the hybrid chick

Today our spotlight is shining on designer Karla Dudley. Karla is one amazingly talented woman! She’s a graphic designer, a papercrafter, a published scrapper… she’s one crafty momma!

If you’ve not visited her blog before, you need to stop by and see the inspiring projects and layouts she’s posted there. You will find plenty of eye-candy and ideas in her blog’s gallery!

Here’s how you can keep up with the latest news and info from Karla:

• Karla’s Blog: Create Something Today
• Twitter: karladudley

Now let’s take a peek at some of Karla’s beautiful designs! Her papers are full of beautiful colors and patterns—just perfect for printing! Not only that, she has a real knack for playing with fonts and will often add her own handwriting to her kits. These stamps and word art make for an easy way to make a great card or add a finishing touch to a project! Here are a few great “highly printable” goodies from Karla’s shop:

Here are a few lovely projects I hunted up from our gallery today! First, here is a great card created by Jacinda, showing a creative way to put all of Karla’s beautiful word art into action. She used Karla’s Printables – No. 1 Dad brush pack for this project:

Here’s a set of gift card holders that Mari made using Karla’s Joy collection:

And here’s an adorable little card from Savitri using Karla’s Zander: Play paper pack:

I decided to have some fun playing with Karla’s papers myself! I picked the Pamela paper pack and tried out one of the new templates from The Cutting Files (I used the Cake Box). I love that these new templates are both compatible with die-cutting machines and Photoshop! I don’t have a fancy-pants cutting machine yet—I can only be jealous of everyone else’s fancy-pants cutting machines right now. But I love that I can still use these fabulous templates because they come in .psd format, too!

Here’s the cake box I made:

And I also needed to make a thank you card, so using this pretty card by Jeryn as inspiration, I made this:

I took the paper from the kit and shrunk it down to be 6 x 6 instead of 12 x 12. I know that Basic Grey used to release these 6 x 6 paper packs that were just perfect for card markers because they made it so you could get more pattern in a smaller space, so I used their idea here on my card. I love how it turned out! Yes, even my messy handwriting.

I hope you enjoyed seeing Karla’s beautiful goodies in action! If you try some of her designs for your next project, be sure to let me know! I’d love to see a link to your creations.

Until next time—happy crafting!

Other Articles by Nicole Seitler:

• Spotlight on: BasicGrey - February 26th, 2011
• For the Love of Hybrid! - February 24th, 2011
• Spotlight on: Jennifer Fox Designs - November 20th, 2010
• Make your own Autumn Centerpiece - November 8th, 2010
• Spotlight on: Dysfunctional Design - September 25th, 2010