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Welcome Guest Designer {Vicki Boutin}

With Easter just a hop, skip and a jump away, many of us are busily preparing for a weekend filled with friends and family!

At Webster's Pages, we LOVE getting to spend time with friends!

That's why we are ABSOLUTELY ecstatic and feeling so lucky that today our friend and LOVELY guest designer, Vicki Boutin, was able to stop by for a little early Easter get together!

Vicki has brought a LOVELY layout and a card to share with us and a few tips and tricks as well!! {HAPPY DAY!} 

Take a look at her GORGEOUS New Beginnings layout! We'll let Vicki tell you all about it!

"I love the papers with lots of design elements on them.  I call them "cheat papers" because they take away all of the heavy lifting.  I used a "cheat paper" as the layout base here and built it up from there. 

I punched some butterflies, attached the circle sticker, twine and some stamps.

When you take a closer look you can see the pearlized circles.  I created those with Viva Decor's Inka Gold in Platinum.

I was having so much fun that I kept going with this card..

Super quick one with a sticker ring and punched butterflies.  It is amazing how using basic shapes in your design can make it all so simple.

Here is a closer look...

Thanks for visiting with me today!!!  Webster's Pages + Easter = PERFECTION!!!!!" 

Thank YOU so much, Vicki, for stopping by and sharing your GORGEOUS layout and card! 

And, to ALL our friends, have a wonderful weekend! See you next week!

Welcome Guest Designer {Ashley Cannon Newell}

It's Card Week on our blog and we are all about inspiration! In fact, we even have a sensational Card Maker as a Guest Design Team member this month. Ashley Cannon Newell has been creating this month using some of our favorite Webster's Pages' collections, including Royal Christmas, and we can't wait to show you. 

But first, a little about Ashley in her own words...

I'm Ashley and I have a passion for paper crafting, photography, fashion, and trying new recipes in the kitchen. I have always been interested in the arts since I can remember. I started my first scrapbook in high school and that was long before any industry focused products were available. I started blogging in 2008 after discovering the paper crafting online world. Currently, I design for Papertrey Ink and also run a challenge-based eZine. When I'm not in my studio, you can find me at work (yep, gotta day job), photographing a wedding, surfing the Internet, or watching a Lifetime movie. 

 

Look at this beautiful Christmas card Ashley created:

Head over to inspireME to see TONS more inspiration from our Guest Designer... 

Of course, Ashley's cards inspired our designers in astounding ways. Take a look at how three of them created Ashley-inspired cards of their own. 

First, Designer Emeline Seet:

Emeline's adorable layered creation is more a piece of art than a simple greeting. We are perfectly smitten with the tiny details that make this card really shine. 

Designer Gerry van Gent also tried her hand at card-making, and, as expected, the results are gorgeous:

Designer Emma Trout has also been hard at work, creating this beautiful Thank You card inspired by Ashley's work:

We love how all of these designers used Best Friends with incredibly different results. 

Remember, these cards can easily be translated into Christmas cards, simply shop our Christmas Collections, Royal Christmas and Botanical Christmas (which is 50% off this week only)! 

And head over to inspireME to see more from Ashley and several more design team members! 

Welcome Our New Friend {October Guest Designer, Ginger Williams}

Around here, we LOVE making new friends... and when they're incredibly inspiring, well, that's even better! 

Today, we are SO thrilled to introduce you to Ginger Williams, our Guest Design Team Member for the month of October. 

Ginger has such a gorgeous, Clean & Simple style and our design team members had so much fun lifting some of her fabulous layouts. 

The best part is, we sent Ginger both our Once Upon a Halloween & Game On Collections, and the projects she sent back are UBER-awesome...and we think you'll agree. 

Ginger says: My scrabooking style is linear and layered. I adore texture, small details, and bright colors. Small geometric or striped patterns are my favorite paper designs. I love straight lines and my circle cutters and circle punches, and die cut machines get a lot of work too! I also love bold titles, and any paper in my favorite color--orange! I love to make home decor with my scrapbook supplies and I also make cards, gift items, and design sketches.

Here's a peek at a few of the projects Ginger created for us:

Love the natural look and feel of this layout...just perfect timing with Halloween almost here! 

Ginger also created these gorgeous Halloween cards:

Anabelle O'Malley had just gotten a fresh box of Best Friends, so her Ginger-lift celebrates a special friendship memory and also shows off our newest collection: 

Keeping in line with our Celebration of Friendship, we asked Anabelle 5 Questions on the topic, and this is what she had to say: 

Do you make friends easily? 

