Getting ready for Reflections

This Friday we are heading to New Port Beach to attend the Reflections event!

I'll be doing make n' takes while Shelly works the booth.

I'm excited to be going with three awesome gals:

Shelly Mitchell, Daniela Costa, and Sarah De Guzman

We are first going to head out to the garment district in the morning

to do some fun shopping and then make n' takes in the evening.

We'll be making a fun little banner.

Check out all the fun things I'm working with.

I was trying to take pictures of the product only and then Jeremy said I should be in the picture. LOL Since I look crazy ( I was out in the rain today) I didn't really want to be in it but Jeremy insisted. LOL

It'll be a pretty simple project since it's a make n' take for a 100 or so people

but I think it'll be fun!! Check out all that Jenni Bowlin and the fun canvas sheets by Punky Sprouts!!

You know I gotta throw in some awesome flowers by The Art life.

and we gotta mod podge. I'm misting all three hundred canvas sheets a head of time.

Looking forward to seeing a lot of friends and meeting new scrappers!!

Thanks for looking!
Hugs, Suzy West

Punky Sprouts meets October Afternoon

In love with the combo of these two lines!!

I used Punky Sprouts-Punk n' circumstance album with October Afternoon products.

I love how it came out.

I cut up some of the pages of the chipboard so I could make smaller flip pages.

Love the cute flowers by The Art Life.

This is the back of the pages above.

As you can see, I used my favorite pen again for some journaling.

More Art Life flowers.

The shape of this acrylic page is really fun to play with.

Love the bright journal tags and letters that October Afternoon has.

Canvas pages are so fun to play with. On this one, I just added stickers and a button.

I love the glimmer mist color sunflower. It looks great on the chipboard page.

This is the other side of the page above. I left the page just like it. No color.

Notice how I made my own lines for journaling. LOL

I used glossy accents to "accent" some of the words

LOVE CANVAS!

Love this album. It's so fun to create with!!

Thanks for letting me share this with you.

Hugs, Suzy West

Teaching in Calgary, AB in just a few weeks!

I am thrilled to be heading over to Calgary to teach at this awesome store!

I met the owner, Joanne in Los Angeles when she took another class from me.

I'll be teaching three classes for them using Punky Sprouts, Bella Blvd., Crate Paper, and K and Company. We are going to have a blast!!!

I'll be teaching from: May 13th-16th!

If you would like to take one or all three of the classes, please call the store.

If you are in the area, we hope you can make it.

Hugs,

Suzy West

2010 Punky Sprouts Design Team

We are pleased to announce the

2010 Punky Sprouts design team!!!

1. Candy Rosenbug

2. Pamela Young

3. Noel Culbertson

4. Carrie Ferrier

5. Charity Hassel

6. Candice McLean

7. Nathalie Kalbach

We have had two girls on the team for a while. They did all the beautiful work at CHA Winter.

8. Lynn Reaney

9. Crystalyn Thorsen

and heading up the team... ME, but you knew that already. LOL

We would like to thank everyone for their beautiful submissions!!! It was really hard! There were a lot of great ones!!! Don't be surprised if we contact you to be a guest designer!!

Please help me welcome these awesome ladies!!!! You will be seeing awesome new projects on the web from them soon!
Hugs,

Suzy West

If you like pink...I think you'll like this one...

A few months ago I took some pictures of the girls. They came out so adorable. I set up the tri-pod so I could be in at least one of them. lol

Anyways, I wanted to make a very girlie book so I used Bella blvd.'s new line with Punky Sprouts Rebel album.

Hope you like it!! :)

Thanks for looking!
Hugs, Suzy West

Making a splash with Bella Blvd.

I had a couple of scrappers ask me to design a beach themed book. I had the perfect pictures, the perfect paper line, and worked with the perfect book!

I used Punk n' circumstance and Bella Blvd.

This first page. You can't really tell but it's a thin canvas page. Maybe when you click on the picture you will see it better. I added fun Bella Blvd. chipboard pieces and papers.

The original shape of the canvas page was bigger and was shaped like a bracket. I used the piece that I cut off to another page. You can see it in the back of the book.

Oh you can see the size of the canvas piece here on the left hand side. I added journaling to the back side of the page.

The two pieces to the right were one original chipboard page. It was long like the rest of the book. I cut the pieces to make them smaller. The bracket on the larger chipboard piece was already on the original piece.

The bracket canvas piece that I cut off on the first page, I added to the right side of this chipboard page. I wanted to keep this page simple to show off the beautiful picture.

I added glimmer mist by Tattered Angel's to this page. I love the color Sunflower. It's so pretty!

I took a lot of the round chipboard pieces plus others to decorate this border. I added twine to the buttons.

The last two pieces of this book I adhered together. I created the page on the acrylic piece. Glazed it with mod podge. I then used the last canvas sheet as a background. I adhered it from the backside.

Hope you like it!!! Tell me what you think.

PS... attn: Store owners--your customers are asking for these books. If you want to carry them, call 1-503-206-2881

or email us at info@punkysprouts.com

Hugs, Suzy West

Punky Sprouts meets Graphic 45--Shelly Mitchell

I absolutely adore this project by Shelly Mitchell.

The colors...the papers...the embellishments...the entire thing is delish!

Shelly created this book using Punky Sprouts-Punky Posh album and Graphic 45's-A Proper Gentleman line which was perfect for the pictures of Shelly's grandfather.

Thanks for looking!!

Hugs, Suzy West

Lead designer, Punky Sprouts

Great American Scrapbook Convention, I'm traveling, and a new kit!

Great American Scrapbook Convention here we come!!

I am thrilled to have been asked to teach at this event! We are going to have a blast!

Shelly Mitchell and I will be teaching two classes each.

Here they are:

Suzy West class:

Moments Like This--Pink Paislee, Tattered Angels, and Punky Sprouts

Because of you--Crate Paper and Punky Sprouts

Shelly Mitchell class

Random Thoughts--Die Cuts with a View and Punky Sprouts

Tweetie Sweetie--Jillibean and Punky Sprouts

We are thrilled that a good friend of ours, Sarah De Guzman will be coming with us to help out, hang out, and have a ton of fun with!!!

There's a brand new kit called, Dear Spring that has just sprung over at Scrap Scription! it's so stinkin' adorable!!

Go to their site to purchase this beautiful kit!!!

I'm traveling!!! I've been asked to teach at several stores this year and I'm starting to post them on my blog. You can check out where I will be here. If you would like me to teach at your store, contact us at either designteams@punkysprouts.com or info@punkysprouts.com

Thank you to everyone that follows are blog and let's us know they like what they see!!

We leave reading your comments!!

Hugs, Suzy West

Lead designer