Inspire

I've been meaning to show off this girls work because I love her dearly. She is one of the funniest, most talented scrapbook designers I know and after stalking her blog for nearly six + months now, I still can't get enough of her work. Her name is Karla Dudley. If you haven't seen her work or visited her blog, you're totally missing out. Much of what she does reminds me of  Ali Edwards, though Karla's work is identifiably her own. Her scrapbook style is clean & crisp with a slight twist of sophistication. I'm inspired by her always. Recently, she started designing and selling digital scrapbook kits via "After 5 Designs". I'm already a huge fan! First, "After 5 Designs" is a cool place. Some of my favorite digital designers are on their Mixology team. I'm so happy to see Karla on the team and I wanted to share some of her digital designs with you guys today. I've already added the "Artist in Me" kit to my must-have-list. The white/kraft polka-dot paper is undeniably fresh and will go well just about anything. Check out her "Artist in Me" kit below along with a few of her other kits:

Look at all that sewing!! How does one go about creating this kind of stitching in digital format? I'm tempted to add these stitches to a photo using photoshop. They look so real!

Karla's writing is exquisite. I really like the typography elements in this kit, especially the series of numbers. Beautiful Karla!

{Karla Studio 5 / After Five Designs}

 

I put together a rather simple layout last evening. I kept my supply selection at a minimum and gave myself a three hour window to finish the layout. Turns out, I was actually able to finish it. Unreal. I actually like the simplicity of the design. It's not overwhelming or "too complicated". The only part of the layout that gave me trouble was the applying of gold glitter to chipboard. Talk about a complete mess! I accidentally dumped some of the glitter from the container and had it land all over my desk and myself. I looked aglow. I had glitter all over my arms, legs, chest, and just about everywhere else. Laugh. Took me quite a bit of time to clean up the mess. Lots of paper towels and water. It turned out to be the highlight of my night. Laugh. It didn't stop me from finishing the layout though, so I'm fine with a few extra glitter sparkles hanging around my studio space. It just goes to show you that scrapbooking can be a messy endeavor.

  
The Sister's transparency is actually a rub-on from Crate Paper. Crate Paper has made their rub-ons larger with this latest release and I'm liking that. Large rub-ons are practical for using on a 12" x 12" layout.

Note the pink flowers. Those were cut from an old desk calendar I'm still using for 2008 by Snow & Graham. I couldn't justify throwing the calendar pages away, so instead I threw them in one of my scrapbook bins for using on layouts.


If you haven't been to Michaels yet, you should make a trip to their store. Martha's freshened up her line a bit and added a bunch of new stamps, punches, embellishments, and paper packs. I picked up an ornate border punch that you can see above & below. There were a number of other punches that caught my interest, including a small owl and more butterflies.

 

I need to run errands before getting the little guy from daycare. So I'm off! As always, have a good day everyone!