Saturday, April 27, 2024
Scrapping with Sketches In Thyme
Friday, April 26, 2024
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:
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.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
May Calendar Page- Stick It Down
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Saturday, April 20, 2024
Dance layouts
For my next layout, I used this sketch from Paper Issues:
Monday, April 15, 2024
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 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.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Birthday Cards
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.
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Fairies in the Forest- Stick It Down
Thursday, March 28, 2024
What I Like About You
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.
Layouts From Sketches
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.
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Such A Dream
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
April Calendar Page and a Card- Stick It Down
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.
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Lake Life
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Motown
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:
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
4th of July
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Monday, March 11, 2024
Sympathy cards
Sunday, March 10, 2024
What a Thrill!
Saturday, March 9, 2024
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:
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Stick It Down layouts
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.