Susiebee Studios will now be providing scrapbooking sketches as another way to encourage fantastic creative thinking! Have fun with the first of our sketches. Think outside of the box and let us know what you come up with.

                            


 Susiebee Studios Sketch #2

Srapbooking, a visual artform to many, therefore the colors, and the way that you use them is very important. It is important for the end product to be visually pleasing to the eye and it is also nice to use color to make your photos 'pop' at the same time! For those who would like some color advice there are some really neat web sites , such as www.adobe.com& www.colorcombo.com .  Another rule that one can follow when scrapbooking is the simple color rules from the days of Kindergarten: primary colors are RED, YELLOW, & BLUE and the secondary colors are ORANGE, GREEN,& PURPLE. It is also fun to browse through a home decorating magazine like Better Homes & Gardens, too get a feel for what the seasons popular colors are. Fashion magazines are good for this too. At the same time you can get some ideas for some layouts also! * Remember: Colors are fun, but you can always have TOO MUCH of a good thing!

Congratulations to Anna Drozd from  Poland! She was the first place winner in  our contest with the cute card that  she emailed in. She tells us that she is a 'English Teacher by profession and a crafter by heart.'  Anna loves shabby, vintage, & the distressed look. You can see more of her work at www.scrapownia.blogspot.com .

There are two runner-up prizes!

Congratulations to Fiona Yeoh of Singapore! Fiona says she has been only been scrapbooking for a couple of years, but we think that her style is awesome! Check out her work at www.fetishforpaper.blogspot.com .

Christine Jensen from Utah is our second runner up. Congratulations! Christine is a busy SAHM with 5 young children, but she still manages to find time to scrapbook. We are glad she does!

Cheryl Kelly-Van Domelen is our first prize winner!!! She is from Madison, Wisconsin and is a engineer turned stay at home Mom to a three year old Chryl has been scrapbooking for six years but her hobby has grown to stamping, paper crafting, and photography. At present she is on two design teams, 'The Coconut Scrap Shop', 'The Paper Element'. To find more of Cheryl's work check out her blog- Engineered Expressions at www.cakvd2.blogspot.com

We had such a hard time chosing a winner, there were so many great entries. So we have a runner-up: