Graphic 45 Guest Designer: Alberto Juarez

Many of you may remember that back in April we hosted a Graphic 45 Week on the Paper Crafter’s Library Blog.  It was week filled with projects and inspiration using Graphic 45’s Tropical Travelogue Collection. We had such a great experience partnering with Graphic 45 and their design team, and such a great response from you, that we’ve decided to partner with them on an ongoing basis.  The first and third week of every month one of the Graphic 45 Designers will share a project they’ve created here on the PCL Blog.    Before I introduce you to our first Designer, I just wanted to take a minute to re-introduce Graphic 45  for those of you that may not be familiar with the company.

Graphic 45 is an award-winning scrapbook and paper crafting company­— owned and operated by a mother and her two daughters.

Diane Schultz (pictured center)—Designer and CEO (aka mother)

“I’m passionate about being creative and eager to make it possible for others to find their creative voice. My background includes stints as a designer for, McCalls, Simplicity, Vogue/ Butterick, Mattel Toy Company and a host of other jobs that each, in some way, led me to what I do now. At 45 I went back to school and got my degree in graphic design— I named the company to celebrate that achievement.”

Aimee Filimoehala (pictured left) —Director of Operations

“I wear a lot of hats and love it that way.  Business, marketing, operations, etc. have made me a pro at multitasking (aka juggling‑figuratively and literally). When we launched Graphic 45 just three years ago we had no idea what was in store, working together as a family has been an amazing journey that we all feel so grateful to be apart of.”

Charee Filimoehala (pictured right)—Director of Customer Service and Design Team Coordinator

“I joined the team a little over three years ago and haven’t looked back…what a life-changing experience this has been.  I love working with and around creative people and products (not to mention I like my co-workers quite a bit).  I spend my days working with our friendly stores and talented design team…the occasional trip to a workshop or tradeshow pretty nice too.”

Together we create vintage inspired crafting products that capture the flamboyant style of the 1920’s and 30’s – with vibrant color, irresistible texture and imaginative design to create products with decades-old appeal that’s both fresh and familiar. Let our products inspire your next scrapbook layout, card, album or home decor project.

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Here’s a picture of their booth at the CHA show which absolutely blows us away every year! The artwork inside is absolutely stunning and totally unique.  At the last show as we were speaking with Diane she told us that many of the altered pieces were vintage finds which she and her team transformed with their gorgeous Graphic 45 products.  We can’t wait to stop by their booth at the Chicago CHA and see what they’ve got in store this year!

Here’s a picture of the Graphic 45 team – they’re always dressed in period costumes to complement the themes in their collections – every day of the show brings a new set of costumes.  The ones shown below were for their Little Darlings collection.

Graphic 45 Designer Alberto Juarez

Our first Graphic 45 Guest Designer for this month is Alberto Juarez.  Alberto is part of the 2012 Graphic 45 Design Team.

You can see Alberto’s fabulous project below, but first, here is a little more about Alberto:

I’m a guy from Spain, I’m 24 years old and I have been doing scrapbooking for over two years.  I discovered scrapbook totally by chance as I wanted to make a special gift.  I wanted to make a diary for a trip (I love to travel) and that’s how I discovered the wonderful world of scrapbooking.  My style is vintage, totally a classic vintage Victorian European style.   I also enjoy working with bright colors.  The vintage bright colors are perfect and of course there is no other brand besides Graphic45 that offers all of that.

Fun Circus Layout

In this layout I chose a picture of my nephew, who is laughing all the time.  It was so much fun as there was a clown next to him, hence I decided to choose the Le Cirque collection, because the colors are so fun.  This expresses exactly what I want to transmit. The idea of ​​working with frames in which I tell the story was made easy with the Graphic 45 papers as there are so many elements you can cut apart and use.

 

 

 

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I would like to extend a warm thank you to Alberto for sharing his wonderful layout with us! Please take a minute to stop by Alberto’s Blog and of course the Graphic 45 blog to check out all their amazing creations!