September Calendar Page- Stick It Down

Hello! I have one more layout for the month! It is my calendar page for September. I started with the double page sketch from Stick It Down:

I used Shimelle's "Never Grow Up" collection for my patterned papers. I love the bright fun colors! The page ended up feeling pretty summery, but I'm okay with that. I'm not one of those people getting excited for all things fall in mid-August. I will hold onto the warmth and green of summer as long as possible! I followed the sketch pretty closely, except for the embellishment clusters. I cut the word "September" from navy cardstock and chipboard and layered the pieces together to give my title dimension. The word "Super" was a sticker from the Shimelle sticker book. That sticker book is where most of the stickers I used on this page came from. I used some buttons threaded with twine to finish off my clusters. 

 

Brain Building

Hello! I have a new layout to share! I was inspired by the sketch challenge at Scrap Our Stash:

I made a layout of my son's first experience with ECFE. For the paint/ink part of the challenge, I took Distress Oxide pads and swiped them across my cardstock. Once that was dry, I layered on my papers and photos. I used a combination of letter stickers and letters cut with my Cricut for the title. I have a couple of spots of journaling: one with a recap of the experience and one with the names of the people from our class that I wrote on stamped lines. To embellish my page, I used some wood veneer hexagons, enamel dots, and chipboard pieces. This layout ended up being pretty simple in terms of embellishments, but I felt there was enough going on with the colors of the papers and photos.

 

More Challenge Layouts!

Hello! I'm back with some more layouts that I made for the Paper Issues Camp challenges. There were 25 challenges and I managed to get 5 done. Doesn't sound that impressive, but getting 5 layouts done in a week is HUGE for me! 

First up is the String Things challenge. This challenge required that you use string on your layout somewhere. Paper Issues has some awesome free cut files, so I decided to use one of those. I think the holes in this one were meant for stitching, but I used them to create some string art! I then embellished it with stars cut from the same file, some stickers, chipboard, die cuts and Nuvo Drops. The number 3 was stamped with paint on patterned paper and fussy cut.

This next layout was for the Obstacle Course challenge. For this one you had to use three photos, use circles, one word title, use only the top half of your page, use vertical stripes. I started this page by dripping spray inks down the page to add interest to the bottom half (because leaving it completely blank is pretty much out of the question 😜). Then I cut some circles from patterned paper, along with a strip of striped patterned paper. Next came the photos. I cut the title using my Cricut from both patterned paper and chipboard for dimension. I used various stickers and die cuts to embellish the page. I finished things off by stamping some arrows on either side of the title to draw attention to it.

Next is the Talent Show challenge. For this challenge, we could scrapbook about one of our own talents or a talent of our children. I decided to do a layout about my daughter's dancing from several years ago. 

Finally, I did the Packing List challenge which required that you used at least 5 of the following: blue, yellow, stamps, stitching, circles, trees, butterflies, flair, sequins or Thickers.  I ended up using 6: blue, yellow, stamps, flair, sequins and Thickers. The eggs under my main photo are from the egg cut file I used on this layout. I pressed Distress Inks onto a plastic surfacee, sprayed it with water and then pressed the eggs into it to give them the pretty dyed look. I layered some of them up to give them some dimension. 

 

First Bites- Paper Issues Sketch and The Joy of Sets

Hello! Paper Issues hosted a crop last weekend with challenges open until tomorrow so I have been busy scrapping. My first layout was for the "Hopscotch" Challenge where we were to use this sketch: 

I was also inspired by the August grid from The Joy of Sets:

I stuck pretty close to the sketch, but moved the title up on the page since my top patterned paper was monochomatic and allowed my title to stand out more. For the Joy of Sets grid, I embossed (the date on the tape is heat embossed), used a button, and the color blue. I used several random embellishments for this layout, but I felt they all worked with the story. The bottle and black button stickers were the last ones from a sheet, which is always exciting. :)

 Thanks for stopping by to check out my layout. I will be sharing more of my layouts in the days to come!

Paper Issues Sketches

Hello! I have a couple of layouts to share using sketches from the Paper Issues Facebook page.  First up is this sketch:

I used an Easter egg cut file across the bottom of the page and filled some of the eggs with patterned paper. I have a pack of Echo Park Easter die cuts that I used to embellish the page along with some Nuvo drops and fussy cut flowers.

Next is this sketch:

I used a couple of different lines for this layout. I used my Cricut for the title of this one. I cut the word "Princess" four times and stacked them to give the word some dimension I fussy cut some crowns from some patterned paper. I embellished the big one with Stickles, Wink of Stella and Liquid Pearls. I finishished off the embellishing of this layout with a chipboard tree, a few stickers and enamel hearts.

 

3 Months- Sketches In Thyme

Hello, I have a new layout to share today! I started with this sketch from Sketches In Thyme:

I started my layout by using a mask and misting my background paper with green spray mist, concentrating it where my photo would be. I then layered on my papers, included the polka dot wreath cut file I got from the Paper Issues store. The elephant and quote pieces were from cut apart sheets. I rounded the corners on the elephant card and used a circle cutter on the longer quote to make them work better with my layout design. I also used my Cricut to cut the word "Months." I finished off the layout with some photo corners, brads, enamel dots, and pearls.

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