Playing Catch Up

The end of the school year is always crazy. I have tried to keep up with things but I missed blogging about several videos that I have posted. The next few days I am going to spend catching up on the three videos that I missed :)

The first layout is You are my Spring which was made using the March Hip Kit. The green and white striped paper is an exclusive watercolor paper designed by Kim Watson and I fell in love. This spring color of green is my favorite shade of green to work with when creating pages.  My original idea was to put some watercolor behind the photo but it went wrong...it was an awful mistake. Ugh! I did not have the extra paper add-on so I was determined to fix this. I let the watercolor dry and then I added a few coats of white acrylic paint over the watercolor. While it isn't the perfect fix, it was pretty darn close and I was able to create a page that I like.

The Basic Grey flowers that came with the kit were so fun! I layered them around the photo and for some added interest I placed some pink thread under one of the clusters.

The title for my layout was inspired by the PinkFresh quote. Sometimes I just want to scrap a picture because it is a sweet photo. I don't always feel the need to journal, so the quote was a perfect addition.

Here's a link to the process video. I hope you have a great day!

My Creative Scrapbook June Kit

I'm so excited to be back with My Creative Scrapbook kit club for another month as their guest designer. This month their main kit is full of Simple Stories Life in Color. I am a sucker for a diagonal stripe, so when I saw this yellow and white stripe I fell in love. I've had these pictures on my desk waiting for inspiration and when this kit came to my door inspiration struck :) One of my favorite go-to designs is to cut a sheet of paper 4x12 inches and place it along the top of the page. I love patterned paper and like to see it on my layouts. Don't get me wrong. Layering papers is a beautiful thing, and I will do that as well. The title is mixed with fonts from the Simple Stories sticker sheet and the Amy Tangerine Thickers that came in the kit. The pop of black is perfect with this kit and really makes a bold statement on the layout. 

Black stitching just helped to give more emphasis on the title and added a bit of texture to the layout. I love the whimsical look that the zig zag stitching gives to the title. It also helped to anchor the title and gave me a great spot to start my journaling.

 

The camera was the perfect accent for this cluster. Cameras are always perfect to add to a scrapbooking layout, so if you ever get stuck on embellishment ideas, choose cameras. The kit came with the Simple Stories clear stickers. This is my first time using them and I really enjoyed using them. 

I'm going to show you now how I fixed my boo-boo. I usually journal on my page after I take pictures for my DT work, and for reasons just like the one that I am getting ready to show you. I made a mistake and I wrote a word twice. Oops! I looked through the kit and found some black arrow stickers, but they did not cover up the mistake in its entirety. So I went to my wood veneer stash and found the perfect size arrow. Fortunately where I made the mistake was on the edge and the bottom row, so the arrow just put a bit of emphasis on the journaling. I also chose two small wood veneer shapes to put in the other clusters. I left the wood veneer plain because the wood theme was already on the page, and the color was good as well.

I have a process video if you'd like to take a peek. 

My darling Romeo...

Today I have my fourth layout using the May main kit from My Creative Scrapbook kit club. I have had this picture of Romeo in a pile to be scrapped for quite a while and thought that these papers would be perfect for this photo.

The black floral paper is another one of my favorites. The small floral is beautiful and I love the black especially paired with the gingham.

I love the butterfly paper and how sweet the butterflies look once they are fussy cut from the paper. I added a pop dot under the wings so that they wouldn't go flat once they are added into my album.

I love the pink fringe paper that was included in the kit. I don't have fringe scissors so I just used my regular scissors and cut the fringe with the pattern. I did sew across the top of the fringe for an added touch.

I used my Tim Holtz die to cut out the tag and the reinforcer. The heart embellishment I made a few layouts back and was able to use it on this page. I love gingham and the black and white offers such a great contrast to the pale pinks and aquas.

I have a process video if you are interested in taking a peek. 

Another Scrap the Challenge layout

I am really loving this series with Mari and I hope that you are enjoying it as well. Today's layout we decided to use our stash kit and scraplift a layout that we had previously made. I decided to use this layout for several reasons.

I was using the same size photo, I love the overall design, and I wanted to use a lot of items from my stash kit. Here is my finished layout. I stayed pretty true to the overall design and love the way that the layout turned out. 