ANABELLE: I tend to make friends easily as I am a very social person. I love being around people. My husband often says I'd talk to a wall if I had to. Lol. 

What are the most important traits a friend should have? 

ANABELLE: The most important traits of a friend, to me, are that they are loyal, a good listener and are someone that you can laugh with. 

What is the most challenging thing about friendship? 

ANABELLE: As an adult, I find the most challenging thing about friendships is finding time for 'girl time'. With work and kid schedules its so hard to catch up. Thank goodness for texting and Facebook. Even quick hellos this way are better than nothing!!

Do you have a favorite friendship quote? 

ANABELLE: My favorite friendship quote comes from Winnie the Pooh via A.A. Milne - "If you live to be a hundred, I want to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. "

If you could be girlfriends with anyone in the world (living or dead) who would it be? 

ANABELLE: There are lots of people I'd love to be friends with but the person who first comes to mind is Ina Garten (the Barefoot Contessa from the food network). I'd love to hang out and cook with her in her AMAZING barn/kitchen. Then we'd sit outside in her garden in the Hamptons and have a wonderful meal with all of our other friends

There is MUCh more inspiration waiting for you over on Ginger's Guest Designer Thread...get to know our new friend a whole lot better and ooh and ahh over the layouts and cards she and our designers have created.

And feel free to start shopping Best Friends over on our website today! 

A New Kind of Scraplifting

This week, we are having tons of fun here on our blog. We've got some crazy exciting announcements and TONS (and I do mean TONS) of inspiration this week!

For the month of September, we decided to do something especially FUN...this month, our Design Team members are scraplifting each other, and we couldn't be more thrilled with the results.

We randomly assigned each designer someone else on the team to lift...and we're sharing just a sampling of the inspiring projects that resulted in this mix & match!

First, take a look at what happened when Kay Rogers lifted Diana Brodeur: 

Kay says: "I scraplifted Diana's Sister Love almost to a "t!" I am so in love with Diana's style . . . her pages almost always have a strong rectangle where all of the action happens. And her details just put the perfect touch on the page!"

We agree completely! And we love what happened when Diana scraplifted Designer Julie Walton: 

Diana says: "I was inspired by Julie Walton's "Streets of Istanbul" layout. I just love how she clustered several patterned papers behind her photo! Thanks so much for the inspiration"

Designer Iris Babao Uy had a blast lifting Tomoko Takahashi:

Iris says: "I love how Tomoko adds soft pastel tones to her pages of her beautiful girl. This page was very much inspired by her love of soft romantic colors, and pictures of pretty girls in pretty dresses. Thank you Tomoko for being such a wonderful inspiration to all of us!!"

And finally, Jaz Lee created a gorgeous layout inspired by Iris' "Charmed by You" page:

Jaz says: "Iris's favourite use of ink, paint & mist on the background of her work, is truly breathtaking. Thank you Iris for such a sweet inspiration!"

That's only the tip of the iceberg...most of our designers joined in this fun challenge. Head over to THIS POST at inspireME today and see how the other girls were inspired by each other! We know you won't be disappointed. 

WEBSTER'S CLASSES!

While you're there, check out our brand new "Educators and Classes" tab for all the latest and greatest goings-on with our educators! Find out where in the world they're teaching and how you can join in the fun!

For instance, you can learn more about this fabulous class with our very own Emeline Seet:

Click the image to see the details on the project Emeline will be teaching... and watch this page for more upcoming events! 

Trend Watch & Guest Designer {Wendy Sue Anderson}

There's few things we enjoy more than seeing our products being put to great use...and today's post is chock full of inspiring projects...what better use could there be? 

We're so excited to welcome the fabulous Wendy Sue Anderson, our August Guest Designer. Wendy's clean, beautiful style is a perfect match for the two collections we sent her: Once Upon a Halloween and Park Drive. 

You can see more over at inspireME, but I had to share a few of her projects here.

First up, look at this gorgeous Park Drive layout: 

This week, we're talking about hot TRENDS, and Wendy Sue has a couple right here on this page. The paper cut into ribbons is a hot look we all love...and a great way to show off some of the gorgeous Park Drive patterns. Then, of course, twine is still around and better than ever, especially when you mix it with a Perfect Accent like this one here:

Wendy Sue also had a blast with Once Upon a Halloween, as you can tell by these adorable treat bags she whipped up: 

Wendy says: 

I always love putting together little treat bags for my kiddos or for friends for all of the holidays.  For these little bags, I created banner pieces to embellish the fronts – the premade cards made it super easy!  My favorite part, though, was trimming down the transparency overlays and tucking them inside the cello bags – I love being able to see the design through the bags – and STILL being able to see the sweet treats that are inside!

