Emily Branch Designs | Branch Out.

Basic Grey + My Wedding Dress

There's this one picture of me in my wedding dress that I simply just love. I am running away from the photographer and the way the dress moves makes the dress seam so light and airy. The Curio collection from Basic Grey was the perfect complement to this photo.

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Basic Grey + Epiphany Crafts

I have been inspired lately by text, font, print and all things type related. Lately, I have been seeing a lot of typewriters enter the scene when it comes to design.

My Type set

Just my Type set

another Just my Type set

From the Thrift Shop collection

I love the typewriters, but I also love font, so the two met perfectly in Basic Grey's Out of Print line. Since this line is a little softer on contrasts I wanted to place the paper against a white background to really make it pop off the page!

try playing with fonts by stitching titles. Just draw the title first, pierce holes equally distant from each other and then

stitch with a backwards stitch!

The title here was super easy. Trace around letter stickers,

outline in ink and then color some in!

That's it for me. Have fun experimenting with type!

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Survey + Winning a NEW Cricut Expression 2

Yep, that's right. If you'd like a chance to win a BRAND spankin NEW Cricut Expression 2, then follow this link and take this survey before the end of the month for a chance to win!

http://kwiksurveys.com?u=consumeradhesives

S.E.I. + Me

Hello All!! I have exciting news!

I am so honored to have been asked to design for this wonderful company for the 2012 term! I know I was up against some really amazing competition, and I am blessed to have been asked. I'm looking for to representing S.E.I. I am also excited to be working with the following talented ladies:

Amy Kingsford

Jennifer Holmes

Emily Branch <--That's me!

Amy Tan + My Life

I seriously can't get enough Amy Tan. I am so in love with her line from American Crafts. I love the paper, the little cameras, typewriter and sewing machine, and ever since I got the Silhouette machine which is sadly, no longer available-I have been downloading all the coordinating die files!! Awe--pure love!

So, I was thinking about what I love about my life. I realized that much of the things in my life that give me the most pleasure, are the everyday occurrences. And, since this line from Amy Tan celebrates the often overlooked everyday objects that we use (and love), it was perfect!

Daily Love Album

Individual pages are "bound"

with a simple ribbon.

I added some stick pins over tape

inside a fussy-cut frame

a "love" themed page calls for silhouette's

and clouds reminiscent of the morning

I could tuck some trinkets in the

kraft glassine envelope.

I love, love, love blogging in the morning.

I like to see new stuff in my google reader.

But, snail mail goodies also brighten my day.

Super cute foam stamp pop-up's

My little middle schoolers are fun to

chat with. Almost anything makes

them smile, which makes me smile too!

Did I mention that I love baker's twine

Every day after school I come home

and design. It's me time. Sometimes it's

fun to just stick stuff on a page.

A fun little stitched border of paper.

the sewing machine is just too cute

red wine, white wine....who cares!

me loveth the wine.

That cute little tree was cut from the silhouette

American Crafts has some awesome files for Amy Tan's line

Okay, when I say magazine I mean Paper Crafts

or Cards magazine. However, when I'm

done with the mag, I'm in the middle

of the Harry Potter series, which I LOVE

That's it for me!

materials:

amy tangerine (american crafts). (stamp, tree, index card, clothes hanger, clothes pin) Silhouette. baker's twine (pink paislee)

Amy Tan + Maya Road

So, I got my hands on BRAND NEW Amy Tan yumminess from American Crafts. I also took out my extra big Maya Road bottle caps to make portable framed pictures for my precious niece whose shipping off to Afghanistan in about another month. They live in tents on a 13 mile base, and I figured that these would be light weight fun photos of her at my brother's wedding with her sisters, her mom and my mom (her grandmother).

the bottle caps are light weight, perfect for travel

I fussy cut the camera and safety pin from the patterned

paper

.....even better, these two images can be downloaded to my Silhouette!

Cutting the hanger was a tad tricky

Brittany (in yellow) with her sisters, Jessica (left)

and Kaitlyn (right)

See ya soon with more fun projects using Amy Tan and my Silhouette

Some American Crafts Love.

Hey there all. I've been playing with some American Crafts goodies for their recent DT call. I just LOVE this company, and I am so excited for their new Summer CHA 2011 lines to come out! I'd be even more excited to make the team, but we'll see. So, here are two layouts, a card and a mini album that I made.

"The Clouds will Part" Layout