Penny Arcade Reveal

Step up and claim your prize with July's kit, Penny Arcade! Set your alarms to arrive on time and be first in line for all of your favorite games. Reveal night is always full of exclusive offers including a selection of add-on kits to bundle with your purchase. Presale for our subscribers starts tomorrow (the 27th) at noon EST, and the full reveal is later that night at midnight EST.

We're thrilled to welcome Emma Wood as our Penny Arcade guest designer! Be sure to check the Creative Team gallery for her work with the kit tomorrow at noon EST.

Hi there! I'm Emma and I live in country Victoria with my son and also share our home with my mum and dad, who I would be absolutely lost without! I work full-time as a Project Manager for a signage company and I love it (most days anyway, haha). Its a little stressful because its always left to the last minute, but I enjoy the challenges and I'm usually learning all kinds of new things every day. I love to read books - the real paper type! - mostly crime/thriller (Patricia Cornwell/Kathy Reichs/Faye Kellerman) but I don't mind sitting down to read the "young adult" fantasy books (Cassandra Clare/Lauren Kate/Becca Fitzpatrick) every now and then, haha.

I've been scrapbooking for a few years but had stopped doing all layouts when I started PL in 2012. I only started making SB layouts again this year when I was feeling a little burnt out by PL and decided to switch from double-page spreads down to 1 per week. I've adopted the mantra that its better to get something in those pockets rather than fussing over how pretty it has to look and taking forever to actually get it done - its been a great shift in focus and I'm loving PL again. My layouts are a little differently though, I tend to fuss over those a lot more than I should. I scrap 6x8 pages mostly, I find the size perfect for me and I love the Handbooks! (Take up so much less space than the big 12x12 albums!).

I'm not quite sure what my style is but I will admit that I make alot of mistakes when putting layouts together and more often than not they work out better than what I had actually intended to do :) I don't plan my layouts much, I pick a photo, get my paper and shuffle them around until I find something I like! In saying that though, I do I love sketches (and all the challenges on the blog, which I try to participate in every week!), they are a great starting point for me and I'll often just stare at a sketch until something clicks in my brain :)


Stretch yours kits with our digital exclusives! Digital templates, stamp brushes, printables and die cut files to match Penny Arcade are now up in the Digital Shop!

See you at reveal tomorrow!

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16 comments

  1. tracyxo says…
    06/26/2014

    Yessss!

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  2. ericaconstance says…
    06/26/2014

    so excited for that project life kit :D those vellum pockets are exactly what i've wanted!!

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  3. fran_s says…
    06/26/2014

    Looks great, love all the colors and the stamp sets.

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  4. supertoni says…
    06/26/2014

    Love all of the new digi stuff and congrats again Emma, can't wait to see what you created!

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  5. kiwinme says…
    06/26/2014

    I'm a subscriber in New Zealand and trying to calculate the reveal time so I can set my alarm. If Studio Calico (Bowling Green, KY) is currently on CDT and the reveal is set to start at noon EST, does that make the time for CDT and EST the same? Also, any chance of having a time calculator on the blog to calculate time differences for the reveal? Any help with calculating the time difference would be appreciated. Cheers, MaryAnn

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  6. gluestickgirl says…
    06/26/2014

    Hi @kiwinme ! I often use this site to figure out the time in another part of the world. Enter New York, New York as the city you are converting the time to - while Studio Calico's home offices are in the Central time zone, the reveal follows the Eastern Time Zone. I hope that helps!

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    06/26/2014
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  8. jiffy99 says…
    06/26/2014

    Or, if you are a subscriber, you can just subtract 12 hours from the 'Countdown to Reveal' ticker widget up there on the right of the blog page!

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  9. Katrina93 says…
    06/26/2014

    Everything looks great! I had to LOL at the main kits alpha selection they put out. Or at least what it looks like at that size.

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  10. andreacollects says…
    06/27/2014

    so so happy for you @emma_kw. I'm really looking forward to see, what you've created.

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  11. MissNicky says…
    06/27/2014

    It would be so nice if there was a reveal available for Aus/NZ subscribers at a time of day or night that is more convenient! Some of us work full time so can't afford to get up at 1am in the morning to get exclusives. Come on Studio Calico, surely we are supporting the brand enough to be able to do this? I am tired of missing out!

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  12. Fred44 says…
    06/27/2014

    I'm a new subsciber, can anybody tell me what's the time and day in Paris, France, the 27th at noon Est ? Thank you !

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  13. SonneJo says…
    06/27/2014

    Hi @Fred44 it's at 18:00 in European time. Enjoy!

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  14. 1craftychkn says…
    06/27/2014

    Should be 6pm @fred44

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  15. Fred44 says…
    06/27/2014

    Thank you SonneJo and mahnaaz13 !

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  16. writerlady says…
    06/27/2014

    Looking forward to the inspiration Emma Wood! I bought most of the digital items this month. I love how they are reusable and work well with the kits.

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