Contributor Center Stage - Loredana Bucaria

This June, we're excited to dedicate the Contributor Center Stage to Creative Team Contributor Loredana Bucaria! Lory is an active part of the Studio Calico community, creating lovely layered layouts and pocket page spreads full of life and color. Be sure to check out her projects in the Gallery this month! Here's your chance to learn a little more about Lory - scrapbooking history, craftroom organization, and more! We're so thankful for the talented team that helps to spread the joy of memory-keeping all over the world.

Tell us a little bit about yourself:

What's your go-to technique? My go- to technique is this: the picture - the story behind it - the page so colors, papers, embellishments, stamps. I start from the picture and I try to tell more about it using the perfect color combo for it using my stuff. I use to do this for layouts and for my Project Life® album. Everything depends on what I want to tell and how I want to tell the story. I love simple but full of tiny details layouts and PL spreads. I love to think how I want to tell the story and I daydream about how I would like to create the page.

How do you stay organized?

The tool I love to use is my Cameo, and lately I adore sketch pens. Playing with them to create wonderful backgrounds is super fun.

With my sewing machine I love to add some little touches in my pages, corners, stitched embellishments and

Where do you go to get ideas? When I don’t have many ideas about how to start a work I try to find inspiration from Pinterest, magazine and books, online magazine and of course the Studio Calico gallery; that is always a big source of inspiration.

Learn more about Lory by following her here at Studio Calico, and check out her work with the Carolina Moon kits in the Creative Team Gallery this month!