January Calendar Page

Hello! I just finished my first calendar page for 2024! Can you believe we're less than two weeks from the New Year?! I started withe double page sketch from Stick It Down:

I started the layout by stamping and heat embossing snowflakes on my cardstock background. The heat embossed snowflakes are a little hard to see as they are white pearl and pale blue with sparkle embossing powder. I then dripped and smooshed some light blue ink over the snowflakes. Once all of that was dry, I adhered my photos and patterned papers. This sketch lends itself well to using up scraps as I used mostly strips of paper on this. I stamped journaling lines in the upper right for my recap of the month and added strips to my photos for captions. I used my Cricut to cut my title from shimmer cardstock in a coordinating color. For embellishments, I used stickers, a brad, glitter enamel dots, and puffy stickers. 

 Thanks for stopping by to check out my layout!

Happy Birthday

Hello, I have a new card to share today! I was inspired by the Tic Tac Toe Challenge board from a couple of weeks ago: 

I went with the bottom row- Free, embellishment, and die cut. I started my card by using a mask and some Distress Oxide inks to ink the circles on the background. Then I used my Cricut to draw and cut the present. I used a metallic pen to color the ribbon on my present. I stamped and fussy cut the sentiment banner before attaching it to my card. I felt the card needed something between the present and sentiment, so I used a strip of washi tape. To finish off the card, I glued on a sprinkling of sequins.

 

Dan Patch Days- Take 2

Hello again! I have another new layout to share. My kids have COVID, so I'm hiding in my craft room to try to avoid it so I'm getting some scrapping done!

This layout started with this sketch from Paper Issues:

I started by trimming my photos to 3x3 so I could make a single column on my page. I then found the paint stripe patterned paper. I trimmed that down to create the illusion of the frame suggested by the sketch. I decided to add some smooshing of the same colors down the right side of the photos so I went to work finding ink colors in my stash that matched my patterned paper. The little swatch book I made a while back was very helpful here because I was able to match the stamped color to the patterned paper. I ended up with a mix of inks from Distress, Stampin Up, and ColorBox. I am very happy with how well they ended up matching the colors of the patterned paper. While that dried, I fussy cut the circles, hearts and popcicles from patterned paper from this collection. I punched the flowers and stars from scraps. I stamped some stars over the smooshing in white, which ended up not showing up very well. I added the pieces I had fussy cut with regular adhesive and a couple of thicknesses of foam adhesive. I stamped the title with a darker turquoise color, along with the journaling lines. Since there were touched of black in the patterned paper circles, I wrote my journaling with a black pen. To finish off my layout, I used some enamel dots and a couple of canvas flair buttons.

 I am also entering this in the Walk in the Park challenge at Lasting Memories.

TTYLXOX- Sketches In Thyme

Hi all! I have a new layout to share today! It started with one of this month's sketches from  Sketches In Thyme:

I started with a piece of cardstock with resist stars on it. I took a Black Soot Distress Oxide ink pad and drug it across the page to create the black areas. I used a towel to rub the ink off the resist stars. I then found patterned papers and embellishments in pink to add around my photos. I used the title of one of the songs they danced to as the title of the page. The letters I found didn't have any "Ts" left, so I used Ks and trimmed and layered them to make the Ts. I also entered this in Day 2 of the Paper Issues 12 days of Christmas challenge, which was to use one sheet of cardstock and two photos.

Thanks for stopping by to check out my layout!

Happy Birthday- Sketch Saturday

Hi all! I have a new card to share today, using last week's sketch from Sketch Saturday: 

I started by running the black background panel through my embossing machine in an embossing folder. I then took washi tape to make the stripes. I splattered the background with brown spray ink to give it the appearance of mud. I accidentally dropped my card base on the black panel while the ink was wet so I ended up with splatters on that as well. I then found some coordinating cardstock to make th truck. I cut that with my Cricut and attached it to the card with foam adhesive to set it off of the black background. I stamped the sentiment on coordinating cardstock and then trimmed the little banner and attached it to the card front. 

 

A Trio of Cards

Hello! I have three new cards to share today! First up is a card using the current card sketch from Stick It Down:

I started with a stamped background. This is actually the ink I lifted off the alcohol ink backgrounds that I used for Father's Day cards. I then took a piece of watercolor paper, some blue inks, and water and did the smooshing technique. I stamped and heat embossed the tree and sentiment on white cardstock and then edged those pieces with blue ink.I finished off the card with some sequins stars.

Next up is a card I made for my daughter's 17th birthday. I was inspired by last week's Tic Tac Toe challenge: 

I did the right column. I used my embossing machine and a snowflake folder on light blue cardstock. I took a white ink pad and rubbed it over the snowflakes to add a bit more depth to them. I then used the Altenew butterfly layering stamp set to stamp the butterflies. I fussy cut them and attached them to the card with foam adhesive. I made a quick little banner to stamp my sentiment and finished off the card front with some pearls.

Finally is a card I made for a friend who was ordained a deacon this weekend. I started by stamping a script text background stamp on the pearl background paper with Versamark and heat embossing it with clear powder. I added the gold spotted acetate strips. I stamped and heat embossed with gold powder the hands and sentiment on vellum. I ran the vellum and acetate through my sticker maker so the adhesive would be uniform and harder to see. I finished off the card with some twine for a rustic touch. 

 

December Calendar page

 Hello all! I have my December calendar page to share today! I started with the November double page sketch from Stick It Down:

I bought a Christmas warehouse box last year from Simple Stories and this layout was finally my chance to play with the more Christmassy stuff. I started by finding some patterned papers that went well with my photos. Once I had attached the banners across the bottom half of both pages, I used my sewing machine to create the frame with white thread. I wanted my photos to pop, so I matted them on white cardstock. For my journaling, I typed it up and printed it on white cardstock that I cut into strips. To embellish the page, I found some frames to add to a couple of the photos and then used some die cuts and brads to finish off the clusters. To add a bit of dimension, I added Glossy Accents to the little hearts in my clusters.

I am entering this in the Lasting Memories Thankful for Words challenge since I used lots of them and used a list form for my journaling to list off everything we did last December.