Lauren Reid’s Team Blog

She’s done it again! Lauren’s newest kit, New Zealand Naturals, is the result of her latest YOU Design It! contest. The winner was Cheryl (aka cherpea) and with her input, Lauren has created a kit full of rustic natural papers and elements.

To show you just how flexible this great kit can be, Lauren’s creative team has worked their magic — check it out:

layout by Audrey

layout by Renee

layout by Keely

layout by Kelly

layout by Kellie

layout by Meghan 

layout by Gerarda

layout by Stephanie

If you’ve made it this far, then I know you’ve got tons of ideas on how to put this gorgeous kit to use. So what are you waiting for? Head over to Lauren’s store and pick it up!

Happy Wednesday folks!!  It’s me again, Erica.  Here with my second Hump Day Lift post.  Lauren and the team want to thank you for playing along with us for the past few weeks.  We are having a great time and enjoy looking at how our featured LOs inspire you! Here are last week’s entries:

This week’s winner is Melissa (Mels). Congrats Melissa!!

credit here

Please contact Lauren at lauren AT laurenreiddesigns DOT com for your prize!

This week it was my pal Keely and I scouring through the galleries to looking for a layout to inspire us.  We both had ‘Exploring the Lights of Tokyo’ from Mary-Ann (maybeyousee) in our favorites and decided to feature it this week.

Credits here

Her photos are stunning, as is her use of bold colors on the dark rich background!  Make sure to check out her gallery for more inspiration. 

Here are some of our CT member lifts of Mary-Ann’s page:

by Keely

by Steph

by Meghan

by Erica

Can’t wait to see how Mary-Ann’s LO inspires you layout!!

Remember to post your link here for your chance to win a gift certificate for Lauren’s store at ScrapArtist! 
Deadline for entries is 12 midnight EST, Tuesday, September 18^th 2007.

Hey everyone. This is my very first blog post as a member of Lauren’s team and I am thrilled to be able to provide you with some mojo this sunny Monday morning.

I recently returned from Australia, having spent a couple of weeks visiting my parents and taking my son to see some kangaroos. Little did I know that I would stumble across an incredible source of inspiration at a tiny public gallery in a town of 10,000 people.

The gallery looked generic enough until we walked through a black curtain and were presented with an amazing maze of net and paint, all created by an artist by the name of Asher Bilu. (Now before I go on I should say that I know you are not supposed to take photos in art galleries but I did ask before I started snapping ;).

This photo shows the entrance to the “maze”. It’s hard to see but I hope it gives you an idea of the black and white cascading nets plastered with paint.  An information panel said the artist was inspired by astronomy.

A couple of shots taken from a few feet away show the complexity of the design.

The following photos are close up shots that show the intricacy of the patterns.

I hope you are as inspired as I am by this amazing piece of artwork. I have plans to use the design as inspiration for a black and white LO not to mention the textures and patterns that definitely have my creative juices flowing.

If you are inspired to create a LO based on these images, please link us up. We’d love to see the results.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Nicole

Kelly here to bring you some layout goodness. The weekend is finally starting up, which means it’s time for this week’s You Rock layout. I love going through galleries, searching out inspiration, seeing all the gorgeous designs from the amazing digi-scrappers in this community. And really, because it is just so so hard to pick one layout that showcases Lauren’s designs so beautifully…. I cheated and picked two

My first choice is this fabulous layout by Mikkel Paige that I saw in the Oscraps gallery. I absolutely love how she has used Lauren’s Create Wings kit. The frame set on a diagonal is just so appealing, and i love the scattering of buttons and those bright blue butterflies against the dark pink background. Just gorgeous!

To see her credits and to leave some love, see here

The second layout I chose is by Tara Forbes. I think she totally rocked Lauren’s 365 Remembered February template/kit. I love the photos she chose to highlight this month of her family’s life. Totally candid, and totally fun. She has definitely scrapped a layout that she and her family can cherish forever.

Her layout can be found here at DST.

Ok, that’s it for me, I’m off to enjoy my weekend, and hope all of you do the same! Happy Scrapping!!!!

Aud here, coming to you on a Thursday morning — a rainy Thursday morning (yay!) Now if only Fall would make an appearance, I’d be thrilled…

I’ve been lucky enough to work with Lauren’s designs since early in her design career, and she’s never failed to come up with products that make me excited and ready to scrap. This girl’s just talented — she can take the most basic of materials and combine them in a way that never fails to get my mojo movin’. This week’s Product Spotlight is no exception — and combined with the start of school and aisle upon aisle of supplies in every store — well, I’m waxing nostalgic. (Okay, okay, enough punning around.)

Yep, I’m talking about the Waxy Do’s and the Waxy Alpha, both available at Scrapartist:

I love being able to duplicate the look of crayon doodles on my layouts — and the variety of doodles (from scribbles to words to shapes) makes it easy to find just what I need to finish off my latest page.

view credits here

layout by VickiP

While you’re here, don’t forget to check out the Hump Day challenge posted yesterday (look down). You could win some great goodies from Lauren just for playing along!

Hello everyone!!  It’s KellieP bringing you this week’s hump day lift!  Can you believe it’s already Wednesday?  Labor Day has really thrown my week off! 

First off…thank you so much for everyone that played along last week.  Your lifts of AKSheridan’s amazing layout were BEAUTIFUL!! 

This week’s winner of a gift certificate to Lauren’s store is: dypecek

Please contact Lauren at lauren AT laurenreiddesigns DOT com for your prize!

I browsed around the galleries and kept coming back to my pal Kelly Buckley’s layouts.  Her layouts always leave me amazed & I have been wanting to lift her…so here we go! We are lucky to have Kelly be on Lauren’s team with us…what a huge source of inspiration!

 
Here’s Kelly’s adorable layout for us to lift this week:

You can view her credits here

Pretty cute, huh?  Be sure to check her gallery…you’ll walk away inspired, too! 

Be sure to link us up to your lift of Kelly’s layout by Tuesday @ 11:59pm. 
The winner will be announced here next Wednesday! 

Here are a few examples from our CT to help get you going!

From Meghan:

From Erica (pne123):

and one from me (KellieP):

Have a great Wednesday! (and hey…Friday is only a couple of days away!!)

Happy Monday everyone and Happy Labor Day! It’s hard to believe Labor Day is already among us… which only means one thing-Summer is coming to an end. The back-to-school clothes are all neatly folded, the fall decorations are slowly starting to appear and here in Minnesota the weather is starting to cool off.

I am sure I am not alone in saying that I have tons of summer photos and scrapbook layouts to catch up on as the summer comes to a close. This week I encourage you to get caught up on all those Summer of 2007 photos and memories by creating some great multi photo layouts. Plaster those pages with tons of photos!!! Here’s some great inspiration to get you started…

-Pick lots of photos and journal about all the special places you and your family have visited this summer.

-Create a massive photo collage layout of all your favorite summer photos.

-Scrap and journal about how Summer of 2007 was different from all other summers.

and some great summer quotes…

-Summer afternoon-summer afternoon…the two most beautiful words in the English language.-Henry James

-Something wonderful happens in summer when the sky is a heavenly blue.-Frank Sinatra

-There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.  -Celia Thaxter

Another great way to scrap all those Summer of 2007 photos in a flash is using Lauren’s awesome 365 Remembered Series. Great kits and templates all ready for those summer months… You can find them all at Scrapartist.

Happy summer scrapping… and make sure to link us up with your layouts that you create!!

Stephanie