Scrapping with Sketches In Thyme

Hello again! I have a couple of layouts to share today using Sketches in Thyme sketches. First up is a dance layout using this sketch:

I started by finding blue patterned papers that coordinated with the color of the costumes in these photos. The papers I used were scraps of various sizes, so then I had to figure out how to make them fit. Once I got those and the photos adhered, I cut the title with my Cricut. I cut it once from patterned paper and three more times from white cardstock for dimension. I found a coordinating journaling circle and added the main info. I wanted add a little more info so I just wrote directly on the layout with that. To embellish the page, I used some stickers. I wanted a little more in the upper left corner of my photo, so I peeled up my photo and added some stamping. I finieshed off the layout with some blue gems.

Next up, I did a layout using this sketch:

My photos didn't fit the sketch perfectly, but I made them work. I started by lining up the 4" tall photos across the bottom. Then I layered the last two photos and postcard over some patterned paper on the top. Instead of the strips used in the sketch, I fussy cut some flowers from another sheet of patterned paper. I stamped the word "fairies" and used letter stickers for "finding." I added some die cuts on either end of the title. To embellish the page, I used some foam word stickers and washi tape. To finish things off, I used Dirty Bronze Nuvo Drops.

 

Birthday Cards

Hi all! I have a couple of cards to share with you today. First up is a birthday card for my niece who turns one tomorrow. I started with the current color challenge at Color Dare:

Aren't the colors pretty? I ended up going with the lighter pink, orange, and green. I started by dry embossing my pink cardstock with a polka dot embossing folder. I then stamped and heat embossed the fish on the orange paper. I then went to work layering everything up. I added sparkle to the background and the fish with a white Wink of Stella glitter pen. I stamped my sentiment on the green strip. The rest of the strip looked so bare, so I ended up stamping the loopy border stamp along the rest of the strip. To finish off the card, I used some Glossy Accents to add bubbles to my fish and accent a few more dots on my background. 

 

My second card went together pretty quickly. I had colored this background a while ago, so that was ready to go. I cut the sentiment with my Cricut and adhered that down. I finished off the front with some Liquid Pearl dots.

May Calendar Page- Stick It Down

Hi all! I have my May calendar page to share today! I started once again with the double page sketch from Stick It Down:

The photos took up most of the page for this one, so I started there. I had the beautiful rainbow stripe paper that I cut into strips to go on either side of my vertical columns of photos. To add some interest to the center part of the layout, I stamped some swirls with Distress Oxide ink. I matted my center photos on a coordinating yellow patterned paper. I fussy cut the butterflies from another sheet of patterned paper. For my title, I found a patterned paper with colors that went with what I already had on my layout. I used cardstock strips for my journaling. To embellish my layout, I used some foam stickers, a die cut phrase, and a transparency flower die cut. To add a little more interest to the swirls, I added some tiny light blue gems ( leftover from a Diamond Art project).

 Thanks for stopping by to check out my layout!

Dance layouts

I've had time to do some scrapping this week! I got a couple more dance layouts done for my daughter's album.

For the first layout, I used this sketch from Lasting Memories:

I started by finding some papers that went with my photos. I then cut them into strips and created banners. I then adhered my photos over that. I had the idea to have a "shattered" style font for the word "Glass" and I found this one. I used my Cricut to cut the title. For the journaling, I just used one of the pieces I cut off one of the banners, ripped the long ends and wrote on it with a white pen. To embellish this page, I cut some squares from washi tape and used some black pearls. For the x's, I used actual x's from a Thickers set. I added black glitter to them for some sparkle and stuck them in my clusters. I cut a couple of the "legs" of them at a different angle to make them look a little less like a letter. I finished off the layout with a black transparency heart by the title. 

 

For my next layout, I used this sketch from Paper Issues:

I found these beautiful outline roses in Cricut Design Space and cut them from red cardstock in place of the circles on the sketch. I then layered my photos over them. I used some gold glitter cardstock and black cardstock to mat the individual photos. I used my Cricut for the title. I added strips of rub ons around the photos to highlight them and used black puff paint to add the dots in the leaves.

First Communion Cards

Hello again! Today I have three First Communion cards to share. I started by cutting the three chalices and hosts using my Cricut and red, kraft, gold, rose gold, copper and cream cardstocks. Once those were cut and assembled, I went to work creating the backgrounds. 

