Two Peas in a Bucket

Using the new cut files and printables at Two Peas!

We love seeing how you take inspiration from Two Peas and use it in your projects, whether the inspiration be video tutorials, or products - like these projects created using our newest digital cut files and printables by our members and Garden Girls:

Strike a Pose by Ashley Horton and 78,862 by Kristina Nicolai-White

Project Life by mrscraftyadams

See Lilith's layout go live on June 1st from her profile.

Signs by Kristina Nicolai-White

We love seeing these designs show up in the gallery! Don't forget to share yours and to relate the products on the last step of uploading - your layout could be featured next!  Don't forget you have just a little over a week to grab the May only printables and cut files.  Browse our entire digital selection here and happy scrapping!

Member Spotlight: Magnette

Our latest member spotlight is all about a scrapbooker who continues to wow us with every layout she shares: Magnette!  Her compositions are always different and interesting, and her attention to detail is inspiring!  Here are just a handful of pages that make us want to drop everything and scrapbook:

Summer Time

This is Us

Delight

The Story

Best Cheesecake Ever

Check out her gallery at Two Peas here, and find her blog here.  Thanks for sharing your work with us, Magnette!

Get the Look: amandaresende

Today's edition of Get the Look is inspired by this delightful page by amandaresende.  We love the painterly look, range of color and details like stitching and layering of patterns.  It's not surprising this page is currently in the top views of the member gallery! Here are a few products we spotted that would help one translate this digital page to a traditional paper layout:

Or shop all our delightfully happy and Spring-y products here!

Inspired by...

You told us you enjoyed seeing the spotlight on a few lifted projects.  Here are some more ways we've seen you take inspiration from the Garden Girls!

Malibustacey puts a spin on Corrie's design and creates a Halloween layout!  Love how she used stars instead of hearts and made a dent in her washi tape stash.

Misssharoninez lifts a page Amy Tan teaches in her Mix It Up workshop, getting mileage out of her collection of stamps.

We love how Lairdoglen was motivated to create a color wheel of embellishments herself after seeing our graphics for this month's color focus.

We adore the way di_turner used Lisa's misting technique and applied it to circles.  She put her own own color scheme to work too!

Kharkov played along in Wilna's challenge to combine 6x6 paper pads with brads.  She's swapped out the squares with a column of circles - beautiful!

Play along with one of this month's class challenges yourself!  You could win a $10 gift certificate to Two Peas when you do.  Have fun!

Member Spotlight: Paulacastells

With our focus on color this month, our member spotlight on Paulacastells could not be more timely.  Paula does a fantastic job using color; it's one of the first things about her work that catches your eye.  You'll notice she converts most of her photography to black and white, creates monochromatic pages or layouts using colors opposite each other on the color wheel, and adds layers of artistic techniques.  Every page she creates is a work of art!  Here are a few of our favorites:

Amazing Winter

Good Times

Winter

We 3

Want to create a similar look to Paula? Look for mists, masks, gesso, and florals just to name a few things she uses regularly.  Shop her style here.

Find more of Paula's pages from her Two Peas profile, and check out her blog for more inspiration!

Style vs. Inspiration with Corrie Jones

We all have our own style, both for how we create but also what we like to see in the gallery.  It is fun to look in the gallery and browse all the beautiful projects and artwork.  Personally, I find tons and tons of inspiration in the Two Peas gallery.  Something I have noticed though is that although I enjoy looking at other scrapbooker's work whose style is similar to mine, I find more inspiration from different styles.  

Let's look at some examples.

(by sarahak)

This is clean and simple to me.  And totally gorgeous!  I love the less is more approach and the beautiful pops of color in the hearts.  

(by soapHOUSEmama)

A mixed media piece of art!!  I love the texture and how the larger, handcreated elements work with the die cut pieces.  This makes me want to just play freely and get my fingers messy.

(by CristinaC)

Project Life.  Not something I do, nor do I see myself doing it.  But beautiful all the same.  This reminds me to scrapbook the moment, the everyday, the things I would otherwise forget.  It reminds me to keep things and do more than throw them in a box.

