Happy Birthday

Hello, I have a new card to share today! I made this one for my nephew who just turned 15. He hopes to be a police officer, so I decided to go with that theme and found a cut file that looked like a badge. I cut the file using silver foil cardstock. I tried to get the words to write, but I was having trouble getting it to line up right, so I decided to just cut the letters. These were tiny, so attaching them was a bit of a challenge! For the background, I stamped and heat embossed the herringbone background stamp on black cardstock. 

 This was a pretty simple card, but I like how the different textures added some interest.

Frozen Dance Camp

Hello all! I have a new layout to share! I started with this fun sketch from Lasting Memories:

I ended up using this as the left hand page of a two page spread. I had these fun photos from a camp my daughter did 9 years ago. I started by finding some papers that would work with the colors and theme. I used a Simple Stories winter collection for the snowflakes and flower motifs. I started by cutting the strips and photo mats. I then decided I wanted some die cut snowflakes on my background, so I used my Cricut for that. I also found the fun snow palace cut, so I used some papers that matched my layout to creat that. I went online in search of the right font for my title. The free font that I found that matched the font used for the movie was called "Ice Kingdon." I used my Cricut to cut the file. After laying it out, I wanted the word "Frozen" to stand out more, so I decided to cut the shadow too. I then went to work embellishing with the snowflakes I cut, snowflake die cuts and chipboard from the collection, and a couple of sticky "brads." I wanted a little more interest in the background, so as I was working, I decided to stamps some white snowflakes as well. 

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Caution Kids at Play- Lasting Memories

Hello! I have a new layout to share and it is bright and colorful! I started with this fun sketch from Lasting Memories:

I adjusted the photo spots a bit to make it work with the photos I had- instead of four down the side, I used three vertical photos and and flipped the horizontal single photo spot in the center to vertical and used two photos. Since the photos are from the Children's Museum, I wanted a playful feel to my layout. I pulled out this set of patterned papers with the primary colors and selected a few for the background. For the words and icons around the larger photos, I fussy cut them from a sheet of Shimelle patterned paper. I attached some with regular adhesive and some with foam adhesive. The title was cut using the Cricut. I finished off the layout with a epoxy flair, puffy stickers and tiny gems. My kids all did Diamond Art pictures and I said I would take the leftover gems to use on layouts. :)

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Two Cards- Same Starting Point

Hello again! I have two new cards to share today. I started with a background stamp I picked up a few weeks ago at a garage sale. I stamped it on two pieces of blue cardstock with Versamark ink and heat embossed it with clear powder. 

For my first card, I used blending brushes and Squeezed Lemonade, Mowed Lawn, and Salty Ocean Distress Inks. Once those colors were blended, I wiped the excess ink off of the heat embossing to make it pop. I used my Cricut to cut the party hat from coordinating cardstock. To add dimension, I added the pom pom on the hat using foam adhesive. For the sentiment, I stamped the banner sentiment on cardstock and fussy cut it out. To finish off the card, I glued on some gold foil stars.

For my second card, I blended Salty Ocean, Dusty Concord, and Picked Raspberry Distress inks on my background. I used my Cricut to cut the die cut. I used the filled in layer and cut it from vellum to soften the background behind the balloon. Once that was attached to my layout, I glued down a piece of purple embroidery floss as the string of the balloon. To finish off this card, I glued on some blue sequins.

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Happy Birthday- Sketch Saturday

Hello! I have a new card to share today. I made this one for my nephew who is turning 9 next week. I decided I wanted to make a card using a soccer ball image, and then I stopped over at Sketch Saturday and saw their new sketch:

Perfect! I found some circles in my random die cut bits and they were one of the colors of his soccer club! I stamped and heat embossed the herring bone background on black cardstock. I used my Cricut to cut the black part of the soccer ball. To give the ball dimension, I traced around the ball die cut on white foam and cut it out. I then glued the die cut down. I edged the circles with black ink and stamped my sentiment on one of the circles. Once all of the circles were attached, I cut a thin strip of silver cardstock to attach on the left side of my card (my design is flipped horizontally from the sketch.

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Ready, Set, Play

Hello again! I have another new layout to share, this time for my oldest's scrapbook. I started with the "London" challenge at Paper Issues which was to create a vertical design or use a large title. I ended up doing both. I started by finding patterned paper scraps that complemented my photos and each other. I ended up using a bunch of old October Afternoon papers. I layered those vertically down the right half of my background paper. Then I laid my photos over the top. I used a Cricut cut for my title and made it big. To embellish my page, I fussy cut some words from a sheet of patterned paper, used some stickers, brads and puffy stickers. I felt like the left side of my layout still needed something, so I found some washi tape the coordinated with my papers. That strip needed a bit more and so I found a scalloped border sticker. I was only going to use the bit on the left, but it wasn't sticking back down to the backing sheet, so I decided to use the rest instead of wasting in. I found a couple of other places to add the border. 

 I try not to repeat similar designs in my kids' books, but as I was working on this layout, I realized I had done another page with a very similar design in her book already. Oh well! It's a great design to use up those scraps!

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August Calendar Page- Stick It Down

Hello! I have my August calendar page to share today! I used this month's double page sketch from Stick It Down:

I stuck pretty close to this sketch. I did add one more circle photo and moved the journaling to the right hand page. I started by selecting patterned papers and then chose kraft cardstock for my background to make the colors of my papers and photos stand out. For my title, I pulled out my little packet of random letters that I've cut out with my Cricut and found the letters of August. I couldn't find a "g," so I ended up finding some coordinating cardstock and cutting it. Since the sketch called for a long title, I decided to add the word "awesome." I found a cut with the word and cut it out with the same cardstock I used for the "g." I used strips of white cardstock and wrote my journaling on those. To embellish my page, I stamped a fussy cut a couple of tabs, found some flowers and buttons that went with my color scheme, along with some flower die cuts, a phrase die cut, and some dot stickers.

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