echo park paper co.

Welcome back to another Fresh Face Designer post hosted by Izzy Anderson. This week Izzy shows you how to use a sketch to create a card. Creating a sketch is a wonderful way to boost your creativity. Here is her post:

Outside Inspiration

Ever since I started scrapbooking, I have become more observant of images, graphics and color combinations in the world around me. For today’s blog post, I am going to show how I used outside inspiration from posters and graphics for card design.

I was browsing over at Pinterest last week and saw this poster of a tower with a verse that meant a lot to me. The graphics made me think immediately of Echo Park’s castle sticker on the Splash elements sheet. I thought the sticker and verse would combine to make a perfect card for someone going through a tough time.

 

 

I designed this card as a lift-the-flap. I wanted to use pleasing, neutral papers to support the verse and card theme. I love the papers of "Victoria Gardens." They make me swoon!

 

 

Continue reading for Izzy's instructions and additional project!

 

To make the card, I started with the castle sticker, since that was the main design element. The sticker already had a small flag at the top but I wanted to add another flag to give a pop of color. I used a match stick as my flagpole and stapled on a flag sticker from the elements sheet of "Metropolitan Dots and Stripes." I added some alphas above the flags and on the castle to spell the main sentiment. Under the flap, I whitewashed the patterned paper with some acrylic paint to mute the pattern a bit, then used a journaling card and hand-wrote the rest of the verse. To finish, I sewed around the journaling card to give the quote a simple frame.

 

 

Strong Tower lift the flap card

Echo Park supplies:

Victoria Gardens - Sunshine pp, Blooming Blossoms pp, journaling cards (inside sentiment), alphas (lift)

Metro Dots - element sticker sheet

Splash - element sticker (castle)

Playground - alphas (white)

Summer Days - alphas (blue)

Wintertime - alphas (brown)

 

Other supplies:

cardstock, zig pen, Ranger ink

Inspiration: poster with inspiring quote (Pinterest)

 

The next card was inspired by a movie poster for a George Clooney movie. Who wouldn’t be inspired by George Clooney?! I loved the heart shape clouds and the sparse design of this poster for the movie, Up in the Air.

 

 

For this card, I used papers from "Happy Days" and stickers from "Summer Days." I used the same whitewashing technique here as with the Tower card to mute the pattern of the paper a bit. This gave me a more neutral background so the clouds and bike would pop. I used heart punches to make the clouds then sewed them on the card to make them look a bit puffy. The sun sticker was from "Splash." It had a sentiment that didn’t fit the card, so I covered the wording by adding a plain yellow circle on top and inking the edges orange. The grass and bike stickers came from "Summer Days." I wrote the sentiment underneath using alphas from "Splash" and "Happy Days."

 

I Really Bike You Card

Echo Park supplies:

Happy Days: border strip; blue alphas

Country Drive: Little ladies pp; bees knees pp

Splash: sun sticker, orange alphas

Summer Days: element stickers (bicycle, grass)

 

Other supplies:

American Crafts - cardstock (blank notecard)

Marvy Uchida - heart punches

Paint - Ranger

Mist - Tattered Angels

Ink - Ranger

Inspiration: George Clooney movie poster, Up in the Air (Pinterest)

 

Have you used outside inspiration to guide your scrapbook or card designs? Please share a link to your Echo Park project below.

 

Join us next week for Izzy's next installment in our Fresh Face Designer post! Looking to share your own inspiration. Be sure to enter our monthly Fresh Face Design contest (see details on side bar).