Graphic 45, Want2Scrap and Art Glitter Blog Hop

Welcome to Day 5 of the Graphic 45, Want2Scrap and Art Glitter Blog Hop!

Graphic 45 will be giving away 4 prizes during this blog hop. Two on the blog, one on Facebook, and one on Pinterest. All you need to do to enter to win these wonderful prizes is hop on over to the featured blogs from our design team. Just leave a blog comment and you'll be entered into this week's contest! Want2Scrap and Art Glitter are also giving away some fabulous prizes this week. Be sure to hop on over to their blogs to discover even more inspiration and prizes! Here's what Graphic 45 will be giving away:

Here's a little info about the three companies bringing you this blog hop:

Graphic 45 an award-winning scrapbook and paper crafting company­— owned and operated by a mother and her two daughters.  Together we create vintage inspired crafting products that capture the flamboyant style of the 1920's and 30's - with vibrant color, irresistible texture and imaginative design to create products with decades-old appeal that's both fresh and familiar. Let our products inspire your next scrapbook layout, card, album or home decor project.

Want2Scrap™ manufacturers rhinestones lines including the specialty Nestabling™ line along with the newly released Nestaboard™ chipboard line that coordinates perfectly with the Spellbinders™ Nestabilies™ die templates. Want2Scrap™ also manufacturers their own line chipboard albums and accents, acrylic albums, and multi-layered laser designs and other fine scrapbooking products. Want2Scrap™ brings ease of use and flexibility in their product lines by offering products uniquely tailored to its customers’ needs.

 

 Spread the Sparkle! Be it cosmetics, scrapbooking, t-shirts, cards, jewelry, quilts, rock star toes, home decor or even cement...everything is better with Art Glitter on it! Barbara Trombley opened Art Institute Glitter, Inc. in 1982 and now supplies artists and artisans, crafters and craftsmen with more than 400 brilliant cosmetic quality glitter colors and industrial-strength adhesives. Art Glitter products have been featured on “The New Martha Stewart Show”, “Carol Duvall Show”, HGTV, Home Shopping Network and several times in “Martha Stewart Living Magazine” including this upcoming December, 2009 issue. Thousands of retail stores throughout the world carry Art Glitter products. Barbara’s first book, “Glitter Artistry: Bags, Tags & Cards,” was warmly received by artists in 2006 and is still a big hit today (Sterling Publishing, Inc.). Art Glitter’s retail showroom is located in Historic Old Town Cottonwood, Arizona.

Here's what I created for the blog hop. I used Graphic 45's new Bird Song collection.

This is one very pretty Asian-inspired collection. I love the colours, especially the combination of teal, red and black. 

And this is my layout, of my daughter when she was much younger in a cheongsam during Chinese New Year many years ago.

I went for a circular layout, edging the borders with lace and border-punched Bird Song patterned paper. I wanted to give the layout a garden feel so I silhouette-cut the photograph and immersed it in a garden of flowers, birds and butterflies.

A beautiful pair of birds. The green pearls dotting the circumference of the layout are from Want2Scrap.

I sprinkled Art Glitter's Penny's Worth Dazzlers on Graphic 45's metal butterflies.

List of Supplies:
Graphic 45 Bird Song papers - Pearls of Wisdom, Cherry Blossom, Tranquility & Endless Spring
Graphic 45 Staples - Metal Butterfles & Stamped Metal Brads
Art Glitter D33 Penny's Worth Dazzlers
Want 2 Scrap Adhesive Pearls in green
May Arts ribbon lace with pearls
Prima flowers and leaves

Thanks for dropping by and commenting. Be sure to check out the blogs of the other designers if you haven't already.

Monday, July 23rd
Jane Tregenza
Maiko Miwa
Tara Orr

Tuesday, July 24th
Alberto Juárez
Gloria Stengel
Nicole Eccles

Wednesday, July 25th
Arlene Cuevas
Jim, The Gentleman Crafter
Betto Cesare

Thursday, July 26th
Clare Charvill
Kristin Wilson
Sharon Ngoo

Friday, July 27th
Denise Hahn
Laura Denison
Susan Lui

Happy Scrapping!