
We are happy to bring you this week’s Featured Company: Graphic 45. We are so excited to be featuring them regularly on Paper Crafter’s Library! And this week we have a Ty-pog-ra-phy collection prize package give-away. Details will be at the end of this post.

For those of you unfamiliar with Graphic 45 , we’d like to take a minute to re-introduce them to you.

Graphic 45 is an award-winning scrapbook and paper crafting company— owned and operated by a mother and her two daughters.
Diane Schultz—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 —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 —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.
Graphic 45 Designer Anne Rostad
Our Graphic 45 Guest Designer for this week is Anne Rostad who is part of the 2013 Graphic 45 Design Team. You can see Anne’s fabulous project below, but first, here is a little more about Anne:
My name is Anne Rostad and I live in Norway. I am 54 years old and I like all sorts of crafting. Mini albums and making things out of chipboard are my favorites. I have been crafting all my life and always like to make something with my hands. I have been playing with papers and chipboard for the last 5 years. I discovered Graphic 45 about 3 years ago and fell in love from the first minute – with the beautiful vintage papers and all the fun images to fussy cut out! So much fun 🙂
I live in a small city in the south coast and my 2 grown up boys who live near by me give me so much happiness 🙂
G45 Sweet Sentiments Easel Mini Album Calendar
I made a calendar mini album for Graphic 45’s winter CHA 2014 booth with the beautiful Sweet Sentiments paper collection. There are so many gorgeous images to cut out and I was in fussy cut heaven creating with this paper line! Most of the images are popped up with pop dots (3D foam) and covered with Claudine Hellmuth multi medium matte. I had fun fussy cutting out the images and putting them together to a scene 🙂 The album is made from the 8 x 8 easel album and I also used Coordinations light and the 6 x 6 paper pad from Secret Garden that coordinate very well with this paper line. I changed out the wire binding for seam binding.

The cover is made out of acetate and the fence die is from AccuCut Crafts. It is held closed with seam binding. The acetate is scored on the sides to make some room for the pages and glued on the easel album with Tyvek envelopes hinges.

Here is the other side. It is bound together with lace from Wild Orchid Crafts. The alphabet die is from AccuCut Crafts.

One decor clip for each front side.

There is a pocket in the bottom to hold some extra fussy cut outs and frames to decorate the plain dividers in the album.

January
All the mini calendars are fastened to the pages with magnets. I found the calendars on Google and printed them out.

The triangle pockets can flip out and closes with a magnet.

All the divider pages between each month are the same.
Here is a place for photos and journaling.

February
I used a die from Cherry Lynn.

There is more room inside under the flap .

March
This is a magnet page and all the images are fastened with magnets. I used an 8 x 8 paper and cut out the images from the frames to make this frame page. I made a door from one of the frames that can open.

April
The lace is from WOC. I used a Martha Stewart Doily punch for the border.

I made some side panels that flips out to each side. The pockets are from the cardstock cut outs and more pockets are made with the Martha Stewart doily punch. There is a place for photos on the frames and behind.

May
I had so much fun fussy cutting out the images and putting them together to a scene 🙂 The window die is from Spellbinders.

June
I used the window die from Spellbinders again and cut out the middle part so the image behind shows through.

The page flips up and there are more places for photos and journaling.

July
I love love love the cherub images 🙂 I used the gate die from Spellbinders and trellis die from Cottage Cutz.

August
I made this page as a photo frame.

A hidden pocket slides up and a photo can also be placed in behind.

September
Here again I made a magnet page and all the images are fastened with magnets. I used an 8 x 8 paper and cut out the images from the frames to make this frame page.

October
The buckle is from the cardstock cut outs.

Even more hidden places LOL. Two panels slide out from the side and the front slides up.

November
Banner with laces from WOC. Photo mat behind and a envelope.

The banner can slide from side to side.

December
Here I used some gold and glitter papers from my stash and decorated around with gold lace and flat back pearls. The Christmas tree die is from Memory Box. I used stickles on most of the images to give the page a Christmas feel.

Here are some close up pictures. I used White and Diamond stickles to embellish the page.

I used Gold stickles on the Christmas tree.

Supplies:
Graphic 45 Sweet Sentiments collection, easel album, dies, stickles, laces, Claudine Hellmuth multi medium matte, seam binding, acetate, magnets, white paint, 3D foam, Tyvek envelope and calendar.
Thanks for stopping by and have fun creating 🙂 Hugs, Anne.
We hope you have enjoyed this fun creation from Anne. I would also like to extend a warm thank you to Anne for sharing her fabulous project with us! Please take a minute to stop by Anne’s blog, You Tube channel or Pinterest page and of course the Graphic 45 blog to check out all their amazing creations! Be sure to leave a comment on this post to enter to win the Graphic 45 collection listed above.
