Celebrate card

Hello all! I'm here today with a couple of cards to share! I had some fun playing with Distress and Distress Oxide inks on both of these. For my first card, I used a combination of both kinds of inks. I would press the pad onto an acrylic plate, mist with water and then press a piece of watercolor paper into the ink. I let the ink dry between each color. Once I was happy with that, I took a striped mask and used a blending tool to add the stripes in the background. I then stamped and heat embossed the butterfly on purple cardstock. To give it some variation in color, I used a blending tool and a couple of purple Distress and Distress Oxide inks and blended over it. The heat embossing resisted the ink, allowing the original cardstock color to show through. I attached the butterfly with foam adhesive, stamped the sentiment and added some sequins.

 I was inspired by the current tic tac toe challenge at Use Your Stuff:

I used the middle row of embossing, butterfly and and stripes.

I also made an anniversary card. For this card, I stamped and heat embossed the heart leaf background. I then took a rainbow of Oxide inks and blended them over the stamping. Once again, the embossing resisted the ink, allowing the white paper to show through. I used my Cricut to cut the sentiment. I finished off the card with silver Nuvo drops.

June Calendar Page

Hello! I have my calendar page ready a few days early! As I was picking labels, I realized this layout has a bit of everything! I started once again with the double page sketch at Stick It Down:

I split the vertical photos to get more in and added an extra in the journaling space. Paper Issues had an amazing layout to scraplift here which inspired by drippy rainbow border. I also put my Cricut to work on here and cut a vine and some flowers (the background die cut was cut for a previous project that I ended up going another way on). The flowers had several pieces so I ended up putting them on vellum to hold the pieces together and cutting them out by hand. I found stickers that matched the colors of my drips and combined them with the flower for the border on the right hand page. For my title, I stamped and heat embossed the letters and then fussy cut them. I attached them with foam tape to my layout. To finish of the layout, I scattered some white sequins.

 I am also entering this in the Bitten By the Bug 2 Flowers challenge. 

Happy Birthday

Hello all! I have a new card to share that I made for my youngest son's birthday earlier this week. I was inspired by the current board at Tic Tac Toe Challenge:

I wanted to use a rainbow on my card, so I looked at the lines going from that spot. I decided to use the diagonal: rainbow, stickers, and CAS. To create my rainbow background, I drug Distress Ink pads across my cardstock and then gave it a little mist of water to blend them a bit. I found this cute bear sticker in an Echo Park collection and put foam tape on the back of it. For the sentiment, I stamped it using navy ink in my MISTI and then stamped it again with Versamark so I could heat emboss it (with clear powder) to make it stand out a bit more from the background.I matted the whole thing on navy cardstock to give it a nice frame.

 Thanks for stopping by to check out my card!

Splash!

Hello! Here is another layout I got done this weekend. For this layout, I started with this PageMaps sketch from the Spring 2021 issue of Scrapbooks and Cards Today:

I had slightly different sizes and orientations of photos, but I made the sketch work with what I had. I pulled papers from several different collections. Once I had the papers down, I stitched around the circles with my sewing machine. I made waves on my layout with a pieces of ribbon and Dew Drops. I embellished the layout with stickers from various collections as well.

 Thanks for stopping by to check out my layout!

First Haircut

Hello all! I've had some time this weekend to do some scrapping, so I will have a couple of layouts to share over the next couple of days. I am starting with the layout I made that was inspired by the sketch by Rochelle Spears:

I was also inspired by the Tic Tac Toe board from Scrap With Stacy:

I had four photos, so I adjusted the photo spots accordingly. I used paper from various October Afternoon collections. Since they are busier patterns, I edged all of my patterned paper pieces with green ink. I used my Cricut to cut the title and the scissors. For the title, I cut the word "Haircut" from cardstock and chipboard and then covered the letters with Glossy Accents for some added dimension and shine. I heat embossed the scissors with silver embossing powder and put a brad through the center hole to make it look a little more realistic. To make the little window that holds my son's hair, I cut a circle from cardstock. I then cut another circle of the same size from a piece of thicker clear plastic packaging. Finally, I cut a frame from cardstock and white "fun foam." I glued the plastic to the cardstock frame and then glued the foam frame to the plastic. Once that was dry, I placed the hair in the center of the frame. I closed up the frame with the blue cardstock cicle. To embellish the layout, I used stickers, washi tape, a flair button and a couple of arrow brads. 

 I had a lot of fun with this layout! Thanks for stopping by to check it out!

Happy Birthday to You

Hi all! I'm back with another card. I was inspired by this sketch from Stick It Down:

As I was getting ready to post this, I realized that the sketch was actually the single scrapbook page sketch. 🙈 Oops! Anyway, I used it for a card. I used my Cricut to cut the boy playing piano and the music notes. I heat embossed the music notes to make them stand out a little more. To make the diagonal in the background a little more subtle, I used a transparency. To finish off the card front, I stamped and fussy cut the sentiment strips. 

