Smore Fun

Hi scrappers, how are you? I hope you all have been enjoying your summer, I certainly have! Although it took awhile for summer to show up here in the NW it eventually came around and it's been beautiful. My family, which included myself, my parents and my brothers and their families spent an amazing week at the beach. Oh and how could I forget my beautiful girl Ellie? She loves the beach, especially running, jumping and cooling off in the ocean. The sun was shining and we had a blast! Our evenings were filled with games, a movie and a fire every night...yes, every night. And if you have a fire, you have to have smores!

This layout tells the story of my nephew creating his own "perfect" smore. Personally I like a nice crispy brown smore that's nice and gooey on the inside, but Micah just likes to burn his!


For the left side of my LO I cut that cute little car and sign post from the 'Campin' Critters' cricut cartridge. Instead of cutting out sentiments on my cricut I decided to use stamps. I love how my sign post turned out. To rough it up a little I crumpled it, used my Tim Holtz distressing tool and then inked the edges.


The die cuts on the right hand page are from 'Campin' Critters' as well. I created a chipboard effect on my title by cutting multiple layers of each letter and adhering them together.


A side view of the left page. Here you can see the dimension and texture on the car. I used buttons for the wheels and rhinestones for the lights on the front of the car. I also adhered some vellum to the car to create windows.


A close up of my sign post, didn't it turn out great. I'm really happy with it. I thought about embossing it for more texture, but decided against it. I was afraid the embossing might make it difficult to read the stamps.


I added a couple of orange pearls and twine to the title.


I'm hoping you can see the dimension of the marshmallow in this picture. Aren't those little guys around the fire just too cute! Such a fun cartridge.

Details:

• Pattern Paper-Fancy Pants 'Beach Bum'
• Solid Cardstock-Papertrey Ink
• Campin' Critters Cartridge-bear cut at 3-inches, porcupine cut at 2.75-inches, car cut at 3.75-inches
• Create A Critter-fire cut at 2-inches
• Mickey Font Cartridge-"smore" cut at 2-inches
• Holiday Cakes Cartridge-"fun" cut at 2-inches
  
• Stickers-Crate Paper
• Brads-Sassafras
• Stamps-Technique Tuesday 'Get Outside' and 'A Date With Ali' by Ali Edwards and 'Noah Alphabet' by Maya Road
• Scallop Punch-Stampin' Up!
  
• Old Lace Glimmer Mist
• Buttons-Stampin' Up!
• Ink-Jenni Bowlin
• Deco Art Snow Writer (white) on marshmallow
• Glossy Accents
• Pearls-Prima
  

Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you've been inspired to create a layout of your own summer fun. See you soon.

A Helping Hand

Hi scrappers, this is Kate from Sassy and Scrappy! Today's post is not your usual craft project, it's actually a call for prayers and support. On Saturday the 23 of July, a close friend of mine found out her children's home was on fire. Her twin daughters and their families all live together on Bainbridge Island, WA where their significant others are Coast Guards. In a freak accident their home was gone, they lost everything. Thankfully everyone was able to get out of the house. Praise God.

As you can imagine the loss and fear of what could have happened is overwhelming. Trying to start over and build your life from scratch with 2 small children is difficult, to say the least. So I would like to ask all of you amazing and supportive crafty friends if you could send a card of encouragement. Something that may help lift their spirits as they make their way through this difficult transition.

As a friend of their mother I just felt at such a loss. I was out of town when the fire happened and couldn't be as supportive as I would have liked. But I did decide to make some thank you cards for them to send out to those who have donated clothing, kitchen supplies, toys, etc for their family. I used my Imagine to quickly create multiple cards.


It was so easy to print out multiple sentiments and background paper for my cards. One thing the Imagine has, can't recall if the E2 does as well, is an 'art quantity' button on the print screen. I simply told it how many of each sentiment I wanted, loaded white paper and off it went.



If you'd like to help out in any way here is the information:

Sutton/Durrant Families

Fort Street Fire Donations

321 High School Road NE

Suite D3 #232

Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

For more information and pictures please head to my friend's blog The Paper Midwife

Details:

• Imagine More Cards Cricut Cartridge
• Bazzil Smooth White Cardstock
• Solid Cardstock, Buttons, Twine, Ink-Papertrey Ink
• Stamped Sentiment-Penny Black "Mimi and Miles"
• Sewing Machine
• White Sakura Gelly Roll Pen
• Ribbon-Kimberly at My Craft Spot

Thank you for stopping by today. Any help, a prayer or positive thought will go a long way! I appreciate all of you.

Papertrey Ink Make It Mondays

Hey scrappers. I'm here to share a card I made for Papertrey Ink's 'Make It Monday'. This week we were asked to "color" with white ink. Something new to me, so I thought I should give it a shot.

I stamped the little ghost on kraft cardstock and then with a sponge dabber I colored in the image. Using my stamp-a-ma-jig I stamped the ghost again. The white ink really lightens up the stamped image, so I tried to brighten it up a little. It didn't work as well as I hoped, but I'm too lazy to outline the image myself with a black pen.


This adorable little girl dressed in her pumpkin costume is from the same stamp set. I colored her with my Copics.

Details:
Kraft cardstock-Papertrey Ink
Pattern Paper-My Mind's Eye (it's from last year's Halloween stack)
Washi Tape
X-press It white cardstock for Copic coloring
Stamps-Recollections

It seems like I'm leaving something out. If you have any questions please let me know. If you have time head on over to Capture The Moment, Papertrey Ink's blog and join the fun!

Scrapbook the Everyday Adventure

Hey scrappers! I found this really great video by Shimelle Laine on scrapbooking the "everyday adventure" as she calls it. It gave me a lot of inspiration and I thought you might enjoy it as well.

