Studio Challenge: Sun Sand & Sea

Hello there! Today I'm sharing with you my layout with newest Studio Challenges this week - a color palette! This could easily be Spring or Summer colors.

I had a lot of fun making this particular layout. I actually made it on NSD which had me thinking about my particular style a lot. I love using my Silhouette Cameo and I love stitching. Lately I've been really enjoying cutting background mats for my layouts. They come together like puzzle pieces and look so striking, at least I think so.

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Combination of Prima flowers, die cut tropical leaves and shiny brads

Title is from Miss Kate Cuttables. Wooden leaf from Michael's

For a little extra effect, I added stitching (of course)

Supplies:

BoBunny - Beach Happy and Key Lime paper

Silhouette Cameo - heart, title, leaves and ampersand 

Miss Kate Cuttables - title

Paper Issues - free file heart and tropical leaves

Prima flowers by Anna Marie

Brads

Hand Stitching

Wooden leaf - Michael's

Beach embellishments - Michael's

Heidi Swap stamps (lower corner)

Spooky!

Hello!

There is so much going on with this layout I'm not sure how to start.

First of all, at this point in time my son had been practicing karate for several months so naturally he wanted to be a ninja for Halloween. So that is a real round-house kick he is doing in his costume.

Secondly, I really wanted to use that tree from Miss Kate Cuttables. I couldn't find a sketch I really liked so I ended up combining a few thoughts from various sketches on my Pinterest board. Also, since I was using a MKC file already, I went ahead and used one of her title files as well. I think it was one of her daily freebies.

Lastly, it has been a LONG time since I scrapped by filling up an entire page. Although I am rather pleased with how this turned out, it does make my inner demon twitch just a little bit.

I am also a new follower of the blog "Use Your Stuff" whose current challenge is Orange, Black and One Neutral Color.

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Supplies:
Paper:
---Bella Blvd - Spooktacular
Bella Blvd - Fundamentals
Bella Blvd - Paper Pieces
Miss Kate Cuttables - title and tree
Halloween Sequins from HL

Die Cuttin' Divas: GDT using sunglasses

My very dear online friend, Georgiana, encouraged me to be a GDT for Die Cuttin' Divas this week. I love this challenge blog and don't participate nearly as often as I would like. Thanks for the opportunity!!!

I used the crab file from MissKateCuttables!

The theme at DieCuttin'Divas this week is . . . sunglasses!!!!

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1st Day of School

Every couple months I rotate scrapbook pages that I have featured on a wall. The rotation is based on the "season". Well, in my house it's back-to-school season. Except, as I was switching out the pages I noticed that I had not scrapped about my son's 1st grade year yet. Oops!

So I went "hunting". First I needed the photo. Then I needed a sketch. . . which sent me to my Pinterest page. Since I have more free time these days, I have also been looking for challenges to enter my projects into. Yesterday I discovered an absolute gem of a scrapbook sketch site: Scrapbook Challenges: Sizzlin Summer '15- 01. Go check it out!

It was easy to reach for my favorite boy colors for this layout, as they are also the popular choices for back-to-school colors. The rest speaks for itself.

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I layered a variety of stars here. I also enjoyed reaching for
my stitching template for the "x's".

MissKateCuttables

Supplies:
Paper:
--AC White Cardstock
--Simple Stories 24/7
--Doodlebug Designs: Back to School
Maya Road Rub-Ons
Wooden Embellishments from Creative Embellishments
Daily Flash Enamel Dots
Jenni Bowlin Felt Shapes
Paper Pizazz Easy Stitches Template
Die Cut Title:
--MissKateCuttables
Scrapbook Challenges Sketch: Summer Sizzlin '15 - 01

Splash

Hello there!!

Recently I've won the My Creative Sketches challenge and following that was asked to be a guest designer using one of the kits from their sister site, My Creative Scrapbook.

I made three layouts using their July Creative Kit. Here is my first layout. I just had to make the cute sunshine and cloud die cuts from MissKateCuttables.

I loosely followed this sketch from Pinterest.

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The pinwheel is from my own stash.

Love wooden buttons!

Supplies:

--My Creative Scrapbook 

-----July's Creative Kit

Miss Kate Cuttables

-----Sunshine and cloud

Pinwheel

Dymo Labeler

AC White Cardstock

Circle Template and thread

Mr. & Mrs.

Hello and welcome! Today I get to announce that I'm part of the PauseDreamEnjoy DT team. It is a "link party" DT with a new theme every Friday. Very easy, wide open themes. Great way to see other crafters and for people to see you.

I am also submitting this project to the Die Cuttin' Divas challenge for this week. The challenge being "weddings".

I made this card using the title from MissKateCuttables. If you are new to my blog, then let me just say I love die cuts. I have a few favorite places where I purchase files and am always looking for new ways to incorporate die cuts into cards and pages. I even try mixing it up with the latest trends and usually find a way to fit a die cut somewhere on my project.

Supplies are listed below.

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Supplies:

Die Cut:

---Title from Miss Kate Cuttables

Paper:

---6x6 Teresa Collins "Wonderful"

---AC White Cardstock

---AC Black Cardstock

---AC Pink Cardstock

Rick Rack Ribbon

Pop Dots

SOUS DIE CUT CHALLENGE: SUMMER

Hello and welcome to my blog for this week's die cut challenge: Summer! Too easy right?!

First of all I would like to explain the title, "Summer Blues". The photo was taken during the summer of 2013 and the "blues" refers to my nephew's blue eyes. I was trying to do something different with words instead of the same old thing.

Secondly, I can't tell you have much fun I had making this layout. It is loosely based on this sketch from Pinterest.  I enjoyed mixing shapes and digging thru my stash for bright colors. A while back I invested in several punches and definitely made use of them here.

Last, I went to MissKateCuttables for the sun and "summer" title. I really don't go there often enough. Her die cuts are just so fun and easy to use. The little cloud is actually from SVGCuts.

I combined Doodlebug Designs, Echo Park, and October Afternoon
on this layout. I just had way too much fun!

Sun is from MissKateCuttables.

Although the camera blends in too much to the white background,
I still really liked having it on my layout. No real rules in scrapbooking
anyway.

I dragged my sewing machine out for this. Can't quite pull
off the "messed" up sewing machine look. Oh, well.