Creative Cohorts
March 11th, 2010Hey everyone. Thanks, as always, for coming by our busy blog. I’m sharing something very near and dear to my heart today: Spellbinders Design Team 2009-2010…what an incredible bunch of ladies I’ve had the privilege of working with this past year. {Some I actually worked with for 4 years and one very special one, Stacey Caron, I met way back in February of 2005}. I wanted to pay tribute to this fabulous team of extremely talented ladies. They are finishing their “tour” as the 2009-2010 Spellbinders™ Design Team soon. In the not too distant future, Beth and Margie will be introducing the new team…but for now…
Here is my spread, filled with my Creative Cohorts.
I enjoyed putting this layout together, thinking of all the fun and crazy time’s we’ve shared together.
The most challenging part of creating this layout, sort of a puzzle, was putting all the photos on the page so they looked their best. The photos, taken last year at our Design Team Retreat, coordinated perfectly for a couple of reasons:
- Consistency in attire: Designers chose either white or black shirts for the photo shoot. We took some with scarves and some without.
- Print consistency: size and shape of the pics is similar.
- Print “adventure”: Using both color and b/w photos and mixing them on the page, brought the spread together with a unifying and colorful background.
Once I placed the photos, I dressed the spread with a few of my favorite die templates: S7-013 Heirloom Scroll Border Grand which I cut/embossed and then sanded, one for each page to ground the title. I cut/embossed/stenciled with airbrushing the S4-158 Sunflower Two which gave me several options for embellishing the pages. Here is a closer look at one the sunflowers and the stamped tag:
We’d better give the rest of the team “their close-up” too.
As I share this spread and we wish this year’s team a “Bon Voyage” onto other great things, I need to say my own “Adieu.” Yes, it may be hard to believe but my time at Spellbinders™ is ending as well. As my life transitions into new opportunities, I find that I’m needed in new directions: family, church, volunteering, and the like. So this layout, as it turns out, is one way of saying “so long” to a company that I’ve dearly loved working for over the past four years. Of course, I won’t ever give up any of my “Abilities” die templates, my Wizard™ or any of these fabulous friends. And you can always visit me, or any of the other members, on our personal blogs.
Thanks for everything…Eli
Supplies: Spellbinders™ Wizard™; S4-158 Sunflower Twol S7-013 Heirloom Scroll Border Grand. S4-251 Big Scalloped Ovals LG; Cosmo Cricket, Girl Friday patterned papers Monday, Wednesday and Saturday; The Robin’s Nest, Sun Yellow Watercolor paper; JustRite® Stampers, Inspired stamp and Wood Oval Stamper; Copic Markers, Sketch RV17 Deep Magenta, Airbrush System; Creative Impressions, Gingham Ribbon; Glue Dots, Mini dots; Chalk ink; Sand paper
Please join me in wishing Eli all the best as she follows her dreams. She’s only a mouse click away on her personal blog, Frillions. Thank you, Eli, for the fun times and friendship!
Beth












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