A Charlotte Wedding

Good morning! If you are a regular follower of this blog, you know that my scrapbooking style tends to have one of three things: 1- layers, 2- embellishment clusters, and 3- lots of photos. This layout of my cousin's wedding has all three!

For this layout, I used the Charlotte Workshop Your Way. The Workshop Your Way kits include a full B&T paper pack, three sheets of cardstock, and two types of embellishments.

This layout was not easy to make, because I knew I wanted a lot of pictures, but I really wanted to include a 5x7 on the left page. I made it work by looking at my photos on my computer, and then cutting mats to the size I wanted the photos. Then, I moved the mats around until I got the final design. I actually have my own photo printer, so I can print the photos the exact size I want them.

I added an embellishment cluster to the bottom left, The base of the cluster is a heart doily cut using a die run through my Cuttlebug. Then, I added layers using the Charlotte complements and some Paper Fundamentals Stickers from the Basic set.

For the right page, I created a grid using six 3x3 photos and two dominate photos in the middle. Since the photos didn't leave a lot of room for embellishments, I double layered the background and added a very small cluster to the bottom.

Ingredients:

• Charlotte Workshop Your Way
• Paper Fundamentals Stickers (Basic)

Happy Scrapping, My Artsy Friends!

A Kiddie Halloween

One of my absolute favorite yearly events to scrapbook is Halloween. I think part of it is that I love the colors associated with it, but it's also because we have so much fun as a family celebrating Halloween. Last year, my oldest son and I attended a Halloween party for our Early Childhood PTA. Let me tell you how adorable it is to have a costume party with toddlers. For Halloween, my son was a rocket ship and I was the Moon. I made both of our costume, and you can view them better here. For this two page layout, I mixed two retired CTMH Halloween paper packs, Scaredy Cat and Nevermore.

For the left page, I used a spiderweb cut from the Artbooking and some fussy cut stamps from the retired Little Monsters stamp set to embellish. 

I actually had this spiderweb left over from another project, so this worked as a stash buster for me, as well. I never throw out extra cuts, because I can usually find another project for them!

The thing I loved about this stamp set was that the monsters look like kids, which was perfect for this design. I hand colored the images using blending markers. 

For the right page, I cut the title from the Mini Monsters Cricut Cartridge. I think this cartridge maybe retired, which is a shame, because it's really awesome!

Here again, I mixed embellishments from the two retired paper packs.

I am entering this in this week's Between the Folds Creative Cuts Challenge, and Heart 2 Heart's Throwback Challenge.

Ingredients: Unfortunately, all of these products are retired, but you can view all current products here.

Happy Scrapping, My Artsy Friends!

German Food and Fundamentals

Hello again! Close to My Heart Paper Fundamentals make great paper for accents, but I rarely do an entire layout using them. Today was one of the exceptions. When my bestie Heather came to visit last summer, we took her to our favorite German restaurant Das Schnitzel Haus in Parma, Ohio. If you don't already know, Ohio is full of delicious German food. Das Schnitzel Haus is the best German food outside of my grandma's kitchen.

As you can see, I used three different Paper Fundamentals papers to create a funky German flag background. The black layer is turned to the shiny side of the paper, but the pattern is still there. The banner in the corner is also a mixture of Paper Fundamentals embellishment packs. The "Explore" and "German Food" stickers are from the Basic Fundamentals Stickers.

I created this funky hexagon design using cuts from the Artistry Cricut cartridge and the Hexagonal Patterns stamp set.

The "You Are Here" embellishment comes from the Cranberry Fundamental Assortment. And, I used the Documenting Moments journaling stamp to add my journaling.

I am entering this layout in this week's Heart 2 Heart Sightseeing Challenge, since it was part of Heather's Ohio grand tour!

Ingredients:

• Basic Paper Fundamentals
• Adventure Paper Fundamentals
• Whimsy Paper Fundamentals
• Basic Fundamentals Stickers
• Adventure Fundamentals Stickers
• Whimsy Fundamentals Stickers
• Cranberry Fundamentals Assortment
• Hexagonal Patterns
• Documenting Moments
• Black Ink Pad
• Gold Foil Tape

Happy Scrapping, My Artsy Friends!

