Urban Swank Design Team Call

Love Urban Lily products and want to Design with Urban Lily products? Look no further! Urban Swank is a distributor exclusive to selling Urban Lily products. We are looking for Design Team members (Swanky Gurls) to create fabulous LOs, cards and projects with Urban Lily products.

Please read carefully. Applications that are missing information/requirements will not be considered.

E-mail the following to UrbanSwank@wi.rr.com with "Urban Swank DT Call" in the subject line:
a. Name
b. City, State, Country
c. Resume/blog/gallery links (no attachments for this please) if you have them, if you don't that is ok!
d. A few sentences about yourself
e. 3-5 recent LOs, projects, altered items, cards, mini albums and/or projects representing you and your style. Recent, meaning within the last two months. Please, no more than 5 images and each must be 100k or less. Images must look great, no dark or blurry images please. Using Urban Lily products is preferred, but not mandatory. Scrap-Tastic.com has Urban Lily products for 10% off here. Otherwise you can do a search.

What is expected of a Design Team Member:
-Create 3-4 items per month that use at least 75% Urban Lily products.... LOs, mini books, projects or altered items.
-Promote Urban Lily products on your blog, fb and scrappy websites you frequent, if allowed, along with sporting the Urban Swank blinkie!
-Post creations along with simple instructions and any cool techniques to the Urban Swank Blog 2-3 times monthly.
-Participate on the Urban Swank facebook fan page.


I am mainly looking for USA residents, but if you are international, you may apply, but you will have to pay for shipping.

The DT term will be for 9 months running from April 2011 to December 31st, 2011.

Entries must be sent by 2pm CST on March 13th And the new Design Team Members will be announced on the blog shortly after.

Please let me know if you have any questions and I will answer them as quickly as possible. Have a fabulous day!

For The Love Of Ants!

Here we are... almost Valentine's Day - WOW! I created this LO because my daughter absolutely LOVES ants!!! I am not sure why and will probably never know - lol! She has even gotten bit by a few, but still LOVES them and lets them continue to walk all over her... it's a form of entertainment for her!

Supplies:
Urban Lily Paper and chipboard
Sassafrass Lass journaling spot
Helmar Adhesives Quick Fix Adhesive Runner, Craft Glue and 450 Quick Dry

Now for the FUN stuff - Prizes!!!

To win one of the three prize packages, you must comment on each of the blogs to enter to win. Please follow Urban Swank as well if you are not a follower yet :) You won't want to miss out on the Design Team Call *winks*

Here's how to participate & win:

• Read today's post
• Comment on this post
• Make sure you are a follower
• Hop to the next blog (link list at the bottom)
• Repeat steps 1-3 on each blog!

What you could win:

1. Grand Prize Winner
   
   1. PSA Essentials custom stamp, 1 Peel & Stick pack, 1 ink, 1 alignment tool.
   2. Purple Onion Designs Love Stamp set
   3. Really Reasonable Ribbon 3 Month Club Membership
   4. Nikki Sivils Prize Package ($30 in retail value)
   5. Prima Box ($40 in retail value)
   6. Helmar USA Craft Glue, Scrap dots, Quick Dry Adhesive and Gem Glue
   7. Urban Lily kit of papers and embellishments
2. Runner-up
   
   1. PSA Essentials custom stamp or Peel & Stick pack of choice & 1 ink
3. Third place runner up
   
   1. PSA Essentials custom stamp or Peel & Stick pack of choice & 1 ink

HOLY COW!!! Great prizes hey??

Now head on over to the Helmar Blog!

A Fond Farewell

Hello Everyone. I hope that you are all having a fantastic week so far. CHA is upon us and many are busy busy busy. I wanted to come onto the blog today and say a fond farewell to everyone. Becky has been an absolute GEM to work with and I am truly blessed to have had the opportunity to be a part of this team. But with moving and some major changes coming down the line, it is time to hang up my swanky shoes. To each of you that has left comments on my creations, I truly appreciate them and I hope that you will still follow me along my creative journey.

Today I share a little card with you that lets you know that no matter where we all are, creating and crafting keeps us together. Thank you Becky for everything. I love ya ~hugs~

Erika Taylor

Last Minute Gifts

Today is Christmas Eve and there is a bit of a frenzy at the grocery stores and malls - eek! So glad I am not out there! However I do have need for the last minute hostess gifts and a few more neighbour gifts. My solution is to spiff up a mini paint can, fill it with goodies and have my children dress up quite handsomely to make the presentation!

