Back to School Layout

Hello my friends, I hope you're having a great week. Today I have a quick and simple back to school layout to share with you. What, I'm the only one behind on my scrapbooking?!? LOL. I thought I would take a brief break from holiday layouts and work on this layout before I start Valentine's Day projects. No, it's not your eyes, the picture is totally crooked! Sorry about that.


Like I said, this was a very simple and quick layout to put together. I cropped some photos, picked my images, paper, and went to work. I need to allow myself to do more of these kinds of layouts and not stress out so much about every detail. I'm not a professional, and the most important part of scrapbooking is to save and document memories!




Details:

• Pattern Paper- Fancy Pants 'Little Boy' Collection
• Cardstock- Bazzil (white) and Papertrey Ink
• Center "Shape"- Nifty Fifties cut a 11.31-inches
• Worm- Create a Critter cut at 3.5-inches with layer. I used the hide contour feature on my Gypsy to hide his face
• Title- back and school: Birthday Bash cut at 2-inches with shadow 2: Nifty Fifties cut at 3-inches.
• Stickers and Border- Fancy Pants Paper Collection
• Button- Stampin' Up
• Peachy Keen-Everyday Character Faces
  

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you'll be able to get a little inspiration or perhaps a little push to pull out some of those older pictures to scrap. Thank you for stopping by, your comments and feedback mean a great deal to me. See you back here soon.

My First Imagine Project

Here it is, my first Imagine project! This card was inspired by Emma's Throwback Thursday Challenge, the Circle Blog Weekly Challenge, and the Circle MB Challenge.

Emma from My Creative Time asked us to create a card using Create A Critter and the color orange. The part I forgot about until I went to post it, is that it's supposed to be a 'shape' card. Oops, I guess I'll be sitting this week out. The weekly Circle Blog Challenge was to create a "girly" project using ribbons, bows, pink, etc. in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. And finally, the Circle MB Challenge was to incorporate a circle into our design.

Here's what I came up with.

















My card base is 5 1/2 x 5 1/2. The scallop circle is a stock shape from the Imagine sized at 5 inches. I used the Best Friends cartridge to add the sky background to the scallop. Originally my plan was to use the Papertrey Ink RGB codes on this card, but I decided to stick with the color palette from Best Friends instead.

The sheep is from Create A Critter and cut at 3 1/2 inches. I only used the base image and one layer. After I cut her fur, I placed it in my Xyron, upside down, so I could use the adhesive to add my glitter. I don't use my Xyron very much, but I love it for this purpose. The adhesive works perfectly to adhere the glitter.

I also cut the sun from CAC, at 1 1/2 inches (I think). I inked the edges with Stampin Up! Only Orange. Then to pull in the blue from the sky on the scalloped circle, I inked the edges of the base of my card with Tempting Turqouise from Stampin Up!

The buttons and twine are all Papertrey Ink and I thought the bows added an additional nice girly touch to the card. Her face is a stamp from Peachy Keen Critter faces. And then to add one more pink touch I decided to use some pink and white polka dot ribbon to make some bows to accessorize my sheep.

There you have it, a very simple, but sweet card. I hope you like it. For my first Imagine project I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out. Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you back here soon!

Layout-Built Tough

It's my first day as a Sassy Lady Design Team Member! This is Kate from Sassy and Scrappy, and I'm so excited to share this layout with you today.

I was inspired to create this layout from a work day at my parents house. We removed some cement from their backyard that has caused some water issues in their basement in the past. My brothers, sister's-in-law, nephew, and myself all helped my parents out. We managed to get our work done and I even got to use a jack hammer for the first time! I wasn't sure that I would be able to do it since I'm on the petite side, 5', but let me just say, it was pretty cool.

I started my layout by designing it in my Gypsy. I used the 12x24 mat to lay it all out and get an idea where I want things to be. Below you can see my sketch.














After my layout was designed I grouped my items onto 4 different pages to cut out on my Expression. I was able to use 5 different cartridges on these 2 pages. That is a huge reason I love my Gypsy so much! It's so easy to find the design elements I want to use and really utilize all of my cartridges. Here's what I used:

Boys Will Be Boys-title, truck, and hammer (I actually didn't end up using the hammer, but I did cut one out)
Everyday Paper Dolls-shovels
Create A Critter and Plantin Schoolbook-grass
H2O-sun

Here are all of the assembled pieces before adhering them to my background pages.












