A Cherry On Top Guest Designer Call

Think you have what it takes to be a Guest Designer? You're probably right! Why not answer our Guest Designer Call?  We want to see your best layouts, projects, cards or altered projects. Submit them into our Guest Designer Submission Gallery to be considered for one of our monthly Guest Designer spots at ACOT!

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SELECTED DESIGNER WILL RECEIVE:
 

1. Free Product for your project/layouts! (Digital Guests will receive products from participating Digital Designers)

2. Exposure of your awesome talent!

3. Recognition and bragging rights for an entire month!

If selected, Guest Designer must be able to:

* Complete a Q&A form
* Provide and host 5 Challenges/Contests (any combination) during their Guest Designer Month on the Message Board
* Provide recent headshot (picture)
* Post challenges on the A Cherry On Top Message Board
* Complete 3 layouts or 1 project/tutorial which will be published on ACherryOnTop.com and possibly other social media avenues

But most of all - be prepared to have fun!

For complete details on how to be considered as a Guest Designer, click HERE!

Terms and Conditions apply.  See site for more information.

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Welcome Kelly - April Guest Designer!

We're excited to welcome Kelly Shults as April's Guest Designer!  Kelly has been a member of the ACherryOnTop.com community for many years!  We love her style and we think you will too!


Kelly worked with some great products from Sassafras Lass, Jenni Bowlin and My Little Shoebox.  Keep reading to learn a little bit about her and to view some of her fantastic layout ideas!

A Bit About Kelly:  I have been a traditional scrapbooker since 1998. I began Digital Scrapbooking with Photoshop early in 2004. Yes, I am bi-scraptual. :) I have called ACOT my scrapping home and have been a Digital Designer here since January 2006. I love this creative community and have gained so much inspiration here!

You Make Me Smile - Kelly Shults

Kelly's Favorite Color: If I had to narrow it down to just one, I would say aqua-blue.  I have been using that alot lately when I scrap. 

A Lovely Day - Kelly Shults

To read more about Kelly, click here.  Also, be sure to join her all month long on our Contests & Challenges Message Board for inspirational challenges to get your creativity flowing!

Welcome Brandy - Our March 2012 Guest Paper Design Team Member!

Screenname:  Blbabe1234

Name:  Brandy

A Bit About Blbabe1234:  I'm a software developer who works from home. I have been happily married to a wonderful man for almost 5 years; whom I met at college. We do not have any children together, but my husband has an 18 year old son from a previous marriage.  I have 3 very spoiled dogs who all have birthdays this month! Jeffrey James is a Corgi/Bull Terrier mix who is extremely hyper and dominates the whole doggie gang. He will be turning 8 years old. Then I have my two beautiful black labs – Ruby Mae & Lady Bear – who will be turning 7 years old.

I have been scrapping for 2 years and enjoy scrapping a lot of different subjects – from my dogs to my friends, and my wedding to DH’s childhood pics. I have also obtained all of my Mom’s photo albums, which allows me to be able to scrap almost any subject.

I got into scrapping when I saw my SIL Jenn working on her family scrapbook. My mom had always told me she would love to receive a scrapbook of me and Rob, from babies all the way up to adulthood. So I went to my local Hobby Lobby, and was just in shock and in complete awe of all the pretty paper, stickers, ribbons, bling, etc. 


I gathered a few basic supplies and started out by scrapping some of me and my friends. From there I was completely hooked! I also get together quarterly with a few friends who also scrap. It’s nice to see everybody’s different styles and it’s so much fun.

I found ACOT back in July 2010 when I couldn’t find any solid purple cardstock variety packs. I searched online and Google led me to ACOT. I’ve been buying stuff from them and hanging out on the MB ever since!


When I think of March, I think of spring and beautiful blues and greens, with yellow and peach. I found those colors in We R Memory Keeper’s Good Day Sunshine collection and immediately fell in love with the products.


For my first layout, I knew I wanted to feature my friends after seeing the “Best Friends” chipboard sticker. I chose the paper “Robin” for its slightly glittered flowers, and it went so well with the photo. This photo was taken at the Water Gardens here in Corpus Christi. For the photo mat, I used the back of “Lynn die-cut paper”. I also used the phrase “good times are even better when they’re shared with friends” – which happens to be the front of the “Lynn”. I polished the layout off with one of the chipboard flowers, paired with two of the chipboard leaves.

For my second layout, I chose to feature the most wonderful man I know – my husband. I used the paper “Ann” to contrast with one of the squares that the back of “Jane” offers. I really like the peach and blue together. I used the phrase “the most amazing person I know” strip from “Lynn”. 


