FotoBella Design Team Call - Join us and get a free Scrapbooking Kit every month

FotoBella is seeking 4-6 inspirational design team members to participate on our design team from November 15, 2012 through May 15, 2012. We are seeking enthusiastic team members who love to scrapbook/make cards and love the products that we carry at FotoBella.com. We are looking for team members that maintain an active blog and that are connected to scrapbooking galleries, communities, and forums.

As a design team member, each month you will receive a kit to create with, your kit will include premium brand products from brands like Bo Bunny, Prima Marketing, Basic Grey, Teresa Collins, We R Memory Keepers etc. You will then submit at least three projects and associated guest blog posts (one 12x12 double layout, one card, and one project from our monthly sketch) with the materials from the kit by the 30th of the month.  Each blog post much have a paragraph describing a unique technique used on the project. Blog post content will become the property of FotoBella. Of course, we want you to post projects to other sites, but the wording describing the project cannot be the same and post must include attribution to FotoBella. This great unique content will help us boost our search ranking and let more people discover FotoBella. 

We encourage you to make as many projects as you can with the great kit you receive! For at least one of your monthly projects you will provide step by step instructions and highlight the techniques used to create your project, including photos throughout the process in Microsoft Word or HTML format.  It is even better if you create videos of your project and techniques to accompany the instructions!  You must be able to provide high quality, clear photos of your projects for use on our Blog/Website/Facebook/Newsletter. You must help promote FotoBella online and feature your projects and FotoBella kit on your facebook/blog. Each month you must also provide a list of your favorite products on FotoBella.com to be featured in our newsletter. While on the design team you will receive a 20% discount on all products at FotoBella.com.

The ideal candidate has a distinct style, can incorporate and teach basic to advanced techniques, is a great communicator, is highly motivated, is a self-starter, works well under pressure, meets deadlines, and LOVES to create and inspire.

Applications close on October 15th at midnight pacific time. To apply send an email to [email protected] with the following:

• a link to your blog, facebook page, online galleries
• photos of three of your favorite layouts/cards that best represent your style
• step by step instructions for one of your projects including photos
• a short bio
• your favorite brand, and why it is your favorite
• a list of other design teams you are on right now
• a list of recent publications and related links
• your full name, address, phone number, and email address

We contact design team members by phone October 21th and will announce the team on our facebook page and blog by November 1.

Thank you for applying for the FotoBella design team, we look forward to working with you to make FotoBella.com the best online scrapbook store out there!

Due to shipping and time constraints, this call is to US based applicants only. 

Family Layout

By combining:

The Avenues I Want It All Bundle by BoBunny

Stencil

Paint Sprays

Spray Adhesive

Loose Glitter

Moss

Metallic Beads

Alcohol Inks

Hot Glue Gun

Water

I managed to create one of my most favorite layouts yet!

Here is my family

The Avenues Hair Flower Tutorial

Supplies:

The Avenues I Want It All Bundle by BoBunny

Petals

Jewels

Bobby Pin

Water

Tools:

Hot Glue Gun

From your bundle, grab the Petals. I used this teal print. Pull out 1 of each of the 4 sizes.

Grab the Jewels and a Bobby Pin

Place each Petal in your hand. Run your fingers under the water, and flick some water on each petal. Don’t get too much or the paper will be too wet and might fall apart.

Carefully start to fold and crumble eat petal. Let them sit for a few minutes to start to dry and harden. During this time you can plug in your glue gun.

Put a dot of hot glue in the center of the largest petal and place the next size down on top of it. Continue this until all petals are secured.

Put a small strip of hot glue on the back of the Flower and hold a Bobby Pin in place until cooled.

And now you have a cute, custom Hair Flower!

But of course, you can use it anywhere you want, since it is attached to a Bobby Pin it is easy to clip. Get creative! Use it as a broche or even a paperclip! 

Quick and Easy Necklace

Want some new jewelry to wear today? Don't want to run around to the stores or spend money?

Well, grab the cute Trinkets from your The Avenues I Want It All Bundle by BoBunny , a necklace cord and a couple of jump rings.

Quick and Easy!

Because You Are Wonderful Card

I hope that everyone has someone in their life who is so inspirational, and so wonderful, that even when you feel down they are the light that brightens your path.

I am so grateful and so lucky to have this person in my life.

Spoke to her on the phone the other day, and felt I needed to make a card just for her. She loves birds, bird cages and whismy colors. So this The Avenues I Want It All Bundle by BoBunny couldn't have been more perfect.

Find your inspiration everywhere!

Christmas Card Album

Several years ago I made a mini album to hold my Christmas cards.  I use the album every year and I love it but somehow it never holds all the Christmas cards I receive.  That gave me the idea to make a second one with the beautiful My Mind's Eye Vintage Christmas collection.  I've been working with this collection all month for Fotobella and honestly I was just looking for another excuse to use it again!  

The first thing I did was go through all the paper and decide what would be the cover and the backgrounds for the inside pages.  I kept it simple and cut the 12"x12" paper into 6"x12" pages for the album.  

The Cover

All of pages of pockets to tuck cards into and some of the pages have more than one pocket so that the cards can be layered on the pages and kept from falling out. 

On this page, the Holly Paper and the brown Peace paper or both pockets.

When placing the embellishments, I was careful not allow them to block access to the pocket by either removing the sticky part of the sticker or only placing adhesive on part of it.  

For some of the embellishments I hand cut shapes such as the holly leaves and ornaments seen on this page.

Here is a close up of a Christmas card tucked into the side pocket of this page.

And on this page, the side green brackets are also pockets.

I bound the album using my Zutter, Bind It All.  Tied some raffia and dangly embellishments on to the spiral rings and now its ready for it's first round of Christmas Greeting and Wishes!

The papers and embellishments are really awesome in this collection and practically does the work for you when putting a project together.  Hope this has inspired you to make your own album.  

Hope you have a fabulous day!

Supplies Used:  My Mind's Eye Vintage Christmas Collection, Zutter Bind It All, Raffia, Brown Ink, Kiwi Lane templates, Baker's Twine.

All I Want For Christmas

My latest inspiration to come from the My Mind's Eye Vintage Christmas Collection is a Christmas list.  Every year, my kids leave Santa their list of requests.  This is usually composed on a piece of torn out notebook paper and a crayon, at the last minute on Christmas Eve.  I attempt to save these with plans to scrapbook them....not sure that has actually happened yet!  Maybe I'll have better luck with this one!

The notebook patterned paper was the base of this project, naturally.  The embellishments are the chipboard pennants and button with twine.  I used the clear stamps at the bottom of the page and added a few rhinestones.

I tested it out on a 12x12 piece of patterned paper from the collection and it's going to look great next to the photo of each of my kids.  Now I can't wait to use it!  Stop by Fotobella.com to get the bundle of goodies from this collection and you can make your own!

Have a fabulous day!