For my first card, I found the blue and green paper and thought it would look nice. I then found the green vellum. I ran that through an embossing folder. I matted the whole thing on blue cardstock. For the sentiment, I again used my Cricut and cut "Blessings" from coordinating green cardstock.

For my next card, I used a leaf mask and some green inks to ink a background. Once that was done, I found a coordinating patterned paper to mat the ink blended piece. I cut the sentiment from a coordinating yellow patterned paper.

 For my last card, I found a pretty pink background patterned paper and a pattened vellum for an extra layer. I scored the vellum so it would wrap around the patterned paper and adhered it to the back. I used the same color of cardstock for the sentiment on this card as I used for the wine layer.
 

One final note, for the host, I cut a 1" circle and used my scoring board to create the cross in the middle. I put the circle in the corner and scored at the 1/2" line and then turned it a quarter turn to make the other line.

Birthday Cards

Hello! I've gotten behind on sharing again! Today I have several birthday cards and tomorrow I'll have some First Communion cards.

First up is a birthday card from my 2-year-old niece. I started by doing the smooshing technique on a piece of watercolor paper.  Once I was done layering the colors, I used the butterfly Turnabout stamp from Concord and 9th to stamp the background. I used regular ink for the first three impressions and then used Versamark for the last and heat embossed it with pearl embossing powder. I stamped the large buterfly and a couple of small butterflies from the set and fussy cut them. I added some Stickles to the large butterfly for some interest and Liquid Pearls for the bodies of the small butterflies. The sentiment is the inside pieces from the cut for this card. I mounted it on dark purple cardstock and then on a white card base.

I had extra of the butterfly background, so I used that for this card. I paired it with the same dark purple cardstock, but this time I used an embossing folder to add some texture. I used some washi tape to cover the seam between the two papers. For the sentiment, I used my Cricut to cut the frame and flower. I stamed the sentiment. The butterfly was left over from another project and the colors matched so I added it to this card.

When I was doing the ink smooshing for the above cards, I had another piece of watercolor paper that I used as well. I took that and the card sketch from Stick It Down to create my next card.

I used a flower background stamp and three colors of ink to stamp this background. The blue stamped piece of cardstock was a scrap that worked with the colors on this card. I also had a piece of watercolor paper with similar colors on it and I used that for the cake and sentiment panel. The cake was stamped in pink and then heat embossed with clear glitter embossing powder. The sentiment was stamped in Versamark and heat embossed with white. I added a pink mat to make it stand out a bit from the background. I finished off teh card with some bold pink puffy heart stickers.

I went with different colors for my last card. I started by stamping and heat embossing the circle background on pink cardstock. I then ink blended pink, orange and yellow inks over it. I cut the cute bird using my Cricut. I also used my Cricut to write the sentiment and cut the tag. To add some fun to the bird, I added some googly eyes. I finished off the card front with some sequins.

 

Fairies in the Forest- Stick It Down

Hello! I'm back today with another layout! When I saw this sketch from Stick It Down, I knew I had to use it:

Isn't it fun? I found these three photos to work with. Then I went to work figuring out what my large shaped element would be. I found this partial sheet of shaped paper and thought it worked well with my photos. I used a sheet of yellow patterned paper for the film strip element. I didn't have an actual film strip cut for my Cricut, so I used a border punch to give a similar effect. I laid the photos and papers out on my background paper and decided the left side needed something. I ended up pulling out my large swirl mask and went to work with a blending brush creating the large swirls. I cut my title with my Cricut. To embellish the page, I used some stickers and a canvas flair by Scrappin Happy Studio. I added some stamped flowers to my swirls and added tiny gems to the centers of the blue ones to finish off the page.

 

What I Like About You

Hello! I have another new layout to share! I discovered teh Creative Scrapbooker Magazine Sketch Group on Facebook recently and I decided to used the January Sketch for this layout:

My photos are bigger than what is prescribed in the sketch, but I made it work. For my background, I used a mask and spray inks to create the pattern. I didn't have an ink that matched the color of these costumes, but the mix of these two worked quite well! I collected some patterened papers from my stash that had similar colors and used my Cricut to cut the hexagons in different sizes. I matted my photos with gold cardstock to bring in the gold of the costumes. To use a little less, I cut the mat for one of the smaller photos from the center of the mat of the larger photo. I also used my Cricut for the title. For my journaling, I punched a tag from lined patterned paper and matted it on the glitter cardstock. My final little embellishments were some eyelets (haven't used those in a while!) and some gem stars.