Here is my version of the cookie jar!

Here is a close-up of the "flower" on the top!

Supplies:  Urban Lily (pattern papers); Clear Scraps (tag); Scenic Route (chipboard star); Basic Grey (button); ribbon (source unknown); Tattered Angels (glimmer mist)

Thanks for letting me share! Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
-Virginia
http://www.virginiawongmichiels.blogspot.com/

Christmas wrapping

Hi scrappers!
Urban Lily Christmas papers are so pretty!!!
They are perfect as Christmas wrapping too... take a look:

I love how it looks my package :-).
I used:
Snowflake by Urban Lily - Oh So Merry Collection
Holly by Urban Lily - Oh So Merry Collection.

Thanks for letting me share :-)
Simona.

Brightening Your Day

Hi Everyone, Erika Taylor here today sharing with you a project that I just adore.  Usually I am creating cards and altered art, but today I've got a layout first. I so love the colors in the Mayella Collection and I know I've mentioned it before. The bright colors are truly so versatile and I love mixing them with other Urban Lily Goodness.

This layout pairs the Mayella Collection with some Mooch Collection, Blink Collection and Sugary Collection too. Did I mention Happy Everything??? Urban Lily collections are made for mixing and matching.

Here is a little close up for ya. I've used Helmar Adhesives for the layout, including Helmar Quick Fix Adhesive Runner, Helmar Liquid Scrapdots and Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive. Love those Helmar Adhesives.

I added a little distress stickles on the Mayella stripe paper. Gotta have at least a little bling on every project right? I cut the "2" from the Number Urban Cut Collection and knew that the number would speak volumes. No journaling on this layout hehe.

Try really mixing and matching your Urban Lily collections. They are work so well together. So whatcha think?

I also want to quickly let you know that I have a HUGE Blogiversary candy going on right now on my personal blog and there is some Urban Lily goodness in the mix. So stop on by and say hello.

Until Next Time
Toodles
Erika Taylor

Gift Cards by Virginia

Are you like me? I am always on the hunt for interesting, beautiful but simple and elegant gift card holders. And this is the season for giving...gift cards!

Here are a couple of gift card holders that I will be using this year - I hope you like them!

Firstly, I wanted to write a few words in my card for the recipient so I created a holder for the front of the card.

Supplies:  Urban Lily (pattern papers); American Crafts (rub ons, ribbon); brads (source unknown); Cuttlebug (die cut)

And I used the Swirl Memory Photocards to create an envelope for the gift card below. With the addition of a few rub-ons, I was done in minutes!

Supplies:  Urban Lily (photocards); stitching; American Crafts (rub ons)

Thank you for letting me share!

BE HAPPY enjoy

2 papers, a few chipboards, glue, stitching and a picture, give you this layout:


Urban Lily products used:
Polo - Blink Collection by Urban Lily
Happy by Urban Lily - Happy Everything Collection
Answer It Chipboard by Urban Lily
Number It Chipboard by Urban Lily

& Helmar adhesives





see the tutorial for the paper garland here...

Products used:
Lola - Lulliloo Collection by Urban Lily
Accents by Urban Lily - Urban Cut Collection
Impish by Urban Lily - Mayella Collection
Helmar adhesives


Have a nice end of the year :)

Polinka

Pink Christmas Cards

I love to use unusual colors for my Christmas projects.
When I saw the gorgeous Jingle paper - Oh So Merry Collection by Urban Lily , I thought is was perfect with pink ;-).
Here are a few Christmas card:

Have a great Sunday!
Simona

holly jolly

Hello!I'm Akiko.

Two 12-inch layouts are introduced today.

The used photograph is a situation of the Christmas last year.

and, more layout.

Supplies:

Massimo - Blink Collection

Blizzard - Oh So Merry Collection

Holly - Oh So Merry Collection

Jingle - Oh So Merry Collection

Alphabet - Urban Cut Collection

Accents - Urban Cut Collection

Petite - Mayella Collection

other - brads,cardstock,ribbon,stickers,bottun

Thank you for stopping:)

Akiko Kuroki