I placed the embossed border sticker at the bottom of the photo, and used the “You Make Me Smile” tag. I polished the layout with 2 chipboard flowers, “You Are Truly Amazing” chipboard sticker and an embossed tag sticker. I believe all these phrases truly signify my love for my husband.

For my last layout, I chose to feature my fur babies. I mean, what kind of a reveal would this be without showcasing Lady Bear, Ruby Mae, and Jeffrey! I chose the front of the “Sherry” paper with polka dots, used ½ of the front of “Jane” to lay horizontal, then used the back of what was left of “Jane” as a mat for my puppies. I really loved the stripes against the star burst background paired with the polka dots. I also used the two small strips that were left over from “Lynn” and put one on the top, then put the other one at the bottom.


I placed an embossed flower sticker over the left corner and a chipboard sticker over the right corner. Our dogs bring so much happiness and joy into our lives, so I chose to use “happiness”, “dreaming”, and “full of sunshine” chipboard words as part of my title/journaling. I thought the layout was complete, but then I had an idea. With the leftover scraps I had from the back of “Lynn” I grabbed my circle cutter and cut out two medium circles and 8 small circles to create a 3D paw print using foam adhesive!

 

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Welcome Jenn - Our Feb 2012 Guest Creative Team Member!

Hi Cherries. My name is Jenn and I am so excited to be the GCT for this month. I have so much in my life to be happy about and am thrilled to be able to share a little bit of that with you. I am engaged to the most wonderful and amazing man who has taught me so much about love. Between us we have 3 awesome children, one little angel in heaven, and 3 cats that are just as spoiled as our children are! 


My family keeps me busy and is usually the focus of my scrapbooks. If I am not hanging out with the family, you can usually find me scrapbooking, reading, watching sports, or baking. I started scrapbooking as a young girl. I loved to cut pictures and articles out of magazines and glue them into other books. Thankfully my scrapbooking as evolved greatly since then. I love all styles of scrapbooking, but tend to gravitate towards more simple and clean pages.

When I think of February, I instantly think of love and Valentine’s Day. So for my reveal I wanted to showcase some of the people and things that I love. What better way to do this then with Basic Grey’s Kissing Booth collection? I love the colors of this line and found it to be very versatile. I love how the colors and designs blend and coordinate with each other, making it very easy to work with.


For my first layout, I wanted to share with you the love of my life. I choose the background paper (Oh Darling) because of the outdoor feel to it. The picture was taken while we were camping so I thought it was perfect. I used the back of xoxo, the back of we belong, as well as the back of kiss to help accent the picture. 


To add a little bit of depth I used stickers from the Kissing Booth Elements sheet. I love that the alphabet sheet came with three different fonts in three different colors. I used all 3 alphabets from the alphabet sheet to make the title. In order to help make the stickers and alphabet pop I outlined them with a fine tip marker. 


I also wanted a little bit of contrast between the papers since they blended together so nicely. In order to create that effect, I inked all of the edges using Chestnut Cat Eye pigment ink by Colorbox.

For my second layout I wanted to focus on my love of my children. I am so blessed to have 3 awesome kids. I really wanted the focus to be on the pictures of the kids so I chose to work with more subtle papers and only 1 pattern paper. I used the back of Hugs for the background. I also used the front of We Belong, the back of Kiss as well as the back of XOXO. Once again I used ink to help contrast the papers. 


I used Chianti Cat's Eye ink by color box. The deep red helped to bring some pop of color to the dark subtle papers. In trying to keep the focus on the pictures, I used the lovely mini pink alphabet to add names to the pictures while using the browns for the title. Did I mention how much I love this alphabet sheet? I used the element sticker sheet and the layered banner sticker sheet to create a couple of accents on the page. The flower stickers were a great way for me to hide my adhesive on the vellum!

For my final layout, I wanted to do a snapshot of things that I love. Pink is my favorite color so I wanted to incorporate lots of pink into this layout. The way these papers coordinate are awesome. I used the back of Truly, the back of Kiss, the front of Butterfly Kisses, the back of XOXO, the back of We Belong, and the back of Butterfly Kisses. I inked all of the edges using Chestnut Cat's Eye pigment ink by Colorbox. Using the element sticker sheet, the alphabet sheet, and the layered banner stickers I created a visual triangle to help bring focus to the list of things I love.

When I was finished with my layouts I realized I had some nice sized scraps to work with. I hate to throw anything away so I used the scraps to make a couple of Valentine’s Day cards.

 

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