(by fevvers)

Jill is a storyteller.  I love that.  She inspires me to try to journal more, to record things and not be afraid of people reading my words.  She makes me want to use journaling as a design element, not an afterthought.

(by KristinaNicolaiWhite)

A two pager??  I do not do these.  But I love that Kristina shows me I could do one, in my style and have it all be beautiful.  I love how she uses large photos as well.  This page makes me want to step out of my comfort zone.

(by TiffanyHood)

COLOR!  WOW!  It is engery and beauty all together.  I love color, but this color packs a punch on it's own.  It makes me smile and inspires me to be bold.

(by Steph Devlin)

Flowers in a vase on my counter are awesome.  Flowers on my scrapbook pages do not work.  But I look at this stunning beauty and I smell spring.  I want to reach out and touch the petals.  The color combination calls me to into my scrapbook room to try to replicate it.

(by loolabelle1961)

This gorgeous page inspires me to make art.  Scrapbooking is memory keeping, sure, but it is more than a craft.  It is art.  And its ok to just make art pages.  It's ok to not have a reason or a story written down.  Sometimes the creating is what is most necessary.

So I challenge you all to look through the gallery and see the inspiration in there.  To let yourself be inspired, let go that you have to see your style, and look for the beauty in each and every page.  We get inspired with new things as well as the tried and true. 

Happy scrapping!!

~Corrie

Inspired by...

A quick post today to share a few projects we've smiled over when spotted in the gallery.  We love seeing how members were isnpired to create after seeing our project videos!

Dominique creates a page Wilna teaches in her Art class workshop.

Mariaje tries out the ombre painting technique taught by Elizabeth on her page Today is a Fun Day.

And Waisam assembles her own matchbook mini album insert for her Project Life album after seeing Kristina's video tutorial. 

Keep entering our class challenges and sharing your creations.  (You're entered to win a $10 Two Peas gift certificate when you do!)  We love seeing what you create.

Member Spotlight: Portablemichelle

We are loving the subtle and layered style of Two Peas member portablemichelle.  Her pages have such a dreamy quality to them, her photography is strong and we love the tiny bit of stamping she sneaks in to her work.  Here are a few of our favorite pages:

Then & Now

Us

Members of the Flock

The Daily

Bright Sunshiny Day

Check out the rest of her gallery here, and swing by her blog for more inspiration!

Member Spotlight: Smultringunn

The clean and simple style of Smultringunn has caught my eye lately.  Loving how she carefully chooses her embellishments and the gorgeous photography in her pages:

I love how she backed this KI Memories phrase sticker with an icy aqua patterned paper on her page, Above the Clouds.

The subtle woodgrain pattern in her title perfectly depicts the subject.  She's sandwiched it with journaling on this cozy layout, Lumberjacks.

If the photography on this page Nobel Bob doesn't tug on your heart strings, the story behind it will.

And this is an older project in her gallery, but no less inspiring!  Her Utah/Nevada Vacation Scrapbook features gorgeous transparencies and white accents against her vivid photos.

Be sure to check out the rest of her gallery here!

Member Spotlight with Marcy Penner: Jen Kinkade

Hi there Peas!  I'm here today with a Member Spotlight feature.  There's so much inspiration in the gallery here at Two Peas that it was so hard to pick.  But there's one girl who's work I just drool over every time.  That would be Miss Jen Kinkade.

I adore her photography and her pages are soo fun!  Here's a little sampling.

Jen's participating in December Daily this year and I love what she's done to the cover of a Studio Calico Handbook.  I'm always so scared to embellish my covers.

I love how the black and white photos pop against the color scheme in this layout.  See what I mean about beautiful photography?

I love the diagonal spattering of paint and embellishments. So random and so organized at the same time.

I love the grey and pink color scheme of this page.  So many little goodies to find on this page.  I also love how the photo's cut into a tag.  Such a neat idea.

And my favorite of the bunch.  Awesome layering and fabulous die-cuts.  This layout totally makes me want to mess up my desk and scrapbook!

And that is the very best kind of inspiration!

You can find Jen's gallery here.  But do yourself a favor and grab a cup of coffee or something. I can get lost in her work for a long time.