Gorgeous! Of course, that's not all. Our designers were so inspired by Wendy Sue! Her inspiration layouts and a few trends made for some gorgeous creations, like this one from Kay Rogers:

Kay shows off her hexagon crush with this layout featuring Once Upon a Halloween. Hexagons are huge right now, and we're all pushing aside our bad geometry memories to pull them onto our pages! What a fun idea to mix up the shapes a little bit. 

Finally, you can see another hot trend right here on Emeline's layout: 

Emeline explains, "Ombre is the graduation of saturated colors to lighter shade. Ombre dyed hair and ombre nails are really popular and liking what I see in a lot of fashion magazines, so I translated the gorgeous effect of blending a combination of colors from a darker to a lighter shade." 

The results are just perfect, and prove that we're all perfectly in love with Wendy Sue's style! 

For more of her projects and to see how the rest of our designers were inspired by Wendy Sue, head over to inspireME...You'll walk away with tons of happy inspiration. 

Welcome July Guest Designer {Lady Grace Belarmino}

We have so many fun things going on right now, but we wanted to stop our regularly scheduled program to share some VERY inspiring projects from our design team members and our lovely and talented guest designer, Lady Grace Belarmino. 

You've probably seen her beautiful layouts in all kinds of places, and we were thrilled to send her our Girl Land and Everyday Poetry collections to work with! We love LG's style and we know you will too! Thanks for joining us this month, LG!

You can see more from LG on her blog right HERE or head over to InspireME where you'll find more projects from her as well as several "lifts" of her work from our design team members! TONS of inspiration awaits!

First, look at this lovely layout featuring our Girl Land collection...it's completely stunning, and we love the mix of photo strip and large focal point photo! 

That pink doily also has us swooning! 

Here, LG mixed both collections together creating such a fun layout!

Bright and beautiful, we are completely smitten! 

Our designers had so much fun being inspired by some of LG's other work. Here, designer Larissa Albernaz used Girl Land with stunning results:

The mix of layers and the little squares are absolute perfection...it's easy to see Larissa was feeling very inspired! 

And so was Anabelle O'Malley, who also turned to Girl Land for this project. 

Clean lines with just the perfect clusters of embellishments make this layout come to life. 

But, there's so much more! Don't forget to head over to inspireME to learn more about LG! You're sure to find tons more inspiration to add to your pin board! 

Welcome {Guest Designer} Jen Gallacher

Oh, how we love when we get to share the work of a fabulous guest designer... seeing what our friends create with our products is one of the highlights for us! 

This month, we're thrilled to introduce someone who needs no introduction at all! Jen Gallacher. 

Jen is very well-known in the scrapbooking industry thanks to her hard work on various design teams, her frequent publications and her gig as a Garden Girl over at Two Peas in a Bucket. 

This month, we sent Jen two of our collections, Girl Land and Sunday Picnic. 

When she sent us the images of her creations, we were instantly smitten by her Clean and Simple style, her clever use of color and her perfectly placed embellishments. 

We think you're going to be smitten too...

First, take a look at this adorable Sunday Picnic layout Jen created:

for her fabulous title treatment, Jen cut the words from cardstock with her Silhouette machine and then layered papers and embellishments from the Sunday Picnic collection. For variation, she left some of the letters attached, which just makes the whole thing look even cooler, don't you think?

Jen also created a sweet Sunday Picnic card, and we're in love with the orange and green combo!

Purely adorable. 

If that's not enough, our Design Team set out to create their own take on Jen-inspired designs. 

Jamie Harder said: "I LOVE Jen's clean lines, her mix of colours, and her designs are always so amazing!" Below, you can see how Jamie interpreted Jen's style on her own layout: 

Jamie used the Girl Land collection for her Clean and Simple layout featuring a photo of her gorgeous daughter. 

Larissa Albernaz shows us a Classic Webster's approach, proving that we can all be inspired by each other, no matter how different our styles are. 

Larissa's textured layout features the Everyday Poetry collection and wow, is it jaw-dropping to look at! 