Here's the link to Shimelle's youtube channel.

See you back here soon!

Following A Scrapbook Layout

Hi scrappers! I'm so happy and honored to tell you all that I'm a Design Team member for the Bugbytes now! I feel honored to have this opportunity. Please head over there because all the DT members are so talented and I know you will be inspired.

For my first post I thought it would be fun to work with a sketch, so I chose the layout below from Page Maps. This is my take on the layout, of course there are multiple variations. The great thing about sketches is that you can switch things up to make it work for you.

Below is a picture of the sketch:


This is a picture of my finished layout...well finished as it can be without my pictures and journalling added. I normally include both of those, but this page was made in anticipation of the photos I'll take on my vacation. I'm really looking forward to spending a week at the beach with my family!


Alright, here you can see the die cut pieces I created for my layout. On the right is a rough idea of how I thought I would lay out my page. I didn't end up using the flip flops and sunglasses (but they are too cute and I know I'll use them for something) because I just couldn't find a good place for them.


I tried something new on this page. I stamped the sentiments on my journalling page and then colored them in with some Copic markers. I really like the idea of combining coloring and scrapbooking, so you'll probably see more of this from me.


To create another embellishment I used my circle punch to cut out one of the pattern circles. I love this paper and will probably use a bunch of these circles in the future to create a funky background for another layout. I have to admit that cutting up this paper was kind of difficult. I'm sure some of you can understand how difficult it can be to cut up paper you really like.


Okay, so my take on the sketch...I cut a similar "top note" shape to mat my pictures on. I placed my journalling card on the right just like the sketch, and stamped my title. Instead of using a scallop-edge on the horizontal piece of cardstock, I chose to use more of a wave shape, this helps to continue the beach theme of the layout. I added two embellishments, same as the sketch. A sticker page was included in this paper pack and it had a wonderful blue flourish, so I added that to the top of my page. Again, this image reminds me of water and continues the beach theme.

Details:

• Brown Polka Dot Pattern Paper-October Afternoon "Fly A Kite"
• Pattern Paper-Simple Stories "100 Days of Summer"
• Solid Cardstock-Papertrey Ink
  
• Pack Your Bag Cricut cartridge Seagull cut at 3-inches, Whate cut at 2.5-inches
• Elegant Edges-Top Note shape cut at 6-inches
  
• Peachy Keen Critter Face Assortment (medium size)
• Brads-My Mind's Eye
• Twine-Papertrey Ink
• Stamps-'Perspectives' by Technique Tuesday and Ali Edwards, 'Kite Tails' by October Afternoon, 'Schoolhouse Backdrops' by Lawn Fawn
• Ink-Jenni Bowlin
• Copic Markers-R27, R29, Y15, Y19
  
• Glossy Accents
• White Sakura Gelly Roll Pen
• EK Succes 1 3/4-inch circle punch

Thank you for taking the time to look at my scrapbook page today, and thanks to Pam for adding me to your incredibly talented design team! Please visit my blog to see what else I'm working on.

Summer Card Camp-Week 4

Hi scrappers! This is a super quick post because I'm leaving for vacation in the morning. It's week 4, the final week of card camp and I wanted to give this color combo a try...even if I didn't have a lot of time to work on it. The colors this week remind me of the beach, which I love!


Fun combination, right?!


The card is 5 x 5-inch card. The small square are 1 and 1/2-inches. I also used a 1-inch circle punch.

• Solid Cardstock-Papertrey Ink
• Pattern Paper-Basic Grey "Sweet Threads"
• Thickers
• Buttons-Papertrey Ink
• Martha Stewart heart punch
• Brads-My Mind's Eye
• White embroidery floss
• Mini Paperclip-Papertrey Ink
  

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week and I'll see you all very soon. Oh and next Tuesday, July 25 I have a fun announcement. I love comments!

Design Team Submission

Hi scrappers! I hope you had a nice weekend.I've got a really fun card to share with you. I decided to "throw my hat into the ring" and submit a project for a chance to be on Robyn, My Pink Stamper's Design Team. I'm sure she will have lots and lots of entries, so my chances are pretty slim, but why not give it a shot?! She gave us the following guidelines:

Challenge: Make a card, scrapbook page, or other Cricut project with your favorite Cricut cartridge using the following colors......

Orange
Brown
Turquoise
Green

I just happened to get an order in last week from Two Peas In A Bucket which had a stamp that was perfect for this color combination. We are also able to add 1 color of our choice, so can you guess what I picked? Red, of course!


Aren't they the cutest little monsters?! I colored them with my Copics. The card is 3 and 3/4-inches squared. I created it by welding 2 postage stamp shaped images together on my Gypsy. I colored the balloon twice so I could cut 1 out to pop up on the card. I also added Glossy Accents to the balloon.

Details:

• Kraft cardstock-Papertrey Ink
• X-press It cardstock for Copic coloring
• Pattern Paper-My Mind's Eye "Fly A Kite"
• Tiny Tags Die-Papertrey Ink
• B is for Boy-welded card cut at 9-inches
  
• Stamp-My Pink Stamper and Stamping Bella "Monstahbash"
  
• Copic Markers-sorry I forgot to write them down
• Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and Jenni Bowlin
• Spellbinders Nestabilities-Large Labels
  
• Glossy Accents
• Sakura Gelly Roll Pen-white
• Twine-Divine Twine (I think, sorry)

I'm happy with my card, even if it doesn't get me a spot on the design team. I'm also pretty impressed with my ability to stay within the color scheme. Color challenges can be, well, challenging! Lol! If you're interested in submitting your own project or want to see what everyone else has created you can check it out here.