I was also inspired by Lasting Memories Challenge #693- create a layout with at least 4 hexagons and add some stenciling to the background.

 

Layouts From Sketches

Hello! I'm back with my last couple of layouts from the last few weeks. These both used sketches.

First up is this sketch from Sketches In Thyme:

I had a lot of fun with this sketch. I started with a sheet of white cardstock for the background and the sheet of yellow chevron paper. I cut the patterned paper and marked on my background where it would be. I then used the plastice packaging technique to add some yellow and grey inks to the background. I dried that most of the way and added some black splatters. Once that was all totally dry, I adhered the patterned paper and photos. I cut the title from the backside of the chevron paper and from black cardstock two more times. I layered the yellow on top of the black to give the shadow effect. To embellish the page, I used some washi tape, die cuts, and tiny enamel dots.

 Next is this sketch from Paper Issues:

I started by using my Cricut to make the big circular element with drawing and cutting. I added the photos and cut the title using my Cricut as well. I had these darker wood veneer pieces that went well with the paper I used for the background of my title, so I used those to embellish my page (the pieces on either side of my title were actually one piece that I cut in half and sanded the edges). I used a few other die cuts from my stash and some brown metallic Nuvo drops to finish off the layout.

Such A Dream

Hi all! Here is another layout I have done in the last few days. I used papers and embellishments from The Scrap Room's September 2023 Flavor of the Month kit.

The kit really made this come together quickly. I chose some papers and used them to highlight my photos. I wanted a little something on my background by the title and main photo, so I got out some old stamps and stamp the scroll background and flowers. The title was a foam sticker that was included in the kit, as were the other foam stickers and die cuts. I used some washi tape from my stash and some tiny gold foil stars to finish things off.

 

April Calendar Page and a Card- Stick It Down

Hello! I have been getting some scrapping done, but haven't been posting so I will be sharing some projects over the next few days. First up are a couple of projects for the sketches from Stick It Down.

First up is the double page sketch:

I loved the wave across this sketch, so I stuck very close to the sketch. I used paper from the "Serendipity" line from Photo Play. I have some yellow Stickles gel that I decided to swipe above the wave to add some interest around the photos. I used cardstock strips for my journaling. Instead of the butterflies, I used little word bubbles, which were fussy cut from a sheet of patterned paper. 

Next up is the card sketch:

I used my marble Turnabout stamp to create the background. I used an embossing folder on a piece of cardstock across the bottom. I stamped the sentiment banner and fussy cut it. I stamped the leaves and fussy cut those as well. I started with just five, but decided to add a couple more to give the card a little more movement. 

 

Lake Life

Hi all! I have been busy creating and have another layout to share! For this one, I started with this sketch from Sketches In Thyme:

I made a two page layout this time, so I used the sketch for the left hand page and went from there. I started by finding a patterned paper that I had two sheets of to go on my background. Then I found papers and embellishments to go with it. I cut my title using my Cricut and coordinating colors of cardstock. I embellished th page with some die cuts, washi tape, stickers, and enamel dots. This layout came together pretty quickly and I love how colorful it is!

 

Motown

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

I played around with the sizes a bit to make it work with my photos. I started by finding black, white and blue papers in my stash. I then pieced the different papers together. I stamped and heat embossed the dot circles on the right side of the page above my smaller photo for some interest. To embellish my page, I used up some black flowers, blue buttons and blue gems. I used my Cricut to cut the title and music staff. 

 I am also entering this in the Color My Heart Color Challenge #591:

Not adding any metallics was a bit of a challenge, but I did it!

4th of July

Hello, I have another layout to share! This one has lots of photos again. I started by laying out the photos with patterned paper. Once that was set, I found a Cricut cut file for my title. I got that cut out and assembled and then stamped the subtitle on a strip of white cardstock. To embellish the page, I used some of the extra stars cut from the cut file, sequins, stickers, a tag, baker's twine, and enamel flair. 

 Thanks for stopping by to check out my layout!

Sympathy cards

Hello! I have a set of cards I made for some friends and family members (who are all related) that lost two family members this week. I used similar materials for all of them to keep things simple.

First up, I used some Whitewash Coredinations cardstock and ran it through an embossing folder. I took my sanding block and sanded off the raised areas to reveal the color. For the flower centers, I used a water brush and some yellow shimmer powder and painted it on. I finished off the card with a stamped and heat embossed sentiment.