But these are only the beginning... you can find more from Jen as well as our other design team members on THIS THREAD over at Inspire Me. (You don't have to be a member to view the thread, but while you're there, you might as well join anyway...we love making new friends!) 

Special thanks to Jen for sharing her talent with us this month! 

Welcome {Guest Designer} Jen Jockisch

Today we are SO thrilled to bring you our May Guest Design Team Member, Jen Jockisch. 

Jen has fans all over the scrapbooking community, and we definitely count ourselves among them! We love her unique style and the way she always comes up with something creative and just a little bit funky! 

We sent Jen our Palm Beach and Game On Collections and of course we were anxious to see how she worked her magic with them...

Let me just tell you, we were NOT disappointed! 

First, let me show you Jen's take on a Game On layout:

I am loving the vintage feel of this project, and the way she worked her magic with those playing card images? To die for! 

She also brought Palm Beach to life:

Pulling out the fabulous Chevrons in this collection, Jen was able to create a fun, inspiring layout featuring her own photo and a summer tradition. 

But that's not all! We love having Guest Designers because our Design Team REALLY gets inspired by their gorgeous work. Here, Anabelle and Jaz have both created Jen-inspired pages using our newest collection, Girl Land! 

First up, Anabelle:

Don't you LOVE how Anabelle created a BOY layout using GIRL LAND? We were all anxious to see how she did that and I'd say she pulled that off perfectly! 

Jaz also worked her layered magic with our brand new line:

The details here are astounding! We can't get enough of Jen's inspiration and we can't get enough of Girl Land! 

We can hardly wait to show you the rest of our designers' Jen-inspired layouts as well as another page from Jen herself. You can see it all now right HERE ON THIS THREAD over at InspireME. 

And to start shopping for your own GIRL LAND (or any of our collections!), you can click HERE and head over to our website! Our Girl Land Blog Hop is still up and running so scroll down for more info!

This stuff is already flying off the shelves, so shop early! :) 

Introducing Guest Designer {Nic Howard} & a VERY special birthday...

Today is Brandin's BIG day!! 

And we are thrilled to continue Birthday Week with a couple more beautiful cards...like this one from the wonderful Jamie Harder:

Jamie's card is wonderfully Clean and Simple, and we're in love with the way she layered her embellishments right on that adorable journaling card. Brilliant! 

Nina Ostermann also whipped up some Clean and Simple magic with her well wishes for our fearless leader:

We are SO excited about Brandin's big birthday week (and we're hoping she gets herself a big, fat cupcake tonight) that today we're going to have a very special giveaway in her honor! 

But first...I get to introduce you to someone who really needs no introduction, our April Guest Designer, Nic Howard:

A scrapbooker for thirteen years, Nic lives in New Zealand with her husband Paul, and their three children. Although residing in the total opposite end of the world, Nic still finds herself heavily involved in the scrapbooking scene in the U.S.A, her most notable achievements include tutoring alongside the amazing staff at Big Picture Classes and working with several large manufacturers creating artwork for blogs, galleries, trade show booths and catalogs.

Nic is a 2005 Memory Makers Master whose work has been published in numerous books and magazines and she's also the author of a wonderful idea book called "That's Life, Finding Scrapbooking Inspiration in the Everyday." 

She's also a teacher who loves to travel and enjoys meeting scrapbookers all over the world. When not scrapbooking, you can find Nic socialising with friends, hanging out with family or hiding at one of the beautiful beaches NZ has to offer.   

Check out more on Nic's Blog: HERE. 

We sent Nic two of our beautiful collections, In Love and Palm Beach, and she worked some serious magic with them. 

First, this gorgeous card:

The layering creates an almost shadowbox look that's absolutely stunning. 

Nic's TIP: Small hearts cut from images in the papers were inked, folded and layered to create dimensional embellishments.  Easy and effective!

Next, Nic waved her fairy dust over this beautiful Palm Beach project, taking advantage of all the delicious little details in this collection. 

Nic's TIPS: When creating a grid layout like this, chose a spot just off-center for your main title cluster...and always keep leftovers from other layouts. There are those little dimensional folded hearts I made from the “In Love” layout!

You can see even more from Nic AND see how our Design Team was inspired by her this month right HERE at inspireME. Wow. There is some stunning stuff there! 

Now, we'd love to open our comments up for well wishes for Brandin today! Let's fill her inbox with tons of Happy Birthday wishes...and Friday we'll pick a VERY lucky winner to choose the collection kit of her choice...

Happy Birthday, Brandin!