Hello MLS fans! It's time to introduce our August Guest Designer...
Linda Auclair
Bio:
My name is Linda Auclair, from New Hampshire. I’ve been married for 12 years to my wonderful husband, Tim. We have 3 great kids: Jonathan, who is 24 and heading off to grad school in the fall, Brigid who just turned 11 and is quite the crafter and photographer herself, and Aileen who just turned 9 who loves kitties and color pink. My family is my inspiration and my greatest source of support. I have been a paper crafter and scrapbooker since I was pregnant with my Aileen, so I’ve been at this for about 10 years now and have enjoyed watching the papercrafting industry evolve over the past decade. I’ve been fortunate to work for a variety of online retailers over the years, and have represented a number of different manufacturers on Design Teams as well. You can find my work in the Gallery at 2Peas as well as on my blog: http://elendae.wordpress.com/ Please stop by and say “hi”!
Here's a look at some layouts Linda created
Happiness Grows created with our Farmer's Market collection
Designer's tip: The "Farmer's Market" collection was a perfect backdrop for this photo
of my daughter enjoying one of the apples we picked last season. I
used the coordinating stamps and the ledger paper to create my own
patterned paper for the borders. I used floral die cut tags from the
collection along with some simple stamped shapes to create a fun
dimensional border along the lower edge of the page.
We love a parade created with our Sew Cute collection
Designer's tip: I went a little out of the box for my 4th of July page. I love the
colors and patterns in the "Sew Cute" collection, and thought it would
be fun to do a patriotic page with them. I used the stamps again to
create a pattern on my background paper, and embellished the stamped
button flowers with real buttons. I used a shape from the
coordinating Journaling Die Cuts and embellished it with lace trim for
my "4th" tag.
My Fair Lady created with our Farmer's Market collection
Designer's tip: The colors were perfect for my page about my cutie's experiences at
the Town Fair. I created a hidden journaling tag to capture my story
and preserve the clean lines of the layout.
A big thanks to Linda for the inspiration today! Please join us every Thursday all this month for more peeks of Linda's beautiful work!
Have a great day!
Wow, Linda! You sure are getting around lately! I love your work and I'm very happy to see it again! (I've really been missing
"Peek"!)
Posted by: Audrey W. | 08/04/2011 at 08:04 AM