I inked around the edges of my photo mats and title using Papertrey Ink Chai and Chamomille. I decided to double mat my pictures so I cut them at 4 1/4 x 6 1/4 and 4 1/2 x 6 1/2. I inked the grass with Green Galore and Glorious Green, and the sun with Only Orange, all from Stampin' UP! I also used my white Sakura Gelly Roll pen to do some doodling on my truck. And lots of Basic Grey buttons!

I also added some stitching around two of the background papers. This is the first time I've actually sewn on a project, so I wanted a stitch that would be forgiving, such as the zig zag. It also has more of a rugged feel to it, I think. The journal tag is a die cut from Papertrey Ink.













Another first for me is the Martha Stewart Metallic Glass Microbeads. I added these, as you can see above, to the top layer of my dump truck. I attached a piece of Scor-Tape to the top of the truck and then dipped it into the beads. I also placed the truck bed in the tray and rolled more beads over the adhesive and applied some pressure with my fingers to help them stick. I thought the beads would add a nice texture to the truck, as well as simulating gravel...but much cuter of course!


























I used dimensional adhesives to pop up both layers of the title, the shovels, truck and sun. I applied glossy accents to the back of the buttons to glue them on the background paper. For whatever reason I don't feel like glue dots stick very well. I know, I'm the only one in the crafting world who doesn't love them! They tend to "pop up" when I use them, which I don't like, so I use liquid glue instead.



































I really appreciate all of your patience and support as I begin my journey as a Sassy Lady Design Team Member! Thank you.

An Afternoon in the Park

Good evening. I have to say, I'm glad this week is coming to an end. These are not the best pictures I've taken, so I apologize, but I'm too tired to take more. I think the LO turned out pretty cute, so I hope you guys like it. I designed this LO for some pictures I took of my family at the park.

Recipe
PP-My Mind's Eye
CS-Bazzil
Papertrey Ink, Zig brown pen, Sakura whilte gelly roll pen, Peachy Keen stamps (everyday character face asst. for the squirrel)

I cut the squirrel, tree, grass and flowers from Create a Critter. The journaling square was part of the MME paper collection.

I'd love to hear what you guys think! Thanks for stopping by, and come back soon!

Think Pink

Happy Wednesday. Thanks to a reminder from Robyn, a.k.a. My Pink Stamper I finally got my butt in gear to make a card for Monique Griffith. She is an amazing member of our cricut community who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. I had the pleasure of purchasing one of the kits she designed in the past and had so much fun creating my LO. I have been following her journal entries since I found out she was diagnosed and she is such a strong and inspirational woman. She actually recently designed a new kit, and I believe you can still purchase some of her past kits. If you get a chance, check her out here and leave her some blog love!

I have to admit, and I know I'm in the minority here, I don't use pink very often. But I have to say I think my skunk turned out pretty stinkin' cute.

Recipe:
Paper-My Mind's Eye
Create a Critter-skunk (3 layers) and grass
Ribbon-Papertrey Ink
Peachy Keen Stamps critter face assortment
Prima flowers and bling
I also used a punch from EK Success to mount my sentiment on, and the sentiment inside is from Papertrey Ink and it says "Girly you Rock". The ink I used is from, where else, Papertrey Ink!

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you like what you see and come back to visit very soon. Have a sassy day!

Smore Please

Good afternoon. I have another great beach layout for you today. I have some great pictures from an evening on the beach with my nephew. It was a great day, and what better way to finish it off?...sitting around a fire and making smore's! We had so much fun.

Recipe:
Paper-Anna Griffin (Calisto Collection)
scrap paper for the crabs
Word Art-FUN, Cindy Loo
SMORE PLEASE, Don Juan
Crabs-Create A Critter
Sign Posts and buckets-H2O Cricut Lite
Peachy Keen Stamps-Critter Faces
Stamp on small sign post-Papertrey Ink (Mixed Messages)

I also inked the edges with chai and chamomille, and dark chocolate hybrid ink pads from PaperTrey Ink. I also used my white gel pen for doodling.

So here's my question: Do you prefer to look at LO's with or without pictures already attached? Thanks for visiting and come back soon!