Today Carta Bella’s “One Buck Wednesday” sale features the digital “Well Traveled Paper Pack 1” kit on sale for just $1. This kit contains 12 beautiful papers from this collection:
While the “Well Traveled Element Pack 1” kit discounted to 50% off and contains 64 elements:
Both of these travel kits are only available at these prices until midnight EDT tonight so download them today! You can find all of our digital kits HERE in our Jessica Sprague store.
Good morning everyone! I am here today to talk to you about applying the “Rule of Thirds” to your photographs. The Rule of Thirds consists of placing two horizontal and two vertical imaginary lines equally spaced across your photograph, essentially creating nine boxes. The idea is that if you place the focal point of your photograph along one of the intersections of lines, it will create a more pleasing, interesting image. You can do this when looking through the viewfinder on your camera, or later when you are editing and cropping your photo. Here is what my photo would like with these invisible lines placed on top:
I use this principle a lot when I am taking pictures outside in nature. For example, in this photo, I placed the focus on my son running towards me, but I love that you can still see so much of the beach. By stepping back and not zooming in close for him to fill the frame of the picture, it really gives the picture context.
Here is a close-up of this photo on my layout:
Thanks to all of you that joined our monthly project contest this month. This month we asked for “Cool Summer” projects. Below are the winners. These winners are also posted on Facebook and claim their prize there:
Angela McDaniel
Lisa Uribe
Terri Szymanski
Look for our next project contest coming later this month!
We’re super excited to introduce you to our June release: “Well Played.” This fun collection is filled with icons and images from your favorite board and card games. Whether you gather as a family for game night or whether you’ve made a recent trip to Vegas, you’ll adore the charming, hand-drawn images found in this collection. Here are the papers and stickers from this collection:
This collection will begin shipping in early June.
Today Carta Bella’s “One Buck Wednesday” sale features the digital “True Friends Paper Pack 2” kit on sale for just $1. This kit includes all the remaining patterned and solid papers in this collection.
While the “True Friends Element Pack 2” kit is discounted to 50% off and includes 111 alphas and elements.
Both of these sweet kits are only available at these prices until midnight EDT tonight so download them today! You can find additional Carta Bella digital kits HERE in our Jessica Sprague store.
Hello! Tamara here today with a very “cool” card, featuring a tall cool glass of lemonade. I just love the little lemon and lime stickers and immediately thought of a lemonade card. I went to the Silhouette store searching for the perfect cup file. I found one that was a little on the short side so I resized it a bit to make it big enough to balance the card well. I die cut all the pieces, including an extra cup layer in acetate to look shiny like a real glass. For the yellow paper cut for the lemonade, I added some dimensional adhesive to it, then covered them in yellow glitter. I really like how that added a little something special to it.
I completed the card with several buttons and brads. The finishing touch was the chevron ribbon that I gathered with my sewing machine and adhered with hot glue.
SUPPLIES:
Cool Summer “Cool Off” Pattern Paper
Cool Summer “Ice Cream Borders” Pattern Paper
Cool Summer “Neapolitan Stripe” Pattern Paper
Cool Summer “Sunshine” Solid Paper
Cool Summer Element Stickers
Cool Summer Brads
Sewing Machine and Thread
Buttons
Twine
May Arts Yellow Chevron Ribbon
Cup Die Cut File
Have something you’ve created with the “Cool Summer” collection? We’d love to see it! Simply upload it to our Facebook page HERE to share it with the rest of our online community.
I’ve been noticing a certain trend among our Carta Bella Designers. They often use paper to create dimensional objects for their cards, layouts, and altered projects. Paper can be torn, die cut, punched, and manipulated into pretty much whatever you’d like. It’s an inexpensive way to create a custom-made embellishment for your projects. When creating items like this, you might want to focus on the “b side” of the patterned paper. The “b side” of the paper is typically on the back side of the patterned paper and often includes a tone-on-tone pattern. Here is a sample from a Carta Bella collection which would work for this type of project:
(Giddy Up Girl Collection)
Jan Hobbins created a lovely card with the “Beach Boardwalk” collection, which features several accordion folded paper strips. This is a quick and easy dimensional item to create:
While Tamara Tripodi cut three umbrella shapes with her die cut machine from paper and then scored them and attached them in the center. This gives her beach umbrella a more realistic feel:
There are so many embellishments you can create using paper. We’d love to hear how you’ve used paper to create your own art. Simply leave a comment with your ideas in the comments section below to share!
Today Carta Bella’s “One Buck Wednesday” sale features the digital “True Friends Paper Pack 1” kit on sale for just $1. This sweet kit includes 12 of the solid and patterned papers found within this collection:
While the “True Friends Element Pack 1” kit includes 74 elements and is discounted to 50% off during today’s sale.
Both of these sweet kits are only available at these prices until midnight EDT tonight so download them today! Look for additional Carta Bella digital kits HERE in our Jessica Sprague store.
We’re so happy that so many of you joined in our NSD Scavenger Hunt! We loved looking through your answers and your beautiful projects. Below are the FOUR “Choose a Collection” Contest Winners!
To claim your prize: Please contact me at jen@echoparkpaper.com with your name, your shipping address, and the Carta Bella Collection you’d like to receive.
Challenge Winners:
GRAND PRIZE WINNER: After browsing through the entries we found many of you don’t yet have any Carta Bella products, and we can’t have that so we chose this lucky winner to receive a surprise product package from us!
To claim your prize: Please contact me at jen@echpoarkpaper.com with your name and your shipping address.
Thank you again for joining us on National Scrapbook Day. Be sure to enter our monthly Win It Before You Buy It Contests on our Facebook page HERE for a chance to win our latest collection kits. We also host project contest with our latest kits so be sure to sign up for the Newsletter for a chance to win additional prizes!
Hello, Carta Bella fans. I have a layout to share that will help bring in the warmer weather and get you ready for the beach. I used a lot of pattern papers from the brand new “Beach Boardwalk” collection to build the background, add texture, and create a design to highlight the three photos I took of us with my iPhone as the sun was setting on the beach.
The reverse side of the Little Sharks paper makes a great background, so that is where I started. I wanted a dynamic design, emphasizing and bringing the eye to all of the photos. So I fussy cut some of the waves from the Beach Waves paper, trimmed a portion of the sunburst from the Beach Ball paper to be the main photo mat, and trimmed the Surf Board paper along the bottom for the other two photos. All of the papers have movement and/or repetition, which also creates movement in your layout. I used the larger 12X12 designs for this layout, but any of these patterns could be substituted with the same smaller designs from the 6×6 pads. Mixing the same pattern paper from the 12X12 and 6X6 is a great way to add interest and also helps give movement to a layout or card.
Then for my title and journaling, I decided on fussy cutting cards from the Summer Cards paper to layer under and around the main photo. This is another great place to substitute the same smaller design from the 6X6 pads. Then I added a few stickers to go with the theme and bring more emphasis to the design. I hope you get a chance to play with this collection for all of your summer and beach memories.
Supplies:
Beach Boardwalk: Little Sharks Paper, Surf Board Paper, Surf’s Up Paper, Summer Cards Paper, Beachy Stripe Paper, Beach Waves Paper, Beach Ball Paper, Alpha Sticker, Element Sticker
Have you thought of other ways to incorporate a 6×6 sheet of paper into your layouts? We’d love to hear them. Simply leave a comment in the comments section below to share your ideas.
