Hi it's Sandy with my last post. It's been a fantastic year designing with RRBF products for this blog and for CHA. I want to thank Rachel for the opportunity to be on the first RRBF design team and look forward to inspiration from the new design team. Together with... Continue reading

November is shaping up to be an exciting month at RRBF. First up our designers will be showcasing a favourite from CHA Summer 2012 : the Cook Collection. It's a wonderful retro line full of pithy quotes and kitchen inspired ephemera. We also get to work with Becky Fleck's PageMaps... Continue reading

While we don't experience the seasons in tropical Singapore, we do observe the mid-autumn festival. It's a lunar celebration where families gather for moon viewing, eating special lotus cakes and children get to play with lanterns. I used various blush-colour papers from the Cook collection to create a block for... Continue reading

Hi it's Sandy showing you that the J'adore papers work beautifully on non-wedding projects too. For example this weathered blue woodgrain Forever Yours paper makes a lovely background for my layout about a little girl playing with soap bubbles. I printed the photos wallet-size and clustered them with a bird-cage,... Continue reading

If you are a fan of challenges check out The Studio Challenges. My fellow Ruby Rock-It designer Amanda Jones runs this cool blog where you'll be inspired to break out your scrappy supplies for her fun challenges. Here's my layout based on this month's sketch challenge. Not normally a multi-photo... Continue reading

I excited that Ruby Rock-It released Mini Paper Packs for it's CHA Summer 2012 collections. Each pack has 36 sheets of scaled-down designs (3 each of the 12 different patterns) which are lovely for cardmaking. Keep reading to find out how to win an Arcadia Kit. My favourite is this... Continue reading

China Blue, featuring patterns and motifs inspired by blue and white chinese porcelain, is a CHA Summer 2012 collection that has received an enthusiastic response. It's also a favourite among our designers. Check out the beautiful projects created by Rebecca Keppel, Carrie Walz, Keely Yowler here , here and here.... Continue reading

Hi it's Sandy sharing projects created with our latest cardmaking product - Stepper. These are heavy weight, pre-scored cardstock perfect for the creative cardmaker who love dimensional designs. Here I've made some wedding cards pairing the 6"x6" Stepper with Decoupage die-cuts. The images, labels and sentiments all are sized to... Continue reading

Have you been enjoying our Sneak Peaks ? Starting today the Design Team reveal projects using the new CHA Summer 2012 collections. Starting with some Decoupage cards from Sandy. Supplies : Fundamentals Decoupage Pack FD94 & FD24, Eklectique Mini Paper Pack Supplies : Fundamentals Decoupage Pack FD94, Acardia (Mini Paper... Continue reading

One of the blog themes this month is Wedding so Sandy has some card inspiration for you using a combination of Wedding papers and Fundamentals embellishments. Wedding (BWE45 Foiled, BWT48 Tie the Knot, BWP16 Wedding Pearls w Silver Rim / White, BWT60 Narratives Black, WLT33 Paper Lace Heart White, BWC92... Continue reading

Hi it's Sandy sharing my Nostaglia Mini-Book with you today. It's a little thing measuring 2"x 3". There are 6 inside pages and between the pages are slots for photo / journal tags. The whole structure was created out of one sheet of 9.5"x 8" paper. On each facing page,... Continue reading

Sandy with a set of wedding gift tags today featuring handmade flowers. They were created using the teabag folding technique. Each flower require 16 squares of medium weight paper. If you start with 1.5"x1.5" squares, the completed flower will measure 3" in diameter. Our new vellum is great to use,... Continue reading

With Mother's Day coming up, you can look forward to lots of inspiration on our blog this month. To kick us off, Sandy has a layout featuring a vintage photo of her grandma. The wallet-sized picture of my grandma is a studio shot taken in her thirties. It has faded... Continue reading

Hi it's Sandy. I post my August Moon Chipboard Book last week. You can check it out here. Today I'm sharing tips and tricks with vellum and bling that I used on that project. Layering is a hot technique right now and layering with Fundamentals Vellum and Transparency couldn't be... Continue reading

Sandy posting today. I'm excited to show you how I paired the August Moon Chipboard Book with our latest products : Vellum and Bling. I made this mini-album for my cousin. In her photos she's wrapped in a scarf and ear muffs. To create a chilly ambiance in the album,... Continue reading

Sandy here excited to show how I used the latest Ruby Rock-It collection : August Moon. It's a romantic range full of botanical designs in a soft pastel palette. The delicate pinks and powder blues are paired with a hint of silver to emulate the effect of moonlight. Here a... Continue reading

At the start of the month I posted two projects showing the vintage, romantic side of August Moon. However this collection can be used in a more contemporary way. And it is versatile enough to work well with other Ruby Rock-It collections. In this layout I featured a panel from... Continue reading

Today I get to show off my CHA cards featuring the Keepsake collection. The calm, harmonious colours of the papers allowed me to build up several layers on my cards. Then I finished each one off with a couple of dimensional embellishments. The completed trio had a nice quiet elegance... Continue reading

More more Paper Doll project from Sandy. It's my CHI CHI banner for Ruby Rock-It's CHA booth. Seven little retro-style dresses to celebrate everything sweet and girly. I used fushia as the dominant colour in my banner. The collection had a deep grey damask pattern which I loved. This lead... Continue reading