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.

All I Want For Christmas Layout

Happy New Year, this is Kate from Sassy and Scrappy! I'm so excited to be back at She's A Sassy Lady to share my layout with you. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season, I know I did! This layout was inspired by my 5 y.o. nephew Micah, every time he opened a gift he exclaimed, "this is what I always wanted!" He's just too sweet...and cute!

Here's a picture of the layout I designed in my Gypsy. Since I've started posting my projects on a blog I realized how much, and how often, I change my mind. But that's my prerogative, right?! I have to apologize in advance for the lack of picture tutorials, apparently my brain stopped working, but I do have all the cut sizes and other info at the bottom of this post.

I hadn't gotten a chance to use my Jolly Holidays cartridge yet, so I pulled it out. I thought the elf pulling his wagon would be perfect for this layout. And then I remembered the tree from Winter Frolic and decided to stretch it out to place on the opposite page.

Here is a picture of the left page.

And the right page.

Here is a close-up of the title and the tree. You also get a close-up of my nephew eating a crepe, he loves nutella and whip cream!

In this picture you can see the additional stitching and the tag I added to journal.

Details:

• Elf -'Jolly Holidays' cut with all his layers at 6-inches

To give the elf a little extra dimension I added Martha Stewart flock in 'swan' to his hat. I applied Scotch liquid glue along the border of the elf's hat and the ball and then generously applied the flocking. I repeated this step 3 times until I got the desired height.

• Gift Boxes-'Christmas Cheer' cut with all layers at 1, 1.5 and 2-inches

I wanted to add a little extra "bling" to the gift boxes so I ran them upside down through my Xyron and added some Martha Stewart glitter. I also attached a couple of Jolee rhinestones.

• Title-'Winter Frolic' cut with layers and shadow at 2.5-inches
• Tree-'Winter Frolic' cut with layers at 7.85-inches, sized on my Gypsy

Instead of using the circular shapes the cricut cut for ornaments I decided it would be fun to use buttons instead. I love buttons! I ran the star through my Xyron to add glitter (also Martha Stewart).

• Border-'Martha Stewart All Occasions Cake Art' cut at 1.5-inches. To create this border I welded pieces together using my Gypsy until the length was 11.28-inches. I ended up cutting them as needed, but certainly you could stretch the border across the width of the page (using your Gypsy of course)

• Tag-Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cut at 4.25 and 4.5-inches

Buttons, ribbon and solid cardstock-Papertrey Ink
Pattern Paper-Fancy Pants (stripes) and My Mind's Eye
Peachy Keen Stamps-Snow Cuties Face Assortment, 1 3/8-inch stamp

Thank you all for stopping by and looking at my layout. I always enjoy reading your comments and want to thank you in advance for the kind words. I'll see you back here soon or over on my blog Sassy and Scrappy!

Dance Like No One Is Watching

Hello my bloggy friends. I have a card to share with you today that I created for the Pink Stamper Design Team call. I have to admit, it didn't turn out as perfectly as I envisioned, but I think I will enter it anyway. I guess it was just one of those days...the paper didn't cut as well as it normally does, the stamp didn't come out just right...you know those days. Perhaps Robyn can overlook my imperfections, lol! Onto the card.

We were instructed to create a new project and incorporate the colors pink, brown, green, and one additional color of our choice.



Details:

• Cardstock-Pink (Stampin'Up), Aqua Mist (Papertrey Ink)
  
• Pattern Paper-Fancy Pants 'Wishful Thinking Collection'
  
• Base Card shape cut from 'Birthday Bash' Cricut cartridge, sized at 11 x 4.25-inches (using my gypsy)
• "Kim"-'Rock Princess' Cricut cartridge cut at 4.5-inches
• Layer 1 (pattern paper)- 5 x 4-inches
• Layer 2 (aqua mist)- 4.5 x 2.5-inches
• Pink By Design Stamp Set-Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
• Peachy Keen Stamps-Princess Face Assortment
• Prima Pearls
• Jolee Rhinestones
  
• Velvet Ribbon (Papertrey Ink)
• And last, but not least, I added some stitching

Okay off to link my post. Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you tomorrow.

Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year my friends! I hope you all have a wonderful time with your loved ones.

Wow, look what I received, my first blog award!

I was surprised and honored to find out that Greengirl Scraps chose me for the Stylish Blogger Award! I'm thrilled and so thankful! After a slow November this award has really put some pep in my step. It's so nice to know that people appreciate the work I put into my blog.

