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.