I added some gold zig zag stitching to a couple of places on the layout to repeat the gold elements on the page.

I absolutely adore all of the layers under the photo and the frame. 

I added some light modeling paste through a stencil to create additional interest on the background. I love the look of white on white.

This embellishment cluster is my absolute favorite on this page. All of the layers just work perfectly with one another and the stitching is the cherry on top!

I have a process video if you'd like to take a peek at the process. If you have an idea that you would like us to try, please be sure and leave us a comment. 

My Sweet Baby....

I have a couple stacks of pictures that I want to get onto a layout. Some with stories that need to be told, and some just because I love them. I really need to organize them, but let's not go there today :)

When I saw this kit from My Creative Scrapbook kit club, I immediately thought of these sweet baby pictures that were in this stack of photos. I couldn't really think of any stories or journaling that I wanted to have with this layout, so my focus was just on creating a sweet layout for these sweet photos. Each month there is a sketch provided as well, so I decided to use the sketch for this layout as well.

I stayed pretty close to the sketch, but added my twist on the layout. That is the beauty of sketches...you can follow it exactly, or use it as a jumping off point and then tweaking it to make it your own.

The black gingham paper is one of my favorite prints. I didn't want to overwhelm the layout and thought that the thin strip added a sweet touch and helped to balance out the page.

The butterfly paper is one of my favorite papers of all time. I have enjoyed sprinkling these butterflies on all of my layouts with this month's kit. I added some machine stitching around the edge of the pink patterned paper as well, because that's one of the things that I love to do on my pages.

I have a process video if you'd like to take a peek at my process. 

My Creative Scrapbook

Today I have posted my second process video using the May main kit from My Creative Scrapbook kit club. I wanted a companion page to the layout I posted last week, this time with a picture of both of my kids. Photos like this I don't always have a story or any journaling that I want to include, so it's nice to not have to worry where I am going to journal. 

The woodgrain works beautifully with the pier in the background and it also adds a bit of a masculine feel to the layout. 

I had fussy cut some butterflies right away when I received the kit because I knew that I would use them on several, if not all of the layouts I created with the kit. 

The Thickers that come in the kit are some of my favorite ever! It's one of those things where I feel like you get your money's worth. 

 I am in love with the fringe trend right now so I had to use a few layers under the photo. It's such a fun touch to add to the layout. I have a process video if you are interested in taking a peek. Thanks so much and I hope you have a great day :)

iNSD weekend...

I am part of a huge YouTube hop that Erica from Clique Kits put together called Scrap Your Heart Out. Erica has put a lot of work into this and I think that it is going to be a big success for her. I am just over the moon to be lumped into a hop with some of my scrappy crushes :)

I chose to work with some Felicity Jane products for this layout. I have a few of her kits and have just put them all together in an iris container. Her kits tend to work well with one another so it's just easier for me to store them this way. I chose the woodgrain paper as my inspiration along with the photo. The pier in the background is beautiful and I wanted to play up on the color and the texture. I trimmed it down to 11.5 inches square and distressed the edges of the paper. After I adhered it I curled up the edges for a bit more interest.

I wanted a bit of aqua as an accent color and found this vellum heart in my FJ stash. I thought that it would work well and chose to layer it with a phrase and some enamel dots.

The title is definitely one of my favorite things about this layout. I chose a block font for a couple of reasons. First, I didn't want the font to compete with the "love" paper. Second, it's much easier to stitch a wider letter. If the letter is really thin you run the risk of poking your holes too close together and creating one big hole that is hard to cover.

I decided to use my Shimmerz watercolors and a waterbrush to add a bit of color to a few of the words. The effect is so pretty and the pictures just don't do it justice. I chose white embroidery floss because I wanted the layout to be light and airy. The heart stencil is from a FJ kit as well. I like to repeat elements on my page and knew that this would add just the right touch to this cluster.

  My boy is growing up and I'm so proud of the young man that he is, yet when I look at him I still see him as my baby. My journaling touches on this, and in the end I just want him to know just how much he is adored.

Here's a link to my video. Be sure and leave a comment and you might just win a prize by one of the companies listed below.