This is a pay-it-forward style award. Here are the rules:
1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this
2. Share 8 things about yourself
3. Pay it forward to 8 bloggers that you have recently discovered
4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their awards.

8 Things About Myself:

1. My favorite vacation location is the beach.
   
2. I am a huge music lover and received a scholarship to college for my vocal skills.
3. My favorite color is red.
4. I love to watch movies.
   
5. I have been blessed with an amazing family. I have two younger brothers who I couldn't be more proud of.
6. I am an absolute perfectionist and neat freak.
7. I love Pilates.
8. I'm a petite girl, but I'm feisty, sassy, and proud of it!

Now to pass this award on to 8 more deserving bloggers, in particular those who I have recently discovered:

Okay, I'm still working on this part. I really want to share the love with bloggers who are up and coming like me and haven't received as much attention.

See you back here soon.

More Holiday Cards

Well, I'm on a Christmas card kick now. There are so many amazingly adorable holiday themed Cricut cartridges that there was just no way I could stick to one cartridge for all my cards. In fact, I'd still like to make some cards with Jolly Holidays.


For this first card I used my Imagine and the Snow Angel cartridge. I cut my image at 3 1/2-inches with all of his layers. For added dimension I embossed the white cardstock.

In this picture you can see the embossing a little better.

On my second card I used a die cut from Peachy Keen Stamps. I love these gingerbread men. Peachy Keen also includes face stamps with their dies which is fantastic.



Details:

• Cardstock-Papertrey Ink: A2 size cards
  
• Pattern Paper-Imaginisce 'Polar Expressions'
• Snow Angel Cricut Cartridge-pg. 15 cut at 3 1/2-inches with layers
• Cottage Cuts (Peachy Keen Stamps) Shape Die-Gingerbread Doll: cut twice using my cuttlebug, once with brown cardstock and then with white cardstock
• Cuttlebug Embossing Folder-Holly Ribbons
• Sentiment Stamps-Papertrey Ink: 'Signature Christmas', 'Inside and Out-Holidays'
  
• Papertrey Ink-buttons and twine
  
• Tulip Heating Tool with gems from Imaginisce
  

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed my cards and can use them as ideas and inspiration for your own holiday projects. I always appreciate your comments. See you soon.

Holiday Cards

Good morning SassyLady friends, this is Kate from Sassy and Scrappy. As everyone knows the countdown to Christmas is on, and most of us are feeling the pressure. I thought it would be fun to challenge myself to use one cartridge and the same color combination to create 4 different Holiday cards.

This is the holiday paper pack that inspired me. I like how it combines traditional Christmas colors with some unexpected colors as well. This is an 8 x 8 stack from Papertrey Ink, and it's a great size for cards.

I used the 'Winter Frolic' cartridge and picked 4 images; snowman, angel, reindeer, and the little boy making a snow angel. I used my Gypsy to lay out each image and all of the layers.

As you can see I separated the layers by image. Of course you could choose to separate items by color, if you prefer that instead. And if you only want one image, such as the snowman on all of your cards, you could place as many snowmen as you needed, or would fit, on one page and then separate your layers. I think that's probably the most efficient way to go, but I love this cartridge and couldn't decide what I wanted to use, lol.

Here are all of my images ready to be assembled. I kept these cards pretty simple since my goal is to make...well, a lot! You can choose to dress them up, or even dress them down depending on the amount you're making and time restraints. Here are my finished cards:


I added some doodling, ribbon, peachy keen faces and some glitter to my finished images. As, I said though, I tried to keep them all pretty simple. Here is an example of another snowman card that I "dressed up". I used more glitter, added buttons and even bling.


Details:

• Pattern Paper: Papertrey Ink-'Sugar Plum'

• Cardstock: Papertrey Ink-Spring Rain, Plum Pudding, Dark Chocolate, White, Pure Poppy

• Ribbon: Papertrey Ink-Pure Poppy, Spring Rain, Plum Pudding

• Peachy Keen Stamps-Critter Faces, Princess Face Asst., Snow Cutie Face Asst.

• Embossing Folder-Basic Grey by Sissix, 'Snow Caps'

• Glitter-Martha Stewart

• Sentiments: Papertrey Ink-Signature Christmas

Thank you Sheila and thanks to all of you for stopping by and checking out my project. I hope this will give you some inspiration and maybe a few ideas as well. I love to hear your comments and if you have a chance stop by blog and visit me. I wish you all the best and have a wonderful holiday season!