Guest Artist Spotlight: Joanne Bain

Good morning everyone. 

Today we am showcasing another amazing talent, Joanne Bain from Australia! She was so gracious to share her amazing layout with us today and how could you not love that picture. 

I am Joanne Bain from Queensland, Australia. I am a very proud mother of 2 and I am happily married to my best friend and have been for 20 years. He is the best husband a girl could ask for and is very supportive of my paper crafting. Most of my inspiration for this craft comes from my wonderful family and friends and also the beautiful array of products that are now available. When I am not scrapbooking, I am kept busy with all activities involving raising a happy family and I like dabbling around with photography which is perfect as I always have something to scrap. 

We live in sunny Queensland Australia along with our 2 dogs and more pet birds then I can count. I have been a scrapbooker for 12 years since my daughter was the age of 3 and then 9 years ago along came the other special boy in my life my gorgeous son, many of my creations tend to feature them. From as far back as I can remember I was always doing some form of craft. I have sewed, crocheted, knitted, painted and scrapbooked throughout my teenage years without even knowing it….lol. However paper crafting is my absolute favourite of all crafts and I would have say I am slightly addicted. 

My preferred scrapping preference is 12 x 12 layouts and creating off the page/altered projects. I am not locked into a specific scrapping style, as I am happy to give anything a go but I would describe my style as structured with lots of layers, fussy cut paper cutting, detail and dimension.

I do love to embellish my pages with chipboard, flowers and bling but sometimes I just love to let the gorgeous patterned papers available take centre stage in my creations. I am at my happiest with my scissors and beautiful patterned papers that beg to be fussy cut to create layers and dimension for my creations.

You can visit Joanne below via any of her social media links and her blog. 

Blog | Google + | Pinterest

Thank you so much Joanne for sharing. 

Happy Thursday everyone!

Angela

Artist Spotlight: Yuko Tanaka

Hey Crafty peeps, 

Angela here sharing and spotlighting the amazing talent of Yuko Tanaka.

I believe I spotted Yuko in the Scrapbook.com gallery and I am so glad I found her. She's sharing a few of her favorite layouts using the Marion Smith Designs collections. 

What I love most about her layouts are clean layering and their vintage feel. Each embellishment adds to the feel of the layout but also stands out on it own bringing attention to different parts of the layout.

Please leave Yuko some love in the comments and visit her blog and facebook linked below. 

You can find Yuko online here: BLOG | FACEBOOK 

Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us today. 

Angela

Artist Spotlight: Maiko Miwa

Today we are showcasing a project by Maiko Miwa. 

I am Maiko Miwa. I live in Kyoto Japan.

I have enjoyed scrapbooking since 2006.

I love cutting paper designs and making a story or a message in my project.

The theme of this album is "Go for your Dreams." 

I just love all the attention to detail, and the clean distress look. 

You can find Maiko on Facebook, Instagram, and on her blog. 

Would you like to be our featured artist? 

Send me an email to angela@marionsmithdesigns.com to find out more. 

Have a great week!

Angela

Guest Artist Spotlight | Shona Keehn

Hi everyone! My name is Shona and I can tell you that I squealed with delight when I was asked to do a guest post here! Sighs……I love Marion Smith Designs! 

I have a few projects to share with you today. First up is a new mixed media layout I have created with the yummy Mad Tea Party Collection.

I tend to scrap in the girly grungy style with a bit of shabby in there by adding some pretty trims and flowers.

I usually save my bits and pieces from previous projects and here you can see I have used strips of the collection papers in the background.

All of the little tags and fussy cut pieces make it so easy to tuck in here and there and complete your projects.

Here are two oversize tags that I have created with this collection. They are perfect to add to bottles of wine or gifts.

I fell in love with the Nirvana Collection the second I saw it…..the earthy tones and the pops of color. This layout has layers and layers of all the fun pieces in this collection!

Here is one more Nirvana layout. I had so much fun with this one and I even fussy cut the chevron pieces from the collection papers.

Lastly I have a tag created with the Nirvana Collection. Look at all of those darling little collection pieces to add in!

Well that is it, I hope you enjoyed my Marion Smith Designs creations! I know I am thrilled to share them with you! Stop by my blog and say hi sometime. 

Take care and  happy scrapping!