Scrapping Friends

My best friend Heather and I share the love of scrapbooking, so when she came to visit me last summer, she brought some supplies. Oddly, we had never taken pictures scrapping together before, so this time we absolutely had to. Heather and I are both minimalistically girly, so I chose the slight flowery patterns found in the retired Happy Times paper pack.

To embellish this page, I mixed a lot of different products I had hanging around (see below), but I specifically purchased the retired SOTM Life in Pictures for this page and created a cute cluster.

For the flowers in the mason jar, I colored them using the watercolor pencils. I love the look, because it is much more subtle than markers.

Since I created this layout using stuff I had been hoarding, but I hadn't used, I entered this design in the Heart 2 Heart Challenges Throwback Challenge.

Ingredients:

• Happy Times Paper Pack (Retired)
• Life in Pictures (Retired)
• Candlelight Garden (Retired)
• Noted
• Kaleidoscope Complements
• Whimsy Fundamentals Stickers
• Adventure Fundamentals Stickers
• Pear Ink
• Black Ink
• Black Momento Ink
• Thistle Ink
• Glacier Ink
• Pixie Ink
• Pixie Extra Thick Twine
• Watercolor Pencils

Happy Scrapping My Artsy Friends!

Roll Tide Birthday Card

My best friend has a birthday next week. She works for the University of Alabama, so I decided to make her a Roll Tide birthday card.

I used a houndstooth embossing folder that I inked with black ink to create a fun texture. To leave room for the elephant stamp, I used the circle diffuser. I would have liked to see no ink in that circle, but as this was my first time trying these techniques together, I wasn't sure how many times to run it through my Cuttlebug. It turns out, three is too many. The elephant and sentiment are from the retired Balloon Animals SOTM set. I embellished with some houndstooth washi tape from Hobby Lobby, and some silver and red Shimmer Trim. The entire card took me maybe 20mins to make, but I think the results are lovely.

Ingredients:

• Cranberry Cardstock
• White Daisy Cardstock
• Cranberry Ink
• Black Ink
• Slate Ink
• Red Shimmer Trim
• Silver Shimmer Trim
• Circle Diffuser

Happy Scrapping, My Artsy Friends!

USCG Thank You Card

This weekend, I will be attending a tea for the spouses of Active Duty Coast Guard members hosted by the Admiral. I wanted to create a classy thank you card for the event.

I used the retired My Anchor stamp set and thin cuts to create the lighthouse and paper sailboat. The "Thanks" stamp set is from the retired Thanksgiving Wreath stamp set. The large anchor is a Spellbinders die. I cut the anchor out on White Daisy cardstock, and then using finger daubers I layered Slate and Outdoor Denim ink.

For the inside of the card, I layered some more retired Outdoor Denim and White Daisy. The small anchor is also from the My Anchor set. I also used the finger dauber here to create another layer of Outdoor Denim.

Happy Scrapping, My Artsy Friends!

Curtain Fold Thank You Card

Welcome back, readers! So, Sunday my friends held a Baby Sprinkle for me to celebrate baby boy #2 due next month! Since, I never buy cards anymore, I knew I would have to be creating a thank you card for my guests. I have been seeing a lot of the curtain fold cards online, and really wanted to try one for myself. I watched a view videos on YouTube to get the concept down, and then came up with this card using the FREE paper pack for National Scrapbooking Month:

So, as you can see the basic design of a curtain fold is to fold the paper back and forth to create this ripple. It works really well with double sided paper, because you'll see both patterns! Since, this was a Thank You card for a Baby Sprinkle, I used the onesie from Georgie to accent the card. I marker colored the onesie, and stamped anchor from a retired stamp set to decorate. The anchor is also embossed in silver. My husband is Active Duty in the US Coast Guard, so anchors are big in our family!

As I said before, this paper pack called Happy Times is absolutely FREE this month with a $60 purchase from CTMH. Additionally, there is a stamp set that you can purchase for $17.95. Get both on my website by clicking the icon on the right, or clicking here.

I am entering this card in Between the Folds Fancy Folds Challenge.

Ingredients:

• Happy Times Paper Pack (Available FREE this month!!!)
• Georgie Workshop on the Go (stamp set is not available separately)
• White Daisy Cardstock
• Topiary Ink
• Black Ink
• Green Shimmer Trim

Happy Scrapping, My Artsy Friends!