Spring Layout

Hello SassyLady friends, this is Kate from Sassy and Scrappy. I bought the Mother's Day solutions cartridge a couple weeks ago and decided I HAD to use it. I have to admit I was a little overwhelmed by the variety of flowers, but they seem to all mix and match really well. I also used some ribbon from my fellow Design Team member Kimberly at My Craft Spot and I absolutely love it. And no, she didn't pay me to say that, lol. In fact, I didn't even mention who I was when I placed my order. So check her ribbon out here!


I started by trimming my blue patterned paper to 11 x 11-inches and gluing the center down to the white 12 x 12-inch paper. I didn't apply adhesive close to the edges of the blue paper to avoid "gumming" up my sewing machine.



Next up were the flowers. I picked 4 different flowers and cut 19 varying sizes. Here they are before being layered and embellished.
After layering the flowers I decided to add glitter. I used liquid craft glue and used my paintbrush to apply the glue to the edges of the flowers. I applied the glue fairly liberally and to each layer of the flower. Then I sprinkled the flower with some Martha Stewart glitter. Of course, you could always use Stickles as well.
And here's the end result. I think the flower looks "sugared" now. Isn't it fun!

Next up was some tearing. I know it's not easy to tear pretty paper, but you should give it a try at least once. It's kind of therapeutic, actually! I hold the paper down with my left hand and tear with my right. That way I can control how much of the paper is torn.


The next step was adding ribbon. I used a small amount of removable adhesive, it applies small dots and definitely disperses less glue, which I figured was a little safer for my sewing machine. I didn't adhere the ribbon straight down, hopefully you can see the folding in the picture below.
And here's what it looks like now, I really love how it turned out. As you can see in the picture below, I also inked the edges of my torn paper.


Next I started assembling my layout. Here is a fun close-up of some of the flowers and my journal tag.



I wanted to keep the layouts pretty simple on these 2 pages because I didn't want to have too much going on. I didn't want to detract from the pictures (to be added in the future) or the flowers. Here's the left page, with a little journal tag tucked into the flowers.


Right page. I love how the flowers add so much dimension, and the little worm is just adorable.

Details:

• Cardstock-Bazzil (white)
• Pattern Paper-Fancy Pants 'Wishful Thinking'
• Bird-'Simply Charmed' cut at 2.25-inches
  
• Worm-'April Showers' cut at 2-inches
• Tree-'April Showers' cut at 8.50-inches
• "SPRING" banner-'April Showers' cut at 2.5-inches
• Flowers-'Mother's Day Bouquet' cut at 1.25, 1.5, 1.75 and 2-inches
• Buttons-Papertrey Ink
• Ribbon-My Craft Spot (Denim)
• Buttons-Papertrey Ink
• Peachy Keen Stamps-'Character Face Parts' and 'Wide Eyed Kids'
• Journal Tag-Die Cut from Papertrey Ink
  

I had a lot of fun putting this layout together and I hope it gives you some ideas and inspiration. As always, thank you Sheila for letting me share my work on your blog. I hope you'll come visit me at Sassy and Scrappy for more projects and fun.

Imagine Card

Good evening. Why is it that my creativity peaks when I should be sleeping? I woke up way too early with a design for a card all laid out it my head. I wasn't going to get up to do it right then, so I quickly drew it out. Crazy, huh?! I knew if I didn't write it down I wouldn't be able to fall asleep because I would be trying to make sure my brain would remember it all on it's own. Good Luck.















Sorry about the glue glare.

















Details:

Imagine More-striped background paper cut at 6-inches and trimmed to 4 x 5 1/4
polka dot background paper cut at 6-inches and trimmed
Simply Charmed-pumpkins cut at 2-inches, with layers 1 and 3
RGB Codes from Papertrey Ink for the green and orange on the pumpkins

• A2 size card-Papertrey Ink, Fine Linen Cardstock

• Everyday Character Faces from Peachy Keen Stamps

• Ribbon-Papertrey Ink Fine Linen (Saddle Stitch)

• Button-StampinUp!

• Sentiment-Papertrey Ink

• White Sakura Gelly Roll Pen

I also did some stitching around the mat of the card with my Janome Sew Mini


I hope you enjoyed this card. Hopefully tonight I won't wake up with another crafty vision.

Layout-Let Them Eat Cake

Good morning. Today I want to share a layout that I put together with some picture's from my nephew, Micah's 5th birthday. The layout's look so much cuter with the pictures, so I had to include them! The 2 adorable girls are my cousin's Emma and Marnie (Margaret) both 4.

Layout Details:
All of the paper is BoBunny
Photo Mats (Emma & Marnie)-mat #1 5 inches and mat #2 5 1/4 inches
(Micah)-mat #1 5 1/4 inches and mat #2 5 1/2 inches
Center PP-6x12 inches
Journal Tag-mat#1 2 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches and mat #2 3 x 3/4
I used a stamp from Prima for the journal lines and 'You Make Me Smile' is a sentiment from Papertrey Ink Signature Greetings. I embossed my sentiment with some silver Zing embossing powder.

All of the cuts are from Simply Charmed, which by the way is an absolutely adorable cartridge! Let me apologize in advance in regards to the title. I created my own shadow, but for some reason I don't have the measurements in the Gypsy.
'Let them eat'-1.50 inches
'CAKE'-2.0 inches
The cake and all the layers are cut at 3.0 inches
Party Hats-3.0 inches

All of the ink, ribbon, twine and buttons are from Papertrey Ink. The jewels are Imaginisce and set with my Tulip.



















































Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed looking at this LO as much as I enjoyed making it! See you soon.