For my next card (sorry this photo is not great), I started by stamping the flowers onto my background. I used the matching masks to color the flowers with ink and blending brushes. I finished off this card with a stamped sentiment that I matted on a coordinating green paper. 

I used another set of masks for this card. I used some blending brushes to add the ink to the masks and the blue around the edges. I finished off this card with a stamped and heat embossed sentiment. 

For my last card, I started by stamping and heat embossing the flower. I colored it in with markers. I used a blending brush and blue ink around the edges for some interest. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment and glued a little bow onto the flower stem. 

I was inspired by the tic tac toe challenge for this card. I used the top row- CAS (clean and simple), Thinking of You, and Floral. 

 

What a Thrill!

Hello, I'm back with another layout to share! I had six photos to work with on this one and wanted to keep it on one page. As I mentioned yesterday, I went on a scrapbooking weekend a couple of weeks ago, and one of the other ladies was getting rid of some paper and she had a "travel" paper pad, and the colors are perfect for boy layouts, so I grabbed it! It was so fun to play with some of those papers here. 

This layout came together pretty quickly. I started by laying out the photos and papers. Once that was down, I cut the title. I laid that out on the blue background, but it didn't stand out very well and actually messed with my eyes a bit. I decided to add some solid yellow behind the title to make it stand out more. I tore both sides of the paper to add some texture. For embellishments, I pulled some stickers and die cuts from my stash, as well as a little washi tape. (There was a arrow on both ends of the title, but I just noticed one is missing!)

 

Grease

 Hello all! I haven't posted much lately, but I have been busy scrapping and organizing. I had a scrapbooking weekend a couple of weeks ago where I worked on wedding pages from my husband's siblings weddings. I spent the following week completing that album. There are a lot of pages, and they are a little different from my typical style, so I won't be sharing those here. 

I got back to scrapping with a dance layout. I started with this sketch from Rochelle Spears:

I started by rotating the sketch to make it work with my horizontal photos. I found some pink papers to go with the costumes. These papers were all in my scraps! I then went to work layering and cutting the papers. I found a free svg file online of the "Grease" logo, so I downloaded that and cut it with my Cricut. I used some shimmer paper for a little sparkle. Once everything was stuck down, I found a journaling sticker to add my info. I decided I wanted some ink splatters around where my embellishments clusters would be, so I used some gray spray ink and covered what I didn't want splattered.  Once that was dry, I dug through my stash for some embellishments. I found the cute phone flair and some "gromlets" to add to the page. The little prize ribbon also went well, but the brad that was with it did not, so I found a puffy heart sticker to put in the center instead. 

I also did the Scrap With Stacy Tic Tac Toe challenge. I did the diagonal from the top left to the bottom right- sticker, circles, and puffy sticker.

I am also participating in the Lasting Memories Circle challenge- create a layout with at least 4 circles, add buttons, brads or bling for an added twist.

Stick It Down layouts

Hi all! I have a couple of layouts to share today using Stick It Down sketches. First up is the double page sketch:

I used this one for my calendar layout. I had more that 8 photos, so I played with the photo sizes a bit to make them all fit. I found these two papers in my stash and attached them to a couple of sheets of white cardstock for stability. I added some blue ric rack to the center of the page. For my journaling, I typed it an printed it on pearl cardstock. I added captions to the photos and then rest of the journaling under my title. The letter stickers I used for the title are getting pretty sparse, so I ended up chopping up some letters to make them work. I cut the bottom off of a "g" for the "a," I trimmed a "b" into the "r," and a "q" into the "c." To embellish the page, I dug into my stash and found some really old embellishments (hello felt die cuts and die cut chipboard!). I also used some new flower die cuts and pearls. The "sweet thing" stickerin the bottom right had a purple border that I colored over with a green Sharpie to make it match my layout better. It just goes to show that you can use up those supplies if you get creative!

Next is the single page sketch:

I did another dance layout for this one. I found a scrap of red and black patterned paper that had some geometric lines that made for interesting triangles on my page. I used my Cricut to cut the silhouettes and title from silver cardstock (it looks peachy in the photo because it is reflecting the light from the room where it was photographed). I used a background stamp and white ink to added the stars and dots on the background before attaching everything. To embellish the page, I used some sequins and silver Nuvo drops.