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Friday, January 20, 2012

Guest Designing for Little Yellow Bicycle

Today is such a fun and exciting day for me: I’m kicking off the new year as Little Yellow Bicycle’s first guest designer for 2012. For the next four weeks, I’ll be showing projects with LYB’s new Paradise collection.

I don’t know if you’ve seen any peeks of this new CHA collection over on the Little Yellow Bicycle blog, but this is a beautiful new line. Paradise is a wonderful mix of teal, cream, brown and olive with a pop of magenta. You can see the color mix here in this photo of the collection’s flower kit.


Although the collection name recalls a tropical locale, the colors and patterns are versatile enough to work with just about anything. When I got my box of goodies, the first thing that caught my eye was the colorful plaid patterned paper. I’m mad for plaid! The colors reminded me of madras pants that golfers wear and I knew immediately that I would make a page about my own little golfer.

I used the plaid as the base for my page. On top, I used the pretty cream "B" side of one paper and stitched a border strip to the teal paper to make a large block.  Then I added another patterned paper as my photo mat.

Once I had the patterned paper and photo in place, I began to embellish the page. LYB makes it easy because each line has so many terrific embellishments. I started above the photo with the golf banner, chipboard clouds and some word stickers.


To finish the page, I made a trio of flags to mimic pennants on the putting greens. The flags are from the collection’s Fabric Favorites and were already on pop-dots. I just added decorative toothpicks to make the flagpoles.

The accordian flower underneath is from the flower kit at the top of the page. You can find out more about this collection on the LYB blog. And be sure to stop back by here next Friday for a new project and a Paradise giveaway!

20 comments:

  1. I must have this collection and can't wait for it to come out. LOL! Thank you so much for the beautiful inspiration, Izzy!

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  2. congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow love this layout!

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  3. I love this layout!! Congrats on the LYB gig!

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  4. I love the colors in this collection and your layout is so cute--love the flags. Congrats!

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  5. Fantastic page!!! Great job! And congrats on guesting! :)

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  6. Ooooooooh, those are my favorite colors! Congrats and LOVE this LO. What a cute pic!

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  7. Totally precious! LOVING that collection

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  8. Aww this layout is so cute! I really like the flags!

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  9. OMGOSH! Congrats Izzy...wonderful news and a wonderful page:)

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  10. Cute layout-and those sneaks looks like soooo much fun!

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  11. Sooooooooooooooo CUTE CUTE CUTE! I loveeeeee that photo, the colors, the flags!!! CONGRATS on the GDT! :):):):):):):):):):):)

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  12. I'm with Julie - CUTE CUTE CUTE~! Makes me smile :) Congrats on a cool GDT gig!!

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  13. Beautiful color combo, love all your stitching details!

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  14. Darling layout! So many neat design elements and embellishments, yet the focus remains on your adorable son! :o)

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  15. oh my word, LOVE the colors! Great job, and congrats!

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  16. Big congrats Izzt,what an awesome Lo I love that collection.I ordered it some days ago!!!

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  17. that is a beautiful layout! You really did great work!

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  18. What a beautiful layout! I adore the clouds and the little flags, perfect for a golf page!

    Congrats on the guest design spot!

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  19. Another BIG congrats, Izzy! Your guest design spot is so adorable! I love it!!!!!!!

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