Yesterday, I was up on The Paper Bakery Blog, sharing a Card created with the May Kit, Glitz Roadshow. I used one of the Exclusive Cut Files, that comes along with your monthly membership to The Paper Bakery Kit Club.
I used the striped Vellum paper included in the Kit for the background
of my Card. And the great thing about the little Houses, is that they
can be separated and each piece cut on a different patterned paper. I
added a Kraft heart, twine, and enamel dots to finish off the house and
then used the Studio Calico Mini Alpha Stickers for my sentiment and one
of The Paper Bakery Custom Flair Buttons to add a touch of whimsy with the Bicycle image.
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I am sure you have noticed the trend of Gold, that has been appearing in the crafty world lately. You can find Gold Thickers, embellisments, mists, and papers almost everywhere you look. If you are looking to find out more about this trend, come over to the Get It Scrapped! Blog and see how the Creative Team members took on this assignment.
We decided to make a visit to the beach, when the temperatures started
to get a little warmer. I wanted to create a Nautical feel to my page,
since our daughter was wearing a Navy colored shirt and because we were
at the beach. What I think of as a traditional Nautical color scheme
popped in my head...Navy, White, Red, and Gold. I had been saving
(hoarding) the Gold Polka Dot vellum paper from Crate Paper and knew it
would work perfectly with this photo and color scheme. I also wanted a
touch of Gold in my title, but I didn't have any Gold letters or alphas.
I found the Bliss Thickers from American Crafts in my stash and misted
over them with Gold Color Shine from Heidi Swapp. It created the exact
effect I was looking for. I finished off my page, by adding some flecks
of the Gold Color Shine in the background and scattered some Gold
sequins across the layout.
Supplies: Patterned Paper, Rub Ons, Clothespin: Dear Lizzy; Bits: Amy
Tangerine; Gold Vellum Paper: Crate Paper; Flair Button & Mini
Bag: Fancy Pants; Thickers: American Crafts; Mini Market
Stickers: October Afternoon; Color Shine: Heidi Swapp;
Other: Shipping Tag & Sequins
Have you been over to the Get It Scrapped! Blog today? The Creative Team is sharing layouts based on the Trendy Motif: Mosaics. Make sure you go over to take a look at what they did and here is a look at what I did for the assignment:
The kids love riding their bikes and I snapped this photo of our little
boy, as we were getting ready to take them for a bike ride. I went back
and forth for a while, on what I wanted to do with the Mosaic
assignment. When I saw a sketch from Creative Scrappers, I really loved
the band design behind the photo and thought it would be great for
working in a Mosaic pattern. I looked for inspiration for Mosaics on
Pinterest and found this
fun image. It reminded me of the Echo Park A Boy's Life collection,
with all of the different colors and patterns. Instead of using a
uniform size for my squares, I used 1 inch, 1.5 inch, and 2 inch. Once I
had all of my squares for the Mosaic pattern in place, I used my
Silhouette Cameo to cut a small rounded edge square pattern, that I
could overlay on some of the patterned paper squares, for some added
interest and contrast.
Supplies: Patterned Paper & Stickers: Echo Park; Enamel Dots,
Brad, & Washi Tape: My Mind's Eye; Thickers & Embossing
Powder: American Crafts; Font: Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold; Acrylic
Stamp & Color Shine: Heidi Swapp; Ink: Stampin' Up; Flair
Button: The Paper Bakery; Wood Veneers: Studio Calico;
Sketch: Creative Scrappers
Thursdays have become my stalking day for the Elle's Studio Blog, since they post a new Sketch for the Sketch Thursday challenge. I am having so much fun playing along with the Sketches each week. I really loved the new Sketch posted on 5/16/13, and had the chance to create a layout for it over the weekend.
The Serendipity collection worked perfectly with my photos...and I am sad to say, that I am already down to only two sheets of paper from this line. I see re-ordering in my future!! I changed up the Sketch a little bit, by adding two photos, instead of the one. But the overall design is still the same. I added mist drops using Heidi Swapp's Mustard Color Shine and October Afternoon's Pink Balloon Sprinklers. I wanted to use the mist drops to mimic the look of bubbles on my layout. And I also thought it would be fun to add the stitched Asterik shapes, because it reminded me of popping bubbles!
