Towards the Sun

I have another new layout to share today! This layout started with this sketch from Paper Issues:

The sketch made me think of feathers, which made me think of these dance photos of my daughter. I started by cutting a bunch of feathers with my Cricut from glitter cardstock and glimmer cardstock. I then worked on some mixed media for my background. I used some Distress products and did the smooshing technique with some packaging. Once that was dry, I splattered some Glimmer Mists on the page. I then went to work attaching the feathers. I tucked both photos behind some of the feathers. I then cut a bunch of flowers using my Cricut. I edged all of the flowers with brown ink and curled them up a bit for dimension. I found a tag that coordinated with my colors. I also took a feather stamp and layered that in with the paper feathers. I put my Cricut to work again for the title, using rose gold cardstock. I have the sun mask from a kit and decided to use it here, adding the face on the top part of the layout and the rays around the word "Sun" on the bottom of the page. I embellished the flowers with a combination of enamel dots, gems, and Nuvo Drops. 

 I had a lot of fun playing with different techniques on this layout, thanks for stopping by to check it out!

Museum Hopping

Hello! I've had some time to create so I have a new layout to share! I started with the current single page sketch from Stick It Down:

My photos were a little different shaped, but I made the sketch work for them. I fussy cut the herringbone paper down the sides (I'm realizing now that you can hardly see the fussy cut part because of the photos 😆). I tore the edge of another patterned paper and layered it underneath. I added some texture to the background cardstock with some spray inks, both spraying and splattering them. For my title, I used my Cricut and cut the words from patterned paper and cardstock. For the word "museum," I cut the letters two more times from white cardstock and layered them to give the word a bit of dimension. I also used my Cricut to cut the gears from white cardstock. I used journaling stickers and image stickers to embellish the page. I finished off the page with some washi tape by each embellishment cluster to frame my photos and added silver brads to the middle of my gears.

 

Dan Patch Days

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

I flipped the sketch since my daughter was facing the right in all of my small photos. I also used two photos instead of one for the large photo. I used papers from one of the kits from the Scraproom for September along with a very old sheet of patterned paper from my stash (copyright 2006 😱). I cut all of the patterned paper pieces and adhered them to my page. For my title, I used a font that had a rectangle around the letters. I wanted the letters to have a longer tab at the bottom, so I added and welded a small rectangle to the bottom of each letter. I attached the letters to my layout and added the small letter stickers to complete the title. The letters were blending in a bit with the background paper, so I outlined them with a matching pen. I then added some stitching with my sewing machine (which did not go smoothly). I didn't want to cover up the cute heart paper at the bottom any more, so I used vellum for my journaling. I stamped the lines and heat embossed them so they wouldn't smudge. I added some stamped splatters around the page and then added some watered down ink splatters as well over the top. To finish off the page, I used some stickers, puffy stickers and flair buttons. 

I am also entering this in the Lasting Memories Thankful for stamps and stickers challenge since I used a few of each on this layout.
 

More Cards!

I had to take a bit of a break from photo editing a couple of weeks ago to make some cards for some family celebrations. I'm not finally sharing them.

First up is a 40th birthday card that is very similar to one I made earlier this year, just using different colors. 

Next up is a card using a background that I created during the Simon Hurley class for SBC Fest. I simply cut the cake and stamped, heat embossed and fussy cut the banner and attached them to the ready made background. I used yellow Stickles gel for the "frosting" to finish off the card.

This was another card that I had the background already made way back when I made a bunch of teacher thank yous, I just added the die cut and created a shaker feature. To make the shaker feature, I used the shadow cut for the balloon and cut it from clear stiff packaging. I glued the die cut on top and then cut foam tape into thin strips and adhered it behind the outline of the balloon. I filled the well created by the foam tape with sequins, beads and glitter. I then pressed the card back onto the exposed adhesive. I finished off the card by gluing on a piece of embroidery floss as a string to the balloon.

Finally, I made an anniversary card using a scrap from the background stamped for the first card in this post. I stamped and heat embossed the flowers on the background cardstock and also stamped and heat embossed the sentiment. I added a strip of gold foil cardstock to the seam between the two parts. With the sentiment on the right, it needed a little something on the left, so I added the three red mini brads.

 Thanks for stopping by to check out my cards!

November Calendar Page

Hi all! I finally got my November calendar page finished! I used the two page sketch from last month at Stick It Down:

I started by pulling out white cardstock for my background, but once I started looking at the patterned papers, I decided kraft would make them stand out more. I cut the banners from scraps of patterned paper in the P13 fall collection from last year. I had one open spot that I used a journaling card in the place of a photo.I used my Cricut to cut the frames from a coordinating orange patterned paper.  I also used my Cricut to cut the title. I printed my journaling out and cut it into strips. To embellish the page, I used some Elle's Studio tab and word stamps, some Echo Park brads and chipboard pieces, and cut a couple of leaves from the P13 collection. To finish off the page, I splattered a bit of Tattered Angels Golden Terra Cotta ink around my embellishment cluster and title. 

 I am entering this in the Lasting Memories Thankful for die cuts challenge since I used my die cutting machine for the two frames and the title on this layout.

Sketch Saturday- Oh Happy Day card

Hello! It has been a while! I have been busy taking and editing family photos. I am finally caught up and able to play with paper (and post about it) again. First up is a card I made that was inspired by the current sketch from Sketch Saturday:

I pulled out scraps for this one since I needed some strips. I ended up finding mostly October Afternoon scraps. I trimmed the down and attached them to a black cardstock panel. I then stamped, heat embossed and fussy cut the sentiment. I attached it with foam tape for a bit of dimension. I then punched some stars from silver foil and iridescent foil cardstock. I layered those on either end of the banner to finish up the card.