 Comments

Hello everyone, and welcome to a brand new week filled with lots of inspiration and gorgeous projects!

This week, we will show you creations that have been influenced by the “Ombre trend”. Ombre is a French word meaning “shadow” or “varying shades of a tone”, like a graduation in color.

Most of the time this technique is used in a monochromatic way with the color fading out to one side, just like watercolor. You can also add neutrals like grey or vanilla to add a soft and elegant look. This trend is being seen in fashion and in home decor right now, so we wanted to show you how you can adapt this trend to your scrapbooking projects.

I combined Pink Paislee´s London Market, Spring Jubilee, Vintage Vogue and Nantucket collections with products from the Mistables series. You can use inks and sprays to color the Mistables or, like I did, water crayons!

It is so much fun to see the “hidden” pattern appear on the 12″ x 12″ paper when adding color to it. You can also create more than one layer of color. I have blended the color to fade off to one side, starting on the left of the paper and lessening the saturation of color as I went to the right.

You can also leave the Mistables products as they are, like I did with the muslin flower. I like the elegance the linen brings to the project.

We are really loving this beautiful trend and hope you will try it out with us this week. If you do, please share a link to your project with us!

Pink Paislee supplies:

  • London Market – 6×6 paper pack
  • London Market – collage sheets
  • London Market – spool buttons
  • Spring Jubilee – press ons
  • Spring Jubilee – chipboard
  • Vintage Vogue – buttons
  • Nantucket – ribbon
  • Mistables – muslin flower
  • Mistables – muslin scallop ribbon
  • Mistables – 12×12 paper pack

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National Scrapbook Day Giveaway

May 5, 2012 By Rebecca Cross 111 Comments

**Update:  Giveaway now closed: Congratulations to Mary Demmon!! **


We are going to have a very fun and busy National Scrapbook Day and we hope wherever you are you are taking a few minutes out of your regular weekend schedule to create a darling layout or perhaps craft up a Mother’s Day gift using the inspiration our creative team we provided all week!

As a special treat today we get to choose 1 lucky winner to receive a full 1 year subscription to the amazing Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine.  As you can see from the cover image above (don’t you just love those wood shop alphabets???) our fabulous products are featured in this publication quite often and it is one of our favorite inspirational treats when it arrives in our mailbox!

So today you need to leave a comment on this blog post for your chance to win these issues!  They will be mailed directly to your home!   You also need to hop over to the Scrapbook & Cards Today Facebook Page and tell them Pink Paislee sent you!  Be sure to “like” their page and enjoy all the festivities they have going on today for their fans!  We have some goodies going up on their website a bit later so don’t miss it!

From all of us at Pink Paislee we want to wish you a Happy International Scrapbook Day!

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Appreciate your Mum {lovely layers}

May 4, 2012 By Kim 4 Comments

I had this lovely photo of me, my Mum and my son from a visit last year, and I thought it would be nice to do a layout about how much more I appreciate all that my wonderful Mum did for me when I was growing up now that I am a Mum myself (… and yes, I am 100% Australian – so it is Mum here in Downunder!)

The bright colors of the photo were just perfect to use with the Spring Jubilee range.

I love the collage cards and started my layout by selecting two to join and use as a mat behind my photo.  I decided to then layer various patterned papers behind the collage cards and the layout quickly fell into place.

To ground the layout, I added various black elements by inking the Mistables letters, including a black collage sheet from the London Market range, using some black twine on the shipping tag and mounting the whole layout onto a sheet of black cardstock which just peeps through the distressed edges of the patterned paper background.

What are you doing this Mother’s Day to celebrate a Mother in your life?

Pink Paislee Products used:

Spring Jubilee – Party 00601
Spring Jubilee – Soiree 00604
Spring Jubilee – 6×6 petite paper pack 00608
Spring Jubilee – Collage cards 00613
Spring Jubilee – Shipping tags 00612
Spring Jubilee – Bitty blocks 00614
Spring Jubilee – Chipboard Stickers 00611
London Market – Collage Sheets 00639
London Market – Ephemera 00637
Mistables Chipboard Alphabet 00517

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