And just a little info on the Vellum flower: I cut 3 varied size circles, the largest being 2.5 inches, on my Cameo. Then I used my Martha Stewart fringe scissors around the edges of all 3 circles. After the 3 circles were layered together, I used the end piece off of one of the Little Yellow Bicycle Stick Pins, for the center of my flower.
Thanks for stopping by today, and I hope you have a great Monday!
Supplies: Patterned Paper, Pennants, Tabs, & Tags: Elle's Studio; Wood Veneers: Studio Calico; Stick Pin: Little Yellow Bicycle; Spray Mist: Heidi Swapp & October Afternoon; Acrylic Stamps: Heidi Swapp; Ink: Stampin' Up; Vellum: Fynmark; Letter Stickers: Jillibean Soup; Other: Sequins & Embroidery Floss
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I don't know about you, but for some reason this felt like the longest week EVER!! So I am glad to finally see Friday! I think the closer to Summer and school ending, the longer the week lasts. But I did get a lot of layouts finished this week...some for DT work and some for various challenges. I wanted to stop in and share three layouts I completed this week for different challenges with Chic Tags, Elle's Studio and Paper Secrets.
The Challenge Sunday at Chic Tags was to use Arrows. I incorporated some of the Chic Tags with the new Travel Girl collection from October Afternoon, and some of the Free Cut Files from Chic Tags.
Supplies Used: Patterned Paper: October Afternoon & American Crafts; Stickers, Tin Pin, & Tid Bits: October Afternoon; Tags: Chic Tags; Thickers: American Crafts; Wood Veneers: Studio Calico & Freckled Fawn; Cut Files: Chic Tags
I have to admit, that I debated doing the 5/9/13 Sketch Thursday challenge at Elle's Studio, because of all of those circles on the Sketch. But I decided to give it a try, and I ended up loving the end result.
Supplies Used: Patterned Paper & Tags: Elle's Studio; Enamel Dots: My Mind's Eye; Flair Button: The Paper Bakery; Buttons: October Afternoon; Color Shine: Heidi Swapp; Thickers; American Crafts; Acrylic Paint: Apple Barrel;
And finally, I decided to join in this week with Paper Secrets May 1st Sketch with a Twist challenge. The twist was to use a Polaroid on your layout.
Supplies Used: Patterned Paper, Tin Pins, Stickers, Chipboard, Sprinklers, & Brads: October Afternoon; Wood Veneers: Studio Calico; Spray Mist: Studio Calico & Heidi Swapp; Punch: EK Success & Marvy
Thanks for stopping in, to see what I've been up to this week. Hope you have a great weekend!!
I have been waiting a while, for today's Get It Scrapped! article, Inspired by Storefronts. When I first saw this as one of the assignments, I was a little worried about interpreting what I would do on my page. Then when I started looking through some store front images, I found the perfect one and went right to work! And here are some great ideas to take with you, when looking at any image for inspiration:
1. Use embellishments on your layout such as, wood, metal, or soft embellishments to mimic what is captured in the photo.
2. Use texture or graphics on your layout, that may be inspired by what is in the inspiration image.
3. Use the color scheme that is represented in the inspiration image.
I chose to use the 3rd as inspiration for my layout.
Candid shots are great for telling the stories in your children's lives,
but sometimes it's nice, to get those posed shots. They are the ones
you can look back on and see how much your child has grown from year to
year. When beginning this assignment, I didn't have an inspiration
point in mind, when I was looking through different Store Fronts. But
as soon as I came across this Photo,
I knew immediately that I wanted to work with this amazing color
scheme. I loved the calming feel created by the Teal, Wood Grain, and
Black in the photo, and there was just a touch of juxtaposition with the
addition of the Yellow. The papers I chose to work with for this color
scheme, are from the Glitz Design Uncharted Waters collection, but I
was able to use them out of the Nautical themed context, by using
everyday embellishments.
For more information on using Store Fronts as inspiration, make sure to visit Get It Scrapped!, and see what the other Creative Team members did for this assignment.
Supplies: Patterned Paper & Paper Garland: Glitz Design; Patterned
Paper & Wood Veneers: Studio Calico; Flair Buttons: The Paper
Bakery; Tags: Elle's Studio; Memory File Stamps: Heidi Swapp; Hello
Wood Veneer: Freckled Fawn; Washi Tape: Pebbles; Thickers: American
Crafts: Fonts: Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold & Pacifico
