Material Girl

I finished my older daughter's dance album just in time for her graduation, now onto my next daughter who graduates next year! 

For this layout I used this sketch from Stick It Down:

I started by finding a Cricut background cut that I could cut down for the background. I decided where I would trim it and laid it on my background. I marked where it ended and then took an ink pad and drug it across the cardstock. I then glued the cut background down. This cut had a frame that I cut off and then took some of the stripes and brought them to the edges of the paper. I layered my photos on top. Down the right side, I found some ribbon that was the right color and combined it with a torn sheet of patterned paper. For the title, I used my Cricut to cut the words from black cardstock and the offset from holographic silver cardstock. To embellish the page I found all the pink and black flowers I could. I also dug out the "It's a girl thing" and purse stickers from a sheet I've had for a very long time that I thought fit this layout perfectly. The chipboard flowers were inked to match the colors of the layout. I topped the fabric flowers with coordinating buttons. I finished off the layout with a journaling sticker/

 

Cards

I have several cards to share again. A couple of pairs that started with the same base and then I changed up the embellishments and one from a sketch.

First up is this pair using the Altenew Daisy Craze mask set. I used different colors for each of the cards, but both were blended on white shimmer cardstock. For the purple card, I used my Cricut to cut the flower border and then stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on vellum. I finished off the cards with some irridescent sequins. For the second card, I stamped and fussy cut the butterflies. For the big one, I adhered the middle down to the card front with regular adhesive and then added small strips of foam adhesive to the wings to give them a little dimension. I stamped the "happybirthday to you" twice and added it as a tail to the large butterfly.

My second pair of cards used the Altenew Sunburst stencil. I based my colors on the colors in the dot patterned paper. For the first card, I used my Cricut to cut the burst and sentiment. For the second I cut the basket from vinyl for the shine and I thought the design would cut better from vellum and the disc from cardstock. The burst and the disc are attached with foam adhesive. I finished off the first card with a scattering of foil stars.

For my final card, I used the September card sketch from Stick It Down: 

I started by blending the flowers on cream pearl paper using the Concord and 9th Petal Pushers mask set. While that dried, I used an embossing folder on the bottom couple inches of the card for some texture. I cut the sentiment using my Cricut and used the same cardstock to mat the inked panel. I added a few liquid pearls for a little more sparkle.

 

October Calendar Page

Hello! I have some catching up to do again! I'm going to start with my October calendar page today. I used this sketch from Page Maps:

I split all of the vertical photos so that I could fit more on my layout. Otherwise, I stuck pretty close to the sketch. I used a variety of fall papers,  mixing and matching manufacturers and collections. For the large cards across the bottom, i used some cut aparts, stickers and patterned paper. The small banners were fussy cut from a sheet of patterned paper. I cut the title using my Cricut. I embellished the page with stickers, chipboard, and brads.

 

September Calendar Page and a Card

Hello all! I have my September calendar page to share along with a card, both using sketches from Stick It Down:

First up is the double page sketch:

This is a great sketch to use up scraps. I pulled out a 6x6 pad and an 8x8 pad and used my Cricut to cut the hexagons from the scraps. I then adhered them to my cardstock. I then found some coordinating cardstocks and matted my photos with them. I stamped the flowers around the corners of the photos and then adhered my photos. I found the arrow washi tape and used that in my corners. For the journaling, I used cardstock strips to caption the photos and stamped journaling lines and added more info on the bottom. For the title, I used foam letter stamps.

I also used this months' card sketch:

This was a pretty quick card to put together. I started by stamping the star and dot background with Versamark ink and used three colors of embossing powder. Once the was heated and cooled, I added the dog sticker. I used foam adhesive behind the treats to add dimension to my card front. I used my Cricut to cut the sentiment.

 

Creative Memories Sketches- Two Layouts

Hello! I participated in the Creative Memories virtual crop this month on Facebook again. Each month, they post four sketches in the group for everyone to use. You are supposed to use mostly Creative Memories products, but I use what I have. I like that the sketches have lots of photos on them!

First up is this single page sketch:

I adjusted the number and sizes of the photos to work with the photos I had. I used some fun patterned papers. I used my Cricut for the ladybugs and title. I finished off the layout with some puffy heart stickers and a canvas flair button.

 Next, I used this double page sketch:

I didn't have two sheets of patterned paper to use on the background, so I used a mask and ink blended the wonky ovals. I used my Cricut to cut the wave border, the circles, and the title. I embellished the page with some stickers, puffy stickers, and flair buttons. I love the soft colors of this one!

Kindergarten

After all those cards, I was able to create a layout as well! Sketches In Thyme posted their first sketch for August and I thought it would work well for these photos of my kids from their first and last day of school.

My photos are different sizes, but the grid worked well with these. I used several of the decorative branding strips for this layout. I used a couple of scraps of coordinating patterned paper as well. For the title, I used my Cricut to cut the letters on the little tabs. To embellish the page, I used some rub ons, stickers, and puffy stickers. At this point, I realized that I had the first and last day photos flipped. Since I had rub ons over them, there was no moving the photos, so I just swapped the labels which is why the last day of school photos are on top. I used my sewing machine to add the stitching.

 

More Cards

Here are the last of my cards for now. I mentioned a couple of days ago I was using up some papers from collections that are down to scraps, the first three cards today were part of those efforts. 

For my first card, I had this cute dog and sprinkler paper. I trimmed it down so the dog was in the top right and it left me space for a sentiment in the bottom left. I used my Cricut to cut the splatter and the word "Blast" and to write "Have a." I glued the letters onto the splatter and then adhered it to the page with foam tape for some dimension. I added a dark brown border to the background panel to make it look a little more finished.

This card started with the sticker. I knew I had some of this wave paper, so I cut a chunk to fit my card front. I used a light blue watercolor paper for the sky and layered the two papers together. I added the sticker to the top of the waves. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on a scrap of the watercolor patterned paper and ripped the end before adhering it to the card. At this point, I felt like the sky needed a little something, so I added some water to a drop of gesso and splattered it on the background.

For this card, I started with the three popsicle panel. I added the sticker letters on the popsicles. I then found the houndstooth paper to use for the background. The red one on the bottom was actually pink, which was bugging me, so I colored over it with an orange marker to make it match the red in the popsicle. I used a border punch on another scrap of patterned paper for the strip below the popsicle panel. I finished off this card by covering the popsicles with Glossy Accents.

My final card is the card I made for my husband for our anniversary. I found this tree drawing file in Cricut Access and used my Cricut to draw it on water color paper. I then painted in the tree with a waterbrush and inks. I did a very pale wash of light blue on the background. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on a piece of vellum and ripped the edges before adhering it to my card.