 Thanks for checking out my card!

Mother's Day Cards

Hello all! I'm back with the cards I made for Mother's Day for my mom, mother-in-law and grandmas. I started with the inspiration image from The Card Concept:

Isn't the deep blue beautiful? I am such a sucker for that color of blue! I created these mixed media cards, starting with my alcohol inks and glossy cardstock. I inked up the paper with blue, a bit of purple and pearl mixative alcohol inks. Once they were dry, I used Alchol Lift Ink and a background stamp to lift some of the color off the background and stamp it onto a piece of regular white cardstock. Then I went to work on the flowers. I cut a bunch of the flower pieces using my Cricut thinking I would use two hydrangeas, two roses and three daffodils on each card. Once I grouped them together, I realized I didn't need that many! I went with this scaled back version. Once I had a group laid out the way I wanted it, I used a piece of Press and Seal and pressed it onto the flowers to pick them up and flip them over. I then put dots of glue on the back of my flowers and then attached them to the card front. To finish the cards, I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment onto a piece of vellum that I attached to the card. Then a couple of silver Nuvo drops on either side of the sentiment were the final touch. 

 

Paper Issues Crop Layouts

Hi all! I thought I would share the other three layouts I created this weekend during Paper Issues iNSD crop! 

The first sketch I used was this one:

 One of the ladies on the design team did a live using this sketch and she started with a stencil and some inking. I decided to do the same. I started with a mini stars stencil and some Distress Ink. I then used a "pebble" stencil and clear Glitter Glaze over the same areas. I used a few small pieces of patterned paper. I used up an old set of glue rub ons (the bird, the bug and the phrase under the photos). The rest of my embellishments are stickers, enamel hearts and flair. I'm really loving the colors of this one!

Next up is this sketch:

I did some more mixed media for this layout. I started by scraping white gesso over a polka dot mask. Once that was dry, I used the smooshing technique and Mermaid Lagoon and Cracked Pistachio Distress Stains. The gesso resists the Distress Stains a bit for a fun effect. I found some patterned paper that matched my daughter's first day outfit perfectly and worked from there on papers. I used my Cricut for the title. For the journaling, I used a scalloped circle punch and an arrow stamp. I fussy cut the arrows before adding the date and attaching them to my layout. The purple strips are the top strip from the paper pad that I got the rest of the papers from. I finished off the layout with buttons, rub-ons and sequins.

The last sketch I used was this one:

I loved the rainbow on the sketch, so I created a more subdued version with the papers from this  collection. For the title, I used a pre-designed phrase that said "Livin' the Good Life" and cut the "Good" part off. I then used punched out letters to make the word "Farm" instead. To make it stand out a little more, I matted it on the pink paper and outlined the letters with a navy gel pen. I attached the title and realized I wanted it closer to my photos. However, I had attached the word "Farm" with foam tape and that wasn't moving. To fill in the space, I pulled out a piece of pink ribbon and added a few navy eyelets under the title. I used some wood veneer for embellishing (using up another package- yay!) along with stickers from the collection. I decided a couple of the clusters needed a bit more interest behind them, so I pulled out my stamps. I knew I had a dark blue ink that would match, but I pulled out the swatchbook I made of my ink and found I had a green that worked as well, which allowed me to layer the stamping a bit. Making a swatchbook of my inks is one of the best things I have done to make me use them more! It is so much easier to find good matches to patterned paper! I also stamped on the wood veneer butterfly with the same stamp. To finish off the layout, I used some pink Liquid Pearls. 

Thanks for stopping by to check out my layouts! I'm hoping the mojo will carry on and I can get some more layouts done in the week ahead (after I make a few cards!).

Flip Out

Hello all! I have been busy scrapping this weekend! Paper Issues had an awesome sketch based crop going on! I was able to complete 4 layouts in just two days! I am sharing one of the pages I completed today. Here is the sketch:

I've had a pad of watercolor paper with resist patterns on them for several years. I forget about it, but it caught my eye today while I was trying to decide what to use for this layout. I chose some colors of Distress Ink that coordinated with the colors in my photos. I used the smooshing technique and one color at a time to create the large areas of color. I really like how it turned out! I then used some washi tape to create a line between the two sides. I used my Cricut for the title. Then I went to work with stickers and a couple of rub ons to embellish my page. I finished it off with a couple of epoxy flair pieces.

 I was also inspired by The Studio's SCRAP challenge, which is to use one thing that starts with each letter of SCRAP:

S- star stickers

C- chipboard

R- rub ons

A-arrow

P- Pink

Thanks for stopping by to check out my layout!