Happy Birthday- Fusion

Hello all! I have a new card to share. I was inspired by the Fusion challenge from a couple of weeks ago:

I was mostly inspired by the sketch, but there are a few elements from the photo that also came into play: the dark colors, the red, and flowers. This was a pretty quick card to make. I stamped the rose in various pinks and reds and then covered the whole thing with VersaMark before sprinkling on glitter embossing powder and heating it. The sentiment was also heat embossed.

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First Visitors

Hello all! I was able to complete another layout in the last 24 hours! It is another layout for my son's baby book! I was inspired by the Take 5 challenge from Paper Issues:

I used blue, grey, buttons, jounaling and Thickers. I started with the scraps of the striped and polka dot patterned papers. As I was digging through my stash of  "boy" papers, I found the larger dot paper so I decided to incorporate that. To add some texture and interest to the left side of the page, I watered down some gesso and smooshed it on my background cardstock. I then added some orange spray ink and smooshed that a bit. I finished it with some splatters of two colors of orange ink. I found both Thickers and letters stickers that matched the green in the circle paper, so I used those for my title. To bring that green to the right side of my layout, I used definition stamps and a green ink down the edge. I dug out a few embellishments to finish off the page. Neither of my buttons are "real," one is a sticker and one is chipboard, but I figure it's close enough!

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Christmas Joy

Hello again! I finished another layout this week. This time it is a double page Christmas layout. I was inspired by a couple of challenges for this layout. First was the Joy of Sets Tic Tac Toe challenge:

I used the center column for my layout. There is green glitter ribbon in the top right of my layout, I used ink blending and a mask on my background cardstock, and I heat embossed the word "Joy" for my title. I had to get a little creative with my patterned paper as I only had one sheet of the brown grid paper. I ended up using the pieces I trimmed off on my right hand page and then used another pattern in the middle to give the illusion of the paper going all the way across and down. The other challenge I used was the word challenge from Lasting Memories this month. The challenge was to use an item that starts with each letter of the word "Spring." Here's what I used:

S- sequins

P- patterned paper

R- ribbon

I- ink

N- Nuvo Drops

G- glitter

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Birth Story

After all the cards I made last weekend, I worked on a layout too. This is a layout for my 7-year-old's baby book! 😱 I was inspired by this sketch from Sketches In Thyme:

I started by taking bits and pieces of patterned papers and laying them out with my photos in the corner of my base paper. Once I got those stuck down, I wrote my journaling out directly on the background paper. I used my Cricut to cut my title. Once I had all of that down, I realized there was a lot of space across the top of my layout and and needed to do something to balance that, so I added the cluster in the top right corner. I finished off the layout with some brads and enamel dots.

Cards!

Hi all! I have several cards to share that I made this weekend. First up is a birthday cards based on the current challenge at Fusion:

I was inspired by the cute hats on the gnomes to make this fun birthday hat card. I used my Cricut to cut the hats and then used some Stickles to add some sparkle. I stamped and used glitter embossing powder on the sentiment. A patterned paper strip grounds the design.

Next up I decided to play with this star background stamp.  I was going to do a water color effect, but the paper I chose absorbed the water so it didn't work how I envisioned. I used a water brush and Gelatos to quickly paint this design. I ended up cutting it out to add some interest and adding it to a patterned card base. I embellished the design with a punched flower and silver Nuvo Drops. I finished off the design with a stamped and heat embossed sentiment.

I decided to do some ink blending on this card over the gold heat embossed design. I was really happy with how the colors turned out. I cut the sentiment with my Cricut and embellished the design with Liquid Pearls in two colors. 

Finally, I made this fun card for my niece who will be turning 4 this week. I did some more ink blending on this one to get the rainbow background. I used my Cricut to cut the unicorn and the hearts. The unicorn was cut for thick plain white cardstock. I spread some Glitz glitter gel over the die cut and let it dry. The hearts were cut from glitter cardstock and then I glued them to the card front. I had too many glue spots on my card, so I went over the extras with glitter glue and then added some more around the background. The sparkle on this card is so fun!

Silly Boy

Hello, I hope you are all doing well! I had time over the last couple of days to complete another layout! I was inspired by the sketch and tic-tac-toe challenge at Rochelle Spears's blog:

I already had these photos printed out when I saw the sketch and I knew they would work perfectly! I found some coordinating October Afternoon papers and then pulled some cardstock to go with them for the circles. I put a few splatters of green ink down in the corners before I attached my patterned papers. I used my Cricut to cut the title, spelling out "Silly" and using a cut file for "boy." I took a gel pen and outlined the letters of "Silly" to give them some added interest. To embellish the page, I used some die cut pieces, wood veneer stars and buttons. I used the left top to bottom right diagonal for my tic-tac-toe challenge.

My title was inspired by the current challenge at Scrap Our Stash:

Again, the photos fit the challenge perfectly! Thanks for stopping by to check out my layout!

I (heart) Fall

Hello all! I hope you are keeping busy and staying sane in these crazy time! I have a new layout to share! I started with this sketch from Rochelle Spears from March:

I used the sketch fro my left hand page and I flipped it horizontally. Then I designed a second page to compliment it. My daughter's pink coat inspired the pink background and touches of pink patterned paper. I dug into the remains of a couple of different fall collections for the papers and stickers. The wood branch on the left has been sitting in my stash for YEARS, I'm so excited I found a use for it! 

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