This is gonna be long so if you don’t feel like reading, scroll down to the bottom before leaving because there is a sale going on you do NOT want to miss!!!

 

Okay so there are some movies that I love so much I could watch over and over again a million times and never get sick of them. Since I have a television right next to my computer I often have one of those faves playing in the background while I design. On one such day I had the idea to let myself be inspired by the colours in the movie and the Reel Inspiration Collection was born!

 

It wasn’t my intention to overtly copy anything from these movies, but just to capture their essence through colour or an attitude or a mood . . . actually most people who I’ve shown these to can’t even guess what movies they are supposed to be inspired by LOL! I decided not to mention it anywhere in the product previews or descriptions at the store in case it might look like I’m trying to profit from the movie’s name or something, which I’m assuming must be illegal! But since this is my blog and I can say what I want, here they are:

 

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

 

Far and wide one of my favourite movies of ALL time! It’s so moving, yet funny, but totally messed up all at the same time! Michel Gondry combined with Charlie Kaufman!? Sheer genius if you ask me. Anyway, this was the one that first inspired me that day. Even though I’ve seen it a million times, this one particular day I was noticing all the blue and orange in the film for some reason and then felt compelled to translate that into papers. In case you are wondering, Tangerine is the nickname that Joel (Jim Carrey) gives to Clementine (Kate Winslet) after she dies her hair orange.

 

 

 

Almost Famous

 

 

I remember being very surprised by how much I liked this movie the first time I saw it. The 70’s rock scene isn’t exactly an interest of mine but the performances are incredible and it’s such a great story. Plenty of bad 70’s wallpaper, funky dresses and bohemian chic-ness to draw inspiration from! If you haven’t seen the movie, Penny Lane is Kate Hudson’s character’s name.

 

 

 

Clueless

 

 

I was 14 years old when this movie came out. I kid you not, I could probably recite every single line of this movie in order from start to finish!  There weren’t really any colours that jumped out at me from it though so I just picked a girly scheme and tried to capture the attitude instead.

 

 

 

Pirates of the Caribbean

 

 

 

Johnny Depp . .. need I say more?  

 

Technically I could have used any of his movies since I can NEVER get tired of looking at that man’s face but I decided to go with Pirates since it was topical

 

 

 

The Wizard of Oz

 

 

I wasn’t going to admit this publicly but I suppose I can trust you guys to keep a secret. I have never seen this movie! Shhh! Don’t tell anyone LOL! I wanted to round out the collection with a colour scheme totally different from the others so when this was suggested by a CT member, I couldn’t resist!

 

And voilà! 4 weeks later we have a collection! LOL!

 

Now it’s time for the previews! Each paper pack actually has 8 papers, the six patterns you see in the preview plus 2 bonus solids. So 40 papers in all! And there are 5 coordinating alphas too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And if you can stand a little more eye candy, how ’bout some layouts for inspiration?  Most of these are not up in galleries yet but I’ll edit later with the links so you can see the full credits:

 

A few from me:

 

Using Penny Lane (and a bunch of my other products!)

 

 

Using Tangerine:

 

 

 

And now from my CT:

 

Two by Cassie using Savvy:

 

 

 

One from Desiree using Penny Lane (it’s even about Cameron Crowe, the man who directed Almost Famous!):

 

 

 

Phew! Okay . . .that’s all I got for show and tell

 

And now for the fun part:

 

 

 

Yep, you read that correctly. The entire collection is selling for $19.99 but for one day only (well, one day and a half since it’s starting tonight! LOL!) you get it for THREE DOLLARS! The paper packs will eventually be available separately for $3.00/pack and the alphas for $2.00/pack so in essence you are getting $25 worth of stuff for THREE DOLLARS! It’s been suggested I need to get my head checked but hey . . . what’s the harm in a little sale?

 

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Have a great week everyone! Thanks for stopping by!